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MUTV (University of Missouri)

MUTV is an American student university channel that originates on the campus the University of Missouri in Columbia. The station airs original student programming in addition to recently released major motion pictures. MUTV airs only the campus on channel 23, though its programming is also simulcast to local cable subscribers (see below). While the station is not affiliated with the Missouri School of Journalism, undergraduate students often work for MUTV to gain experience before entering their journalism sequence.

MUTV programming can also be seen on all Mediacom cable systems throughout the Columbia-Jefferson City market on cable channel 20, Tuesdays 9:00-10:00 p.m., Wednesdays at 12:00 midnight-1:00 a.m., Thursdays 5:00-6:00 p.m., and Saturdays 3:00-4:00 p.m.

MUTV was founded in the late 1990s by the Missouri Students Association, the student government organization on the Mizzou campus. The station’s founding purpose was for it to be promotional tools for MSA much like the student run radio station, KCOU, was. However, this original purpose was not followed and after the first couple of years the station operated on its own and only looked to MSA for funding and support.

It was during those first years that the leaders of MUTV redefined the stations goal. By 2001, the station became a tool for students to gain real life journalism experience before entering Missouri’s journalism or communication schools. MUTV took it’s place on campus as a student run media outlet like sister-station KCOU, and campus newspapers The Maneater and the MU Student News (MUSN).

In late 2003 the station began broadcasting two of its programs on Columbia’s local access channel (CAT-TV). Only the shows JC Rocks and Nitetime with Nelson Muller were aired. This only lasted a couple of years and had ended by 2005.

The station does not currently have studio space of their own to produce their programming. Instead, MUTV uses a television production studio that belongs to the university’s academic support center. In 2005, the station’s General Manager began working with the team designing a new Student Center so that MUTV would have studio and office facilities in the new building.

MUTV started showing movies in of August 2003. The movies were the result of a deal between the station and Missouri’s Residence Hall Association. RHA agreed to fund the movies as long as MUTV would take responsibility for programming and airing them. Currently, the station airs approximately sixteen different movies each month.

The station has several shows in their current rotation. These include news, talk, entertainment and sport shows.

23NEWS, is a news show anchored by station volunteers with an emphasis on University of Missouri topics. The news show has aired under several different names since the station’s inception. It originally aired under the name MUTV News and ran approximately 20 minutes and aired about 5 to 6 times a year. In the 2001-2002 school year it was just 5 to 15 minutes long. The following school year, the show was expanded to a full 30 minutes and sports was integrated into the program. In 2007 the 23NEWS format was changed back to its 2001 season with the inception of 23NEWS WakeUp, a 5-minute morning show airing weekend mornings. Sports was spun-off to its own show, This Week in 23Sports in favor of more news content.

Tailgaters is a sports show discussing MU sports, and sports from across the country. The show originally aired under the name Open Mike during the 2006-2007 programming year.

MUTV also airs The ProwL an entertainment show and Triple Play, a sports trivia game show.

Many of the stations shows only last a year or two before they are canceled and replaced. Two of the shows that had a relatively long run were Nitetime with Nelson Muller and JC Rocks. JC Rocks stopped airing on the station in the spring of 2005 following a four year run with more than 50 episodes. The show’s founders took the program national in 2005 and it can now be seen on several Christian TV networks.

The show MU Talks was a talk show discussing topics of student interest with guests. It was hosted by Lorenzo Hall (now reporter at WTVR in Richmond) who was also the show’s executive producer.

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History of the University of Missouri

This article is about the history of the University of Missouri and the University of Missouri System.

MU was founded in 1839 as part of the Geyer Act to establish a state land-grant university, the first west of the Mississippi River. The year of its founding the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledged $117,921 in cash and land to beat out five other mid-Missouri counties for the location of the state university. The land on which the university was eventually constructed was just south of Columbia's downtown and owned by James S. Rollins, who is known as the "father of the university." It was the first university in Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase and was designed in part upon Thomas Jefferson's original plans for the University of Virginia. Because of this, the original tombstone of Thomas Jefferson was given to MU by Jefferson's heirs in July 1883.

In 1842 the first courses in civil engineering were taught. The first department of art was taught by the famous Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham. The College of Education was opened in 1867 and admitted the first female students. The entire university was open to female enrollment by 1871.

In 1862 while in the midst of the Civil War, the Board of Curators suspended operations for the university. Academic Hall was occupied by Union troops, the president's house was used by Federal officers and the normal school, forerunner to the College of Education, became an army hospital. It was during this time that the residents of Columbia and defenders of the city became notoriously known as the "fighting tigers of Columbia" due to their insistent fighting to keep the Confederate bushwackers away from the city and university.

Later, in 1890 one alumnus suggested the university's newly-formed football team be called the "Tigers" out of respect for those who fought to defend Columbia.

MU growth increased in the latter decades of the 19th century. In 1870 MU was awarded land-grant status because of this. The College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources was then opened. In 1888 the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station opened. This grew to encompass ten centers and research farms around Mid-Missouri. MU soon added schools of law and medicine.

In 1908 the world's first journalism school was opened at MU. It became famous world-wide for its "Missouri Method" of teaching. In 1911, MU held the first Homecoming at the football game between MU and the University of Kansas. After World War II universities around the country grew at an extraordinary pace and MU was no exception. This was due, in part, to the G.I. Bill which allowed veterans to attend college with the assistance of the federal government. It was also during this time that the nickname "Mizzou" was first used.

The usage of the term "Mizzou" was first recorded in a campus yell that used the phrase "Mizzou, Rah, Rah." The commonly accepted origin is that the word is a shortened version of the University's (then-known as the Missouri State University) initials, MSU. When said quickly the initials can be morphed into the affectionate nickname: Mizzou. The name stuck and now is commonly used interchangeably among students, alumni and the residents of Columbia with the newer initials, MU.

Events at the University of Missouri were instrumental in the desegregation of universities and schools nation-wide. In the winter of 1935, four graduates of Lincoln University—a traditionally black school about 30 miles (50 km) away in Jefferson City, Missouri—were denied admission to MU's graduate school. One of the students, Lloyd L. Gaines, brought his case to the United States Supreme Court. On December 12, 1938, in a landmark 6–2 decision, the court ordered the state of Missouri to admit Gaines to MU's law school or provide a facility of equal stature. Gaines, however, disappeared in Chicago on March 19, 1939 under suspicious circumstances. The University granted Gaines a posthumous honorary law degree in May 2006. Undergraduate divisions were integrated by court order in 1950, when the university was compelled to admit African Americans to courses that were not offered at Lincoln University.

In 1962, the University of Missouri became the "University of Missouri–Columbia," the flagship campus of the newly-created University of Missouri System, with additional campuses in Rolla, Kansas City, and St. Louis. Today the Columbia campus ranks number one among institutions in the Association of American Universities for growth in federally funded research over the last ten years. Mizzou is a member of the Big 12 Conference and is the only school in the state with all of its sports in the NCAA Division I-A, the nations highest level of college sports. MU has over a quarter million living alumni worldwide.

In 1970, students upset with the killing of six students at Kent State University stormed Chancellor Schwada's office and, for a short time, took over campus. Classes were dismissed and staff were sent home. It was around this same time that Peace Park was dedicated near the journalism school as a permanent monument for the promotion of peace and remembrance.

In 1978, Barbara Uehling became MU's third chancellor and the first woman to lead a major state university in the country.

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University of Missouri Hospital

University University Hospital is located in Columbia, Missouri. University Hospital offers the only Level I trauma center and helicopter service in mid-Missouri, the most experienced group of minimally invasive surgeons in the Midwest and the only Burn Intensive Care Unit in mid-Missouri. It also offers an accredited Chest Pain Center cardiology program and a multidisciplinary digestive disease program. Physicians throughout the state refer many of their most complicated cases to this flagship hospital of University of Missouri Health Care.

University Hospital also contains the region’s only cochlear implant center, a diabetes center, an ophthalmology institute, a sleep disorders center and a SameDay Surgery Center that offers hundreds of different procedures in its fully equipped operating rooms. The Hospital operates helicopters based in Columbia, Osage Beach, Missouri, and LaMonte, Missouri.

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University of Missouri Press

The University of Missouri Press, founded in 1958, is a university press that is part of the University of Missouri System.

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University of Missouri School of Medicine

The University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine is located in the southern part of the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Missouri. It was the first publicly supported medical school west of the Mississippi River. The school offers a program that emphasizes a medical education founded on clinical experience and research. The School of Medicine is a pioneer in the problem-based learning style of medical education that emphasizes problem solving, self-directed learning and early clinical experience. In addition, the Pre-Admissions Program and the Rural Track Program offered through the school give students an opportunity to gain education and experience practicing medicine in a rural area.

A faculty of 70 basic scientists and 260 clinicians joins 350 residents in more than 60 specialties and subspecialties to supervise patient care and student teaching. The school provides postgraduate medical training in virtually all specialties and subspecialties. Each year 96 first-year slots are available. Eighty-five percent or more of our graduates receive their first or second choice of specialties and residency programs, with 70 percent or more being matched with the program they most want.

As part of the Health Sciences Center, the school continues to revolutionize medicine by exploring innovative ways to deliver health care to the residents of Missouri. Its faculty and administrators are leading a major initiative that allows rural physicians and their patients to consult with Health Sciences Center specialists via telemedicine technology.

The University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine was the first publicly supported medical school west of the Mississippi River. It was organized as a two-year school in 1872. Joseph Norwood, M.D., professor of natural science and philosophy, was the first dean.

Progress was slow until 1890, when Richard Jesse was appointed University president. The School was housed in an old frame building on the northwest corner of campus. Equipment was inadequate and out of date. The program was in danger of being discontinued. Fortunately, Jesse led the School to new heights due to nationwide advances in modernizing medical education. In addition, he reorganized the academic structure and raised financial support for new facilities.

W.L. Parker established an endowment that supplemented the cost of building the Parker Memorial Hospital. In 1957, the School was transformed into a four-year program. As a result, the Medical Center was constructed in 1960. The name was later changed to University Hospitals and Clinics.

The school has received national and international recognition for all aspects of its patient care, research and teaching missions. Several basic science departments are nationally recognized for excellent research. MU’s Department of Family and Community Medicine was ranked No. 2 in the nation by U.S. News in Family Medicine, behind the University of Washington. This is the 10th straight year that MU has ranked in the top 3 in this category. The same magazine ranked MU 12th among schools emphasizing primary care. Administrators credit MU’s innovative problem-based curriculum, which prepares students with real-world training, as one of the primary factors for the top 20 ranking.

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