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What Was I Think­ing? Tips for Stay­ing Fo­cused in Class

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Ever walk into class and let the lec­tures sim­ply flow in one ear and out the other? It does­n’t take much to let the mind wan­der dur­ing dif­fi­cult, es­pe­cially at 8 a.m. The pro­fes­sor al­ways seems to be­gin with the lights off dur­ing a Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion and ... More »

Hu­mans of Maryville: Mahdi Salat

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What in­flu­enced you to leave Qatar and study abroad specif­i­cally to Maryville Uni­ver­sity in St. Louis? “Leav­ing home and go­ing abroad for four years is never easy. I had to think hard about mak­ing the de­ci­sion of go­ing away. Since my two older sib­lings stud­ied... More »

Hu­mans of Maryville: Adam Zo­brist

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What in­flu­enced you to study abroad specif­i­cally to Lon­don? “I de­cided to study abroad in Lon­don, be­cause I thought that sub­merg­ing my­self in a new cul­ture would be ben­e­fi­cial to my fu­ture plans. I thought that liv­ing in a new mar­ket would give me an ad­van­tage... More »

Photo Gallery: LSA's Dia De Los Muer­tos Day of the Dead

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Maryville’s Latino Stu­dent Al­liance spon­sored their an­nual Day Of The Dead (Dia De Los Muer­tos) cel­e­bra­tion. Stu­dents en­joyed some choco­late abuelita and pan dulce while learn­ing more about how Lati­nos honor their de­ceased loved ones.   More Posts More »


Hors­ing Around; Pic­nic and Ponies 2016

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Maryville’s Cam­pus Ac­tiv­i­ties Board held its first Pic­nic and Ponies event on Nov. 6. The sunny 60-de­gree weather was per­fect. Sev­en­teen stu­dents and ad­vi­sors came out to ride horses and en­joy a pic­nic lunch. “We had a great turn out, the event was def­i­nitely ... More »

Up­town Dunk: New Play­ers to Men's Bas­ket­ball

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With win­ter sports start­ing in the com­ing weeks, we wanted to in­tro­duce you to the newest ad­di­tions to the 2016-2017 men’s bas­ket­ball team. The team had their first game of the sea­son in Cedarville, Ohio on Nov. 11. The first home game is Tues­day, Nov. 15 at 7... More »

All I Want For Christ­mas is (to Wait Un­til Af­ter Thanks­giv­ing)

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Don’t Get Your Tin­sel in a Tan­gle by Kevin Ptacek It’s the day af­ter Hal­loween and I’m dri­ving to Wal-Mart to buy all of the Hal­loween candy that is marked 50 per­cent off, when all of sud­den, the ra­dio starts play­ing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christ­mas is... More »

Home for the Holi-daze

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  Rob Your Neigh­bor: It seems that every hol­i­day party has this game which in­cludes some­thing re­sem­bling Rob Your Neigh­bor, Dirty Santa or White Ele­phant. In case you don’t know what this game is, I’m gift­ing you the rules for this hol­i­day sea­son. The gifts sh... More »


Get'cha Head in the Game: Check out the New Club Sports

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Square off and check out some of Maryville’s club sports this se­mes­ter. Com­pete for pas­sion or sim­ply join for leisure, any­one is wel­come. It may be dif­fi­cult to pic­ture now with fi­nals loom­ing on the hori­zon, but once next se­mes­ter be­gins time will clear up a... More »

Maryville Inked

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Stu­dents with Tat­toos Tat­toos are a way for peo­ple to ex­press them­selves through art. Some get tat­toos to rep­re­sent a hard time in life, as a memo­r­ial for some­one im­por­tant or as a mes­sage they never want to for­get. What­ever the rea­son, every tat­too is im­porta... More »

What 4 Years' Worth of Tu­ition Can Buy…

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Maryville Uni­ver­si­ty’s tu­ition for a full-time un­der­grad­u­ate stu­dent is $25,558. Af­ter 4 years of col­lege, you have paid a whop­ping $102,232. There’s a lot that can be done with $100,000. Be­low is an in­fo­graphic that shows what some­one can do with the money th... More »

Video: Fall Fes­ti­val Week 2016

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Watch Paw­print’s cov­er­age of Maryville Uni­ver­si­ty’s 2016 fall fes­ti­val, in­clud­ing Mr. Maryville, Lip Sync, Tail­gate and BBQ. Thank you to the Cam­pus Ac­tiv­i­ties Board for mak­ing this week of events so spe­cial, and thank you to every­one who par­tic­i­pated. Fall Fo... More »