During the last full week of July, 45 university students traveled from across the country to Washington as student advocates. Each student represented their respective states and the quickly-growing American...

I’d like to take this opportunity to respond to the [opinion column](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/opinion/your-vote-mattered-in-the-midterm-elections-but-not-the-msa-senate-race) published in...

We’ve got to get serious about fighting voter suppression. It’s that simple. As an intern for the national voting rights organization Let America Vote, I spent the summer in Nashville, Tennessee meeting...

May 18, 2017. My day started as a day filled with friends, drinking and fun. That night, however, is fuzzy in every sense of the word. I remember going in and out of consciousness in an apartment that...

The University of Missouri, vandalized with a feces swastika in October of 2015 and funded by a state in which senate candidate Tom Schweich was [driven to suicide](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/death-and-politics-did-a-vicious-campaign-drive-a-candidate-to-suicide-20160226)...

On February 3, 2016, this paper published my op-ed, “Why I Returned to Senate.” In that piece, I talked about an involvement cult, and how people pursue offices and titles rather than do their actual...

Missouri has never been one of the more accepting states for LGBTQ people. Missouri considered sodomy to be a felony until the Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court decision in 2003. Our constitution banned...

Every year it seems, we go through the same process for Missouri Students Association presidential and Senate elections. The presidential slates campaign to Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association...

_Editor’s note: Payton Head served as Missouri Students Association president from January 2015 to March 2016. He graduated in 2016, and he is now a policy fellow at the National Campus Leadership Council._ We...

It’s hard. It’s costly. For some, it’s impossible. Addiction destroys people. It destroys their families, communities, friends and futures. We are facing an addiction epidemic like no other, and...

I am a teaching assistant and graduate instructor for the Department of History who loves my job and the University of Missouri. I have amazing students who make my work rewarding and an incredibly supportive...