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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

MU students elicit laughs in weekly comedy show

MU students elicit laughs in weekly comedy show

Shannon Murff January 28, 2014

Imagine yourself on a stage, in front of an expectant crowd. You must act out a scene and — here’s the tough part — make the audience laugh. Just the idea is enough to make some people nervous...

MU prepares for annual RecycleMania

Covey Eonyak Son January 28, 2014

MU will compete against hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States and Canada in the 2014 RecycleMania. The competition, run by the non-profit organization RecycleMania Inc., starts...

Amy Reidel to present art on Thursday

Amy Reidel to present art on Thursday

Maddie Magruder January 28, 2014

On Thursday, artist Amy Reidel will give a free presentation about her artwork. Reidel, currently an art teacher at St. Louis University and St. Louis Community College, will have both photos of and physical...

Movie review: ‘Enemies Closer’

Movie review: ‘Enemies Closer’

Morgan Young January 28, 2014

This small-budget film uses the classic approach of taking two plots and intertwining them to create a perfectly dramatic hot mess. The main plot consists of a French-Canadian drug lord (Jean-Claude Van...

Fash Talk: For the love of ponchos

Brielle Gregory January 28, 2014

Growing up in the early 2000s was inarguably magnificent. The turn of the century brought with it the rise of boy bands, each of which included frosted tips and mildly impressive choreographed dance moves...

Think Outside the Boombox: An ode to Green Day

Patrick McKenna January 28, 2014

I know I discussed alternative music from the ’90s in my last column, and I swear I’m not some sort of addict when it comes to the guitar work and lyrical performance of that era. But I had an epiphany...

Single Girl Diaries: The Grind

Ellise Verheyen January 28, 2014

At the ripe age of nine years old, my mother decided it was time for me to be a dancer. Needless to say, we discovered that I was an atrocious dancer. I couldn’t tap, tumble or pirouette to save my...

The Flaming Lips, Bassnectar and the guys down the street

Patrick McKenna January 28, 2014

It seems the growing trend for teenagers is to bestow nearly all of their money, time and conversations onto one thing: music festivals. For those who have attended one in the past, this is no shocker....

‘Orange is the New Black’ author to speak Feb. 5 at Missouri Theatre

Em Donald January 28, 2014

If you didn’t live under a rock and had an Internet connection this summer, chances are you watched the Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black.” What you may not have realized, though,...

School of Medicine to start patient-centered outcome research

Crystal Duan January 26, 2014

The School of Medicine received a $4.5-million federal grant that will fund the new MU Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. University officials announced Dec. 19 that the grant, provided by...

MSA hosts 2014 SEC Exchange

Covey Eonyak Son January 25, 2014

Dozens of student government executives and advisors from various Southeastern Conference universities arrived Friday at Jesse Hall, where members of the Missouri Students Association and Marching Mizzou...

Show review: Califone with William Tyler

William Schmitt January 25, 2014

Tim Rutili and Califone brought guitarist William Tyler into Columbia for one of the most unassumingly excellent shows I’ve experienced. Both are folk acts that dabbled in the babbling joy of distorted...