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The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

We must come to terms with our racist past

October 7, 2015

We need to change our campus culture if we want to break the tradition of racism at MU. We’ve seen several high-profile instances of students being racist toward each other this year, with the latest...

DACA students deserve a fair shot at an affordable education

September 30, 2015

A group of Missouri legislators is determined to remind the children of undocumented immigrants that no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to outrun the consequences of their parents’...

Booing our student-athletes is counterproductive

September 22, 2015

Late in the second quarter of last Saturday’s football game against Connecticut, quarterback Maty Mauk received a symphony of boos from his own student section following an overshot pass attempt to sophomore...

MU cannot continue to ignore the needs of student-parents

September 16, 2015

It’s been 14 months since the [Student Parent Center was closed](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/3/13/mu-close-and-demolish-university-village-student-p/), and in the time since, there has been...

MSA president’s post is not surprising, and that’s a problem

September 15, 2015

On Sept. 12, Missouri Students Association President Payton Head posted a Facebook status chronicling multiple incidents of discrimination around campus. Head said in the post that he was walking down...

MU ought to promote its own gender inclusivity efforts more

September 9, 2015

As an institution, MU is making significant progress toward gender inclusivity. However, it seems like MU’s public relations staff is either ignorant or hesitant to highlight this progress. Consequently,...

Schaefer should focus on more pressing issues

September 2, 2015

In the final hours leading up to the deadline set by protesting graduate students last week, you might have expected to find Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin frantically searching for solutions to prevent a...

Graduate student unity is crucial to progress

August 26, 2015

Did you know MU has over 6,200 graduate students this year? Well, we do, and while some members of our administration might have forgotten, the graduate students themselves surely have not. It’s been...

Loftin, Consortium ought to learn from their comedy of errors leading up to summit.

July 7, 2015

A surge of optimism burst from Stotler Lounge on June 20 following the Chancellor’s Summit on Sexual Assault. More than 250 students, faculty, administration and alumni gathered to work toward policy...

While crime rates haven’t increased in recent years, students deserve to feel safe.

June 3, 2015

After a five-month streak without Clery releases from the MU Police Department, students received four within the last month and a half of the school year. To compare, students only received two in the...

The city and statewide efforts to lessen the gender pay gap are notable steps in the right direction.

May 5, 2015

Despite comprising 36 percent of Columbia’s leadership between the fiscal years 2009 to 2014, women only took home 30 percent of the income, according to payroll data from the City of Columbia Department...

Sexual orientation non-discrimination bill essential for Missouri

April 28, 2015

On April 15, Rep. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia, introduced House Bill 407 to the Missouri House Civil and Criminal Proceeding Committee, which would create laws protecting against discrimination on the basis...