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Students learn appropriate tipping etiquette

By Charlotte Kyle

The meal was delicious, the drink was never below half-empty (or half-full, depending on one's level of optimism) and the service received was better than any recent restaurant trip. The only thing left to do is pay, and with that price comes the question of tipping.

Festival of Champions plays 32nd year

By Bec Feldhaus Contributing writer

It is that feeling in your chest when the drums beat and trumpets blare. Thoughts of fall consist of bonfires, camping and football games in cool weather. For the Murray State Music Department, it includes the excitement that comes from their annual Festival of Champions.

IBMAs attract college students, faculty member plays in band

By Whitney Harrod

Hundreds of banjo, mandolin and fiddle players will soon meet to showcase one of the most rapidly growing musical genres. Jason McKendree, lecturer of math and statistics, will attend the International Bluegrass Music Association fan festival and awards show.

The birds and the bees and Murray State

By Whitney Harrod

For every considerate and kind individual I?know, there is a counterpart. The counterpart's traits may include controlling, compulsive, unreasonable and unthoughtful behaviors exhibited in response to both male and female courting rituals. Let's face it.

MAG offers Art on the Square, partners with students

Murray Art Guild has found a way to get students in touch with their inner child: through childlike activities that never lose their fun quality. Through a Saturday morning event called Art on the Square, booths like salt dough sculpture and pumpkin and street painting remind students they are never too old for candid fun.

Mandela walks historical African path

By David Borum

One child in rural South Africa, born in a time of brutal racial segregation, refused to accept apartheid. South Africans were coerced to swallow racial integration for decades, until Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, whom some consider the greatest leader of the 20th century, took the initiative to save his country from the foulest most inhumane treatment imaginable.

Straight from the farm

Organic veggie garden products used on campus

Jess Nall and Clayton Vertrees Staff writers Freshly grown lettuce, beets, collard greens and many other kinds of produce will soon highlight Food Services menus with the cultivation of Murray State's Mabel G. and J. Stanley Pullen Farm. Forming a partnership Pat Williams, horticulture operational manager for Pullen Farm, said Food Services and the Murray State Agriculture department's work together started when Richard Fritz, Food Services director, purchased chrysanthemums from Pullen Farm in October 2007.

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