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Every year, per national policy, colleges compile and release crime statistics, numbers on the occurrence of reported crimes. MCC provides its report for the three previous years. District-wide, 17 instances of several tracked criminal offenses were reported in 2009, including burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson, sex offense, and aggravated assaults. Two instances of burglary were reported at Longview. The report includes safety tips for students on campus. Some suggestions were to stay in well-lit areas, walk in groups, and carry a personal safety alarm device.

Students can report crimes at any Public Safety Office on campus. The report includes the location of MCC’s offices. For national college crime statistics, visit http://ope.ed.gov/security.

~Rachel Madearis

by Rachel Madearis
Missouri College Media Award: Second Place, Newswriting

MCC administrators met in November to review the college’s 2011-2012 budget proposal, highlighting several changes for the upcoming academic year.

The November financial workshop, which was attended by several board members and other key administrators, focused on MCC’s financial outlook, which is expected to include a dramatic reduction in state funding, and possible tuition increases. [...]

by Rachel Madearis

I write this column after a grievance with MetroFlex, a bus service provided by the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (ATA) since 1993. The service operates differently from the regular bus system because it allows riders to schedule trips to and from their homes. The MetroFlex bus is advertised to travel to anywhere in KCATA’s service area and does not make unscheduled stops along its path from departure to arrival.

 My request began simply enough. After reading MetroFlex’s information pamphlet with its promise of “personalized service,” [...]

Police escort officials from the Penn Valley campus (David Eulitt/Kansas City Star/MCT).

 by Rachel Madearis           

Twenty minutes before a press conference featuring Gov. Jay Nixon was to begin this morning , an MCC-Penn Valley administrator was attacked in the outside a computer lab of the campus Humanities building.   [...]