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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Dear Chancellor Loftin, you’re not doing your job

Kennedy Jones October 5, 2015

At 1 a.m. Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, LBC Homecoming Court practices for one of their events this Homecoming week at Traditions Plaza when a white student calls them all "niggers." Chancellor, this is the second...

DACA students deserve a fair shot at an affordable education

September 30, 2015

A group of Missouri legislators is determined to remind the children of undocumented immigrants that no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to outrun the consequences of their parents’...

The US should listen to Pope Francis’s message on immigration

Lily Cusack September 30, 2015

This past week, Pope Francis made his first visit to the U.S. in what proved to be a historic moment for the country. He visited the U.S. from Sept. 22 to 27 and made appearances in Washington, D.C., New...

Men aren’t from Mars and women aren’t from Venus

Elane Edwards September 30, 2015

The “battle of the sexes” has been fought for hundreds of years now, but now is the time to put down our arms and come together. Television shows, commercials, books and practically every other media...

Chancellor Loftin is out of touch on the issue of race relations

Kennedy Jones September 30, 2015

On Sept. 12, 2015, the Missouri Students Association President Payton Head posted a very personal and explicit message on his Facebook page. In his message, Payton discussed a recent incident in which...

A letter from Parker Briden

September 30, 2015

These days, it is easy to lack faith in our political leaders. The glimpses we get into the world of Jefferson City are so disheartening. There seems to be a real lack of moral and practical leadership....

Booing our student-athletes is counterproductive

September 22, 2015

Late in the second quarter of last Saturday’s football game against Connecticut, quarterback Maty Mauk received a symphony of boos from his own student section following an overshot pass attempt to sophomore...

Ahmed’s homemade clock was never about a bomb threat

Lily Cusack September 22, 2015

Last Monday, Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, was arrested for apparently making a [“hoax bomb.”](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/texas-student-is-under-police-investigation-for-building-a-clock.html?_r=0)...

We need to fix our black student to professor ratio

Kennedy Jones September 22, 2015

Two black counselors, one black teacher, two black hall monitors and three black janitors. Throughout high school I had never been taught by a teacher who looks like me. One Filipino, two Hispanic, and...

Europeans welcoming refugees should be held in great admiration

Mica Soellner September 22, 2015

The brutality and ruthlessness of Syria’s ongoing civil war is causing thousands of Syrians to flee the country and search for new beginnings in Western Europe. The fighting has left neighborhoods and...

Not my Mizzou – a letter from Dina van der Zalm

September 20, 2015

_EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a letter to the editor written by a member of the MU community who is not part of The Maneater’s staff. It is not the opinion of The Maneater or its editorial board. In accordance...

An open letter to Chancellor Loftin from Jordan Hoyt

September 18, 2015

_EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a letter to the editor written by a member of the MU community who is not part of The Maneater’s staff. It is not the opinion of The Maneater or its editorial board. In accordance...