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The Maneater

Hoverboards banned from campus

Lily Oppenheimer January 8, 2016

Self-balancing scooters, also known as hoverboards, are banned from MU campus beginning Jan. 8, according to an email sent to students Friday morning. The email cited the “potential impact on MU campus...

STORIFY: People share ideas on how to improve MU

Katherine Knott January 6, 2016

[View the story "People share ideas on how to #MakeMizzouGreatAgain" on Storify]

UPDATED: Faculty support Melissa Click after state lawmakers call for her dismissal

Katherine Knott January 5, 2016

Faculty are supporting assistant professor Melissa Click after Republican state lawmakers released their letter calling for her immediate removal for her “inappropriate and criminal actions” [during...

MU Improv’s first all-female team wins regional competition, qualifies for nationals

Tess Vrbin January 2, 2016

Since its formation in 2009, MU Improv has consisted of mostly men, with all 16 of its alumni being male. Before last year, there were only two women in the organization. Then came an influx of female...

After stepping down as chancellor, Loftin isn’t dwelling on the past

After stepping down as chancellor, Loftin isn’t dwelling on the past

Taylor Blatchford December 30, 2015

R. Bowen Loftin first visited the University of Missouri in the late 1970s. A physics professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston, he and a colleague came to Columbia to use the nuclear reactor for...

Infusion to begin offering Kaldi’s coffee in January

Infusion to begin offering Kaldi’s coffee in January

Jared Kaufman December 22, 2015

Infusion, the Student Center’s coffee shop and bakery, is hoping to boost sales by using Kaldi’s coffee to make its beverages starting in January. Previously, Infusion had sold beverages made primarily...

Deck the halls: A look inside dining hall decorations

Jared Kaufman December 22, 2015

‘Twas the week after Thanksgiving, and all through The MARK on 5th Street, assistant manager Jon Lawson was making his dining hall festive and neat. Like the managers of other dining facilities across...

Student organizations speak out against anti-abortion graphic images outside Student Center

Madison Plaster, Alycia Washington December 21, 2015

A sign on all the entrance of all four crosswalks of Kuhlman Court read, “Warning: Genocide Photos Ahead.” From Dec. 7 to Dec. 9, large billboards depicting aborted babies, the Holocaust, a Confederate...

Graduate students not satisfied with task force’s solutions

Graduate students not satisfied with task force’s solutions

Bri Considine December 21, 2015

The Forum on Graduate Rights wants their student health insurance subsidies back, and they want them now. Following the Task Force for Graduate Health Insurance's [report Nov. 16](http://gradstudies.missouri.edu/financials/student-medical-insurance/Grad%20Student%20Ins%20Task%20Force%20Final%20Report%2011-17-15.pdf),...

A spoiler-free look at what it was like to see ‘Star Wars’ magic return to the big screen

A spoiler-free look at what it was like to see ‘Star Wars’ magic return to the big screen

Gabriela Velasquez December 20, 2015

**SPOILER ALERT: In this review, I try to stay as spoiler-free as possible. However, if you want to go into the film without knowing anything at all about the characters and their prevalence in the film,...

Dismissed cabinet member speaks out against MSA president-elect

Max Fillion, Andrew Frein December 13, 2015

Missouri Students Association President-elect Haden Gomez dismissed Department of Student Communications director Riley de Leon and assistant director Natalie Edelstein, one of Gomez’s former campaign...

Maneater Long Reads: A Poetic Life

Maneater Long Reads: A Poetic Life

Nicole Newman December 12, 2015

Two men shake hands. They sit down. One mentions T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”; the other recites 30 lines of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” And then former Gov. Matt Blunt asks Walter...