The Newsroom — February 18, 2009
The Maneater turns 54 today
Today, The Maneater celebrates its 54th year as the official student voice of MU.
The paper was founded in 1955, when sociology major Joe Gold was elected editor-in-chief of the Missouri Student, a newspaper that had lost its touch.
"The name 'Missouri Student' reflected the editorial policy of the former paper quite well," Gold said in his paper's first issue. "It signified nothing."
He set about radically changing the paper's editorial policies and, to better reflect his new editorial stance, changed the name to The Maneater. The name was meant to reflect the paper's new, fiercer reporting.
"If you want to keep us out, better bar the door," Gold's policy stated. "And don't try getting rough or screaming 'libel' when a Maneater reporter crashes your meetings. When The Maneater gets mad, all hell is going to break loose. You've been warned."
Those policies still hang in our newsroom today, and as celebrate 54 years of reporting, we hope you'll keep reading and writing. And maybe even get involved.
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