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The Maneater

Artists and non-artists get creative in downtown Columbia

Artists and non-artists get creative in downtown Columbia

Brooke Auer March 18, 2015

The brightly colored space of The Mud Room, a downtown Columbia art studio, is filled with pieces of creativity. Ceramic bowls and plates are arranged neatly on shelves beside more curious shapes and figurines. Downtown...

Artlandish Gallery: where slightly strange is a compliment

Artlandish Gallery: where slightly strange is a compliment

Corin Cesaric March 18, 2015

Picture this: You’re walking through downtown Columbia, and you see a little tan building on Walnut Street. The orange and black sign reads “Artlandish Gallery.” You walk inside, and at first...

City council forum highlights concerns about infrastructure, development

Ruth Serven March 18, 2015

Six First Ward candidates for Columbia City Council fielded questions at a forum Thursday night addressing downtown development and infrastructure. The candidates, ranging from two pastors, to a lawyer,...

Lawyer discusses cannabis laws and rights at MU event

Shatya Intharaphet March 18, 2015

Across the nation, more and more laws regarding the use of cannabis are being created. In 2012, the enactment of Colorado Amendment 64, concerning the recreational use of cannabis, allowed adults aged...

Starved and constrained, MU Libraries turn to students for funding

Starved and constrained, MU Libraries turn to students for funding

Power cords are strewn about the floor of the Grand Reading Room on the second floor of Ellis Library. These cords are a jury-rigged solution to the enduring problem of providing power to study stations...

Loftin discusses challenges to campus climate, faculty retention

Quinn Malloy March 18, 2015

When Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin assumed office on Feb. 1, 2014, MU’s campus climate was temperate, if not benign. Michael Brown was still alive and race relations had not yet grasped this campus’...

MU temporarily suspends student accused of making racist remarks

Covey Eonyak Son March 18, 2015

MU will temporarily suspend a student who allegedly made “harassing and hostile remarks” toward another student, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin [announced Wednesday in a statement](http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2015/0318-statement-from-mu-chancellor-r-bowen-loftin-5/). According...

Provost Garnett Stokes brings experience with faculty morale and Title IX

Provost Garnett Stokes brings experience with faculty morale and Title IX

Taylor Blatchford March 18, 2015

When Garnett Stokes arrived in Columbia as MU’s second female provost ever, she immediately noticed similarities to Athens, home to the University of Georgia, where she’d spent more than 30 years as...

Pass the Popcorn: Thankfully, “Run All Night” isn’t “Taken 4”

Caleb Bishop March 18, 2015

There are few things more frustrating than when a movie has a misleading title. The movie does take place over a single night. The characters are fleeing from some pretty angry dudes. However, when I...

Who they are: MU’s prominent women leaders

Marilyn Haigh March 17, 2015

There is no single way to define leadership. The MU community turns to peers and professors for leadership, as well as our professors and administrators. Leaders don’t always have a title, a paycheck...

Single Girl Diaries: Eurotrip: Love games in the lives of 20-somethings

Ellise Verheyen March 17, 2015

Taylor Swift asks an important question in her oh-so-catchy song “Blank Space” that I feel the need to address: “Love’s a game, wanna play?” The answer? Hell no. I don’t want to play your...

Dear Netflix: Mental illness misrepresented in ‘United States of Tara’

Elana Williams March 17, 2015

_Dear Netflix,_ There’s this funny thing about mental illness: What is very real to the person experiencing it is only as real to his/her loved ones as they allow it to be. Enter “United States...