Dear Maneater Editorial Board: I’m writing in response to the editorial “Provost must be a voice for faculty, students.” The editorial expressed that the Provost should be an advocate for faculty...

Before you begin to even conceive some sort of notion in your mind that everyone involved with the MU4MikeBrown initiative is a “thug”, “ignorant” or “extreme radical” in any way, let me point...

Dear Readers, Having sex with someone is a lot like sharing your first secret. After all’s said and done and the glass of water has been fetched, there's still all of this pleasant oxytocin and dopamine...

HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, is a deadly disease that kills millions of people every year. [According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)](http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html),...

MU has been searching for a new provost since [Brian Foster retired from the position in January](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2013/9/25/provost-brian-foster-announces-retirement/). The provost serves...

Gov. Jay Nixon expects a grand jury to make its decision in whether to indict the police officer responsible for the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, before the month’s end. The ongoing...

I like Thanksgiving, but I’m not crazy about it. It’s a holiday of extremes. The food is hot, but the weather is cold. The break is nice, but it’s spent studying for finals. And of course, there...

One month ago, [we discussed why undergraduate students deserve affordable, close-to-campus housing](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/10/15/student-housing-expansion-must-stop/), but we did not...

Imagine a world in which we all wear deodorant, brush our teeth and treat each others’ genitals with the love and respect (and the gentle grip) that they deserve. A world in which bedside faux pas are...

I once had a high school health teacher named Mr. Taylor, and he once told us, “You all don’t know how to talk to each other. All you know how to do is type.” Unfortunately for Mr. Taylor, who taught...

“Homosexuality” has long been synonymous with “sin” in the Catholic Church. It was clear that previous papacies and their administrations did not support the LGBT community in any way. The Catholic...

The Missouri Students Association represents 26,996 undergraduate students at MU. MSA controls a $1.6 million budget, advocates for students on city, state and national levels and helps optimize the student...