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The Student Newspaper of Mizzou since 1955

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of Mizzou since 1955

The Maneater

An iPhone 7 without a headphone jack is a plus

An iPhone 7 without a headphone jack is a plus

Hunter Gilbert September 13, 2016

At Apple’s annual September press conference last week, the company announced that the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will not have a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It’s a change that has been rumored for months,...

Black Lives Matter is addressing the wrong problem

Chris Vas September 12, 2016

Black Lives Matter is an organization that has gained national attention recently for illegally shutting down highways with their marches and making extremely aggressive anti-police statements. While it...

Don’t fear the 15

Emmett Ferguson September 12, 2016

Fear of the freshman 15 abounds in college dorms. The perfect body you sculpted in high school is disappearing. The ability to eat egregious amounts of food without gaining weight may be lost. Nobody wants...

Labor Day celebrates the working class

Jessie Staley September 11, 2016

As Labor Day passed this week, I found myself thinking about why we have it at all. Labor Day is not only a day off of school and work. Labor Day is a legitimate federal holiday for the little things we...

Negative Trump coverage represents reality, not bias or falsehood

Tess Vrbin September 7, 2016

Last Wednesday, I received an angry tweet from someone regarding [my column from last week.](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2016/8/30/trump-not-clinton-displays-bigotry-and-blatantly-p/) The person...

Student government shapes national political understanding

Regan Huston September 4, 2016

With the presidential election just a few months away, everyone who can legally vote is anxious to cast their opinion in this controversial election. If you’re a freshman like myself, this will be your...

Homesickness isn’t about home. It’s about the anxiety of independence

Emmett Ferguson September 4, 2016

It’s been almost three weeks here at MU and everyone is starting to settle in. Schedules are becoming routine, people are finding their niches, and the first load of laundry is, hopefully, getting done....

Time to put down the phone and start talking to each other

Kurtis Dunlap September 4, 2016

In 2007, Apple sold 72 million iPhones. That number has increased every year since, and during the first fiscal quarter of 2016 alone, they sold just over 74 million. There is no denying technology has...

Monolingual Americans stunt globalism

Jessie Staley September 4, 2016

Foreign language education in the U.S. is severely insufficient. In some systems, children are taught the same material year after year until they get to high school and have the opportunity to take advanced...

Trump, not Clinton, displays bigotry and blatantly panders to minorities

Tess Vrbin August 30, 2016

It’s fairly normal for presidential candidates to trade criticisms and even insults on the campaign trail. But a recent exchange between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, in which they accused each other...

Voters revolt against spineless GOP establishment

Chris Vas August 30, 2016

Countless former GOP leaders and sitting members of Congress are refusing to support their nominee for president. What these Republicans fail to mention while they are bashing Trump is that they essentially...

Obama’s bathroom policies reach too far

Chris Vas August 24, 2016

The U.S. is facing many major issues in the final year of President Barack Obama’s term. The threat of the Islamic State is growing, the national debt continues to crawl toward $20 trillion, and home...