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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Know before you Joe: the best of CoMo coffee

Know before you Joe: the best of CoMo coffee

Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co. 29 S. Ninth St. As a college town, most of Columbia runs on caffeine. Luckily, a variety of places are available, including Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co., located on the corner...

Drawing me in

David Adams March 16, 2012

I don’t sleep anymore. I barely eat. While in class, my head is constantly down and I can barely mutter a word. All I can do is draw. Yep, just like everybody else in the world, I have quite the obsession...

MU professors push for narrative storytelling program

Batul Hassan March 16, 2012

MU professors are in the process of building an interdisciplinary narrative storytelling program for students interested in the emerging field, which centers around technological skill and creativity....

Color-My-I gives personal touch to iPhones

Cat Geissler March 16, 2012

On the surface, Color-My-I might seem like a typical phone repair company, but its mission is to reach beyond the usual corporate divide between customer and salesman. After repairing his colleague's iPhone...

Column: ‘Separation’ without equal

Dylan Chapman March 16, 2012

In Tehran, Iran, a woman, Simin, wants a divorce. It’s not that she doesn’t love her husband, Nader, or that he treats her badly. And it’s not the she’s cheating on him, or vice versa. No, nothing...

911 emergency boxes, park rangers keep MKT trail safe

911 emergency boxes, park rangers keep MKT trail safe

Alfie Cox March 13, 2012

A murder near the MKT Trail in December might have left some feeling uneasy, but with spring approaching, attendance doesn’t seem to have decreased. A system of 911 emergency boxes is among the precautionary...

Transit system search concludes in Champaign on Friday

Transit system search concludes in Champaign on Friday

Sam Rourke March 13, 2012

Columbia city officials, alternative transportation advocates and student representatives traveled to Champaign, Ill., Friday for the last of three trips taken to explore bus systems in other Midwestern...

How to not be blatantly offensive

Ian Servantes March 13, 2012

The morning after the 2007 Women’s Basketball National Championship, a nationally syndicated radio host tried his hand at analyzing the game. The conversation soured quickly, as the host and his producer...

‘Mass Effect 3’: 4 out of 5 stars

Rexly Penaflorida II March 13, 2012

The story of Commander Shepard comes to a close with the release of Mass Effect 3. Earth is overrun with the deadly and towering Reapers and it’s up to Shepard to traverse the galaxy and acquire as...

Andrew Bird — ‘Break It Yourself’: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Alicia Tan March 13, 2012

In the past, multi-instrumentalist genius Andrew Bird has recorded songs that have had sheer layers and layers of sounds, with violin strings on top of guitar strings on top of dense percussion claps,...

MU holds third annual Mizzou Idol competition

MU holds third annual Mizzou Idol competition

Briana Brooks March 13, 2012

Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson both made appearances last Thursday night, at least in musical form, at the third annual Mizzou Idol competition. MU held its very own edition of the hit television...

New York Times best-selling author David Finch shares struggles with Asperger syndrome

Cait Campbell March 13, 2012

David Finch, author of New York Times bestseller "The Journal of Best Practices," spoke March 5 in Fisher Auditorium about the struggles of living with Asperger syndrome. The presentation, which was part...