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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

Transportation is personal

April 15, 2011

When you think of transportation, you might typically think of roads and bridges. But transportation is much more than that. Transportation is our connection to safety, work, business and family. "Transportation...

Good riddance, Luetkemeyer (we hope)

April 15, 2011

Under the redistricting proposal currently moving through Missouri’s state legislature, the City of Columbia stands to lose its staunchly Republican Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer. Considering the bill was...

Debate season is back on – oh how we’ve missed you

Cade Cleavelin April 15, 2011

It’s become refreshingly beautiful outside in the past few weeks. The birds chirp and flit about in their springtime gaiety; the trees bless the fresh earth with a new snow of spring blossoms, and have...

Greek Life leaders’ lack follow through on communication goals

April 15, 2011

In meetings with our reporters and editors, executive members in the Office of Greek Life insist that improving relations between the Greek Life students, who make up about 28 percent of MU's student body,...

‘One Mizzou’ puts patriotism over cultural pluralism

Alex Pesek April 12, 2011

During the course of the semester, diversity has routinely come up as a topic of concern on campus and in the community. We foamed at the mouth when that dreadlocked kid spray-painted unmentionables on...

You can’t put a price tag on security

Taeler De Haes April 12, 2011

The United States is known for having a strong military devoted to the safety of our citizens, and this is one thing that should never be underfunded. Only the economically ignorant would argue that unnecessary...

MSA Senate needs time to change

April 12, 2011

I write, at least in part, to affirm The Maneater’s editorial calling for a shakeup in the Missouri Students Association Senate that was published last Friday. For four years I’ve watched with varying...

Gender-neutral housing would provide safe, inclusive option

April 12, 2011

Following the pattern of more than 50 universities nationwide, the Residence Halls Association passed a resolution to recommend the implementation of gender-neutral housing at MU in 2012. Already in place...

One Mizzou successful because of you

April 12, 2011

For those of you who weren’t able to attend, The One Mizzou Launch event last Thursday afternoon was very successful, and I couldn’t be more proud of our community here at MU. Students were lined up...

Dublin streets sans joggers, girls embrace their size

Krystin Arneson April 12, 2011

The funny thing about exercise in Dublin is that girls don’t do it. Yesterday, I stopped halfway through my daily jog for a stretch break. I lifted my left leg up to fit my foot between the railings...

Google knows exactly who we are

Cade Cleavelin April 8, 2011

National Public Radio recently featured a story about a new possibility for United States intelligence gathering. It seems the CIA has finally uncovered the same technique (by now, almost age-old) used...

MSA Senate needs shaking up

April 8, 2011

An attitude of apathy toward student government permeates MU's student body, and although much of that rests on students' own disinterest in campus politics, Missouri Students Association senators aren't...