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The Maneater

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The Maneater

How Rush Limbaugh (unwittingly) helps the left

Rivu Dasgupta September 25, 2013

Quite a few people hate — and I mean _hate_ — Rush Limbaugh. Born in our own state of Missouri, the Cape Girardeau native makes his living being a connoisseur of impropriety, so it comes with little...

If you can’t stand the fire, get out of the kitchen

Taylor Wanbaugh September 25, 2013

My birthday was a few days ago. The big 2-0. I’ve already received numerous phone calls, texts and a whole Timeline full of awkward Facebook posts both from people close to me and those random people...

Is One Mizzou losing momentum?

September 18, 2013

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...

How MSA failed us

September 18, 2013

I want to first start off by saying that the Missouri Students Association is an organization that I love dearly and that I put a significant amount of time into. I’ve been in MSA since the second week...

Miss America backlash illuminates ugly reality of modern-day nativism

Sarah Suerig September 18, 2013

The Miss America pageant was held this last weekend. Generally, this is not something I would pay any attention to, much less write about in this column. I could not look any further, however, than the...

Abercrombie & Fitch is an exemplar of anti-consumer practices

Rivu Dasgupta September 18, 2013

Big-name corporations are notorious for awful practices and general exercises in anti-consumerism. Whether it's Microsoft's metaphorical middle finger to the public with the Xbox One, Apple's continued...

Getting myself into ‘sticky situations’

Abigail Fisher September 18, 2013

If you’re one of the lucky 121 people and/or spambots who follow me on Twitter, you are already aware of the fact that I have a hard life. Not extremely hard, though. My house has never burnt down, I...

Witnessing others’ cultural pride, changing my notions of ‘assimilation’

Daniela Sirtori Cortina September 18, 2013

The International Welcome Party on Sept. 13 was no doubt the epitome of multiculturalism. Students representing several nationalities, including Saudi Arabian, Colombian, Indian and American, converged...

Tales of an awkward sophomore: The first, and last, time I played baseball

Taylor Wanbaugh September 18, 2013

Many people come to college because they are ready for a change of pace. They’ve lived with the same people, sometimes in the same town, for their entire life, and are looking forward to breaking free...

MSA’s attempts to bypass rules set an alarming precedent

September 13, 2013

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...

A more serious note

Abigail Fisher September 11, 2013

Please try not to get too excited about this week’s column. I am merely a student and my comedy skills are a work in progress. If it helps, my original plan for this week was to write about my first-ever...

Dissecting when satire crosses the line

Rivu Dasgupta September 11, 2013

I'll be perfectly upfront: I'm absolutely in love with good satire. The righteous sense of humor, the subtle undercurrents, the ingenious execution — it all meshes together in a truly artistic manner....