Public Safety sees increase in Racer Escort calls
Racer Escorts, a service offered by Racer Patrol, have doubled in the spring semester. In the fall semester, there were 26 escorts; this semester, with two weeks less than the fall, there have been 56 escorts. David Devoss, chief of police for the Murray State Public Safety, said the reason there has been such an Read More
Three men vie for SGA presidency
Chase Brasher, Dylan Gerlach and incumbent Jeremiah Johnson make up the all male pool of candidates running for president of the Student Government Association for the 2012-13 school year. Every April the SGA holds an election to determine who will take on the rule of president for the upcoming school year.
Two fraternities to face IFC judicial board
Alpha Tau Omega and Alpha Gamma Rho will face the Interfraternal Council Judicial Board to determine the consequences for incidents which occurred at their fraternity houses earlier this month. Mike Young, assistant vice president of student affairs, said the IFC will schedule the hearings for sometime next week. Both fraternities will remain on social probation Read More
Professors, students take time to reflect on Derting
Time seemed to stand still at Murray State the morning of March 15 after a student fell to his death from the Price Doyle Fine Arts Center. Officials reported Jacob Derting, junior from Bardstown, Ky., jumped from a seventh floor window in an officially determined suicide. Derting was a biology major and member of the Read More
University reacts to death, counseling available
University officials, accompanied by representatives from the Murray State Counseling and Testing Center and the Four Rivers Behavioral Health held a meeting March 15 for faculty, staff and students who were directly impacted by the student death outside the Price Doyle Fine Arts Center that morning. Nearby in the Quad, a group of nearly 20 Read More