The overarching goal of the Residence Halls Association is to serve its hall residents and act as an accessible resource for students. In order to accomplish this goal, the RHA president and vice president...

Earlier last week, a legislative committee in Oklahoma voted to ban history. The bill in question, House Bill 1380, prohibits the funding of Advanced Placement United States History courses in Oklahoma...

My fellow couch potatoes, Sadly, there’s no more denying it: Working out benefits you in an alarming number of ways, and with all the new forms of exercise out there, we’re running out of excuses...

It has been freezing in Columbia recently. Temperatures in Columbia and all over the country are extremely low and don’t seem to be rising any time soon. It’s a miserable time for all of us, but we...

“‘Cause you know I love the players, and you love the game.” These words, beautifully written by my favorite person in the world, Taylor Swift, hold very true for girls everywhere. There is an undeniable...

A Facebook post that I saw a couple days ago had me thinking about something almost all of us face: expectations. It is one of the reasons why we go to college. Our teachers worked hard teaching us in...

[An anonymous donation of $330,000 recently helped launch the new Women in Engineering Center](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/2/18/women-engineering-center-hopes-change-culture-with/), a program...

Three students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus were shot dead last week. Investigators still don’t know if the shooting was a hate crime or an isolated incident over something...

Last Thursday, Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court announced that he would continue to resist the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state. His statements came after U.S. District...

I am sure most of you know about the tragedy that occurred earlier this year. At the beginning of the semester, a scholar visiting from China was struck and killed by a car in Columbia. This is one of...

Juniors Payton Head and Brenda Smith-Lezama were [sworn into office Jan. 31](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/1/31/head-smith-lezama-sworn-office-ellis-library/). As Head begins his term, we take...

Girl code isn’t limited. If someone actually tried to sit down and write out all of the innate rules that girls are expected to follow, I wouldn’t be shocked if it was longer than all seven Harry Potter...