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As construction continues on the science and technology incubator, Western approved plans to develop a separate, non-for-profit entity entitled the Missouri Western State University Research Park Corporation.
The Research Park will lease the incubator from Western and manage it on behalf of the university by subleasing it to entrepreneurial tenants.
A master lease will outline the incubator’s [...]

 Readers of Dan’s Opinion Page, I have an announcement to make: I have fallen in love. I didn’t mean to, certainly didn’t want to, but it’s true. I left the country and I fell hard and fast in love with the United States. No one is more shocked than I am, believe me. I’ve traveled [...]

With both the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois tragedies happening within less than a year of each other, students and faculty nationwide are wondering if their school might be next. Missouri Western and the campus police department are doing everything possible to ensure that something like that doesn’t happen here.
Jonathan Kelley, chief of campus police, [...]

Recreation Services in coordination with nursing students and physical education majors, was responsible for putting together Missouri Western’s Wellness Fair this February 13 and 14.
At the Wellness Fair, students could learn their body mass index and have their blood pressure and pulse taken.
The measurements were taken by nursing students and physical education majors.
Students also had [...]

 Student governor Harold Calloway  selected the three potential successors as his two year term came to a close. Governor Matt Blunt is responsible for making the official appointment after a lengthy selection process. Calloway hopes to have a new student governor by the next Board of Governor’s meeting Feb. 28.
 Calloway said that he looked for [...]

In hopes of improving the safety of Western, the Board of Governors approved the purchase and installation of an emergency safety plan estimated to cost $203,010. Ron Olinger, vice president for financial planning and administration, and Mark Mabe, the director of Information Technology presented information regarding the emergency safety standards of neighboring schools to the [...]