Opinion


No spring concert announcement so far, that is WAC

(editor’s note: WAC has now annouced the entertainers Wedensday. This peice was done before the announcement)
Western’s Activities Council, or WAC as they might be better known to the student body of Missouri Western State University has yet to officially announce who will be playing for the University’s spring concert. This can be looked at from [...]

7 sins are not enough, the Vatican unleashes new sins for a modern world

I don’t know if you had heard, but now, in the eyes of the Catholic Church, there are several new ways for one to get on the naughty list. In addition to the seven deadly ones best described by Dante in The Inferno and generally held as common knowledge by millions of people, we now [...]

Student strikes into history

Missouri Western Junior Jennifer Myers, who is a nursing major, did something historic, when she bowled in her Monday night mixed league in Atchison, Kan., she bowled a perfect game.
There has been many perfect games bowled in bowling, but the feat had never been achieved by a woman in the history of the town of [...]

PED 171: spelunking gone wild!

 I took PED 171 cave exploring with Dr. David Ashley this semester. My first impression of this class was that we were going to talk about caves and then go on a guided tour. The tour was guided alright, but not by a man in uniform working for the conservation department with lights and walking [...]

Better faculty = higher salaries and tuition

I don’t know of anyone on campus who could have guessed that becoming a university would have caused us not only great pride but also so many growing pains. We just began to enjoy the new title when some members of the administration and faculty began to look for the exit signs. Most of those [...]

The score is in; too much competition damages quality

21st century living has become one big game with all the players competing against each other for the big score. It is all about who is winning these days. Students at all levels have special­ized in test taking skills so they can achieve high marks for their transcripts, all the while they are dumping all [...]

Opportunity for college cash is knocking; will you answer the door?

We, at the Griffon Newspaper editorial staff, have many things in common aside from our thirst for pur­suit of the news. One thing we have in common is the fact that we are all college students. Another thing is that not a single one of us is a self made millionaire…yet. Being that this is [...]