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The Standard Editorial Board
Issue date: 12/4/07 Section: Opinion
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The last 28 issues have been fun and we appreciate all the readers who have taken the time to take an interest in the campus around them and offer their opinions. This issue will be the last before next semester, so here is quick recap:
The Art and Design Department will move to a new downtown home within the next two years. Hopefully after the building gets a roof.
The local Pepsi distributor mistakenly raised soda prices by 25 cents on every machine on campus. The error was corrected and students will enjoy $1 sodas until summer.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke about homeland security at Hammons Hall but there is no official recording of what he said. He did not allow the media to record the speech and the university gave back the only recording from its archive.
Student retention numbers say that many Missouri State students that start here don't finish here.
About 50 students holding signs displaying the F-word protested outside of a Board of Governor's meeting.
Apparently, they were upset that a student organizer was told by a campus officer that the colorful word could not be used a few weeks earlier. All doubt has now been removed.
The owner of the Springfield nightclub, Traffic, said city officials pressured him to make changes to his club that would limit the ethnic diversity of his clientele. The club once played hip-hop and hard rock but now plays country. Furthermore, the dress code forbids loose fitted clothing, sagging pants, backward ball caps and do-rags.
A decision will soon be made as to whether students will have to take the GEP capstone course to graduate.
The Student Government Association spent a big chunk of the semester debating about Turnitin, the online anti-plagiarism tool that the university plans to implement sometime next year.
Phi Sigma Pi hosted a Rent-a-kitty fundraiser but one of the cute little kittens had ringworm. The infected feline spread the disease to at least eight students.
JQH Arena is still expected to be finished in time for next year's basketball season and cost around $67 million. This semester, a small amount of student fees helped pay for the construction.
The Art and Design Department will move to a new downtown home within the next two years. Hopefully after the building gets a roof.
The local Pepsi distributor mistakenly raised soda prices by 25 cents on every machine on campus. The error was corrected and students will enjoy $1 sodas until summer.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke about homeland security at Hammons Hall but there is no official recording of what he said. He did not allow the media to record the speech and the university gave back the only recording from its archive.
Student retention numbers say that many Missouri State students that start here don't finish here.
About 50 students holding signs displaying the F-word protested outside of a Board of Governor's meeting.
Apparently, they were upset that a student organizer was told by a campus officer that the colorful word could not be used a few weeks earlier. All doubt has now been removed.
The owner of the Springfield nightclub, Traffic, said city officials pressured him to make changes to his club that would limit the ethnic diversity of his clientele. The club once played hip-hop and hard rock but now plays country. Furthermore, the dress code forbids loose fitted clothing, sagging pants, backward ball caps and do-rags.
A decision will soon be made as to whether students will have to take the GEP capstone course to graduate.
The Student Government Association spent a big chunk of the semester debating about Turnitin, the online anti-plagiarism tool that the university plans to implement sometime next year.
Phi Sigma Pi hosted a Rent-a-kitty fundraiser but one of the cute little kittens had ringworm. The infected feline spread the disease to at least eight students.
JQH Arena is still expected to be finished in time for next year's basketball season and cost around $67 million. This semester, a small amount of student fees helped pay for the construction.
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Bill
posted 12/04/07 @ 11:41 AM CST
"A decision will soon be made as to whether students will have to take the GEP capstone course to graduate."
Really?? Would that go into affect immediately?
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