Incoming students, beware: You’re moving into residence hall next month, and your roommate, hall neighbors and classmates are going to be nothing like you. They’ll be from the crime-ridden city, a...

Comedian John Belushi once famously asserted that women aren't funny. This is just proof that you should never trust anybody that died of a speedball overdose. Clearly, Belushi had never heard of comedians...

During finals week, a friend from high school had a Facebook status that read (paraphrased), “Finals week brings out the best in people. I need to leave for a bit and the guy sitting nearby just understands,...

Despite the many renovations going on throughout campus, the Fine Arts Building, aka “FAB,” is not looking so fabulous these days. In all honesty, between the leaks, cramped conditions and infrastructure...

No matter your age, if you’re not looking at the road, you’re a dangerous driver. Likewise, whatever else you are trying to do, whether texting, reading a map, eating a sandwich or shaving your face,...

Dear Manmuncher readers, or reader, or… anyone? Who am I kidding: Dear Mom, Thank you for all of your fan mail and comments. Please feel free to keep them coming. It was my pleasure to provide you...

Missouri is home to some of the lowest energy rates in the country for our business and residential consumers. We enjoy these low rates largely due to long-term strategic planning that took place decades...

I’ve always liked history, for one because I find the parallels you can draw between a seemingly dissociative past and a complicated, bureaucratic present to be fascinating. But also because there is...

Hopping on the train of the digital age, the Columbia Police Department created a Facebook page to serve as a public relations platform. The page advertises itself as venue for “input and positive comments...

Debate about the need for domestic partnership benefits for UM System employees is nothing new. The matter has been discussed for years here at MU, both at the student level and among faculty, and the...

I’m an English major, but aside from the curriculum and technical requirements of that, I obnoxiously fit the romantic characteristics that come with the territory. I vicariously seek the oldest, most...

Historic events happen in the middle of normal life. You were in your car driving from work; you were sitting around and happened to flip to a news channel. Although developing global stories and events...