Contributed by Peggy A. Lauer MARYVILLE RECYCLES!   Maryville offers single stream, co-mingled recycling on campus.  Co-mingled recycling includes glass, paper, plastics, aluminum and cardboard.   General Recycling The following is a list of items that can be recycled.  (NOTE: Recycled plastics have a number inside a triangle on the bottom of the container, all [...]

It’s every college student’s most difficult dilemma: How to feel rested yet prepared for that massive exam? While the best solution to this problem would be to study about 15-20 minutes every day before the test, how practical is that? It seems to be common knowledge that the majority of studying for tests is done [...]

A lot of changes have been going on around campus since the beginning of the year.  One of the most obvious changes has been the addition, remodeling, redoing, or anything else you want to call it happening to Gander Hall. With these changes many questions come up, and there are a few things that every [...]

As the semester closes, most campus organizations are taking strides towards next year. This is certainly true of Maryville Student Government, or MSG. As you may or may not have heard, they recently had their election for the 2011-12 school year. Your new President will be Brady Griffith. This means that he will be the [...]

In high school, the extent of my essay writing was succinctly summarized in a two-page MLA booklet provided by my 9th grade Language Arts teacher. In four years, perhaps a cumulative two hours was dedicated to explaining the purpose of references and how to outline the content of a paper, and as I became an [...]

You tear open a letter from Maryville University announcing your new roommate. You stare at the name of the complete stranger you’re going to be sharing very cozy quarters with for the next 9 months. You spend a long time “stalking” this person on Facebook, trying to decide if there’s any way the two of [...]

Maryville’s initiative to become a paperless campus spawned a new printing policy introduced last fall and, so far, it has received some mixed reviews. Currently, $25 of student’s technology fee goes towards a 500 page printing limit applied to all students. Before this policy was put in place, students were allowed to print as much [...]

It began with bulky, slow desktop computers and has progressed to the slim, sleek, and fast laptops, iPads, cell phones, and mp3 players of today. It seems that in the year 2011 the people of our society cannot spend more than five minutes away from their precious technology. This has translated into how libraries are [...]