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Archive for March, 2007

UMR Chancellor to Recommend Name Change
Friday, March 23rd, 2007

In alumni news…
The University of Missouri-Rolla Chancellor, John F. Carney III, will announce his recommendation to the State of Missouri Board of Curators that UMR’s name be changed to Missouri University of Science and Technology, or Missouri S&T.
Missouri S&T is still too long to be a proper abbreviation. What about MUST? MOST? MST?
must.edu is already [...]

Jay Carey, spokesman for the Ohio state Health Department announced Wednesday that the department would seek from a legislative panel the approval of new rules that would allow smoking in veterans’ halls and other private clubs.
There are still some who are unhappy; the Smoke Free Ohio organization still believes private clubs should not be exempt [...]

Great Comeback, Insane Finish
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Those of us who stayed up to watch the Buckeyes-Volunteers men’s basketball game were well rewarded.
Greg Oden stayed out a lot of minutes due to foul trouble but got the last word, rejecting Tennessee’s final shot and locking the final score in at 85-84. Ron Lewis and Mike Conley Jr picked up the slack for [...]

“I think that we’ve done a great job in providing these needs and at the same time getting at the right path to having a balanced budget in five years,” (D-AR U.S. Rep. Marion) Berry said (link dead) in a conference call with news reporters.
Representiative John Campbell (R-CA), chairman of the Budget and Spending Task [...]

Positive About Lutheranism
Monday, March 19th, 2007

Rev. McCain at Cyberbrethren posts a discussion as to whether Lutheranism is too clannish, cliquish, and negative. He notes that sometimes we hold on to our theology so tightly that we don’t want to thin it out with exposure from others, while at times we delve so hard into outreach that mission churches don’t even [...]