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University of Missouri

10:34 am

Mon April 4, 2011

MU closer to becoming smoke-free campus

Credit (via Flickr/shnnn)

By The Associated Press

It will be harder to find a place to smoke on the University of Missouri's Columbia campus this summer.

Starting July 1, smoking will be allowed only in designated areas. The smoking areas aren't final yet, but they are likely to be in parking lots and on the top floors of parking garages.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the stricter rules are a step toward the university's goal of being entirely smoke-free by Jan. 1, 2014.

The university's current policy prohibits smoking within 20 feet of doors, windows and fresh air intake systems on campus. The Tribune reports that the policy is not strictly enforced, with campus administrators mostly leaving it to students and employees to police each other.

HIV Photography Project

6:15 am

Thu March 24, 2011

Photography project gives women new perspective on living with HIV

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Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)

Tamika Taylor Jackson decided to participate in Michelle Teti’s photography project to show how she has transformed her life since her HIV diagnosis.

Credit (Tamika Taylor Jackson)

“I took this picture because this is a hole in the street. Deep, sunken in, broken, and it need to be repaired. When I looked at this, it made me think about how I looked and how I felt when I was diagnosed.”

Credit (Tamika Taylor Jackson)

“I collect shoes, because they are…my step-by-step process. Every time I achieve an accomplishment or a goal, I buy me a shoe. I take it one day at a time, and every time I progress, I say, let me go find me a shoe somewhere.”

Credit (Tamika Taylor Jackson)

“This little raggedy apartment - is where I [lived when I] was first diagnosed in 2001. I lost my house. And I had to move out and find myself something just to stay off the streets. So, me, my kids, moved into this little thing.”

Credit (Tamika Taylor Jackson)

“Then I moved into the next house. I was like, ‘This is progression ‘cause I'm doing it on my own.’”

Credit (Tamika Taylor Jackson)

“That [last] house is where I reside now. I don't have no rent assistance from anybody now. I'm thankful. I'm blessed. I went from being out on the street to my house going to me owning – owning my own house.”

Credit (Tamika Taylor Jackson)

“I read My [Daily] Bread every morning. I read health, I read wealth, I read wisdom, I read spiritual healing. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel more confident and stronger about myself.”

Credit (Tamika Taylor Jackson)

“I have to take 17 pills every day. And I get tired of taking medication. But…you got to do what you’re supposed to do: you got to take your medicine, you got to live a healthy life…you got to communicate, you got to interact.”

By Véronique LaCapra

More than a million Americans are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. About a quarter of them are women, and in St. Louis and throughout the country, African-American women are disproportionately affected.

An HIV diagnosis can lead not just to debilitating medical problems, but to social stigma and isolation. But as St. Louis Public Radio’s Véronique LaCapra reports, a photography project is giving some HIV-positive women a new way to look at their disease and its challenges.

University of Missouri

5:47 pm

Thu February 17, 2011

After recent racist grafitti incident, Mizzou holds panel discussion

Memorial Union at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. (via Flickr/Adam Procter)

By KBIA and Bill Raack

The University of Missouri continues to grapple with the implications of the most recent incident of racism on its Columbia campus.

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