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Unions Entrepreneurial Program helps students launch their businesses

Alex Fulton • September 3, 2019

Housey Designs, Max Fix and Yes Girl were given year-long 300 square foot spaces in the Student Center to house their startups for the school year as part of the Unions Entrepreneurial Program. The program...

Freshmen are first to experience the explorative qualities of new journalism curriculum, upperclassmen unaffected

Lauren Hines • September 3, 2019

The MU School of Journalism received an update to keep in touch with modern times. With the new journalism curriculum taking effect this year, freshmen hit the ground running while current sophomores...

MU announces new partnership between MU Veterans Clinic and Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital

Cameron Barnard • September 3, 2019

MU announced its School of Law Veterans Clinic will collaborate with the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital to increase support offered to student veterans. The new section will be called the...

MU launches initiative to make iClicker usage streamlined and free for students

Austin Woods • September 2, 2019

An initiative to make iClicker free for MU students was announced in June, according to Tanys Nelson, manager of learning technologies for MU. The initiative went into effect at the beginning of the 2019...

We were all ‘Born to Run’ away from ‘Blinded by the Light’

Rachel Pickett • September 1, 2019

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you forced a robot to listen to Bruce Springsteen’s entire discography and then immediately write a movie script? Well, I am confident that the result would...

Environmental groups build community and advocate sustainability at MU and in the Columbia area

Izzy Colón • August 30, 2019

For Mary Diekmeier, the president of Sustain Mizzou, sustainable living is as simple as seeing an empty can on the street and tossing it in a recycling bin nearby. As a freshman, Diekmeier became involved...

Shot Reverse Shot returns for third season of television

August 29, 2019

After two years and multiple shows worth of televised content, Shot Reverse Shot, an almost entirely student-run television program, is beginning to see an uptick in its membership. Over 40 students attended...

College of Arts and Science receives $1.28 million gift from MU alumnus

Hannah Norton • August 27, 2019

Two years after his 1967 graduation from MU with a Master of Science in physics and astronomy, Ronald Boain moved to Houston, Texas to perform contingency analysis for NASA’s Apollo 11 mission. That...

First-year business students attend 3rd annual Camp Trulaske

Wicker Perlis • August 26, 2019

For the third consecutive year, first-year students in the Trulaske College of Business gathered together on Traditions Plaza, loaded onto school buses and spent 2 days on Lake of the Ozarks at Camp Trulaske. The...

COLUMN: Be spiteful — it may just be worth your time and energy

Abigail Ruhman • August 22, 2019

_Abigail Ruhman is a sophomore journalism major at MU. She is an opinion columnist who writes about student life, politics and social issues for The Maneater._ While spite is often viewed as a negative...

MUPD finds student unresponsive in residence hall

Riddhi Andurkar • August 22, 2019

18-year-old freshman Erik Severson was found dead in his dorm room at Excellence Hall on Wednesday. MUPD officers responded to a call to check on an unresponsive man around 4 p.m. Police are investigating,...

Artistic organizations offer ways to become involved

Janae McKenzie • August 21, 2019

Several clubs and organizations at MU can help students who are artistically-inclined stay involved with their crafts of choice. For singers, there are various student-led groups to help MU students find...