ON TO CONGRESS

BY MARY-KATHRYN WERT CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

After receiving his bachelor’s degree, Stocks hopes to go to law school to become a lawyer.

Listening

to his history teacher talk about George Washington, fifth-grader Finnegan Stocks knew he had found something he was interested in pursuing. Now a senior, Stocks will attend the University of Missouri next fall, majoring in constitutional democracy.

According to Stocks, he learned about the degree from his mom.

Classes are taught at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, an academic center for classes taught by political science and history professors.

“I’m interested in both history and politics, which is what the major is mostly about, so it really just seemed like a no-brainer for me to go into it,” Stocks said.

He has also always had an affinity for studying the past and politics.

“I’ve always just kind of been good at history, so I like the idea of pursuing something that I’m good at,” Stocks said.