Dave Hon
Some students at Missouri Western have a solution to Missouri’s budget problem: cannabis. Several members of the Western student body have become participants in a state wide initiative to legalize, tax and regulate cannabis. Show-Me Cannabis, the group behind the initiative, is attempting to procure 150,000 signatures by April. If the group achieves this, the ...
Ellis Cross
After speaking at the Eggs and Issues event held Tuesday at 7:00 a.m. in Fulkerson Center, retired U.S. diplomat William Armbruster said, “As I looked out on the crowd I saw the minefield.” He was referring to his presentation, “The Middle East- Then and Now,” where he saw members of the Muslim mosque, United States ...
Guest Columnist
You’re sitting in class one day, look over at the student next you and see a gun in his inside jacket pocket. Is that a reality today? No, but it may be someday and that someday may be sooner than later. In April of 2009, the Missouri House of Representatives passed an amendment to the ...
Todd Fuller
If the students at Missouri Western want their campus to become smoke-free then for the time being, they will have to lead the charge to make it happen. In light of the decision at our Maryville neighbor to implement a no-smoking policy campus wide on August 1, several faculty and staff members were asked to ...
Todd Fuller
Missouri’s state appropriations budget for public higher education dodged a bullet in the first round of legislative cuts, as the Missouri House passed the budget—$200 million lighter—to the Missouri Senate. According to an article printed in the St. Joseph News-Press last week there are still approximately $300 million in cuts needed to balance the State ...