On July 1, every department at MU, except the scholarship and campus safety budgets, received 2 percent less in general operating funds, or money raised from tuition and state funding. [These funds will...

Rape. Sexual assault. They are words with blurred meanings. They are misconstrued by lingering traditional reactions and fear. They were also the cover story of the May 26 edition of TIME magazine. In...

Just because the Missouri Students Association and Graduate Professional Council are two separate organizations doesn’t mean they shouldn’t cooperate with one another. This past year, MSA and GPC...

Following the catastrophe of the [University Village collapse](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/2/22/university-village-evacuated/), there is suddenly a glimmer of hope for the future of child care...

On May 6, 2014, MSA and DSA hosted an event on Lowry Mall entitled “FIESTA” featuring a taco bar, piñatas and a Mariachi band. This “fiesta” was conveniently held on the sixth of May, a day after...

I began this column in January of last year without a clue what I was doing. I had no experience writing about LGBTQ issues — heck, I wasn't even out yet. All I knew was that this was something I wanted...

It ends in a bar. Shakespeare’s, to be precise. Blue Moon is in the glasses. We have jobs. We’re going to graduate. Our time here is over. It was always going to end in a bar, somewhere in the world....

One of the regrets I have about last week’s column on [Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling and affirmative action](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/4/29/getting-away-racism-must-stop/) was that I failed...

After a semester of writing about feminism, I’ve come to my final installment in this series of columns. I’ve had a lot of fun exploring the different aspects of feminism that I feel are important,...

If you’ve been reading my column this semester, you might think I’ve known about this feminism stuff a long time. I like to think I do a good job of making it seem as though I’ve been shouting “down...

“I’m go go baby, fresh oh baby, go go baby, uh oh baby, no no baby. Yeah yeah baby, now jiggle it baby, let me tickle it baby.” A man named Armando Perez, aka Pitbull, was likely paid somewhere in...