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The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Obama talks economy in Warrensburg

Obama talks economy in Warrensburg

Hannah Tinnin July 25, 2013

President Barack Obama made his second stop in the campaign-style speech series at the University of Central Missouri Wednesday afternoon. Additionally, Gov. Jay Nixon and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.,...

MU hosts international conference on nuclear fusion

Crystal Duan July 25, 2013

MU is hosting the 18th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Fusion throughout this week. The event has rotated through Europe and Asia over the past three years, and this marks the first...

Reactions to ousting of Mohammed Morsi vary

Ida Sophie Winter July 25, 2013

More than two weeks after after Egypt's military ousted the country's first democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi, a panel began the task of amending the country's constitution Sunday, according...

Stabbing lands west Columbia man in hospital

Joe Clougher July 24, 2013

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department responded early Tuesday morning to a stabbing near Bethany and Bellview drives. The victim, an 18-year-old man, told deputies that he was walking in the area when...

Craft Studio coordinator to buy used bookshop

Jack Howard July 24, 2013

Kelsey Hammond and Joe Chevalier said they didn’t feel “settled” in Columbia when they moved from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006 without a dog. It wasn't until Hammond rescued Scout in 2007 at...

Campus “bear hugger” pleads guilty to assault, stalking charges

Tracy Cook July 24, 2013

Timothy Anderson, the man notoriously referred to on social media as the campus “bear hugger,” was sentenced to 10 days in the Boone County Jail and two years of probation on July 16. The charges...

Disability Services hires first deaf services coordinator

Shannon Shaver July 23, 2013

MU Disability Services is in the process of changing its campus program for the deaf and hard of hearing. Angela Graves was hired as the program's first deaf services coordinator, and she will be in charge...

Album Review: ‘Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’

Album Review: ‘Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’

Patrick McKenna July 23, 2013

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is a band with an understanding on how to generate a experimental mix of upbeat folk tunes with a partial psychedelic feel while never settling for the same sound....

Aspen Heights 80 beds short for Fall 2013

Aspen Heights 80 beds short for Fall 2013

Jill Deutsch July 22, 2013

At the beginning of July, Aspen Heights notified 80 students that their housing units would not be complete by their scheduled move-in date. The students can move into a different unit or agree to be...

Wal-Mart set to open campus store downtown

Joe Clougher July 22, 2013

Walmart will move downtown next year with Walmart on Campus, the retailer's college town variant. The store is slated to open on the corner of Ninth Street and Woodson Way as part of the under-construction...

Obama, Nixon to speak at UCM on Wednesday

Joe Clougher July 22, 2013

President Barack Obama this week is set to begin a multi-month speaking tour, traveling Wednesday to the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Mo., to give the second in a long series of speeches...

New law updates Missouri auditing processes

Jennifer Beatty July 21, 2013

A new state law will allow the State Auditor to choose when to make audits. The law goes into effect on August 28. The law allows the State Auditor to make audits of any state agency without advance...