Discussion of how to spend Alcoholic Beverage Control alcohol funds for the 2012-13 fiscal year was raised at the city council meeting Thursday by city council member and chair of the Public Safety Committee, Jay Morgan. Morgan proposed that $50,000 of the revenue raised from alcohol sales be split up between Murray State, Calloway County Read More
The Night Owl, a local hookah lounge and snack bar, is in the process of laying out a new business plan after police were called to the business on two occasions. During their March 20 meeting, the Board of Zoning and Adjustments requested for Night Owl owner, Tung Dinh, to put together a new business Read More
March 21 2:35 a.m. A tamper alarm was activated at the Arther J. Bauernfiend College of Business Building. Central Plant was notified. 4:11 p.m. A caller reported being locked out of an apartment on the 1000 block of College Courts. The housing office was notified. March 22 8:37 p.m. A caller reported a suspicious Read More
Monday kicked off the newly revamped Greek Week for Murray State fraternities and sororities. Seventeen organizations collected cans for Needline of Murray Tuesday. These groups are part of College Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council. A total of 7,771 cans were collected for Needline, surpassing the original goal of 1,000. Alpha Omicron Pi Read More
Rep. Ed Whitfield of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, held a town hall meeting attended by residents of Murray and Murray State students, administrators, and professors. Whitfield, who graduated from the University of Kentucky, was first elected to Congress in 1994. Winfield Rose, a political science professor at Murray State, said Whitfield has been an asset to the Read More
Murray State’s campus will be visited by four potential provost candidates to fill Bonnie Higginson’s soon-to-be vacant position. The candidates are current Murray State associate provost of graduate studies, Jay Morgan; Charles McAdams, dean of the college of arts and sciences at Northwest Missouri State; Bahman Ghorasi, current executive director of Fenn Academy and Fenn Read More
The third grader at Oaklawn Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas, had waited for this day. Usually, his father would come around at the end of the school day I to pick up the two brothers for the ride home. But now it was spring, and the boys’ parents had decided that it was time Read More
Seldom does Murray State gather so much attention when basketball isn’t involved, but the controversy surrounding the Board of?Regents’ decision to not renew President Randy Dunn’s contract is bringing in a lot of attention, and none of it is positive. On March 14, some members of the board met privately at the home of Regent Read More