2008 Woodie Awards
After a gunman killed 33 people at Virginia Tech Monday, Murray State is re-evaluating ways to keep students safe. Becky Watts, deputy to University President Randy Dunn, said depending on the situation, the University has procedures in place for students to follow.
After hitting the campaign trail hard, the candidates for 2007-08 Student Government Association executive offices were on pins and needles awaiting the announcement of the winners following All Campus Sing Wednesday. Eric King, junior from Calhoun, Ky.
A year and one week after being interviewed for the position, University President Randy Dunn will be inaugurated as the 11th president of Murray State today. The inauguration begins at 2 p.m. in Lovett Auditorium. A reception will follow in Pogue Library.
The Kentucky Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee unanimously approved the University's request to use contingency and grant money to continue work on the Science Complex Tuesday. University President Randy Dunn said the University will use about $2.
The Board of Regents approved a $500 housing hike for students who plan to live in the new Clark College during a special meeting April 13. When University officials proposed residential college and tuition rates for the 2007-08 school year Feb. 23, they suggested that because students living in the new Clark College will be living in a new facility and have new amenities, they should pay additional money.
Wednesday afternoon University President Randy Dunn signed the Talloires Declaration, making Murray State the first Kentucky university to ratify the document that pushes campuses to be environmentally minded. According to the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, the Talloires Declaration is a 10-point plan to increase sustainability and environmental education in universities and colleges.
"It is a wild, rousing, cheering kind of evening." At least that is what Michael Basile, director of the Institute for International Studies, said about the International Student Organization's annual Multicultural Night. The festivities begin at 6 p.
The survivor of a deadly high school shooting in western Kentucky a decade ago said the students who survived the massacre at Virginia Tech should talk about it. Heath High School shooting victim and Murray State alumna Missy Jenkins Smith said Wednesday there isn't a day that goes by that she doesn't think of Michael Carneal opening fire on a prayer group in the West Paducah school.
Universities across the state are rethinking the way they keep their students informed following the tragedy at Virginia Tech. The problems that come with reaching a diverse audience quickly became all too clear at Virginia Tech's Blacksburg, Va., campus on Monday, when a 23-year-old student shot 32 people to death, then committed suicide in the largest mass murder in the nation's history.
After wind gusts knocked down a tree in the quad April 11 and left Murray State alumna Roberta Miller unconscious, the University community might be taking a second look at the trees that cover the campus. The tree branch that fell on Miller and Ladonna McCuan, administrative assistant in the College of Business and Public Affairs, was about 18 inches in diameter and between 10-15 feet long.
Jay Morgan, associate professor of agriculture, was reelected to a full term after running unopposed in the faculty Regent elections this month. Morgan said the rules, elections and bylaws committee declared him winner of the election when the deadline for candidate applications arrived with no interest from other faculty members.
Sometimes they just need a break. With the semester winding down, many members of the Murray State community are finding they need a little respite from all the exam cramming and paper writing. Murray Madness, held from 6-9 p.m. Monday in front of Hart College and sponsored by the Student Government Association, provides students with a little fun and revelry to let them forget about classroom stresses for a few hours.
