Skip to Main Content
The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Concerned Student 1950 to receive Chairman’s Award from the NAACP

Thomas Oide January 30, 2016

After generating national media attention and removing UM System President Tim Wolfe from office, Concerned Student 1950 will receive the Chairman’s Award from the NAACP next week. The group will accept...

Graduate students still hope for university housing and childcare

Kyra Haas January 29, 2016

For Kristofferson Culmer, president of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students and chairman of the Forum on Graduate Rights, concern about the university’s treatment of and compensation...

STORIFY: Click receives immense support on Twitter following suspension

Katie Rosso January 28, 2016

MU community members are publicly supporting assistant professor of communications Melissa Click on Twitter following her suspension from the university announced Jan. 27. A video showing the communications...

Faculty Council eyes proposal to examine UM System relationship with MU

Faculty Council eyes proposal to examine UM System relationship with MU

Claire Mitzel January 28, 2016

Faculty Council is considering a [proposal](http://facultycouncil.missouri.edu/meetings/attachments/2015-16/2016-01-21/fc-mu-um-resolution.pdf) that would commission an independent examination of the relationship...

Former UM System President Tim Wolfe criticizes MU administration in confidential letter

Former UM System President Tim Wolfe criticizes MU administration in confidential letter

Former UM System President Tim Wolfe and former Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin haven’t spoken to each other since they both resigned Nov. 9. Wednesday morning, though, a [letter](http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/wolfe-accuses-um-system-curators-loftin-in-confidential-email-to/article_35b55114-c512-11e5-b3e0-5f0c95e4a123.html)...

STORIFY: Foley promises to 'embrace the future' in State of the University address

STORIFY: Foley promises to ’embrace the future’ in State of the University address

Taylor Blatchford, George Roberson January 27, 2016

[View the story "Foley promises to "embrace the future" in State of the University address" on Storify]

Newest curator Yvonne Sparks resigns

Jeremiah Wooten January 27, 2016

The UM System Board of Curators announced the resignation of recently appointed curator Yvonne Sparks this evening. Sparks was [appointed this past November](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/11/13/yvonne-sparks-appointed-newest-curator-um-system/)...

Melissa Click suspended by UM System Board of Curators pending further investigation

Thomas Oide January 27, 2016

MU communications professor Melissa Click, who blocked photographer Tim Tai from taking photos and who famously called for “some muscle” to remove independent photographer Mark Schierbecker during...

Interim Chancellor Hank Foley delivers first-ever State of the University address

Interim Chancellor Hank Foley delivers first-ever State of the University address

Alyssa Bessasparis January 27, 2016

Interim Chancellor Hank Foley spoke to students, faculty and administrators about inclusivity, graduate student rights and goals for the future in the first-ever State of the University address Wednesday...

MU researchers issued patent for cancer treatment

Max Fillion January 27, 2016

A team of MU professors received a U.S. patent Oct. 8, 2015, for a nuclear complex delivery method designed to actively seek out and treat cancer cells. The delivery method, titled “Radioisotope Trithiol...

MU peace studies program hosts panel discussion on terrorism

Alyssa Bessasparis January 27, 2016

MU’s peace studies program brought attention to the international issues of terrorism, racism and violence against women in a panel on Tuesday, Jan. 26. “We wanted to have an educational event that...

Senior selected for Schwarzman Scholars Program

Thomas Oide January 26, 2016

Four years ago, Anurag Chandran came to MU from Dubai. He left his family and everything he knew behind in the United Arab Emirates and started a new life in Columbia. During his first few weeks as a freshman,...