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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

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

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

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...

Former MSA presidential candidate Jordan McFarland resigns from position as RHA justice

Lauren Wortman • December 12, 2015

Justice Jordan McFarland resigned from his position in the Residence Halls Association on Nov. 30, a position which one usually maintains for the entirety of their undergraduate career at MU. McFarland’s...

Scene-it Ceresia: Pixar disappoints in ‘The Good Dinosaur’

Bobby Ceresia • December 11, 2015

First off, let it be known that I had a bias going into the theater. I love Pixar more than any other animation or movie-making organization in the world. I can list off every Pixar movie, in order, because...

Scene-it Ceresia: ‘The Night Before’ is hit or miss for Christmas

Bobby Ceresia • December 11, 2015

“The Night Before” seems like a better idea in concept than it actually ended up being. Blend the classic Christmas films audiences have grown up on with the stoner comedies that Seth Rogen and producer...

Curators discuss moving forward after ‘challenging times’ in the UM System

Katherine Knott, Taylor Blatchford • December 11, 2015

The UM System Board of Curators met at UM-St. Louis on Thursday, Dec. 10 for the first time since former UM System President Tim Wolfe resigned Nov. 9. Topics of discussion included tuition and fee increases...

Middleton gives first report as interim president in second day of curators meeting

Taylor Blatchford, Elizabeth Loutfi • December 11, 2015

Interim UM System President Mike Middleton stressed the need for support in his address to the UM System Board of Curators in the second day of the curators’ meeting on Friday, Dec. 11. He called the...

Curators approve name for new residence hall

Katherine Knott • December 10, 2015

Set to open next fall, Building One is finally getting a name — George C. Brooks Hall. The UM System Board of Curators voted ‘yes’ at their meeting Friday. Building One is south of the site of the...