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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

Obama hits nail on the head with infrastructure talk

Steve Pan January 28, 2011

President Barack Obama's recent State of the Union Address was a centrist manifesto that offered everyone something to hate. Liberals bemoaned his plot to gut the federal government. The Conservative...

Repeal the job-killing bill

Taeler De Haes January 25, 2011

We’ve all heard talk of this healthcare bill. In fact, it has been on the news, in print and talked about over lunch since 2008. Still, there is so much chaos and conspiracy that most of us don’t know...

Vegetarianism as protest is ineffective, impractical

Alex Pesek January 25, 2011

In the summer of 2005, I stopped eating meat. A friend at the time sent me a link to some grainy video on a PETA website, clearly taken with a shaky camcorder by someone on the "inside." Grave background...

The 5 travelers you can’t avoid

Krystin Arneson January 25, 2011

Public transportation, in general, is the great democratizer, but airports have a larger range of classes and a much wider variety of people than almost anywhere else you can find. The average person (belonging...

Laughter is an orgasm of the soul

Lindsey Wehking January 21, 2011

If hobo scrotum cannot jolt writers block, really what can? I was double fisting caffeinated beverages in my preferred pretentious coffee joint trying to figure out how to kick-start my reign as columnist....

Party politics inhibit third-party candidates

Nick Calcaterra January 21, 2011

We have grown up in a country divided by two loosely defined parties. While some Americans can demonstrate their loyalty to their respective partisan core beliefs, any American government class will show...

In the private sector, space will pay for itself

Cade Cleavelin January 21, 2011

Back in 2009, the Obama administration voiced the desire to move the space flight industry to the private sector. NASA would still exist as a research institution and developer of technologies, but private...

Going Green… Party

Steve Pan January 21, 2011

When pressed, most people probably have no clue what the Green Party is. That's okay; before I started writing this column I pretty much had no clue either. One of the questions asked to prospective columnists...