College gender ratio tips to favor women
College campuses across the nation are experiencing a slow but steady gender reversal, with women outnumbering men across the country at a ratio of 57 women to 43 men. While the overall ratio of women to men at Washington University remains 50-50, engineering and business school programs report increased female enrollment.
Bauhaus sustains the party with reusable materials, decorations
The Architecture Student Council used their annual Bauhaus party on Saturday for a purpose: to educate students about environmental issues in architecture.
“We want to educate people that the environment is a very architectural issue,” said junior Anisa Baldwin Metzger, a senior member of Architecture Student Council.
Student assaulted north of campus
A pair of assailants attacked and robbed senior Sarah Katz while she walked to her off-campus apartment last Wednesday around 9:00 p.m.
The incident marks the third time this month that a Washington University student has been assaulted and robbed near apartments north of campus.
“I live past all of the offcampus housing, and I often do not have people to walk with,” said Katz. “I am very used to walking back by myself.”
Katz described her attackers as a young black couple who appeared to be in their late teens or early twenties.
The woman had a ponytail with long sleek hair down her back. Katz said that the assault came as a surprise.
“They looked totally normal. I thought they were a young college couple out for a walk,” she said.
She explained that she was attacked as she moved to pass the pair from behind. The male blocked her path and sprayed her with pepper spray, knocking her to the ground.
“I was clutching my purse strongly and screaming and praying someone would rescue me. They started to kick me on my side and on my butt,” said Katz. “I was remembering stories about people dying for not giving up their purses. The guy growled to hand over my purse.”
Katz gave the attackers her purse, and they ran to a nearby car and drove away. She remained on the ground, incapacitated by the pepper spray.
“My face felt like it was on fire,” said Katz.
Eventually, several residents of nearby apartments spotted Katz and offered their aid.
Police arrived shortly but could not locate the attackers.
Letters to the editor (1)
Dear Editor:
On Monday, Oct. 24, 2005, Student Life printed a Forum Staff Editorial criticizing the practices of the Washington University Alumni Association.
The dead
The dead are not sacred. The dead are dead, and they stay dead. No matter how much you think about them, they will still be dead. It doesn’t matter how much you try to remember them, they stay dead. The dead can’t be honored.
@lumni @ssociation: a wolf in sheep’s clothing
In response to last week’s staff editorial, we received several letters criticizing us, including one from Mel Brown, the chair of the Board of Governors at the Alumni Association. He argues that we published several factual inaccuracies about the Alumni Association, and attempts to clarify the Association’s name and purpose.
Editorial cartoon
Senior graphics editor Brian Sotak reveals the role that Halloween plays in American politics.
Save the Bell
It is clearly too late to keep Taco Bell after all the effort and preparation that have surely already been put towards the changes, but it is interesting that there is now no real reason why Taco Bell should be booted off campus.
This week’s standout performers
Sports profiles sophomore Marin McCarthy, senior Kara Liefer, senior Brad Duesing, and sophomore Marshall Plow.
The potential of sport Halloween costumes
Every year the act of finding just the right Halloween costume is an important one. Last year, I remember the chaotic nature of everyone on my floor trying to scrimp together a costume right before Bauhaus. For the girls, that entailed running around, in and out of each other’s rooms trying to find the most perfectly trashy and overly revealing Halloween costume possible. For the boys, however, it was a different scene.