Being A Looney Tune All Summer Is, In Fact, All Fun and Games

Written by Madelyn Shotton on September 18, 2019. Posted in Arts & Entertainment

Setting aside the heat, working for the Entertainment Department at Six Flags was one of the best decisions I ever made.

Photo by Angela Farson

Alongside her pals, Bugs Bunny and Sylvester the cat, Madelyn Shotton found fun in escorting the gang just as much as being the character for the day. As an escort, Shotton answered guests’ questions about the park, took family photos and made sure the Tunes followed their daily schedule.  

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A Day That Forever Changed our Perception of School Safety

Written by Madelyn Shotton on April 20, 2019. Posted in News

— Part 1 of an 8-Part Series —

April 20, 2019, marks the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School mass shooting, which was ranked the worst school shooting in U.S. history until the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on Feb. 4, 2018, and was one of the deadliest episodes of school violence. Today’s story is the first in an 8-story series, and we are posting it at 12:19 p.m. local time (11:19 a.m. Mountain Time), which is exactly when two Colorado students walked into their high school two decades ago and began a killing spree that left 13 dead, before killing themselves, permanently altering our sense of security in schools.

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Behind the Scenes of Media Talk 2018

Written by Colin Baillie on January 8, 2019. Posted in Opinion

Did you know what really went on at the Media Talk with Gov. Mike Parson? If not, here is a little info about what really happened, as told from the personal perspective of one of the governor’s interviewers, Colin Baillie.

Photos by Dani Jo Stevenson

Interviewers Colin Baillie, left, and Ross Munroe, right, pose for a quick photo with Gov. Mike Parson after the 2018 fall Media Talk, in which the two MBU communications majors interviewed the governor in front of a packed Chapel.

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Barista Girls Getting in the Swing of Things

Written by Haley Sandvoss on December 15, 2018. Posted in Arts & Entertainment

This year, the Perk hired eight new baristas, four boys and four girls. This story features the four new girls who are getting in the swing of their new jobs as Perk baristas.

Photos by Haley Sandvoss

An exterior look at Missouri Baptist University’s coffee shop the Perk, on a recent snowy day. The coffee shop, the largest free-standing college coffee shop in the state, is extra popular as a gathering place this time of year.

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CA-2-The Lou

Written by Trevor Chaney on November 29, 2018. Posted in Opinion

No. I don’t get homesick, even though I am nearly 2,000 miles from my hometown of Turlock, California. In fact, St. Louis reminds me of California in a weird way. Nothing is the same between the Midwest and the West Coast, but the love I have for them individually is identical.

Photos by Trevor Chaney

The view from this little known spot along the California coast, called Sunset Beach and located 40 minutes north of Monterey, is incredible and one of a kind, but somehow the prairie views and rolling hills of the Midwest have grown on me, too. And the Arch is certainly something to behold.

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