The Current

It's not easy going green

While the rest of the world rushes forward into the Green revolution, a few of us at The Current have done some thinking about how we think the University of Missouri-St. Louis should start its own Green campaign. "Going Green" is an expensive and daunting task; however, as an installment to the University of Missouri system, it would be progressive for UM-St.

Thankful for being crushed on a bus

By Melissa S. Hayden

Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, but I am still feeling deeply grateful for something that changed my world this year. At the end of the summer, before taking on the challenging but rewarding responsibilities of being Editor-in-Chief of The Current, I found myself on a Greyhound bus heading to Georgia to attend a conference for college newspaper editors, a bit of an annual editor's boot camp held at the University of Georgia in Athens.

Buying in to sell out

Counterculture and superiority complexes

By Sarah O'Brien

You have undoubtedly seen them, those handful of humans blessed with tousled hair, pale complexions and the perfect facial structure for multi-colored Ray-Ban Wayfarers, standing around like high-school athletes with their noses lifted so high you are sure they may break their necks.

Foreigner's corner

Homelessness is a global issue

By Sofi Seck

Last Sunday, a few of my friends and I tried getting into the holiday spirit by doing something good. We went downtown and passed out sandwiches and water to the homeless living in "Hobo Park." Seeing all of those people, young and old, living outside in the cold really made me appreciate and reflect on my life.

Science Column

Green jobs may be the key to rescuing U. S. economy

By Cate Marquis

A group of organizations recently submitted a list of recommendations to the Obama transition team for re-starting the flagging U.S. economy. The basic solution was green jobs. Granted, the organizations submitting the recommendations were the country's top conservation and environmental groups, but the recommendations make sense.

Are UM students enemies of Missouri values?

By Michael Beatty

For the past several weeks, the MyGateway homepage has had a notice up that the University of Missouri - St. Louis is developing an administrative procedure to place registration holds on students who are not legally present in the United States. This action is required by an act of the Missouri legislature, known as HB1549.