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KC Current memorabilia posed on a soccer ball in the Durwood Stadium.

Roos Soccer to host KC Current Night on August 29

Brian Sparks, Intern
August 26, 2024

  With the 2024 soccer season in full swing, Kansas City Athletics will host KC Current Night on Thursday, August 29. Both the men’s and women’s soccer teams will be playing.   The women’s team will kick it off first against Southern Illinois at 5 p.m. The men will...

A RooFit Yoga class led by Maggie Coomer.

UMKC Students Find Tranquility and Strength in RooFit Power Yoga

Evelyn Berger, Staff Writer
February 29, 2024

  RooFit offers a variety of free workout classes for students to help with the everyday stresses of being in college.    From cardio to yin and restorative yoga, the classes become both physical exercise and a mental sanctuary. Instructor Maggie Coomer started leading...

UMKCDC regularly updates their practice schedule and have multiple sessions a month.

UMKC Dance Club Prepares for First Performance

Luis Marin, Staff Writer
February 14, 2024

The UMKC Dance Club wants to create a space for judgment-free dancing, one move at a time.      The new organization, also known as UMKCDC, began in January and was created by students with limited professional experience, but a shared love for dancing.    President...

More than 200,000 Missourians have a medical marijuana cards, and UMKC students are a part of that number. (Breanne Blankenship/RooNews)

Students Who Want Amendment 3 to Pass and Why

Breanne Blankenship, Editor-in-Chief
November 4, 2022

  UMKC student Sullivan Nevins wants to work a part-time job that is flexible around her busy school schedule and pays a decent wage.   Too bad she can’t pass the drug test.   While interviewing for a clerk position at a retailer, Nevins learned a saliva swab drug...

Students express optimism over proposed daylight savings changes

Students express optimism over proposed daylight savings changes

Robin Ramsey
April 14, 2022

Americans have always debated over daylight savings time and permanent standard time. This year, however, legislation is in the works to officially abolish the time change.  Last month, the Senate unanimously approved a bill to make daylight savings time permanent....

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