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Restoration of $40 million to Missouri campuses hailed as 'life raft'

By Jo Mannies and Dale Singer, Beacon staff
Updated 8:53 pm Wed., 2.8.12
Shortly after Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced that the state should receive $140 million in a massive mortgage settlement, Gov. Jay Nixon declared that he was revising his 2013 budget proposal to restore $40 million in cuts to the state's public colleges and universities. The state's commissioner of higher education said campus officials will greet the move "like a drowning person reaches for a life raft."

Mental health care on campus: Need up, services down

By William H. Freivogel, Brant Houston and Pam Dempsey, special to the Beacon
Updated 10:16 am Sun., 2.5.12
More college students arrive on campus reporting serious mental health problems and more students are threatening suicide. But some college counseling services, such as those at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, are so understaffed that many students must wait weeks before getting help. That is one of the findings of a five-month investigation of colleges and universities in four Midwestern states. _{(NIH illustration)}

Proposals could bring dramatic changes to Missouri schools

By Dale Singers, Beacon staff
Posted 9:16 am Sat., 2.4.12
National School Choice Week is ending with a flurry of proposals to increase the number of charters, establish scholarships to parochial schools, solve the Turner case and carve the Kansas City school district into pieces annexed by surrounding districts. Whether the reshaping of schools passes is now up to the Missouri legislature and the state Board of Education.

More financial aid, stronger Catholic identity among archbishop's education goals

By Dale Singer, Beacon staff
Posted 9:16 am Thu., 2.2.12
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson wants Catholic education to strengthen its Catholic identity, increase enrollment, be able to use state tax credits for scholarships and raise up to $10 million a year from parishes for financial aid. He outlined these priorities at John F. Kennedy High School Thursday as part of a plan to improve Catholic education by 2018, the 200th birthday of the archdiocesan school system.

Clayton High prepares response to upcoming picketing by Westboro Baptist Church

By Dale Singers, Beacon staff
Posted 10:00 am Wed., 2.1.12
On their way home to Kansas from picketing the Super Bowl Sunday in Indianapolis, some members of Westboro Baptist Church plan to stop off for another picketing event -- outside Clayton High School early Monday morning. Principal Louise Losos says the school is putting together a "positive, peaceful, appropriate response" and using the demonstration as a teachable moment.

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- House joins Senate in overwhelmingly approving a congressional insider-trading ban:Now, the two chambers must get together to iron out differences before bill can go to the White House. | Politico
- Picture this: Kodak, in bankruptcy, will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames. | Bloomberg
Region
- Science Center lays off 24 employees to save more than $2 million: The move affects about 9 percent of the workforce and involve mostly full-time employees, including at least one top official. | STLtoday
- Less-intrusive screening for some passengers coming to Lambert, other airports: There will be no cost to eligible passengers, who would no longer have to remove their shoes and belts before they board flights. | AP
- Missouri teen gets life in prison, with possibility of parole, for killing her young neighbor: Alyssa Bustamante was 15 years old in 2009 when she killed 9-yaer-old Elizabeth Olten because she wanted to know how it would feel. | AP/Columbia Daily Tribune
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- After more shelling in Syria, Assad accused of genocide: Dozens are said to have died in sustained attack on city of Homs. | Telegraph
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- After weeks of protest, first democratically elected president of Maldives resigns: Mohamed Nasheed told a televised news conference, "I don't want to run the country with an iron fist." | LA Times
Econ.
- Initial claims for unemployment aid fall to 358,000: The four-week moving average, a less-volatile measure of claims, declined to 366,250, the lowest since April 26, 2008. | Bloomberg
- Driven by demand for auto and student loans, Americans borrowed more than expected in December: An improving job market may be giving households the courage to take on more debt in order to sustain spending. | Bloomberg
- Job openings increased in December by the most in almost a year: The number of positions waiting to be filled climbed by 258,000, the biggest gain since February 2011, to 3.38 million. | Bloomberg
- Home sales rise in December to their highest level since last January: Historically low mortgage rates and a pickup in employment may be giving Americans the confidence to purchase homes that have fallen in value. | Bloomberg
Edu.
- Ten states will get waivers from requirements of No Child Left Behind: In a first round of waivers, Washington will give leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students. | AP
- Nixon restores $40 million to his budget request for higher education: The money is part of a foreclosure settlement Missouri will get from the nation's five largest banks. | Columbia Daily Tribune
- Entire staff of LA elementary school is replaced during abuse investigation: Two teachers have been accused of lewd acts against students. | LA Times
- Nixon says Missouri universities should not make up lost state funding with big tuition hikes: He said they should try to keep increases at no more than annual cost of living. | AP/Springfield News-Leader

'The Road Show' improv

Brent Jones | St. Louis Beacon

This Saturday was the debut of a new show by The Improv Shop that will bring out of town improv teams to St. Louis to play for — and with — a local audience. The Road Show brought teams "Everybody Grok" and "Felt" from Chicago.

We talked to Eric Christensen, producer of the Road Show and member of local improv team "Ted Dangerous"; Katie Nunn, member of "Ted Dangerous" and improv coach; and Melanie Penn and Ranjan Khan, members of local teams "Melanj" and "Magic Ratio"; about the St. Louis improv scene and why it's important to welcome teams from other cities to perform here.

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