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Mizzou Athletic Department Says "You Can Play" to LGBT Students (VIDEO)

If you're a Tiger, you're a Tiger -- and if you can play, you can play! Such is the message of a newly released promotional video from the University of Missouri's Athletic Department, promoting LGBT rights and diversity on their sports teams. "The Mizzou Athletics Department strives to provide a ... More >>

Mizzou: Petition Asks Fox News to Apologize To Pagans, Wiccans After Mocking Diversity Policy

As we reported on Tuesday, Fox News gave the University of Missouri some loving this week with a news report poking fun at Mizzou's religious diversity policy, specifically mocking its recognition of Pagan and Wiccan holidays. Mizzou, Fox said, is just allowing lazy students to take advantage of s ... More >>

Fox News Goes After Mizzou For Respecting Wiccan, Pagan Holidays, Religious Diversity

The University of Missouri's respect for a diverse range of religious holidays -- not just the main ones, like Christmas, Thanksgiving and Hanukah -- goes "beyond political correctness." It's "almost like an excuse to do nothing." So says radio host Tammy Bruce, in an eye-opening Fox News story tha ... More >>

Mizzou Journalism Grads Can Expect Lowest Starting Salary Compared to Their Peers

It's a well-known fact that the University of Missouri-Columbia has one of the finest undergraduate journalism programs in the country. That's news you, apparently, can't take to the bank. A new survey of Mizzou grads from the classes of 2010 and 2011 show that j-school grads are taking home the ... More >>

Next on the Farmer's Plague Menu: Red Imported Fire Ants

Just when you started to think we'd survived the worst of the summer, along comes a new threat. First it was intense heat, then withering drought, now it's fire ants. Great. I guess seven days of raining blood comes later this month then.Because of the aforementioned heat and drought, Missouri's far ... More >>

Meet the New UM Press, Same as the Old UM Press, Sort Of

The fate of the University of Missouri Press, which has all summer been a cause célèbre among those interested in scholarly publishing (and there are more than you would think), has been decided, according to a joint statement issued this morning by UM system president Tim Wolfe and Mizzou chancel ... More >>

Whadda Bust! Columbia Topless Rally Draws More Men Than Women [PHOTOS]

With fewer than 24 hours until its shirtless rally in Columbia yesterday, GoTopless.org put out something of a distress call on Facebook. The organization, fronted by a religious group that believes in UFOs and stresses sexual freedoms, was still in need of someone to read a prepared speech at its M ... More >>

The Academics Rally!: Latest Chapter in the Saga of UM Press

Related content: University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July "Bonehead," "Cowardly," "Treachery": Supporters Fight to Save the University of Missouri Press Zombified University of Missouri Press Back From the Dead Skullduggery and Conniving at University of Missouri Press: The Saga Contin ... More >>

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Skullduggery and Conniving at University of Missouri Press: The Saga Continues

The battle continues in Columbia over the fate of the University of Missouri Press, which lost its $400,000 in annual funding just before Memorial Day and then, miraculously, rose from the dead a few weeks later with a new director, a radical new model that proposed using student interns instead of ... More >>

Cows Overheating in the Drought? There's an App for That

Researchers at the University of Missouri are about to release an incredibly handy little app for farmers, given the fact that the state's been declared a certified agricultural disaster area because of weeks of extreme heat. "Thermal Aid" is a new app for smartphones which can help farmers calcula ... More >>

University of Missouri Press Back From the Dead

Please hold your outrage, lovers of university presses. The University of Missouri Press, consigned to eternal doom not two months ago, has been resurrected! Like the South, it will rise again! (Or, if you prefer, like the Terminator, it will be back.) Mizzou administrators announced yesterday morn ... More >>

Fat Kids Are Worse at Math, Says Mizzou Study

If we want to improve American kids' performance in math, it may behoove us to no longer consider cafeteria pizza a serving of vegetables. According to a new study out from the University of Missouri-Columbia, kids who were persistently obese did worse on math tests than thinner children. That's b ... More >>

"Bonehead," "Cowardly," "Treachery": Supporters Fight to Save the University of Missouri Press

Well, that didn't take long. Alerted to the planned demise of the University of Missouri Press, supporters are attempting to rally an organized resistance on Facebook. Save the University of Missouri Press has already garnered more than 400 supporters -- or at the very least, "likes," -- as well as ... More >>

University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July

The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press. The news came as a complete surprise to the ten-member staff, ed ... More >>

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Police Department Teams With UMSL to Fight Crime

University of Missouri--St. LouisUMSL criminology professor Richard Rosenfeld will soon become a regular presence at police headquarters.​Earlier today the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners voted to approve a partnership between the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the Office of ... More >>

Truck Stop Missouri Serves Up Reality TV and Giant Pools of Gravy

In two weeks the University of Missouri - Columbia will celebrate their one hundredth homecoming, but there's a new character in town encroaching on the Tigers' fame: Midway Truck Stop, the subject of Travel Channel's newest hit, Truck Stop Missouri. The giant, independent truck stop stationed one e ... More >>

Mizzou Research: Cigarettes Change Your Personality

Researchers say smoking is correlated with impulsiveness.​It's bad for your lungs. It's bad for your skin. It's bad for your heart. But is smoking really bad for your personality? Yes, say researchers at the University of Missouri, who believe that quitting smoking can give people a charisma ... More >>

Tough Going at the Missouri State Fair

​Man! First Lynryd Skynyrd canceled their show last week for health reasons, and now the power's out at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.Last night, a storm knocked over trees, power lines, tents and concession stands at the fairgrounds. The grounds are closed to the public this morning, but far ... More >>

St. Louis Chefs Are an Educated Lot

Chrissy WilmesChris Williams of Franco studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York.​Last week Eater asked chefs if they thought culinary school was worth the time and expense for aspiring chefs. The answer was a resounding "probably not." The discussion made us wonder how well-e ... More >>

Update: Winter Weather Wreaking Havoc on Cardinals Opening Week

You know what they say: If there's snow in the branches...​This morning, the Cardinals announced that they're also postponing a baseball game between University of Missouri and University of Illinois that had been scheduled for tonight at Busch Stadium. Cold temperatures and a forecast for evening ... More >>

Serial Masturbator Could Be On the Loose at University of Missouri

christwire.orgIf only it were this easy, MU police would have their man.​Police at the University of Missouri - Columbia are on the lookout for what could be a serial masturbator. According to the police, a man was spied enjoying himself on campus twice over the weekend. The first incident occurre ... More >>

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St. Louis Public Radio Sued For Racial Discrimination

stlpublicradio.orgSuit claims station manager Tim Eby didn't follow up on promotion promise of his predecessor.​A longtime employee of St. Louis Public Radio (KWMU 90.7) has sued the station's general manager and the curators of the University of Missouri on charges that she was passed over for pr ... More >>

University of Missouri, Other MO Colleges, Hit By Veterans' Lawsuit

War is hell; trying to pay for college tuition in Missouri ain't all that easy either.​A group of military veterans is suing trustees at the University of Missouri, Southeast Missouri State University and the Moberly Area Community College, alleging that the universities systematically overcharged ... More >>

Mizzou Scientists Experiment With Homegrown Replacement Joints

image viaThe nice scientists at Mizzou helped Bunny grow a new shoulder!​It would be convenient if human bodies were like starfish, able to regenerate missing limbs or anything else they need. We can't yet, but a team of researchers at the University of Missouri and Columbia University may be clos ... More >>

Mizzou Plans to Cull Degree Programs in 2011

image viaOr, rather, je déteste Mizzou.​Many people consider New Years a perfect time for clearing out their extra junk. The University of Missouri is of this philosophy, too, kind of. At the behest of the state, Mizzou plans to cull sixteen of its lowest-yielding degree programs over the cou ... More >>

How to Avoid Becoming a Grinch This Holiday Season

image via​It's so easy to succumb to Grinch-ish-ness this time of year. It's dark, it's cold and you can't go anywhere without hearing fake-cheerful Muzaked Christmas songs. This all makes you especially vulnerable to the good sad songs, like "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" or "I'll B ... More >>

This Month in Science

image via​Here in St. Louis, lots and lots of people are working tirelessly to explain the meaning of life -- not in the philosophical sense, but literally: How does the universe work? Here are some of the discoveries they've made this month, as reported in Riverfront Times and Daily RFT: It ... More >>

Well, Duh: Cats Improve Your Life, Study Says

World's most adorable health tonic: Zsa Zsa Meinzer​A story that appeared in today's USA Today -- and promptly made the rounds, getting linked on Jezebel and forwarded around with lightning speed -- quotes research from the University of Missouri that anyone with a brain in her head already knows. ... More >>

Just How Tall Were the Dinosaurs?

Everybody knows the dinosaurs were super-tall, but a University of Missouri anatomy professor has just proven everybody wrong. The dinosaurs weren't just super-tall. They were super-duper tall. The extra height, Casey Holliday and his team of researchers discovered, came from cartilage between the d ... More >>

For Your Next Vacation, How About Some Twister Chasing?

Yes, it's the end of September and summer vacation season is officially deader than the Cardinals' playoff hopes. But it's never too early to start planning for next year. A couple of University of Missouri professors report that Missourians who are sick of float trips and paranoid about the e coli ... More >>

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Wants "Endangered" Status for Ozark Hellbender

Jeff Briggler, courtesy of Missouri DOCOzark Hellbender: Putting its image on a football helmet could save its life.​Before we get started, how is that the University of Missouri calls its athletic teams the Tigers (an animal that's never called Missouri home and which is the most generic name in ... More >>

Explosion Rocks University of Missouri Research Lab; 4 Injured in Blast

Holey Schweitzer!​Gas from a 2,000-psi hydrogen tank ignited yesterday at a University of Missouri research lab, blasting 17 windows out of the building and sending four people to the hospital.The explosion occurred around 2:15 p.m. on the third floor of Schweitzer Hall. Columbia fire investigator ... More >>

Nebraska Announces Move to Big 10 as Mizzou Tries to Save Face

Mizzou Tigers -- like this kitty -- are on the outside looking in.​The University of Nebraska board of regents voted 8-0 today to leave the Big 12 Conference for the Big Ten. The move will go into effect in time for the 2011 football season. Meanwhile, University of Missouri officials were holding ... More >>

The Art of the Book: Journals Then and Now

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Will There Be a Tuition Freeze at Mizzou or What?

Image source​The University of Missouri Board of Curators will meet this Friday, April 16, to discuss, among other things, whether there will be a freeze on in-state tuition for the 2010-2011 school year. It's a subject of intense interest at the moment because even though Governor Jay Nixon ... More >>

Mizzou Students Rally for Pot-Smoking As Safe Alternative to Boozin'

Image viaDude, it's SO safer​In a move that pulverizes the college kid stereotype, students at the University of Missouri - Columbia will be rallying today for marijuana. Not for its legalization, per se. But to make the argument that pot is safer than drinking. There were similar rallies organize ... More >>

The Mizzou/Match Soy Chicken Battle: An Update

top photo Jennifer Silverberg, bottom photo courtesy University of Missouri​Loyal readers of Gut Check may recall that last week we reported that Fu-Hung Hsieh, a professor at the University of Missouri's College of Agriculture, was developing an artificial chicken made out of soy. Ever alert, Gut ... More >>

Alex Trebek Thinks I'm a Filthy Slut?

screencap viaLindsay Eanet. Aspiring music journalist.​University of Missouri senior Lindsay Eanet is currently competing on the Jeopardy!" College Championship. (Wash U student Nick Yozamp is also in the same competition.) A journalism major, she told the Columbia Tribune that being on the sh ... More >>

Mizzou vs. Match: The Soy Chicken Battle Is On!

Last summer, Riverfront Times reported on Match, a groundbreaking meat substitute invented right here in St. Louis. Match comes in six different flavors, including beef, chicken and pork, and it has been heralded as the best artificial meat on the market.Now it has an in-state challenger, at least i ... More >>

Ass Clown of the Week Is Back! Cast Your Vote for Biggest Local Bozo!

​Yes, 'tis that time of the week once more. Time for you, the readers of Daily RFT, to vote for the most despicable/idiotic local newsmaker of the past seven days. And the nominees...Amanda Hanneman and Jessra Johnson: The University of Missouri lady basketball players accused of beating the crap ... More >>

Bud Light Ad "In the Can" is One for the Ages

On Friday we told you how Bud Light has been forced to stop selling its school-colors themed "Fan Cans" near the University of Missouri and dozens of other college campuses nationwide. In hindsight, perhaps college administrators got their undies in a bunch because Anheuser-Busch didn't employ a cle ... More >>

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