Columns
Media misrepresentation has lasting effects
As popular culture in the form of media has grown throughout the decades, along with our ability to access it, the effects it has on our society and the way we view the world have […]
Month: August 2016
Features
Renovated Mainstreet Market opens in SUB
The Mainstreet Market, located in the Student Union Building is finally open. Students now have the food options of Chick-fil-A, Mein Bowl, Holy Habanero, and Slice of Life.
Campus
Presidential search consulting agency to visit campus
In a campus-wide email sent Aug. 22, Cheryl Cozette, Board of Governors secretary, announced a visit by the recently hired presidential search consultants to engage with campus community members and the Truman State University Presidential […]
Soccer
Women’s soccer embraces high expectations for 2016 season
Truman State women’s soccer returns for the 2016 season with a lot to prove and a lot to protect. The ‘Dogs enter 2016 ranked 25th in the preseason Division II coaches poll taken by the […]
Campus
Interim President welcomes new students
Interim President Sue Thomas had the opportunity to meet and talk with new students and their parents during Truman Transformation week.
Campus
Upperclassmen help freshmen get settled in
Check out how these incoming freshmen are enjoying their first day at Truman State University with reporter Amber Draper.
Editorial
Food for thought: New roommate stress bread
Advice for college life where every conflict (or at least most) can be solved with a little food and conversation. So, you’ve just moved in with your first roommate and you have no experience sharing […]
Editorial
Editor encourages students to be involved
When I started school at Truman State back in 2013, I was working as a reporter for the Index before I was even a full-time student. I’d arrived on campus with every newspaper article I’d […]
Campus
Student Government resolutions affect health of Truman population
During the 2015-16 school year Student Government researched, wrote and passed 31 resolutions proposing changes impacting the Truman State population. TMN did a followup on Resolution 116.016, a resolution in support of an additional University […]
Columns
Make exercise a “consistent” friend
The word exercise has, through far too many dodgeball games in gym class, overly pleased-with-life marathoners and cringe-worthy weight loss shows, become both the savior and bane of our physical activity-sapped existence. We’ve learned exercise […]
Campus
Truman Transformation meant to educate freshmen about liberal arts
Incoming freshmen will be the first to experience the revamping of an event at Truman State – Truman Transformation. The previous Truman Week has been modified to encompass calendar adjustments and a refocus on educating […]
City
The Square renovations to improve business, traffic
Kirksville completed street improvements to the downtown area on schedule July 27 as part of a multi-department city effort to improve the visual appeal of The Square. The Tax Increment Finance commission financed the project, which […]