The fourth annual Walk for the Homeless will start at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 at Sixth and Messanie in Downtown St. Joseph and will follow the migration path of the homeless. The walk to raise awareness and funds for the Social Welfare Board Homeless Outreach Medical Express Unit is co-sponsored by the Missouri Western [...]
Mr. and Miss Black Student Union will be crowned at the fourth annual Black Student Union Pageant at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt 101 on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Admission is free. Contestants in the pageant will showcase a talent, give a speech on a selected [...]
Deborah Smith Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has reappointed Deborah J. Smith (D), of Country Club Village, to the Missouri Western State University Board of Governors. The Board of Governors establishes policies, by-laws, rules and regulations for its own governance and for control and governance of Missouri Western. Smith, a graduate of Missouri Western [...]
George Hodgman, author of the New York Times best-seller “Bettyville,” will speak twice in St. Joseph. Hodgman will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11 at First Christian Church, 927 Faraon Street in St. Joseph, and at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101, on the campus of [...]
Dr. Mark Laney Dr. Mark Laney, president and CEO of Mosaic Life Care, will speak at Missouri Western State University’s Eggs and Issue Speaker Series at 7 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10 in the Fulkerson Center. The breakfast is free but reservations are required. Call 816-271-5646 by Thursday, Nov. 5. Dr. Laney’s presentation is [...]
Kevin Bobo Internationally-acclaimed percussionist Kevin Bobo will be giving a clinic/performance at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 in the Potter Hall Theater at Missouri Western State University. Admission is free and open to the public. Bobo is professor of percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a position he has held [...]
The Center for Multicultural Education and the Division of Student Affairs at Missouri Western State University will host the Tunnel of Oppression, an interactive event that highlights contemporary issues of oppression, Nov. 2, 3, 4 and 5. The event will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the Blum Student Union, [...]
Dr. Grant Harley, courtesy of the University of Southern Mississippi. A faculty member from the University of Southern Mississippi will speak in Missouri Western State University’s Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4 in Agenstein Hall, room 124. Dr. Grant Harley’s presentation, “How cattle, logging, fire and climate [...]
Copyright Nick Vedros 2015 Nick Vedros, an internationally known commercial photographer, will present slides of photos he took of Kansas prison inmates at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3 in the Fulkerson Center at Missouri Western State University. “Faces of Change” is part of the Peace and Conflict Lecture Studies and is free and [...]
Photo courtesy of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, will present a workshop on improvisational and physical comedy from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. There is no cost, but seating is limited to 25 people and participants must preregister online at griff.vn/ImprovRSC. [...]
