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Four Directions advocates for indigenous voices in climate justice movement Four Directions creates a community of indigenous students dedicated to educating the MU community on indigenous issues including climate justice. IZZY COLÓN
Reporter
Four Directions is an MU student organization that has been dedicated to advocating for Native American and indigenous students’ concerns on campus and throughout the community since the 1980s. Four Directions President Ryder Jiron said a major goal for the club is to educate other members of the community who may not be aware of the issues affecting the Native population at MU. “Our overarching goal and purpose is to serve as a way to cultivate a native community between native students, faculty, community members,” Jiron said. “We work towards advocating for indigenous students and faculty to the administration. Working towards indigenous visibility rather than erasure.” Jiron said he has always been invested in indigenous advocacy, which pushed him to participate in other types
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Vol. 86 Issue 8
October 16, 2019
FOOD
Kaldi’s officially breaks into college market in true MU fashion Kaldi’s Coffee opened up its first official store on the MU campus, furthering a partnership that dates back to long before the company took off. JEB GOLDMAN
Reporter
It was the prospect of giving students a great cup of coffee and an exciting new learning opportunity that brought Cornell Hall its latest addition. St. Louis based coffee company Kaldi’s Coffee has finally made its way onto the MU campus. After its product has been served at Ajay Vinzé, Dean of the Trulaske Business College, hands a cup of coffee to MU alumna Tricia Zimmer Ferguson at the grand opening of the new Kaldi’s Coffee location in Cornell Hall on Oct. 1. the Bookmark Cafe, Catalyst Cafe | PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER LUKE HOFFMAN and Infusion, Kaldi's Coffee, located in Cornell Hall, will be the first coffee shop opened officially under the actually working with a real company allow students to take theoretical, in real time.” company name at MU’s campus. conceptual business ideas and actually The Kaldi’s location on MU’s campus turn it into a hands-on experience.” However, this particular location will offer MU students more than solely will be much more than just a cafe. It The partnership MU has with Kaldi’s will serve as a classroom of sorts where goes back much further than the 18 coffee and tea. “Obviously everyone gets a great cup students can learn the ins and outs of months it took for this location to of coffee, but in addition to that, what how businesses are run. Gay Albright, be imagined, approved and ultimately it really does is [it] allows students to who serves as the associate dean of implemented. Tricia Zimmer Ferguson, experience businesses in their most open undergraduate programs, believes that Kaldi’s Coffee president and owner, format, in real-time,” Ajay Vinzé, dean this is a key addition to the Trulaske is an MU graduate and continues to of the Trulaske College of Business, said College of Business. be a very active alumna within the “We’re very interested in helping university. at the grand opening. “If students want to study an audit course, now thanks our students to become career-ready,” Zimmer Ferguson, who currently to our partnership with Kaldi’s, they she said. “Opportunities like this can actually audit this Kaldi’s. So we’re experiential learning opportunity will
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AWARD
MU graduate student wins Inclusive Excellence award Melina Constantine Miseo is a sociology PhD student studying transgender youth and their parents. CAITLIN DANBORN
Student Politics Reporter
For Melina Constantine Miseo, a sociology class changed the way they look at the world. Miseo, this year’s recipient of the MU Inclusive Excellence and Engagement Individual Award, is now pursuing their Ph.D. in sociology at MU. Rebecca Scott, Miseo’s adviser and director of undergraduate studies in the sociology department, wrote a letter of recommendation for Miseo to receive the award. Scott pointed to Miseo’s involvement in the Columbia LGBTQ community, like speaking at a Columbia city council meeting Oct. 8 to ban conversion therapy for minors. “That’s
just another example of how they are standing up for the youth of Columbia,” Scott said. “I can’t really say enough about what Melina’s been doing for the youth of this community.” Miseo took a sociology class their freshman year at Western New England University and fell in love with how sociology viewed the world. “The class completely blew my mind and changed the way I see the world and the way I think about myself,” they said. Now in their fifth year as a Ph.D. student at MU, Miseo is still deciding what they want to go into after they get their degree. “I like providing people with the resources and skills to learn more about marginalized communities, particularly about LGBTQ stuff, about gender,” Miseo said. “I also am really passionate about using that knowledge and information
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