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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Student curator needs voting power

March 13, 2012

Last week three bills to appoint a student curator with voting power to the UM System Board of Curators failed in the House. One remaining active bill in the Senate would require the Board of Curators...

M-Book update more than necessary

March 13, 2012

The Missouri Students Association passed a resolution supporting a change to the M-book's non-discrimination clause to include gender expression, declaring student support for the much-needed initiative. The...

Sacajawea, Carnegie, Disney and… Limbaugh?

Leah Forester March 13, 2012

The newest controversy surrounding the Missouri area is, as many have heard, the honoring of Rush Limbaugh at the State Capitol. Some of you might be just hearing about the controversy surrounding this...

Get educated before critiquing Invisible Children

March 13, 2012

Reporting critiques of an organization is respectable and provides readers with an unbiased representation of the organization. However, using unknowledgeable sources such as MU freshman Lauren Haden to...

Protect your personal privacy rights

March 13, 2012

Dear Editor, As United States citizens, we are entitled to our right of personal and privacy rights — and our responsibilities include respecting those rights, beliefs and opinions of others. Part of...

HB 1292 would hold people accountable for their actions

March 13, 2012

Dear Editor,   Lying is something we are all taught at a young age to be a bad thing, but currently in the state of Missouri, verbally lying about your identity to a law official has no consequences....

Johnson not an exemplary leader

March 9, 2012

Once every four years, each school in the University of Missouri System has the distinction of a non-voting student representative from its campus on the Board of Curators. Last month, UM-Kansas City...

Professor Steve is defeated by technology

Robert Langellier March 9, 2012

Professor Steve: Hello, class. Today’s lecture topic is a good one. Let me just show you this video here on the old projector. Me: Oh god. Professor Steve: Let me see, here. Let me just, uh … Okay...

Learning from our mistakes

Sean Nahlik March 9, 2012

Running across the MOVE column "Jane Eyre: Prude n' proud" by Claire Landsbaum really changed my week, mostly because I had to get angry about it. Connecting classic literary works to the present day,...

#FundMySexLife

A.J. Feather March 9, 2012

The controversy about contraceptives has continued for more than three weeks now with no end in sight.  The American people are so frustrated and annoyed with the situation that they have started agreeing...

Libertarianism, losing friends and alienating people

Michael DeCrescenzo March 9, 2012

Sometimes I feel I’m part of a very small club of people who’ve actually set aside time to ask whether American libertarianism is ridiculous after all. You don’t have to remind me how cool and self-affirming...

Woodhouse column should be removed and Woodhouse fired

March 9, 2012

Dear Maneater editorial board, A friend (a member of your staff, in fact, who shall remain unnamed) recently sent me an article by Emma Woodhouse ("Grindr lovin', had me aghast," March 2, 2012). In this...