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Flip-flopping seems to be the game that the Missouri Western Board of Governors likes to play. In a crucial election year, the Board of Governors has decided to support Proposition B which would favor a bill that could raise taxes on cigarettes for revenue toward Higher Education. The proposition would generate an estimated $84 million ...
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Over $333, 000 has already been collected with no oversight as mandated by the Student Success Act. The Student Government Association put in place a Student Fee Advisory Committee, which is supposed to oversee the student support service fees (student fees). The reason this issue has been brought to attention is the fact that the ...
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It’s quite simple: stop using our newspapers for anything else but reading! So, those of you that are grabbing our papers to cut up and make paper mache models, art projects, floats or anything else that doesn’t involve reading, please respect your campus paper and STOP. The Griffon News caught wind that numerous students were ...
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Each year, the Missouri Western Foundation welcomes a guest speaker to speak about critical issues that our nation and world are facing today. The only downturn to the speakers that the foundation chooses is the fact that many of these speakers are on one political party or the other. This year’s Convocation on Critical Issues ...
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Alcohol plus students doesn’t equal irresponsible adults. The Board of Governors at Missouri Western approved a policy that would allow alcohol in every building on campus except the parking lots and residence halls. This decision was made solely for the purpose of aiding Western in attracting companies to invest in the university. The idea of ...