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The Longview Current editorial board would like to bid its farewell. The situation our nation is in has left us with nothing positive to say. Each of us will be leaving Longview and continuing our educations elsewhere. For the most part, we are not very excited about this. The future looks extremely bleak, especially for those of us going into the media.

Yeah, we’re screwed. The world has left a plethora of problems for us to solve.

Most of these problems are economical. Between outsourcing, increased competition, and simply fewer jobs, most of us will have to resort to being career vagabonds.

It is not all doom and gloom, though. We believe the current economic genocide that has taken place will not render our college educations worthless. For instance, after the housing market completely implodes, we can use our grotesquely overpriced books as makeshift forts to protect us from the acid rain that will inevitably be caused by our economic rival, China.

So why rush an education? Why try to get out of Longview as quickly as possible? At this point, it’s the only positive thing we have.

by Bryan Gentry

Phi Theta Kappa inducted more than 60 member during the Spring 2009 semester.

Inductees were Anna Bagby, Elizabeth Bennett, Matthew Bergin, Lorrie Blake, Flora Bradley, Leslie Byrd, Caleb Casteel, Tiffini Craig, Tasneem Daud, Keno Davidson, Tabatha Davis, Nicole DeRousse, [...]

Missouri College Media Award: Honorable Mention, Editorial Writing

As previously reported by The Current, Longview is considering a proposal made by the Ban Johnson baseball league to build two new fields at Longview. While the fields may benefit the school in several ways, The Current feels as if it does not fit the goals of an academic institution, and believes there are various foreseeable problems with building of the fields. [...]

Chancellor Snyder held a town hall meeting at Longview (Bryan Gentry/The Current).

by Bryan Gentry

The current economic crisis has hit Metropolitan Community College, with a three-percent reduction to the 2008-2009 budget so far. Reductions may grow larger over the next few years.

At a Longview town hall meeting on the budget, Vice Chancellor Mark James said, “The focus has always been to take care of our students and employees.” [...]