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...

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...

On Tuesday, the governing board of the Tucson Unified School District was supposed to consider a plan that would allow Mexican-American History and Mexican-American Literature to be offered as electives,...

The tornadoes that devastated the South last week have been called the deadliest natural disaster on American soil since Hurricane Katrina, but you wouldn’t know it, as Katrina received much more publicity. 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...

As the country reflects on 9/11, and the costs and the successes and the reasons for waging the war on terror over the next several days, it should not forget the Pakistani government’s complicity in...

I bring to you a shallow philosophical anecdote: The pants I buy are not extravagant or expensive, or in any way remarkable. I get them off the same shelf in the same department store in the same mall...