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Like a good pet, ‘Zootopia’ is adorable, fun

Daniel Flood • March 10, 2016

“Zootopia,” Disney’s latest animated feature, continues the studio’s creative streak of remarkable pictures. It’s a movie I didn’t expect to succeed with its premise of a city of animals acting...

MOVE into your weekend

Katie Rosso • March 10, 2016

####Movie [“Zootopia,”](http://move.themaneater.com/stories/2016/3/10/good-pet-zootopia-adorable-fun/#.VuI78FxvocI) which premiered on March 4, is a film that discusses race and privilege in an accessible...

Click’s termination not enough to stop budget cuts

Lily Cusack • March 10, 2016

Despite conflicting responses from Missouri state lawmakers regarding the [termination of assistant communication professor Melissa Click](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2016/2/25/melissa-click-fired-board-curators/),...

Graduate workers use #WeWantAVote to advocate for a union

Emily Gallion • March 10, 2016

Graduate workers and associated activists began a Twitter campaign Thursday to advocate for unionization. The Coalition of Graduate Workers has said that it wants to hold a vote on unionizing during the...

Roger Thurow and Chancellor Emeritus Brady Deaton wage a war on hunger

Madison Plaster • March 10, 2016

Hagirso Ketema is forever stunted. At 15, he was just learning how to read and write. At five years old, Ketema and his father Tesfaye Ketema lived through the Ethiopian Famine of 2003. As part of a poor...

Faculty Council discusses budget, enrollment projections for 2016-17 school year

Claire Mitzel • March 10, 2016

Faculty Council discussed enrollment projections for fall 2016 and the possibility of an academic calendar change for the spring 2019 semester during Thursday’s meeting, interspersed with dialogue about...

Judge dismisses lawsuit against CID sales tax

Thomas Oide • March 9, 2016

A Boone County Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit regarding the December sales tax election conducted by the Business Loop Community Improvement District in court yesterday. Jen Henderson, a resident...

Headed out: Payton says goodbye to the MSA presidency

Emily Gallion • March 9, 2016

Payton Head remembers having a conversation with a waitress at The Heidelberg before beginning his MSA presidential campaign. She told him she would vote for him and his running mate Brenda Smith-Lezama...

MU to experience $32 million budget loss from enrollment decrease

Claire Mitzel • March 9, 2016

MU is expected to be $32 million short of next year’s planned budget, interim Chancellor Hank Foley announced in a letter sent to staff Wednesday. “I wish I had better news,” Foley wrote in the...

Celebrate spring break with synth-pop artist Kitten

Grant Sharples • March 9, 2016

Spring break is coming up pretty quickly, and while many will be leaving Columbia to go home or on a vacation, some people will be staying here. If you’re looking for a good show, synth-pop artist Kitten...

Fashionably Late: Audrey Hepburn’s legacy

Regina Anderson • March 9, 2016

Audrey Hepburn has been a fashion icon ever since her first major starring role in “Roman Holiday,” alongside Gregory Peck. In the movie, she completely cuts all of her hair off and was one of the...

Start your engines, and may the best single win

Anna Maples • March 8, 2016

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” is widely known as the most irreverent and outrageous reality show on television, and has spread the art of drag to a wider audience by giving drag queens a larger spotlight. In...