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Abduction at gunpoint
On Tuesday, July 6th, an University of Missouri-St.Louis student was abducted and sexually assaulted by an unknown assailant who remains at large. The student was abducted by the armed assailant at around 10 p.m. as she was approaching her parked car in the 8200 block of Natural Bridge. The student [...]
Dance pop with subliminal messages
Artists who actively question our modern consumer culture are nothing new, but back when Bansky was probably in diapers and the guys who founded AdBusters were in grade school, Devo had perfected it and long since disappeared from the music scene. In the ‘70s and ‘80s they created [...]
SABC allocations questioned
Some University of Missouri-St. Louis student organizations have received funding decreases from the Student Activity Budget Committee for the upcoming fiscal year. The cuts come coupled with increases to some organizations’ budgets in addition to funding being provided to new organizations for [...]
iPad offers innovative, cheap computing to students
No doubt that by now you have seen multiple reviews of Apple’s iPad, but we at The Current didn’t want to jump the gun. We wanted to highlight as many of the features that students would use on the device in the review- so we gave the iPad a proper test, passed it around the office, did our [...]
Senate candidate addresses young Republicans
James Schmidt, a University of Missouri-St. Louis alumnus has filed to run against congressman and House minority whip Roy Blunt in the Republican primary for the Senate seat being vacated by current Missouri Sen. Kit Bond. He spoke at a meeting of the Young Republicans on campus on April [...]
