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Coffee is a college student mainstay and with the conveniently located Java City coffee house in Warren E. Hearns Center library building, student’s daily fix can be easily obtained.
Missouri Western’s campus dining services company, Aramark, opened the stand three years ago in response to student input and in conjunction with the library’s long range planning.
According [...]

Reggie Bunch, a Western Men’s basketball player, is concluding a great season.
Bunch is a sophomore and has a lot of potential for his future years here at Western. He led the team in per game minutes with 32.9, with that much time on the court it was hard for him not to lead the team [...]

Working out for money sounds pretty nice. Well, when you get 400 screaming kids into a college gym to jump rope and raise money, it sounds like a great thing.
On Valentines Day, kids from thirteen area elementary schools came together to participate in Jump Rope For Heart, a fundraiser to help donate money to the [...]

If you thought for a second that all this girl could do is play basketball, you are dead wrong. Point guard and soon to be Missouri Western Alumni on May 10, Chemia Woods, has proven a lot of people wrong in her life and is not done yet by a long shot.
Being a success has [...]

Basketball can’t find wins on the road
The men’s and women’s basketball team couldn’t find the right formula to win on their recent road trips as they both went 0-2.
The men fell in their first game 67-54 against Pittsburg State. The Griffons were as close as 41-40 with 12:42 left in the contest, but the Griffons [...]

I woke up the other morning to a weird realization; somehow I had become an adult.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I have reached my full maturity level. A mature person probably wouldn’t laugh at people falling down on the Internet. I just realized that I will be graduating soon and will have to [...]

When is enough , enough? That is a question that seems to be screaming quietly through the collective psyche of Western culture, yet so few people are brave enough to put it to voice. No one wants to rock the boat. Let’s face it, the waters are choppy enough that it seems it is all [...]