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Month: September 2016
At Home & Abroad
Truman Alum Matt Null Dies Abroad
“What I like to tell myself, and it sounds crazy, is that his heart was just too big for his little body.” This was one of the many praises Kirksville citizen Derick Garr had to […]
Campus
Fordyce speaks at University Farm
Emily Harrison, Truman State University junior and agriculture business major, invited Richard Fordyce, Missouri Department of Agriculture director, to the University Farm Sept. 26 to give the director first-hand experience with various student projects in […]
Football
FOOTBALL DEFEATS LINCOLN
The Truman State University Bulldogs took a win Saturday, defeating the Lincoln University Blue Tigers 37-0. This is Truman’s first shut-out win since 2013. Redshirt freshman quarterback Jaden Barr completed 16-of-24 passes for 148 yards. […]
Sports
TRUMAN INDUCTS FIVE INTO ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME
For many students, it is difficult to imagine dedicating four years of their lives, let alone their entire careers, to a university. Truman State University, however, has a Hall of Fame to commemorate just that. […]
Art
History professor guest speaker at new art exhibit
One of Truman State University’s professors traveled to Louisville, Kentucky last week, where his work is featured in a new exhibit at the Frazier History Museum. The exhibit, “Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American […]
Art
Bold Lifestyles: Meet Maggie Messitt
Maggie Messitt has a BA in journalism and a human rights interdisciplinary program from Boston College, an MFA from Goucher College, and is one dissertation defense away from a PhD in creative nonfiction at Ohio […]
At Home & Abroad
Walls Down and Hearts Open
I may have only been packing for a week in advance, but I had been waiting for the past six years to be reunited in México with my best friend, Andrea De’ Orta. Andrea had […]
Campus
Delta Sigma Theta return to campus
This past spring, Truman State University welcomed back Delta Sigma Theta, one of four National Pan-Hellenic sororities, to campus after a short cease and desist period, followed by a national moratorium on new members. Aaliyah […]
Soccer
WOMEN’S SOCCER WINS AGAINST BELLARMINE
The Truman State University women’s soccer team took a standout conference win over GLVC rival Bellarmine University with a 1-0 overtime victory last Friday afternoon. Junior midfielder Kelsey Murphy sealed the game with a goal […]
Sports
VOLLEYBALL SPLITS WEEKEND OF GLVC MATCHES
After a 1-7 start to perhaps one of the toughest opening schedules in the nation, Truman State University volleyball returned to the familiar grounds of the GLVC. The Bulldogs opened the 2016 season against four […]
Art
Top 5 Surprising Banned Books
Did you know the dictionary has been banned from libraries in California because it includes sexual definitions? The Where’s Waldo series was met with controversy in schools in Michigan and New York after […]