Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced the development of a diversity and inclusion training for students, faculty and staff starting in January 2016, according to a [news release](http://chancellor.missouri.edu/news/diversity-and-inclusion-training/)...

People wrapped around the block and filled the Missouri Theatre to hear the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough give a lecture entitled, "The History You Don't Know: Lessons from the American...

On Sept. 21, Gov. Jay Nixon announced a proposal for a freeze on undergraduate tuition at the state’s public two- and four-year institutions for the 2016-17 school year. According to a news release from...

MU associate law professor Royce de R. Barondes is suing MU over its prohibition of firearms, which he believes is unconstitutional. MU’s firearm policy restricts guns on university property, with the...

On Sept. 24, shortly after [Megabus announced they would no longer be servicing Columbia and Kansas City](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/9/23/megabus-ending-service-columbia-and-kansas-city-du/),...

On average, 1,100 students across college campuses nationally commit suicide, according to Active Minds, an organization intended on creating a more active dialogue about mental health among students....

The MU Coalition for those Killed by ISIS, or MUCK ISIS, plans to hold a demonstration that, according to their flier, will include “food, music and freedom” as well as the burning of the Islamic State’s...

Two years ago in October, “Gravity” hit theaters, and Sandra Bullock’s plight for survival made people fear space. Last year in November, “Interstellar” blended complex scientific theories with...

To most of us, films are just a form of entertainment. We go to the movie theater because we want to get away from our boring lives and live vicariously through someone else in another world. What draws...

October is National Adopt-a-Dog Month, and I couldn’t let that pass without doing a column all about dog books. Although I’m most certainly a cat person (seriously, ask anyone — I’m a cat lady...