Written by Tyler Anderson, Opinion Editor Looking back on my role models growing up, they’re a far cry from what you’d expect from a cisgender male living in the south. Oprah and Stefani Germanotta (we all know her as Lady Gaga) were pretty high on the list. But one person, or in this case, fictional Read More
Story by Brianna Willis, Staff writer A county-wide power outage occurred, canceling events and classes at 2:30 p.m. March 31. According to the Murray Electric System Facebook page, lightning struck a main substation, cutting off power for Murray and Calloway County. For some, playing games was how they handled the loss of power. For others, life carried Read More
Column by Robert Valentine, Senior lecturer of advertising There is much talk these days about running things like a business. Most of it is wrong. In Kentucky, the governor wants to run the state more like a business. Like any good businessman who finds himself in arrears, he has looked first at some of his biggest expense Read More
Story by Tierra Reese, Staff writer Murray State will have a new and improved calendar, launching on Jan. 8, with new features that make event advertising easier than before. The strategic planning committee includes Charley Allen, Adrienne King, Alexandra Douglass, Don Robertson and Jamie Morgan, all of whom thought of this new calendar available for the Murray Read More
When international students walk into Murray State classes, they quickly realize there are some major differences from their universities. David Jephthah, freshman from Nigeria, said the relationship between professor and student is more relaxed than in Nigerian universities. “Studying in Murray is the definition of a flexible system of education,” he said. “I can walk Read More
Murray State gained a new global partner in education when an agreement was signed with Chinese university Zhejiang Wanli in September. The partnership between the two universities began before any paperwork was started. Guangming Zou, interim director of Institute for International Studies, said he was in Hong Kong for an international conference in 2012, and Read More
Murray State is beginning the fiscal year 2014-15 with excess revenue of approximately $3.8 million in net assets, which included a $1.2 million shortfall in its operating fund. Following extensive cuts and restructuring under former President Tim Miller last semester in order to diminish the University’s budget deficit, it was announced at the Board of Read More
Leaders from the Republican-controlled Kentucky Senate and Democratically controlled House reached a compromise on the biennial budget for the Commonwealth Monday night for the years 2014-2016. The final $20.3 million budget, if approved by Gov. Steve Beshear, restores funding to a number of universities’ construction projects removed in the Senate’s draft of the budget and Read More