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A changing of the guard will soon take place as the Roo Party: Fresh Faces and New Ideas was elected to fill all four Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Council positions.
No government health inspections have been conducted at the University Center's kitchen for quite some time, according to a state health official.
Students camped out last week on the lawn of the UMKC Quad in protest of the annual increase of tuition, the amount of money spent toward the war in Iraq and University food service.
A presidential candidate in this week's Student Government Association (SGA) elections has been accused by one opponent of buying votes.
Police officers stood in the hall, over 60 spectators packed the gallery and UMKC's top administrators were on hand to witness the largest display in years of students passionately taking interest in their Student Government Association (SGA) at the meeting last Wednesday.
Ballots are printed and fliers posted as voting in the Student Government Association (SGA) elections begins today. Students will be asked to choose four people to fill the SGA's Executive Council, comprised of a president, executive vice president (EVP), administrative vice president (AVP) and comptroller.
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Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle opened UMKC's 2005 RFK Symposium last Monday, stating as the keynote speaker that he believes stem cell research can support moral and religious values while giving hope to the sick. Daschle followed the theme of the weeklong Symposium, "Bio Ethics and Stem Cell Research," in discussing policy implications of the research.
Students got administrator's attention Thursday afternoon as they blocked traffic on Rockhill Road before agreeing to abandon the protest to meet with administrators. Seven Kansas City police officers and four UMKC police officers directed traffic away from Rockhill Road onto 50th and 51st Street for 25 minutes, as about 30 student protestors circled the crosswalk just east of the University Center.
Catherine Kironde knows what it's like to be the new kid in town. "I was an international student working two jobs, and I wasn't involved my first year at UMKC. It was miserable," said Kironde, who came to Kansas City from Kenya to study. Kironde is now very involved in the campus.
Displays and projects filled Pierson Auditorium last Friday at the annual Students Engaged in Artistic and Academic Research (SEARCH) Symposium showcasing student research conducted over the past year. Twenty-six students earned grants from the University and paired with a faculty member to make their ambitions a reality.
Elson favors proposed education bill A prominent Republican's bid to shake up Missouri's higher education funding system drew the attention of University of Missouri President Elson Floyd and other academic leaders last week.
April 8 At 9 a.m., UMKC Police were dispatched to the School of Dentistry for an illness. A staff member was not feeling well after a procedure and was transported to the hospital. At 1:20 p.m., police were dispatched to University Center parking lot for a disturbance.
Cardinals will meet to elect new pope One hundred and fifteen cardinals of the Catholic church will meet starting Monday in an effort to elect a new pope. Though technically all attending cardinals are in the running to be elected the new pope, there are several favorites for the position, as is tradition.
Due to a reporter's error, the news article "TASSU's first prom" in Issue 28, Carlton Brackett was misidentified as Carlton Foster.
