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Is this a great album? YES!

Alease Lee • July 25, 2014

I listen to Coldplay’s “Mylo Xyloto” and Ben Howard’s “Every Kingdom” daily. Now, I’ve added Jason Mraz’s newest release, “YES!” to that list. This album screams love, creativity and...

During sixth grade, I received my first iPod for Christmas. I didn’t listen to any music at this point in my life, but I knew that the iPod was the hot gift that everyone would be getting that holiday. For...

Alvvays singing the same tune

Kennedy Ward • July 25, 2014

_“Sounds like Cults’ Madeline Follin’s voice over a Best Coast instrumental … knockoffs.”_ That’s the very first thought I had while listening to “Adult Diversion,” the opening track from...

5 Seconds of Summer’s debut goes in more than one direction

Katelyn Lunders • July 25, 2014

5 Seconds of Summer is a band made up of four young men with Australian accents, and if you haven’t heard of them yet, you will. Chances are you’ve heard their song “She Looks So Perfect” on the...

MU Libraries receive $400,000 grant for damaged book recovery

Clarissa Buch • July 24, 2014

MU Libraries received a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help cover the cost of remediation and replacement of books damaged by an [off-site mold outbreak discovered in February](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/2/12/mold-destroys-600000-library-books/). The...

MU hires new vice chancellor

Covey Eonyak Son • July 24, 2014

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced Thursday that Ellen de Graffenreid will serve as MU’s new vice chancellor of marketing and communications. De Graffenreid is the vice president for communications...

Students develop unique local campus weather service

Jack Waddell • July 23, 2014

This past spring, graduate students in MU’s Atmospheric Science Department started their own campus weather service for students and locals to check weather updates. The service is run entirely by graduate...

Delafontaine named new School of Medicine dean

Isabella Alves • July 23, 2014

MU has hired Patrice Delafontaine as the new School of Medicine dean effective December 1. Delafontaine currently serves as the Chief of Cardiology at Tulane University, a member of the Association of...

University Village demolition begins

Covey Eonyak Son • July 21, 2014

After decades of providing housing for many graduate students and their families, University Village will finally be demolished Monday after a [walkway collapse killed Columbia fireman Bruce Britt in February](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/2/22/university-village-evacuated/). Marschel...