In this special series, KCOU recaps the top stories of the 2009-2010 school year:
10. Trayless Dining Week
KCOU’s Matt Moreno looks back at the week where students faced dining halls without trays.
9. Tiger Watch Initiative
After a year when crimes dominated talk at MU, KCOU’s Scott Kanowsky reports on the creation of a controversial new program for campus safety.
8. MSA’s year marred by resignations, disinterest and criticism
KCOU’s Theo Keith takes a look at MU’s Student government’s tumultuous year.
7. University officials trip on their own words
MU officials struggled to find the right touch when sending e-mails and letters this year. KCOU’s Drew Brackett reports on how their words left some students protesting, and others just plain embarrassed.
6. When MU athletes attack
KCOU’s Blake Hanson takes a look at two separate incidents in which MU star athletes got physical, in the wrong way.
5. Rod Jetton’s green balloons
KCOU’s Blake Hanson recalls how Missouri’s former House speaker found himself in the middle of a sex scandal, while also facing a federal grand jury ethics probe.
4. Officer ‘Porno’ quits MU Police force
MU Police got a major black eye to the blue shield this spring, when one of their officers resigned after an investigation found he left a flash drive with child porn inside his patrol car. KCOU’s Danny Spewak reports on the incident.
3. Murder news rocks mid-Missouri
Authorities charged a 15-year-old Cole County girl and a former Columbia public official with murder this year, and a decade-old homicide grabbed headlines again. KCOU’s Max Walker has more on the court cases.
2.Columbia elects first new mayor in 15 years
Bob McDavid won a landslide victory this spring after longtime Columbia mayor Darwin Hindman announced he would not run again. KCOU’s LeeAnn Elias reports.
1. Black Culture Center ‘hate crime’ gets MU attention for wrong reasons
Two MU students tossed cotton balls all over the Black Culture Center’s lawn in February, setting off a debate on race on campus. But, as KCOU’s Danny Spewak explains, despite the outrage, the students only pleaded guilty to littering charges.
