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Long Live Freedom
6:15 am
Wed September 19, 2012

Exhibit celebrating youth resistance to Nazis making US debut

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Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
An exhibit celebrating youth resistance to Nazi Germany will be on display at UMSL's Gallery 210 until Oct. 18. This is its US debut.
Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
The exhibit's name, "Long Live Freedom," comes from the last words spoken by Hans Scholl (far left) as he was executed by decapitation for his participation in a group known as "White Rose."
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Civil disobedience in Nazi Germany was a difficult task. Those who did push back against the right-wing extremism of Adolf Hitler risked their limited freedom, or even their lives.

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Morning Round-up
8:02 am
Fri May 4, 2012

Morning headlines: Friday, May 4, 2012

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St. Louis to demolish plywood shacks near Mississippi River

Demolition will begin Friday at a row of plywood shacks near the Mississippi River in St. Louis where 10 homeless people have been evacuated. 

It is the first of three riverfront encampments the city ordered shut down. St. Louis Human Services Director Bill Siedhoff has said that he hopes to have all three encampments cleared out by May 18 after reports of violent crime and rat infestation.

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Conference
11:26 am
Wed April 25, 2012

UMSL hosts conference on 'consilience'

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Renowned ecologist Edward O. Wilson will give the keynote address at UMSL's Consilience Conference.
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The University of Missouri-Saint Louis is hosting a conference on “consilience.”

UMSL evolutionary ecologist Patty Parker says consilience is the idea that certain universal concepts hold true across disciplines, from biology to the social sciences to the humanities.

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