At the heart of what is usually termed the “American Dream” lies the idea of mobility. The potential in people, it is thought, can be realized through hard work in the right kind of conditions. Hardships...

Nearly 12 billion miles from Earth, humanity’s farthest reach is flying ever farther away. Last week, it was announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1976, had finally reached interstellar...

Earlier this month, MU announced the [increase of two undergraduate scholarships and the creation of another](https://www.themaneater.com/blogs/campus/2013/9/6/new-scholarship-amounts-released/), beginning...

One Mizzou Week was held last week on campus. You may or may not have been aware of its general existence, its occurrence or its offerings. We believe that is a critical problem. Since it began in 2011...

We [wrote last week](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2013/9/4/msa-must-correct-bylaw-violation/) about the troubling efforts of several top members of the Missouri Students Association to ignore a violation...

Two days after his football team trounced the Toledo Rockets 38-23, coach Gary Pinkel released a video discussing his support for paying college athletes such as his own. [The video](http://www.garypinkel.com/mizzou-football-head-coach-gary-pinkel-on-paying-football-student-athletes/),...

Breaking the rules then ignoring the rules defeats the purpose of having rules — particularly when your job is to ensure the rules are being followed. During an Aug. 28 session of the Missouri Students...

It’s been hot outside recently — perhaps you’ve noticed. Saturday was particularly hot. Missouri football’s season opener against Murray State was moved from the afternoon to the evening due to...

Many words have been used across Missouri this year to describe [House Bill 253](http://www.house.mo.gov/billsummary.aspx?bill=HB253), the tax-reform legislation vetoed June 5 by Gov. Jay Nixon and currently...

Call it housing roulette. Each year, finding a place to live in Columbia seems like more and more of a gamble. Roll the dice: You might end up in a flooded or run-down apartment on East Campus, or, in...

It may be politics as usual or it may be a relatively recent development in the function of Columbia’s city government, but we have been repeatedly disappointed this year with the failure of city leaders...

University Bookstore, which has been operating under that name and serving as an essential academic provider for MU students since 1899, announced its rebranding as The Mizzou Store last week. The name...