By Andrew Gilroy On November 27th, 2015, the United States witnessed an act of cowardice and malice which took the lives of two civilians and one police officer at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The incident lasted five hours and the terrorist involved was taken alive. It would be simple to expand…
By Rachael Turffs College is an exciting time in a young person’s life. Parents and students alike hope for a fun, successful, and safe time away from home. For students at the University of Missouri, however, the year has taken a turn. Racism is still very much alive today, and racial tensions came to a…
By Miranda Emaus On October 31st, Kogalymavia Flight 9268 crashed in Sinai, Egypt while heading to St. Petersburg, Russia. All 224 passengers and crew perished. At first, little was known except that the plane broke apart in midair. Over time, evidence of a terrorist attack has emerged from the debris. Daesh claimed responsibility soon after,…
By Ashley Lolmaugh On Thursday November 12, two suicide bombers targeted Beirut, capital of Lebanon, killing 43 people and wounding at least 239 bystanders. The first attacker struck a busy shopping street in Bourj al-Barajneh and was successfully detonated an explosive payload. After the first explosion, the second bomber ran for a mosque, crowded with…
By Andrew Gilroy For most of us, the holidays are a joyful time to reconnect with family and sit down to a gut-busting yuletide feast. However, in low-income households the holiday months are a time of privation as much as celebration. Like retail workers, food banks and similar charities know the winter months are their…
By Patrick Kelley Contrary to popular belief, there are more Mexican immigrants leaving the United States than entering it. According to the research done by the Pew Research center, this emigration started long before Donald Trump began his presidential campaign. It all started in 1994 with the devaluation of the peso. The Mexican government essentially…
By Katherine Del Rose For a retail store employee, there’s nothing quite like the adrenaline rush that charges your blood on Black Friday. Customers are everywhere, merchandise lies in disorganized piles, and more bodies than should ever be allowed stuff one store. The energy felt on Black Friday is only comparable to Labor Day, and…
By Andrew Gilroy For the entirety of their long campfire history, the Boy Scouts, true to their name, have been a single-sex organization. While they have softened their stance on homosexuality after a long reactionary battle, the organization is still highly conservative in its approach to gender roles. However, a group of Californian girls, calling…
By Ashley Lolmaugh The number of international students in US colleges has dramatically increased over the last few decades. In the 1950’s, there were roughly 35,000 international students. Today, there are over 886,000. Most international students are from China and India, drawn by scholarship opportunities. This increase gives both American and international students the opportunity…
By Miranda Emaus At 17 years of age, Barry Beach was sentenced to 100 years in prison for the 1984 murder of Kimberly Nees. Nees was found in a river outside the small town of Poplar, Montana after vanishing one night. Beach was Nee’s neighbor and a Poplar native. The basis for the conviction was…
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