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SGA Senator Shewit Abai makes her case as speaker of the senate. Despite earning 11 senators approval, Abai lost the position to Senator Brett Boyer by two votes.

SGA had its final meeting of the year: Here’s what happened

Claire Powell, Staff Writer
April 27, 2023

  This past Monday marks the final meeting for the 2022-2023 Student Government Association. The student senators completed their last two agenda items April 24 in the Student Union Chambers.   Here’s what SGA discussed:   Supreme Court Chief Justice Confirmation  UMKC...

UMKC professors weigh in on Kentanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination

UMKC professors weigh in on Kentanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination

Kelsey Van Buskirk
March 9, 2022

Recently nominated by President Joe Biden, Ketanji Brown Jackson is on the road to becoming the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Jackson is currently a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Harvard Law School graduate...

Opinion: Texas abortion law threatens rights of women everywhere

Opinion: Texas abortion law threatens rights of women everywhere

Zackary Zeller
September 14, 2021

Overnight on Sept. 1, Texas passed the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, effectively giving the middle finger to the precedent of the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. The law, which was passed in May and went into effect last Wednesday, says that any pregnancy...

Blue and Yellow color block back ground and circles with the faces of Morgan Parker on the left and Colin Rohach

SGA Confirms Supreme Court Justices Parker and Rohach

Lindsey Temaat
February 16, 2021

The UMKC SGA unanimously confirmed Morgan Parker and Colin Rohach as associate justices of the SGA Supreme Court on Feb. 8 at their student senate meeting. The internal affairs committee conducted candidate interviews prior to Monday night’s meeting and voted to endorse...

College students react to the first presidential debate

College students react to the first presidential debate

Caleb Wilson
October 6, 2020

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden squared off last Tuesday in the first presidential debate of the 2020 election. Chris Wallace, the Fox News anchor who served as the debate’s moderator, announced the rules of the debate that both campaigns...

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