MU Diversity News
Taylor Rausch, Columbia Missourian
Speakers Circle evangelist Brother Jed and a Baptist preacher squared off Monday night in front of an audience of nearly 200 students and a handful of Columbians. The moderated debate about the effectiveness of confrontational evangelism is part of the weeklong “School of Evangelism,” organized by Brother Jed, formally George Smock.
Aaron Dohogne, Columbia Missourian
After the last two presidential elections, the impact of religious faith on electoral politics cannot be underestimated. That will likely be the case in 2008 as well, although the Democrats’ approach to the issue will be key to whether Republicans continue to attract the majority of people who bring their faith into the voting booth.
Laura Latzko, Columbia Missourian
U.S. Senator Kit Bond spoke on economic, military and educational ties to Korea Monday at MU’s annual Harry S. Truman Conference, held in honor of Korea Week. He was greeted by applause upon his arrival to the Reynolds Alumni Center on MU’s campus and his closing remarks earned him two standing ovations. Bond spoke for about 15 minutes on the importance of strengthening the U.S. and MU’s partnerships with
Kyle Wayne Stewart, Columbia Missourian
With his son in his arms, Wonseok Kim walked around the main service hall at the Columbia Korean Baptist Church, where he has served as a volunteer since 2002. At the same time, his wife was downstairs preparing Korean food for church members. Kim came to Columbia in 2000 and is now a biographical postdoctoral student at MU.
Shreya Baxi, Columbia Missourian
MU senior Jake Hong manned the grill with some friends at a kickoff picnic Sunday in the South Quad. The picnic was part of the fourth annual Korea Week, which runs through Thursday.
Maggie Creamer, Columbia Missourian
For years, the MU Retirees Association has pushed University of Missouri System officials to raise the pensions of retired faculty and staff to match cost of living increases.
Matt Hibbard, The Maneater
While the 2008 Summer Olympics promise to be fiercely competitive, MU journalism students will be competing to earn the chance to represent the university in Beijing during the games.
Emily Younker, Columbia Missourian
Gerald Caetano knows how frustrating it can be to return to college after serving in the military. The MU junior and president of Mizzou Student Veterans Association, who was in the Army for 11 years and completed two tours of Iraq, said he was lucky because his billing and cashier problems were usually fixed within days.
Rebekah Sasse, Columbia Missourian
The Missouri School of Journalism will take steps today to formalize its agreement to send about 50 students to Beijing to work as interns/volunteers at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Annamaria, International Teaching Assistant Program
Did you know that Mizzou is home to more than 1300 international students from over 90 countries? Interacting with some of these students offers an invaluable cross-cultural learning opportunity for you!
Marty Swant, The Maneater
The Department of Residential Life has formed a new program to provide its staff an opportunity to learn workplace English for Spanish-speaking employees and Spanish for English-speaking employees.
Jennifer Faddis, MU News Bureau
The media's message is clear: the AIDS epidemic will be the downfall of families in Africa. A new study by a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher calls that an overstatement. Her study shows that AIDS compounds the issue of poverty in households where poverty is already a prevailing issue, especially when a household loses its primary income earner to AIDS.
Columbia Tribune
The eighth Harry S Truman Conference will take place next Monday at the Reynolds Alumni Center on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus and will focus on U.S.-Korea relations. The conference is free and open to the public.
Qianyi Huang, COlumbia, Missourian
When Guanyu Gu came to MU from China, he brought only a backpack and a small suitcase. Without having a place to stay, he carried the luggage with him throughout the campus’s international-student orientation Aug. 13. His first day on campus, he found there was so much to do that he had no idea where to start.
Cheri Ghan, MU News Bureau
The University of Missouri-Columbia's Health Connection will offer a Tai Chi session. The eight-week course will introduce the basic Tai Chi postures and will begin with step-by-step instruction for the Yang Long Form Style.
This message is to invite all interested people to contribute to the organization of the seventh annual Cambio de Colores conference. At this moment, April 7th-9th, 2008 (Monday through Wednesday) are the most likely dates. We plan to have the event in Columbia, Missouri.
Alan Scher Zagir-AP, Columbia Missourian
As a University of Missouri curator, David Wasinger has sworn to uphold affirmative action laws in hiring and admissions at the system’s four campuses.
Prscshe Moran, Columbia Missourian
Dorsey, a former MU student, recently published his first book, “Mistakes and Glories: The Journal of Daniel Dorsey,” an unedited look at his stint this summer as a volunteer teacher in Nairobi, Kenya. The proceeds of the book will go to a college fund for Agwaro Ommumita, a 25-year-old Kenyan.
Alisa Warren, Nexus Newsletter
Dr. Norma L. Houston arrived on the MU campus only six weeks ago as a post-doctoral fellow in Biochemistry to do research with Dr. Jay Thelen in the Bond Life Sciences Center. She is originally from Warsaw, North Carolina and received her undergraduate degree in Biology from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Dr. Houston earned her PhD in Functional Genomics, Concentration in Plant Biology at North Carolina State University.
Alisa Warren, Nexus Newsletter
Krystal Purnell, a UMEB Scholar from Kansas City, did not anticipate that this day would be any different from other days doing fieldwork on roundworms in raccoons for Dr. Matthew Gompper.
Andrew Denney, The Maneater
Although fireworks were invented in mainland China, nearly 75 miles from high school student June Wang’s home in North Taiwan, she said displays back home didn’t hold a candle to the ones she saw while in the United States last week during Independence Day celebrations.
Off Campus Diversity News
Alex Lewis, Columbia Missourian
Following a 24-hour flight to Missouri on Tuesday after two weeks in China, members of the Columbia bluegrass band Ironweed have begun to settle back into their routines. Although they are excited to be home, the four musicians already miss the country they just left.
Scott Bauer,AP - Columbia Tribune
Spiritualists say they can hear, see the dead.
Julie Zykan, Columbia Missourian
At ballooning events across the country, the 65-foot handicapped-accessible symbol emblazoned on the side of Serena’s Song commands attention. Twenty-two years ago, when a friend of Gary Waldman offered a ride in his hot-air balloon, he grasped the wheelchair of his 2½-year-old disabled daughter and hoisted her into the basket. He cushioned the gondola, secured her chair to a fuel tank, and the pilot took flight.
Joseph Berger, New York Times
For 18 years, this city of 55,000 has maintained racially balanced schools without the white flight that has followed integration plans in places like Boston and Canarsie, Brooklyn.
Nicole Winfield-AP, Columbia Missourian
Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, the outspoken church leader who was killed in 1980 as he celebrated Mass, has become as polarizing in death as he was in life.
Annie Nelson, Columbia Tribune
For two of Columbia’s Jehovah’s Witness families, the time they spent inviting city residents to a recent 2007 "Follow the Christ" District Convention was a sincere effort to introduce people to their faith. And in the same way they were introduced to it - by a knock on their door.
Cat Szalkowski, Columbia Missourian
Chinese monks cloaked in black, white and blue robes greeted the Missourians in the monastery gardens. 8/15/2007The leader of the monk musicians, with a spiraled bun tightly woven atop his head, showed the band members into a room with traditional architecture, where Ironweed waited quietly.
Charles Dervarices, Diverse Issues in Higher Education
A multi-billion dollar competitiveness bill headed for President Bush's desk has several key provisions to attract more minority students to careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
AAMC (Association of Americamn Medical Colleges) Reporter
Your lifestyle is unnatural. You should not be eligible to become a U.S. citizen. Your opinion counts for less, because you are less than one person. You should not become a doctor, nor should a doctor be permitted to treat you. Some may assume that these remarks—each targeted toward gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) individuals—are nowadays confined to the shadier corners of society. That assumption may partially explain the surprise among members of academic medicine who learned recently that these and other anti-GLBT sentiments still exist on the nation's medical school campuses.
Mary T. Nguyen, Columbia Tribune
My siblings and I call it "The Asian Invasion." Every summer during the first weekend of August, tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics flock to the small southwest Missouri town of Carthage for a four-day festival to celebrate the Virgin Mary. Vietnamese refugees credit the Catholic icon for their protection and rescue from Vietnam as they fled the country after the Vietnam War.
Louis Sahagun-The Los Angeles Times, Columbia Missourian
Brad Stewart was a teenage stock trader in 1986 when he went to a financial bookstore in Los Angeles and stumbled across a strange, smoke-filled back room devoted to an odd science.
Maaureen Fan-Washington Post, Columbia Missourian
At first, the Web site director and his schoolteacher wife sent their 5-year-old son to a Confucian school in this central Chinese city simply because it was two minutes from home. But the more they learned about the school, the more they liked what they saw.
