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Toes tapping, hands clapping at Kouyate and Ngoni Ba concert
The Center for International Studies’ International Performing Arts Series brought a wonderful concert by Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba to the Lee Theater in the Touhill Performing Arts Center on April 7. It was an evening filled with African music, dancing, much applause and contagious [...]
Nothing but home runs
The University of Missouri-St. Louis women’s softball team, the Tritons, has been doing extremely well this season. Hitting more home runs than any other team, the Tritons have proven that they are ready for a great season. Heading into the final games of the weekend at Northern Kentucky on [...]
Is 9% really enough?
On the 24th of February, an opinion was voiced by a student at a luncheon with UM-System President Gary Forsee that the UM-St. Louis needs more African American faculty members. Research into this subject has shown that the university actually has a higher number of African Americans on their [...]
Collaboration, cooperation, education
The multi-media art exhibit “The Art of the Book: Journals Then and Now” opened February 11 at Gallery 210, for a run through May 2, 2010. The exhibit celebrates books old and new as art objects, through cover art and beautifully constructed books but also books as parts of artworks. “The [...]
Good music, good stories in McGee Band concert at Touhill
The McGee Band and Professor David Wilson entertained an audience with tales and music with an Irish flair in the Lee Theater of the Touhill Performing Arts Center on February 13. This entertainment consisted of a variety of Irish, Scottish and Quebecois music. Professor David Wilson, sometimes [...]