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Mizzou in Review: Top five WTF moments

Mizzou in Review: Top five WTF moments

Taylor Blatchford May 3, 2016

This school year has been full of resignations, protests and other general administrative chaos. Stepping back and thinking about all that’s happened, there were some moments that just made us ask, “WTF,...

Most Influential Students: Jonathan Butler

Most Influential Students: Jonathan Butler

Thomas Oide May 3, 2016

Jonathan Butler doesn’t see himself as a leader. “I view myself as an engaged community citizen who has a specific lived experience,” Butler said. “I don’t think I’m anybody special, I don’t...

Most Influential Students: Eric Scott and Connor Lewis

Most Influential Students: Eric Scott and Connor Lewis

Kyra Haas May 3, 2016

Graduate students Eric Scott and Connor Lewis met at the first meeting of the Forum on Graduate Rights, just days after graduate workers were informed 13 hours before their health coverage period ended...

New Mizzou Hillel center, student housing project delayed

Anna Sutterer May 3, 2016

Mizzou Hillel pulled its zoning request from the Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission agenda, [delaying a project that would tear down the existing building and replace it with a six-story student housing...

MOTHXR to bring a new energy to Rose Music Hall this Friday

MOTHXR to bring a new energy to Rose Music Hall this Friday

Waverly Colville May 3, 2016

MOTHXR happened like paint thrown at a canvas: The creation of a band, their songs and music videos aren’t planned, yet the pattern falls into place to create a piece of art. Singer Penn Badgley (yes,...

Top 5: CoMo’s best new businesses

Amanda Battmer May 3, 2016

The 2015–16 school year was one for the books (er, newspapers?) for new shops and restaurants opening in Columbia. Grilled cheese out of a truck, crystals that heal and even more great pizza are just...

Peyton White remembered as having “gentle presence”

Kyra Haas May 3, 2016

Family and friends gathered for a celebration of life service Tuesday for freshman Peyton White, who died April 27. He was 18. Friends also held a candlelight vigil over the weekend in White’s honor. White...

LBC executive cabinet aims to serve and strengthen the Black community

LBC executive cabinet aims to serve and strengthen the Black community

Tess Vrbin May 3, 2016

The 2016–17 Legion of Black Collegians executive cabinet wants to respond to the difficulties Black students faced on campus [last semester](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/11/5/interactive-timeline-historic-fall-mu/)...

Over 100 MU students march to Take Back the Night

Over 100 MU students march to Take Back the Night

Madison Plaster May 3, 2016

Friends posed together for pictures as music played in the background. Event staff handed out T-shirts. But this night was serious, too. More than 20 people shared stories of personal collisions with sexual...

What you need to know leading up to Marvel’s ‘Captain America: Civil War’

Jack Cronin May 3, 2016

In the film industry, where franchises and series have recently come to dominate, one genre has become the most prominent of them all. That genre is superhero movies, and it has been led by Marvel Studios. Sure,...

Best student achievement: Ousting the presidents

Best student achievement: Ousting the presidents

Tess Vrbin May 3, 2016

Students at MU managed to get rid of not one but two presidents — a testament to what can happen when students unite for a cause. Before [former UM System President Tim Wolfe’s resignation](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/11/9/wolfe-announces-resignation-um-system-president/)...

Review: ‘Midnight Special’ hinges too much on curiosity

Jack Cronin May 3, 2016

Curiosity can be a powerful tool in film. It draws viewers into a narrative, grabbing their attention as they try to piece together various parts of a story. But a movie that hinges on curiosity flirts...