The Missourian decided to do something different for this week’s edition of the Our View. Many of us on the Editorial Staff are excited that it’s finally Christmastime, and we want to share some of our Christmas cheer with readers. Read more

About eight months ago, the editorial staff of this newspaper penned an Our View about COVID-19. It came out during our special COVID-19 issue, a paper released almost exactly on the one-year anniversary of the virus bringing the U.S. to a standstill and irrecoverably changing the way we all live. Read more

Construction is one of the worst inconveniences for drivers. It makes getting from one destination to the next difficult, it’s frustratingly confusing and the process is ugly. If there was a way to eliminate construction and have spontaneous updates, life would be much easier. Read more

The time of the year has arrived where temperatures leave the realm of comfort and force students into a constant state of shivering. Every year, Bearcats receive an email that notifies them that Northwest has finally deemed it cold enough to turn on the heat across campus buildings. Read more

Northwest altered its mask mandate, and the new guidelines came into effect Oct. 25. An email sent to students Oct. 19 explained that face coverings were optional, but recommended, in public, indoor spaces only to fully vaccinated individuals. So, was this change necessary? Read more

Sexual health is an important discussion for individuals of any age to have. Learning what sexually transmitted diseases and infections are, how they’re transmitted and how to prevent transmission can protect a lot of people, especially college students. However, an unnecessary stigma still … Read more

One of the more stressful feelings in a student’s life is the pressure of an upcoming test. Not knowing if you know enough to pass coupled with the piles of other assignments from different classes makes for a difficult period of studying. During finals week, this is managed by the strict sc… Read more

The seventh full week of classes on campus will be Oct. 8. Disregarding the week we have blocked off for Thanksgiving, Northwest is exactly halfway through its fall semester — give or take a few days. Read more

The Northwest Missourian has advised Northwest students and Maryville residents to get the vaccine and wear masks in order to return to some sort of normalcy soon. Now, the Maryville R-II School District needs to implement a mask mandate to keep kids from missing school or getting the virus … Read more

Imagine this: packed bleachers, a massive mixture of green and white and cheering that drowns out your own thoughts. All of that, along with defeated faces filling the visitors section while Bearcats chant their way to victory, sounds like a great day for Northwest Athletics. Read more

"Student Senate is a great place for students to get connected while also serving the student body. Senate is an organization driven by the needs and desires of students and one in which all students are encouraged to voice their comments and concerns. Leadership, service, cooperation — Stud… Read more

Maryville loves its Bearcats — or at least it should — especially when it comes to sports. Without the presence of Northwest students, local businesses would likely see a steep decrease in revenue. The addition of new businesses that Maryville residents enjoy are directly, and indirectly, ca… Read more

Normally at The Missourian, we cover issues pertaining to Northwest, Maryville and the surrounding area. However, we stand in solidarity with violence survivors and agree with those who organized the protests at Northwest: the Lambda Nu chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at the University of Nebrask… Read more

Now that there’s a fully approved vaccine and viewpoints on said vaccine have flown like food in a chaotic school lunchroom, how should the University proceed with such information? Easy — Northwest needs to mandate that students receive the vaccine to continue in-person enrollment. Read more

It’s been a little more than a year and a half since Northwest students were sent home on an unintentionally extensive spring break. Now, Bearcats return to school to resume classes as normal — or so we thought. Read more

For now, Northwest men’s basketball coach Ben McCollum is staying put in Maryville, where he’s helped bring home three NCAA Division II National Championship trophies in the last four full seasons.  Read more

Northwest recently announced that it would be seeking to return to a “traditional campus experience” for the fall 2021 semester. The specifics of what that means have yet to be established, but likely it will be a semester that resembles the fall of 2019 more than the fall of 2020. In order … Read more

Tier 3 of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan is finally here in Missouri. All residents over the age of 16 will be eligible to get their first round of shots as soon as next week.  Read more

Northwest Student Senate elections are this week. Once again, many positions, including the entire executive board, are unopposed and high voter turnout is not expected. The second most powerful governing body — behind the Northwest Board of Regents — and self-proclaimed “voice of the studen… Read more

The most divisive action the Maryville City Council has taken since the beginning of the pandemic is no more. The mask mandate was revoked after a 4-1 vote Monday — Tye Parsons was alone in his opposition — and as of midnight that day, there was no city face-covering requirement. It’s sad th… Read more

Burny’s Sports Bar & Upper Deck once again hosted the World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade March 13. Hosting the 34th iteration of an event designed to pack spectators together is not a great look during a pandemic. What made it even worse was that it spits in the face of those it w… Read more

A little under a year ago our editorial team was sitting in the newsroom trying to grasp the gravity of the situation that was unfolding around us.  Read more

Representation is important. Those on a governing body need to be able to relate to the people they are making decisions for. The undermanned Northwest Board of Regents has one gaping issue when it comes to representation, and it needs to be fixed. One of the open seats should be filled by a… Read more

Most small talk conversations during winter in Maryville and at Northwest follow the same basic structure: an introductory greeting followed by multiple comments on how cold it is followed by a polite goodbye. But the last few weeks were different. Read more

If the American political landscape were The Beatles, local politics would be the George Harrison of the group. The perhaps least “sexy” of political topics, local politics are often more important to our daily lives than anything that would make Fox News or CNN. Local politics have taken so… Read more

The same strange ritual begins every time Maryville has snow in the forecast. First, students and faculty alike will begin to talk about it with cautious optimism. The end of classes prior to the inclement weather will be spent casting hopeful predictions for class cancellations. Next, peopl… Read more

Northwest needs to add another category to its COVID-19 dashboard: Deaths of a student, faculty or staff from the virus. And in that new category stands a lone tally mark. Ronda Wiederholt, a Northwest campus dining employee for over three decades, has died from the coronavirus. Read more

As seems to be the norm with the coronavirus, inconsistent guidelines and rules have unfairly restricted some while allowing others to roam free and put those around them at risk. No process more perfectly exemplifies this issue than Northwest’s, and many other institutions, isolation rules … Read more

Maryville's mask mandate needs to be extended. That very sentence will send some people into a long, poorly worded tirade about how masks are an infringement of rights — they aren’t — and how there’s no evidence they work — there is.  Read more

The fall semester of 2020 was perhaps the most difficult semester since WWII for colleges to plan for. No one was entirely sure if in-person classes were feasible, much less whether we could endure a whole semester of them. Northwest’s leadership ended up guiding the University to a mostly-s… Read more

The extreme political actors have had a grand time in 2020, as was evident in the bitter partisanship that populated every thread of the fabric of the U.S. political landscape during the election cycle. Now, those who wish to name-call, spread misinformation and be offended to be offended ha… Read more

The map is red for a different reason in Missouri. Yes, while conservatism still dominates the political landscape of rural Missouri, there is another reason red is engulfing the state: COVID-19. Read more

Election Day has come and gone, and COVID-19 is still here. Northwest is nearing the end of its first semester, and cases on campus are spiking again. Missouri and Maryville are seeing drastic rises in COVID-19.  Read more

The Maryville City Council did its job. The council passed a mask mandate and later re-upped the ordinance through Nov. 24 to keep COVID-19 cases low. Elected officials did what was necessary to ensure the safety of those they lead. However, now that cases are spiking in Maryville and mask w… Read more

The editorial board of this newspaper does not often make endorsements. We do not endorse national, state or even local candidates with any regularity. However, given the importance of the Nodaway County Sheriff’s race and this paper’s extensive coverage of that race, with features of both c… Read more

Amendment 3, which is on the ballot in the November 2020 election, is a representation of the worst of politics. It’s a thinly veiled attempt to trick voters into making Missouri’s redistricting system more partisan under the guise of “cleaning up” campaign finance in the Show-Me State. It n… Read more

While many are worrying about having to wear a mask and whether or not the vaccine for the coronavirus will be ready in time and safe, another virus is about to begin rearing its ugly head. We are about to enter flu season while still being in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which mea… Read more

After making the decision earlier this semester to suspend fall sports until at least Jan. 1, citing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its commitment to the health of student athletes, the MIAA announced Oct. 1 tentative plans to go ahead with a winter sports season.  Read more

The year 2020 is the year from hell. Rarely has normal life been upended on such a massive scale. The economy is in free-fall, a pandemic is raging and a new natural disaster upends the lives of millions of Americans seemingly daily. Read more

The opinion section of this newspaper is, in its purest sense, an open forum for the community that the paper serves. More so than any other section of the paper, the opinion section belongs to the readers, and except for the unsigned staff editorial, should stay objective — or at least fair… Read more

Nodaway County as a whole has been far from an example of how to handle COVID-19. Actually, it’s been the exact opposite, with the county firmly labeled by the New York Times coronavirus database as a hot spot. The desire to pursue a sense of normalcy has led to this, and now the Nodaway Cou… Read more

Black students being called the N-word as they walk through campus, numerous social media posts from former and current Bearcats documenting racism on campus, our very own columnist stating he doesn’t always feel safe in Maryville because of his skin color and a letter to the editor that is … Read more

And so it begins, the blame game. COVID-19 cases have surged since Northwest resumed in-person classes — shocking — and as a result, students, faculty, administration and community members are beginning to point fingers. Everyone in their own way is accountable for what is happening. No one … Read more

Northwest has been put in a difficult position, trying to resume in-person classes during a pandemic. However, not requiring students to submit a negative COVID-19 test prior to returning to in-person classes is asking for an outbreak on campus. Read more

It seemed that everything was normal, until all of a sudden, it wasn’t. Northwest students were midway through a chilly spring break, hopefully enjoying a rest from classes, when the whole world seemed to shift. March 11, COVID-19 went from a punchline for many on Twitter to shutting down sp… Read more

A governing body having excess funds when the cost of going to college has never been higher is unfair to students and shouldn’t continue. The 97th Student Senate should reconsider its predecessor’s decision to hoard its wealth. Read more

Northwest men’s basketball has lost one game in the last 23 months. The Bearcats have been a top-ranked basketball team in Division II for half a decade. They’ve lost six games in their last 130 matchups. Read more

Led by members of Student Senate and organized particularly by the senate’s Governmental Affairs Committee, a group of Northwest students traveled to Jefferson City, Missouri, Feb. 4-5 to lobby state lawmakers to increase funding allocated to higher education funding. Read more

The city of Maryville knew at least two years ago that Mozingo Lake had an algae problem, something The Northwest Missourian reported on as early as January 2018 and something that has somehow gone unfixed in the meantime. Read more

The Governmental Affairs Committee of Northwest’s Student Senate is enacting a plan it hopes will register 65% of Greek Life members and 50% of the Northwest’s campus population to vote by the end of the semester. Read more