Our state is lagging behind. Missouri has the fifth-highest smoking rate in the nation, the 11th-highest rate of lung disease and spends more than $500 million of taxpayer money funding treatments for...

The MU community needs a senator who prioritizes higher education and other student issues. Sen. Kurt Schaefer has proven his loyalty to students and deserves reelection. As Columbia’s representative,...

The Maneater has [criticized Gov. Jay Nixon's cuts to higher eduction](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2012/7/10/latest-higher-education-cuts-could-cost-gov-nixon-/) over the last year, and it still...

This is common sense. Sen. Claire McCaskill has not only been an active, bipartisan member of Senate — her opponent has made Missouri the laughingstock of the country. Todd Akin's policies and mindset...

In an election season that's revolved around the economic downturn, healthcare, civil rights, women's rights and America's foreign policy — one that's been drawn out for more than two years — nothing...

Browsing through the news this week, all I saw were the same stories that have graced the headlines for the past couple of weeks. And that’s understandable. With the final stretch before Election Day...

We have become accustomed to filling in tiny, numbered bubbles. From various applications to Scantron sheets, we have perfected the task of filling in the circle next to the best-fit answer. Fill in your...

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote … that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” Samuel...

Students see professors for what they are: teachers, mentors, people hired by the university to guide us through our college careers. Tenured or not, it does not make a difference. Teachers teach. Some...

What ingredient can be found in more than [50 percent of consumer goods](http://www.verite.org/Commodities/PalmOil) and is all at once innocuous-sounding, environmentally deleterious and increasing in...

Don’t let the shiny student center and awesome swag floating around campus fool you: MU suffers from a chronic lack of funding. Only four other states in the union offer less state support to their...

No one ever warned me how much it would cost to do my laundry on campus. And that’s only if the dryers are able to dry all your clothes in one cycle, which often is not the case.

Though it seems...