JEFFERSON CITY — Efforts to rename Southwest Missouri State University as the more important-sounding Missouri State University have failed for two decades in the state legislature.
SMS name change gains momentum
Part of the reason is that Sen. Ken Jacob seems to stand alone in opposing it.
Monday, February 2, 2004 | 12:00 a.m. CST;
updated 7:45 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 6, 2008
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