Feature StoriesNorthwest undergraduate earns prestigious scholarship
Junior Natalie Coté, or Nat as some people know her, received the 2019 Robert C. Bohlmann, CEM, Scholarship for Service in Emergency Management after nearly 30 hours of work gathering at least 12 different documents for her application. The scholarship is awarded to four students studying emergency and disaster management worldwide. Coté was the only undergraduate to receive it this year. |
Gen Z brings new dynamic to workforce
The diversity of ideas, personalities and beliefs people have continues to grow as millennials solidify their adulthood and a new generation is introduced. The generation after millennials, Generation Z, is entering the work force as students born in the late 1990s are finishing college. |
Visiting Writers Series welcomes contest winners
Northwest Missouri State University’s Department of Language, Literature and Writing has brought award-winning authors and poets to campus through the Visiting Writers Series for more than 15 years. Two writers who visited Fall 2018 were Frank Montesonti and C.D. DyVanc. |
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College media adapt to online-only formats
While universities across the country have suspended in-person classes to limit the spread of COVID-19, the future for student newspapers remains unknown because being online-only until physical classes resume could create long-term changes. |
Northwest does not decide to raise student minimum wage along state increase
The University has not decided to raise the minimum wage for student employees, even though the state minimum wage increased. The Northwest Leadership Team and Student Senate will continue having discussions about raising it as the wage for all private, non-exempt businesses rises every year until 2023. |
Top three STDs clapback with highest number of diagnoses in age of hookup culture, awareness
The number of sexually transmitted disease cases across the nation is at an unprecedented high. Nearly half of the 20 million new STD diagnoses made each year are among ages 15-24. |
Opinion Articles'Abominable' perfectly blends reality and fantasy for the whole family
While DreamWorks Animation is known for its movies featuring talking animals and other fantastical creatures, its 2019 film “Abominable” portrayed the perfect blend of reality and fantasy through a heartwarming story about a teenager and her friends who help a young Yeti get away from villains and return to his family on Mount Everest. |
Super Bowl halftime show caused unnecessary uproar
Many people on social media said Shakira and Lopez over-sexualized and objectified women during their performance, but they were simply showcasing their Latina heritage in Miami, a city known as the capital of Latin America. |
Don't stress over the mess
My mom’s first observation when she visited me was the tidiness of my room, or rather the lack of it. My unmade bed and paper-littered desk stood no match against my roommate’s folded blankets and perfectly stacked textbooks. |
