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Young the Giant performs for Missouri State students on Tuesday, April 19 in the Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts for the SAC Spring Concert. Savannah was the opening band.
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According to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, a former Missouri State University student is suing university officials after he was kicked out of the MSU counseling master’s program because he would not counsel gay couples. The claim states that Andrew Cash “was targeted and punished for expressing his Christian worldview regarding a hypothetical situation concerning whether he
would provide counseling services to a gay/homosexual couple.” Cash was interning at Springfield Marriage and Family Institute in 2011. The internship is one of the requirements for the master’s counseling program. Dr. Kristi Perryman, former internship coordinator for the counseling department, approved Cash’s internship application. As part of the internship, each student is required to create a class presentation.
Multicultural Resource Center is named after the first African American woman denied admission to Southwest Missouri State College 66 years ago By Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn Stark
In 1950, Mary Jean Price Walls was denied admission to Southwest Missouri State College, now Missouri State University, because she was African American. On Friday, the new Multicultural Resource Annex was named after her. Mary Walls applied for admission at SMS after graduating salutatorian of her high school class from Lincoln High School. At the time, Lincoln was strictly an African American school. She waited for months to hear back from the university but never received a response. Mary Walls said it made her feel horrible. Walls’s son, Terry, graduated from MSU in 2012. When he was here, he researched what happened to his mother 62 years prior. According to an article by National Public Radio in 2012, Terry Walls found a letter typed “on fragile, onion-skin paper,” from Oct. 2, 1950. Mary Walls wrote the letter to apply to the university. In 1950,
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Mary Jean Price Walls’ received the first honorary bachelor’s degree in 2010.
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