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...

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...

"They shouldn’t include information that elicits sympathy for the attacker. They shouldn’t include information that undercuts the release itself, making it seem like a trivial event."  In other words,...

Let me preface this by saying that I respect what the article about the MUPD Clery releases is trying to do, I get it... Now let me say this: the comment that none of the Clery releases sent out previously...

The other day, I read a Maneater column discussing the need for energy independence in the US. While I wholeheartedly agree with what was said about our need to provide our own energy supply, I do not...