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Bingo Study Break
Last Thursday night, campus recreation sponsored a bingo study break party, where students had time to get away from pre-exam nerves. From 7 to 9 p.m., students and their friends and family gathered in the multi purpose room in Provincial House on south campus where they relaxed and enjoyed a night [...]
Vietnam Night: A glimpse of another world
The second annual Vietnam Night, sponsored by the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA), was held at 6 p.m. last Friday. A night filled with Vietnamese culture and food was presented inside the J.C. Penny auditorium on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus. When guests first walked in the [...]
Award-winning paper chronicles black resistance to school desegregation
Jessica McCulley, 24-year-old graduate student in the history department of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, won the 2010 Jacqueline Tatom Young Scholars Best Paper Award for her senior thesis. McCulley’s paper titled “Black Resistance to School Desegregation in the Brown Era,†[...]
A little Chinese culture: Chinese dance troupe performs at UM- St. Louis
A little Chinese culture was brought to the Touhill Performing Arts Center Saturday, September 18 at 8 p.m. The college of music dance troupe from the China Northeast Normal University traveled from Changchun City in Jilin Province to share classical, modern and folk Chinese dances with St. Louis. [...]
One walk around campus makes it a safer place: Students took a walk to voice their opinions about campus safety
Last Tuesday night, students, faculty and staff took a walk around campus but this was unlike any other walk. This walk in particular held the purpose of making the University of Missouri-St. Louis a safer place. The annual campus safe walk is open to anyone frequenting campus and wanting to ensure [...]