2008 Woodie Awards
Sections Options Links InteractiveAbout 450 of the 500 fliers advertising a lecture Thursday on homosexuality and the Bible at Drury University were ripped down, crumpled and thrown in campus trash cans early Thursday morning. A group called ALLIES, a gay-straight alliance student organization at Drury which sponsored the event, posted the fliers all over the Drury campus to promote a lecture by Jack Rogers, a professor of theology emeritus at San Francisco Theological Sem-inary, on homosexuality and the church.
A theology scholar said that the Bible should not be interpreted as to condemn homosexual behavior, and that certain word and phrases used when it was written did not mean then what they mean today. Jack Rogers, a professor emeritus of theology at San Francisco Theological Seminary, spoke to about 60 people at the Diversity Center at Drury University on Thursday.
Missouri State University has begun to plan the fourth annual Public Affairs Conference, which is scheduled for April 15 to 18, 2008. The PAC Committee is now in the process of selecting individuals to be invited to participate in the different panels speaking at the conference.
Click here for letters and fliers When members of a student organization wanted to get the word out last week about an orgasm lecture they were hosting, they were not expecting the backlash that soon followed. Three Psychology Club members said they were told their fliers and a Facebook page promoting the Oct.
A recent study done by researchers at the University of North Texas revealed considerable bias in student evaluations of professors that potentially effect professor's careers. Such biases include: expected grade, type of curriculum, race, age and experience It was shown in the study by Micheal A.
Curious spectators, many with cameras, checked out the unusual fountain in front of the Juanita K. Hammons Performing Arts Center on Oct. 8. The fountain was colored blue with concentrated blue dye that was put into cans and thrown into the fountain. There were five cans recovered from the fountain according to Randy Blackwood, director of Hammons Hall.
The federal case against a former Missouri State student was postponed for the second time in a week. Christopher Suttles, 31, was to enter a guilty or not guilty plea on Oct. 9, but the case was continued until Friday by the request of Suttles' attorney, Joseph Passanise.
Missouri State Univ-ersity students cannot escape the increasing trend of having more than just studies to stress over. While campus jobs forbid students to work full-time while classes are in session, according to Missouri State University's student employment Web site, most off-campus student jobs carry no such constraint.