Texting and driving incidents have decreased in the city of Murray, and as a result, accidents and collisions have seen an overall decline. Murray State Public Safety Captain Roy Dunaway said the Murray-Calloway County region had 74 citations issued for use of a personal communication device during 2012, which is prohibited while operating a motor Read More
The Murray State News filed an inquiry complaint against the Murray State Board of Regents Monday. The newspaper is seeking an opinion from Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway in relation to the board’s intent to hold an executive session later this month. In their December quarterly meeting, board members passed a resolution forming the Ad-Hoc Read More
In response to recently collected data, the city of Murray has begun working with the Department of Highway Safety to investigate ways to make a stretch of 16th Street safer for vehicles and pedestrians. According to a report compiled by the Murray State Police, in the past five years 26 people have been injured by Read More
After almost two years of planning and curriculum development, Murray State has begun to finalize aspirations for a new doctorate program from the College of Education set to be implemented by the fall of 2014. The impending addition of a doctorate of education program will become the second doctorate Murray State offers, the first having Read More
The President’s Commission on Sustainability has created an initiative to add solar panels to the energy systems on campus. The initiative is still in its infancy, but President Randy Dunn has already given it his approval. “Planning is presently underway for a solar panel project that would include enough panels to generate about 50 kilowatts Read More
It is amazing to me that of all the editorials I have written about unfounded or harmful religious claims, it was ridiculing the absurd claims of dinosaurs and humans co-existing that generated the most excited replies. I got less heat for questioning the power of prayer. Sahawneh admits there is no evidence that dinosaurs ever Read More
The attempts by Faris Sahawneh and Mark Looy to discredit Dr. Zingrone based on his emotional response simply represent another ploy by fundamentalists to advance their untenable, unsupportable positions on how the world works and what the universe is all about. In this case, they attempted to portray themselves as the ‘reasonable’ faction, even suggesting Read More
In the project of learned discourse, we don’t often find moments of complete intellectual incompetence. However, such is the case with the recent columns from Faris Sahawneh and Mark Looy of the infamous Answers in Genesis. Sahawneh wishes to challenge the view that dinosaurs and humans did not coexist. Sahawneh does this by claiming that, Read More