2008 Woodie Awards
Last spring, the University of Missouri - St. Louis rolled out "MyView," touted as a one-stop shop for students and their families to manage the student's education experience. Course offerings could be researched, and schedules made up online with less hassle than the old system of online registration, which required downloading software to the student's personal computer.
The International Science Festival 2008, or SciFest 08, will turn the St. Louis Science Center into a fairground of science fun from Oct. 9 to Oct. 13. You may have seen ads on TV for SciFest 08, with its googly-eyed logo. The SciFest is not a science fair or a conference, but a festival about what is fun, fascinating, quirky, strange and curious in science.
During my freshman year at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I enrolled in an Honors College class called "Monsters and Metaphors." The class was based on horror novels and films, and the messages that the writers of these books and movies attempted to sell to their audience through metaphors.
A groundswell has been developing in the past couple of weeks among conservative commentators, calling on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to quit as the Republican candidate for vice president of the United States. Permit me to add my voice to that chorus. I am an old-school conservative; I supported Ronald Reagan in 1984, not as a "Reagan Democrat," but as a straight up Reagan Republican.
One of the best parts of life at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is getting to explore and understand the different cultures of the students who attend it. Last Wednesday, many of my fellow students and I celebrated one of the biggest events in Muslim culture, the feast of Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the 30-day period of fasting for the holy month of Ramadan.
"The next westbound train will be arriving in 30 seconds." This is what I hear as I am about to face-plant into the remaining two flights of stairs I race down to catch the Metrolink. At the bottom of the stairs stands the ticket checker screaming, "Get out your tickets" or "Have your tickets out.
Parking Services: My Hero Never did I think the day would come when I would join the ranks of those poor unfortunate souls who have had their cars run out of gas unexpectedly. But [one] Thursday, tragedy struck as my Cavalier sputtered and died while driving on Natural Bridge.
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