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2020 RJI Potter Digital Ambassadors work with small-town newsrooms

2020 RJI Potter Digital Ambassadors work with small-town newsrooms

Jessica Fitzgerald April 13, 2020

One of the opportunities the MU School of Journalism Reynolds Journalism Institute is to be a part of the Potter Digital Ambassador program. For the past three years, the institute has given the opportunity...

MU Venture Club creates community for students who love outdoors

MU Venture Club creates community for students who love outdoors

Angelina Edwards April 13, 2020

Many people assume that there aren’t many opportunities for adventure in mid-Missouri. MU Venture Club strives to convince students otherwise. MU Venture Club is an organization on campus that encourages...

Letter from the editors: The Maneater will publish online for the duration of the semester

Letter from the editors: The Maneater will publish online for the duration of the semester

April 2, 2020

Dear readers, COVID-19 has presented our world with many unexpected challenges. We have felt these challenges at The Maneater, at MU and within all of our home communities. Since the UM System announcement...

UPDATED: Chancellor Alexander Cartwright to leave MU, UM System President Mun Choi to take over

Alex Fulton March 20, 2020

In an email sent out on March 26 Julia Brncic, chair of the University of Missouri Board of Curators, announced that UM System President Mun Choi will serve as interim chancellor at MU. The Board of Curators...

‘More For Mizzou’ slate wins MSA presidential election

Ben Scott March 11, 2020

The “More For Mizzou” slate won the Missouri Students Association presidential election. Presidential candidate Anthony Tretter and vice presidential candidate Kara Hjerstedt ran under the “More...

BREAKING: MU moves classes online amid COVID-19 fears

Ben Scott March 11, 2020

MU classes will be remotely held for the remaining time prior to spring break due to COVID-19’s nationwide spread. However, there are no currently known cases of COVID-19 on MU’s campus. “In-person...

COVID-19 outbreak forces study abroad students home

COVID-19 outbreak forces study abroad students home

Alex Espinda March 11, 2020

With the latest novel coronavirus scare, the Italy study abroad program at MU and colleges across the U.S. were canceled due to concern of the virus spreading to the students abroad. Recently, the Centers...

Two MU students to screen their films at Cannes Film Festival in May

Two MU students to screen their films at Cannes Film Festival in May

Jessica Fitzgerald March 10, 2020

Junior Roxanne Wan and senior Fanxi Sun have been given the opportunity to showcase their films in May at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. Both films were selected by jurors, and this festival...

Documentary ‘Crestone’ explores the nuances of a handful of Colorado Soundcloud artists

Documentary ‘Crestone’ explores the nuances of a handful of Colorado Soundcloud artists

Billie Huang March 8, 2020

On Friday night, I had the pleasure of viewing my first True/False Film Fest film of 2020, “Crestone.” It was one of the better films I’ve seen in my four years of attending True/False. I’ve never...

Pepe the Frog is finally saved by ‘Feels Good Man’

Pepe the Frog is finally saved by ‘Feels Good Man’

Chloe Konrad March 8, 2020

If you think Pepe the Frog is just an internet meme, well, you’ve got quite the story ahead. In 2005, artist Matt Furie wrote a simple comic strip called “Boy’s Club” and scanned it into Myspace....

‘The Mole Agent’ harmonizes comedy, sadness

‘The Mole Agent’ harmonizes comedy, sadness

Anna Watson March 7, 2020

Detective Rómulo Aitken posted an ad in a Chilean newspaper. It read: “Man needed. Between the ages of 80 and 90 years.” And thus, his recruiting process for a spy began. In the new spy documentary...

The comical documentary ‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ highlights death in untraditional ways

The comical documentary ‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ highlights death in untraditional ways

Petra Rivera March 7, 2020

On the early Friday morning of March 6, people eagerly lined the alley by the Blue Note hoping to get a ticket to one of the biggest documentaries of the True/False Film Fest. The Netflix original film...