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The holiday season started up with a roar from the crowd at the Light Up Western ceremony on Nov 26 at the Glenn E. Marion Memorial Clocktower.
 
Emily Feger, Center for multicultural education intern said the center for student engagement puts up the lights and arranges for the carols and the warm-up with hot chocolate. The [...]

 “The Week of the Scholar” is a National Panhellenic Conference-sponsored celebration of scholarship within the sororities on campus.
According to Katy Schwartz, Panhellenic president, this is an opportunity to focus on the organizations’ core value of scholarship and create a network of scholarship within the group. It will run from Nov. 12-16, and several events are [...]

When I read last week’s staff editorial, I was appalled and ashamed to be associated with the Griffon News as a staff member.
I have fought my whole life for the right of each and every person to be seen as an individual. I thought I made that clear in my last opinion piece that these [...]

 
The stories, formats and topics were diverse but the common thread at the Prairie Lands Writing Project presentation “Writing Teachers Write VI” was talent.
Tom Pankiewicz, assistant professor of English and the PLWP institute’s director selects the people who will read their work primarily from participants in the PLWP summer program.
“The hard part is I only have [...]

There is an alternative to the usual general studies program with less sitting in classrooms, less listening to lectures and writ­ing isolated papers. 
It’s called the outdoor semester and while it includes classes, you also get to travel to outdoor settings while you are learning.
According to the brochure, students “learn how the land shaped people’s lives. [...]

This month’s Board of Governors meeting discussed many issues around campus.

An internationally renowned French journalist visited Missouri Western’s campus on Monday, bringing with him some uncommon ideas about the United Nations.
 
 “Why isn’t the UN the enemy of America?  Why do many in the United States regard it as an enemy?  Why do many in the world regard the US as the enemy of the UN?” [...]