It finally happened. I had convinced myself that it was stupid and little more than a waste of time. But sitting last week in a familiar wood paneled booth over glasses of Blue Moon, I gave in. I decided to join Friendster.
Above, senior Joshua Ladon gets his hair drastically cut for Locks of Love in Mallinckrodt on Friday. According to the committee of students that puts on the semi-annual event, this year was a definite success.
“We had 65 donors giving 799 inches of hair,” said committee member Jessica Ballantyne, who also said that the event raised over $800 in donated money.
Sporting a new last name and a healthy outlook on life, Cara Kahn, a Washington University graduate who was on MTV’s “The Real World,” spoke to students about the dangers of depression and solutions for overcoming the illness on Tuesday.
WU was the first stop on a 10-college tour which is visiting campuses nationwide.
Students once again enjoyed the annual Halloween celebreation Bauhaus this Saturday in the parking lot in front of Givens Hall. The long-running annual Halloween dance party was sponsored by the Architecture Student Council (ASC), KWUR, and the Sophomore Class Council.
Members of the cast of “As the World Turns” rehearse their lines on the steps of Brookings Hall with ATWT executive producer Chris Goutman (third from right). The CBS TV show was at WU as part of its ten-campus “Catch Us If You Can” bus tour. The scenes were supposed to be shot at Tulane University but were moved to WU because of Hurricane Isidore.
Ron Tugnutt, a senior majoring in psychology, accidentally ran into Gerald Diduck on campus after skipping Diduck’s class, Intro to Modern Art, earlier that day.
“I was walking out of the bakery at about two in the afternoon, and she just popped up in front of me from out of nowhere,” said Tugnutt.
“I was an honor roll student. I had it going on. I could talk to anybody, do pretty much whatever I wanted to do.”
Raymond Chew sounds incredulous, as if he still can’t reconcile his drug addiction and homelessness with the bright future he’d envisioned.
It’s a given that getting students up and out of bed on a cold, weekend afternoon is hard to say the least. Having them walk over three miles once they’re up doesn’t make it any easier. But on Sunday over 100 students and members of the community came out for the annual Thurtene Walk-a-thon fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting this year’s selected Thurtene charity, the Epworth Family Center, which helps children with emotional problems.
Campus Y’s campaign for block funding has been turned from a serene Student Union block-funding request into a mudslinging battle over the amount of influence students have in Campus Y.
According to Jonathan Lowe, co-chair of the Campus Y student cabinet, Campus Y must get two-thirds of the students voting in the upcoming election to vote “yes” in order to receive block funding for the next two years.
To the editor:
The review/report/whatever-it-was-supposed-to-be of Black Anthology 2002 that appeared on the front page of Student Life on January 29, was less than respectable as journalism goes and unacceptable where theatrical reviews are concerned. It was insulting to the dozens of people who poured their lives into the show that the person who reported on it had apparently not even bothered to watch the show.
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