The U.S. Postal Service is planning to end Saturday mail delivery by the beginning of August this year. Without congressional consent, however, the service cannot make decisions on this large of a scale. Over the last few years, the service has lost billions of dollars, mainly due to the technological changes in mail service. Ending Read More
Board members outlined plans Wednesday to move forward with an evaluation document that the Board of Regents would use to make a final decision on President Randy Dunn’s employment contract. In a special meeting of the board’s ad-hoc contract review committee in Louisville, Ky., committee members agreed on four strategic areas of importance in determining Read More
Murray State’s Information Systems is offering a single sign on option for their systems. This works for myGate, RacerMail, Blackboard and your Network account only. This does not work for any library systems such as Illiad and E-Reserve. The option to consolidate all of your passwords is now available on the Home tab of your Read More
President Barack Obama spoke to Congress in the first State of the Union address of his second presidential term Tuesday night. With Congress in a continuous deadlock, Obama focused his speech on the necessity to cross bipartisan lines. “The American people don’t expect government to solve every problem,” Obama said. “They don’t expect those of Read More
Murray State assistant professor of English, William (Rusty) Jones attended the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Boston in January. Jones is a contributor to the latest edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, a comprehensive and authoritative reference book on all aspects of poetry. The Princeton University Press first published the book Read More
Several anonymous Twitter accounts have caused a recent stir from students and administrators after some say the posts are racist and humiliating. Anonymous accounts such @MurrayAsian, @MSUblackpeople and @MSUpartygirl are just a few of the Twitter handles anonymously tweeting discriminatory comments and relating them to the University. Some tweets from @MurrayAsian mocked clothing or the Read More
Murray State had nine students participate at Vanderbilt University’s 4th annual Out in Front: LGBTQI and Ally Leadership Conference on Saturday, February 9. The mission of Out in Front is to engage students, faculty, and staff from the region in issues relevant to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersex community and society at large. This year’s Read More
$417 billion. College student spending takes up almost half a trillion dollars of the U.S. economy a year. While a large amount of this money goes to college tuition, room and board and school expenses, $120 billion is purely discretionary. That means groceries, alcohol, dining and appearance are among the several categories of spending increases Read More