Missouri Western State University will hold its 21st annual Reading of Challenged and Banned Books in recognition of the American Library Association’s National Banned Books Week at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, in the Enright Community Room, Spratt Hall room 214. The event is free and open to the public. Missouri Western students and faculty [...]
The Saudi Students Club of Missouri Western State University invites the campus and community to learn more about Saudi Arabia as they celebrate Saudi National Day from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25 in the Blum Student Union Lobby. The event is free and open to the public. Visitors will enjoy authentic Middle Eastern [...]
Students and faculty of Missouri Western State University will mark Constitution Day with a discussion at 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall. The discussion, “The Constitution: Issues and Challenges from an Interactive Perspective,” is free and open to the public. Sept. 17 marks the 230th anniversary of the [...]
Martin Luther King III will be the featured speaker at the R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues Sept. 12. Missouri Western State University is making plans to accommodate a larger-than-normal crowd for the R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues featuring Martin Luther King III. The Convocation will be held at 10 [...]
The Bushman Planetarium at Missouri Western State University presents “Totality” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19. The planetarium is located in Agenstein Hall. “Totality” is all about eclipses, from total to partial and lunar to solar. It covers how they occur and what happens when they do. It looks back to the proof of general [...]
The Peace and Conflict Studies program at Missouri Western State University will sponsor the Peace and Conflict Studies Fall Film Series this semester. All films will be shown at 6 p.m. in the Hearnes Center, room 102. They are free and open to the public. The film series features five films related to issues of [...]
The Ensemble of Irreproducible Outcomes (EIO) will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6 in the Kemper Recital Hall, inside Spratt Hall on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The concert is free and open to the public. EIO is a Kansas City-based trio of David McIntire on saxophone, Ryan Oldham on [...]
Lindy Lou Wells, the subject of the 2017 documentary “Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2,” will attend a free screening of the film at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall at Missouri Western State University. A reception in the Walter Cronkite Memorial in the Spratt Hall Atrium precedes the [...]
The Department of Theatre, Cinema and Dance in the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University will hold open auditions for the upcoming production of “Schoolhouse Rock Live!” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5 in the Potter Hall Theater. To sign up, visit www.missouriwestern.edu/theatrecinema/theatre-program/upcoming-auditions/. Those auditioning are asked to prepare a musical cutting [...]
Participants in Griffon Edge, Missouri Western's extended new student orientation program. As classes start at Missouri Western State University this fall, preliminary enrollment data indicates that about 1,000 incoming freshmen are starting their college career, an increase of 16.2 percent over last year’s number. “A one-year increase this large is really unprecedented in [...]
