_Editor’s note: Todd Natenberg is a former associate editor and columnist for The Maneater and 1991 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism. Today, Natenberg serves on the Mizzou Alumni board of...

Last month, during the Academy Awards, comedian Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie. Not a “first, let me take a selfie” type of selfie; no, DeGeneres took what has become known as a group selfie. The host...

When I first began this column over a year ago, style was left up to me. I remember having a conversation with my then-editor about which acronym we should use in my columns — LGBT or LGBTQ. At the...

Last Saturday, I went for a run on a perfect day, and I ended up seeing all I’ve ever needed to see on this campus. I didn’t run around campus, just the center of it. Stankowski Field is the epicenter...

As I’ve often commented on, seeing girls and women in positions of power, in popular media and in literature is really important. Every budding feminist needs her own set of feminist role models to help...

As a former member of the staff of [The Current](http://thecurrent-online.com/), the student newspaper of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I am dismayed to learn that the Student Activities Budget...

To anyone reading this who hasn’t attempted to earn a college degree in an age where your life’s worth is based on what you know, who you know, how little sleep you get at night, and a certificate...

[In January, we said it was too early to place blame in Sasha Menu Courey’s story](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/1/29/its-too-early-blame-sashas-story/). The time to blame has come. Menu Courey...

Tigers Against Partisan Politics might not be against partisanship much longer. Last week, the organization announced plans to merge with the Associated Students of the University of Missouri, putting...

Fashion trends have always confused me. I stopped trying to keep up somewhere between the Nike socks/sandals combo phase and those dumb things you put on your sunglasses so they stay on your neck phase....

I could try to come up with a witty intro to this sad topic, but I think that would do a disservice to the sadness I’m feeling. That, and I enjoy employing shock value to as many facets of my life as...

Last time we wrote to Mizzou Athletics, calling them to be more transparent in disciplining their athletes, we told them the ball was in their court. Mizzou Athletics has since taken said ball and scored...