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The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Most Influential Students: Missouri’s youngest RNC delegate reflects on being political at an early age

Jackson Kinkead May 3, 2017

At the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, senior Jeremy Wiggins was the youngest Missouri delegate on the floor. Wiggins has had internships at the U.S. House Committee on Ways and...

Best Student Organization: It’s On Us commits to fighting sexual assault

Kyle LaHucik May 3, 2017

Though there is no way to track the number of sexual assaults being prevented by its awareness campaign, It’s On Us has proved to be the most influential organization this year on campus. The idea that...

Best Student Achievement: Students vote to pass Enhance Mizzou fee

Claire Colby May 3, 2017

Students’ effective campaign led to an increase in funding that will improve facilities and resources across campus. Enhance Mizzou will be remembered as one of the year’s major student successes. Money...

Fresh Faces: Three new members added to the Board of Curators

Caroline Watkins May 2, 2017

The Board of Curators can often seem like an omnipotent group of Wizard-of-Oz-esque overlords who decide your tuition’s fate behind a grandiose emerald curtain. But who are the new men (and woman) behind...

Top Disappointments: UM System officials given inappropriate bonuses

Nancy Coleman May 2, 2017

It’s hard to pinpoint the most disheartening part of the UM System audit that was released in March. It might have been the $1.2 million doled out in incentive payments to top administrators over several...

Top Disappointments: Budget cuts continue to plague the university

Top Disappointments: Budget cuts continue to plague the university

Zia Kelly May 2, 2017

Within a month of being sworn in earlier this year, Gov. Eric Greitens released two budgets that each made major cuts to state higher education funding. This came as MU was already losing money as freshman...

Junior Tori Schafer defines herself and empowers others

Junior Tori Schafer defines herself and empowers others

Kyle LaHucik May 2, 2017

In a March 2017 student government election that many observers thought mirrored the 2016 U.S. presidential election, presidential candidate Tori Schafer was compared to Hillary Clinton. For “being a...

Convenience, caffeine and comfort — the top 10 places to study for finals

Rashi Shrivastava May 2, 2017

Diligence and deadlines aside, effective studying has another crucial prerequisite — the perfect study spot. We all have several terms and conditions that apply to us actually sitting down and getting...

Fresh Faces: From being a prolific boxer to a U.S. Navy SEAL, Greitens has done it all

Fresh Faces: From being a prolific boxer to a U.S. Navy SEAL, Greitens has done it all

Gov. Eric Greitens told The Maneater in 2008 that he believed quiet leadership is more effective than authoritative leadership. This was before he was elected governor of Missouri. Greitens has served...

A guide to stereotypical group project personalities — in memes

Brooke Collier May 2, 2017

It’s the light at the end of the tunnel — it’s finally the beginning of May and summer vacation is on the horizon (even if the weather doesn’t necessarily agree). There are just a few obstacles...

Millennial Manners: The appropriate ‘goodbye’ for a handful of situations

Ben Jarzombek May 2, 2017

Everything in life, good or bad, comes to an end eventually. Even though endings are so frequent in our lives, many of us don’t always know how to navigate them. I can’t say that I’m always great...

Top Moments of the Year: Columbia residents find solidarity in unrest

Top Moments of the Year: Columbia residents find solidarity in unrest

Fiona Murphy May 2, 2017

Thousands of Columbia residents marched on Jan. 21 in support of the Women’s March on Washington and in protest of the inauguration of Donald Trump for the Mid-Missouri Solidarity March. Throughout...