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The Maneater

Woelfel named director of planned Jonathan Murray Documentary Journalism Center

Crystal Duan March 4, 2014

As the outgoing news director of KOMU/NBC, Stacey Woelfel has a total of 34 years of experience with broadcast and television journalism. A member of the School of Journalism teaching faculty, Woelfel...

Campus task force for campus safety is in formative stages

Crystal Duan March 4, 2014

In light of the three clery releases sent out to MU students this semester and national news concerning former student Sasha Menu Courey’s experience, campus safety has been on freshman Kelly Yambor’s...

Channel Vision: Spinning your wheels with spin-offs?

Crystal Duan March 4, 2014

Some things in life are best kept “short and sweet,” and the same should apply to dragging out particular TV shows by putting another in its place. Once the first story is over, we should smile at...

MOVE’s picks for the 2014 Oscars

Stephen Daw March 1, 2014

It’s late February, and we all know what that means. No, not Mardi Gras. It’s time for the Oscars! Yes, it’s already time to sit back, relax and watch the three-hour award ceremony that honors the...

Michael Middleton shaped black history for MU

Jessica Karins February 28, 2014

Michael Middleton remembers a time when walking through MU’s campus as a young black man often meant hearing racial slurs shouted by other students and dodging objects thrown from cars. This was during...

McElderry leads BCC, educates students

Alex Leininger February 28, 2014

Adjusting to the Midwest was a process for Jonathan McElderry. McElderry, the director of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, was an undergraduate in Fairfax, Va., attending George Mason University,...

Frisby targets beauty standards for minorities in advertising

Jessica Karins February 28, 2014

Cyndi Frisby is a mother and an instructor at a dance studio, but she’s also an MU professor, an author and a researcher on sex and race in the media. In 2010, Frisby got a first-hand look at how the...

Marnae Chavers works to make powerful experiences for black students

Marek Makowski February 28, 2014

When Legion of Black Collegians President Marnae Chavers was a freshman, she left her hometown, which she said, was very homogenous with a strong African American community. In search of the same on campus,...

MSA, Missourian discuss temporary relief to paywall

Covey Eonyak Son February 27, 2014

Even after former Missouri Students Association President Nick Droege [set a deadline for discussion with the Columbia Missourian in December](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2013/12/12/msa-asks-missourian-remove- paywall-students/),...

Procession, memorial honor fallen firefighter Bruce Britt

Procession, memorial honor fallen firefighter Bruce Britt

Claire Boston February 27, 2014

The Columbia community gathered at The Crossing church Thursday morning to remember Lt. Bruce Britt, who died responding to a walkway collapse at University Village Apartments on Saturday. Prior to the...

Students say ‘One Wall, One Mizzou’ event focused on school, not LGBT, pride

Alex Leininger February 27, 2014

Some students criticized the [“One Wall, One Mizzou #StandWithSam” Facebook event](https://www.facebook.com/events/658813904161232/) last week after reports that pro-LGBT comments were being deleted...

Task force discusses community policing

Jackie Olson February 27, 2014

Community policing was at the center of Wednesday night’s meeting of the Mayor’s Task Force on Community Violence. Community policing involves police patrolling certain areas and getting to know...