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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

Chicago lawyer doesn’t understand MU students’ demands

November 9, 2015

Dear Editors, Perhaps I am naïve – or out of touch – but despite my best efforts, I do not understand the student demands at the University of Missouri. From the published reports, the students...

Regardless of the result, the library fee referendum is unfair to students

November 8, 2015

This week, the student body will vote between funding their library facilities themselves through a proposed fee, or letting them continue to decay and fall behind in comparison to our peer universities’...

The Maneater endorses Ejaz/Parrie for MSA

November 4, 2015

The Missouri Students Association is on an upward trend, owing much of its current momentum to the work of President Payton Head. In order to continue this trend, MSA needs another strong executive leadership...

MU graduate argues that hunger striking is unreasonable strategy

November 4, 2015

To Jonathan Butler and the larger MU student body, I’m a University of Missouri alumni and fellow graduate student, albeit currently at a different university. I want to initially point out that I respect...

Outgoing MU Director of Libraries urges students to say “yes” to the proposed library fee

November 4, 2015

To all students at MU: I want to thank all of you who have attended the several open forums held by MSA and GPC to learn about the proposed student library fee. Having attended most of the forums, I have...

A defense of Professor Julie Elman

November 2, 2015

I thought my first women’s and gender studies class would be an hour and a half of complaining about men twice a week and an easy A at the end. I was wrong. I walked into the classroom where all the...

From DACA to mental health, MSA candidates should admit to not knowing all the answers

October 28, 2015

An ideal Missouri Students Association presidential election would include candidates competing with one another to impress students. Unfortunately, it seems to us that this year's election has become...

The Taoist and Confucianist concept of Wu wei

Hunter Bassler October 28, 2015

“Stop worrying so much.” This advice is both annoying and infuriating. When you are trying to achieve anything — be it winning a competition, finding a girlfriend/boyfriend, getting a job or passing...

Who’s allowed to say the word “nigga” and why?

Kennedy Jones October 28, 2015

When I was younger, I never used the word nigga. My dad told me that using this word was perpetuating the oppression we suffered from the hands of white men, and it was too close to the word nigger. When...

It’s impossible to assign a single definition to sex.

Elane Edwards October 28, 2015

Sex is far too complex to be given a single definition. For instance, since I identify as a heterosexual woman, the fundamentals of sex for me are much different than for a homosexual man. However, sex...

Witnessing separation in Columbia, Missouri

Kennedy Jones October 20, 2015

For those of you who aren't aware, I am from Las Vegas. Now, Nevada was named the Mississippi of the West quite some time ago due to the fact that it was the only West Coast state that took Jim Crow laws...

Can patriotism have a negative impact on America?

Mica Soellner October 20, 2015

Anywhere you go in America, it’s not hard to find an assorted array of red, white and blue paraphernalia. From T-shirts to phone cases to dog collars, there are multiple ways to show that you’re patriotic....