With the Center for Disease Control estimating that 20 people per minute are victims of violence, someone will be affected before you finish reading this story.
With the women’s cross country 2015 season all wrapped up, MBU Timeline gets the coach’s and runners’ feelings about how the season went and forecasts for the upcoming track season.
Gregg Favre, a captain with the St. Louis Fire Department, was interviewed for MBU’s 2015 fall Media Talk on Nov. 10. Favre spoke to students and staff about communication challenges the Fire Department faced during the events that took place in Ferguson as well as offering students advice in various topics. He was introduced and interviewed by communications students, James King, Josh Daugette and Hannah Ballard.
Gregg Favre spoke to Missouri Baptist University students during the Communication Department’s Media Talk on Nov. 10, addressing communication challenges during Ferguson and various issues he has faced as a representative of the Fire Department.
Here are some interesting facts about MBU Timeline, the student newsmagazine of Missouri Baptist University, in St. Louis:
*Our mission statement is: MBU Timeline is the student news network of Missouri Baptist University, a private Christian university that embraces the essential core value of “social change through service and leadership.”
*The Bible verse that drives our mission is 2 Timothy 2:15 (Worldwide English Version): “Tell the true message in the right way.”
*The WordPress website has been up since late-fall 2013. We average about 3,000 sessions and about 5,000 pageviews per month.
*Our stories and galleries get as few as 40 or 50 hits, or as many as 8,000 hits.
*We have readers in every state and more than 90 countries around the world. We have several readers in South America, the United Kingdom, India and Australia.
*Most of our readers are in Missouri, followed by Illinois, California and Texas.
*We do not accept advertising as we are a not-for-profit online newsmagazine.
*We welcome contributors from all walks of MBU life, regardless of your major. Reach out to us on Twitter at: @mbutimeline.