The Maneater's top articles of 2008

Posted to The Newsroom by Andrew Denney at 7:06 p.m., Jan. 4, 2009

Most newspapers do a piece like this either before the new year, or at least the day of. But most newspapers also don't have an entire staff that spreads out across the country to go on long winter breaks. Either way, here are the ten stories from The Maneater in 2008 that got the most play online this year. Keep in mind, some of these were picked up by other outlets' Web sites, so the total count of views might not all come from our site. And we could never count how many thousands of times these articles were read in our print edition. Enjoy!

10. This one, "A look at Missouri's ballot initiatives"was put together by outgoing MOVE Editor Lindsay Eanet, who lended a hand with our elections coverage. This Oct. 30 article picked up 1,173 views.

9. An Apr. 22 obituary for MU student Evan Dalgaard, entitled "Student remembered as cheerful, fun-loving", was written by our current Editor in Chief Elliot Njus, while he was still the University News editor. The article had 1,177 views.

8. Outgoing Student Organizations Editor Anna Koeppel wrote this article, "Two apartment complexes to offer MU student housing", this summer, after it was discovered that the university was expecting record enrollment levels. The article had 1,196 views.

7. Sports writer Nick Forrester penned "Tigers' offense parts the 'Red Sea'" after the football team's victory over Nebraska, and features 20 pictures from Photo Editor Jeff Lautenberger and photograher Matt Cavanah. The article had 1,259 views online, but you should have seen how it looked on the front page.

6. This is one from yours truly, from Feb. 19, when I was just a lowly writer: "Rebate checks to stimulate economy". It had 1,382 views.

5. Former Features Editor Kristin Torres, who will be our Arts and Entertainment Editor this semester, wrote this: "New album shows us the same old cure". This Oct. 20 article picked up 1,442 views.

4. This Apr. 25 article, "Askren hopes to go into MMA", is another one from Nick Forrester, and came out obviously before Ben Askren made a little trip to Beijing for something called the Olympics. This one picked up 1,443 views.

3. Third place went to "Big Ten football? Wake me when it's over", a sports column from JJ Stankevitz that was published on Sept. 8. This one had 1,757 views.

2. In second place was another sports columnist, Mark Levitt, and his piece "Fans disrespect each other while camping out for Nebraska tickets" with 2,474 views.

1. While JJ Stankevitz' sports column "Enjoy it, Tech, while you can" was in response to Texas Tech's win against win against No. 1-ranked Texas. The piece blew away all the articles on the list with 4,401 views.

Edit: This post was corrected to reflect the topic of JJ Stakevitz's ccolumn.