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Driving simulator provides safe learning

It's just like a real car. But it's not. The School of Technology purchased a driving simulator late last year for law enforcement training. Full story

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Roger Chelf’s historic year

Roger Chelf received a round of applause Monday when he officially ended his Faculty Senate President term. Full story

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Protesters urge MSSU to keep classes small

At noon last Friday, Missouri Southern students met at the flagpole on the Oval to protest increasing class sizes to the Board of Governors. Full story

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Breathe in, breathe out

Students seeking an associates degree in respiratory care at Missouri Southern don't see each other as classmates. They're more like family. Full story

News

Lions add Boschee to coaching staff

A former University of Kansa basketball standout is headed to Missouri Southern, but not as a player.
Jeff Boschee, a guard with the Kansas Jayhawks from 1998-2002, will be joining Southern in a coaching role.

Chart to publish online original FOIA documents

In an effort to serve the public, The Chart will begin to make available online most documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act and Sunshine Law requests.

MSSU cancels Choral Society spring concert

The Missouri Southern State University Choral Society Spring Concert scheduled for 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 2 in the First Community Church,15th and Connecticut Streets in Joplin has been canceled.

Feasibility study says $10 million goal is achievable

A feasibility study for a proposed medical school branch at Missouri Southern may have been withheld from the media following recommendations from the president of the company that compiled the report and the president of the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce.

Southern contacts Kirksville school about medical school partnership

An osteopathic medical school in Kirskville has been contacted about partnering with Missouri Southern, a local doctor says.

Athletes arrested after downtown fracas

Five Missouri Southern football players were arrested last weekend in connection with an incident outside a bar in downtown Joplin.

SPLC issues letter of concern

The Student Press Law Center faxed a letter of concern to Speck and Sharon Odem, secretary to the president and the Board of Governors earlier today. That letter asked Speck to meet with student editors of The Chart and “hold a clear-the-air meeting at which you may air whatever concerns you have about the way your administration has been portrayed in the newspaper.” The letter also criticized the policy as the wrong approach.

Voices

Silence isn’t always a virtue

The flow of information is a wonderful thing.
But students and employees at this University are now forced to look back fondly to the days when information flowed at all.