Students: Perform at the NCAA Slam Dunk Contest
The eyes of the nation are descending on us. People are preparing to watch semi-professional basketball players vie for the NCAA championship here in St. Louis. And over on the Web site Fark (fark.com), where news headlines are given labels such as “amusing,” “Florida” and “boobies,” Wash U has apparently achieved a “trifecta” with last week’s Alpha Phi fiasco. People are now laughing at us. But this may not be a bad thing in the end. With the Final Four in town, we need to seize the opportunity to get people (or at least the people who read Fark regularly) to laugh with us. We need to pull a major prank at the Final Four.
Letters to the editor
Dear Editor:
Re: “Alpha Phi’s formal fiasco,” [Mar. 25, 2005].
You state that Alpha Phi had been on social probation “almost exactly four years ago.” This statement is not a true representation of that earlier situation. In the spring of 2001, every sorority was placed under a “Cease and Desist” order, stopping all events (including meetings and events not classified as social events) because new members of other sororities required hospitalization during Pledge Mom Week. No one in Alpha Phi was specifically cited for acting inappropriately, nor did Alpha Phi receive harsher punishment than any other sorority on campus.
Approve Campus Y, EST block funding
Block funding is a major vote of confidence from the student body. It means students are willing to guarantee a portion of their activities fee to different organizations for two years, bypassing Student Union’s funding process.
We have full confidence that both Campus Y and EST can be trusted with their block allocations, and that the money so allocated will be well spent.
Editorial cartoon
What Bon App‚tit is really thinking.
WU’s senior leadership lacks diversity
Only two of the Washington University’s most senior administrators are minorities. The 25-person University Council, the senior leadership of the University that advises the Chancellor on administrative and academic matters, counts one black vice chancellor and one Hispanic executive vice chancellor amongst its ranks.
Sports update
Women’s Tennis
Last Meet: The Bears defeated Cornell College by the score of 8-1.
Team Notes: The Bears nearly swept Cornell College by winning all six singles matches and two out of the three doubles matches. With the exception of the one doubles loss, the Bears refused to drop a single set to Cornell College.
WU baseball wins three out of four; winning streak comes to an end
The Washington University varsity baseball team took three of four games from Coe College this past weekend at Kelly Field, moving the team’s overall record to 16-4. On Friday, the team won 8-5 and 10-9, and on Saturday they won 13-6 but lost 6-1 in the final game, ending the Bears 12 game winning streak.
A tribute to Koenig
Over 5,000 Wash U students have called Edwin C. Koenig Residence Hall home. As one of the original dorms on the South 40, it has stood for nearly half a century. This summer the building and all its history will crumble to make way for a new dorm.
Take back the night
“Why are we marching?” shouted Debra Silberschatz to the frozen crowd huddled beneath the Brookings Arch. Before her co-organizers could chime in with their rehearsed responses, a man on the fringe of the crowd unexpectedly answered, “Because my sister was raped in L.A.”
Arbiter Elegantiarum
I always knew I’d commit myself to many things at college. Committing murder, however, was decidedly not on my list. When I finally decided to go to Washington University, I nervously anticipated my housing information. Would I be placed in one of the (relatively) fabulous new dorms on my tour? Would I be forced into a dungeon-like old dorm and then have to feign some sort of illness that would get me back into said new dorm? And what of my roommate-to-be? What would he be like? Would he be able to handle me? Would I be able to handle him?