If you’ve ever taken a finance or accounting class you might be familiar with the acronym ROI. ROI stands for Return on Investment. In the finance and investing world, Return on Investment is an equation used to value certain investments to make sure you are getting a favorable profit for your time and money. So Read More
In the midst of selecting a new president and reviewing our failure of last year’s budget, I’ve had to hear the words “transparency” and “honesty” used more than a million times. It’s almost subliminal. However, as often as we hear them used in reference to our relationship with Murray State, they really are important. Throughout Read More
There are people who will spend their whole lives looking under rocks and checking every corner for who they believe is their “soul mate.” This word has more power than most people really understand. The thing that is beautiful about the phrase soul mate is that we made it up. There is no religious or Read More
Spring Break has come. This long-standing seasonal phenomenon is actually a relatively new arrival on the long list of university traditions. We rarely pause to think about its origins, so happy are we to hit the snow-lined trail to the Tennessee border and points south. Very, very south. In fact, paleolithic man (and woman) did Read More
Perhaps Kentucky’s most famous living writer, Wendell Berry, has created in his Port William stories a rural community of folks trying to make sense of the modern world. Berry’s tales are inhabited by farmers and shopkeepers leading lives that are at once filled with struggle and fulfillment. I have read Berry’s stories during some of Read More
Last week’s The Murray State News Faces and Places series installment featured Cash Willis, senior from St. Louis, Mo., and his preaching to the Monday and Wednesday lunchtime student and faculty traffic on the walkway between the library and the Curris Center. Willis “shares the Gospel” from his park bench, to all who happen by. Read More
Myspace used to rule a lot of people’s lives. The ones of us who chose to openly admit it, though, are very few and far between. Once I discovered that this method of communicating with friends was available, and that my parents couldn’t see it or know how to access it, I was caught up Read More
When I was a kid, I once told a lie. This was a world-class whopper. Lies were not very good strategies for bonding in my family; although our mother was the soul of charity and forgiveness, it was her custom to refer the heavy lifting in the discipline department to a specialist – to The Read More