Matt Aibel’s reason for trying out for his prep school’s squash team was simple.
A Maplewood woman was arrested on an outstanding warrant Monday afternoon after she was spotted on campus offering students rides to Kmart, Washington University police said.
Rachael David, 22, of the 2000 block of Roseland Terrace, was driving a white limousine bus around the South 40 and Forsyth when police, responding to a complaint, pulled her over.
Incoming freshman Audrey King put price over space when it came to picking a dorm room.
First, realize you won’t be spending the next four years of your life destroying your liver before and after every home game. Second, if you don’t already have one, find a team and cheer for it. And third, create your own game day experience.
A record number of freshmen have enrolled in Washington University for the fall, causing celebrations in Brookings Hall and headaches on the South 40.
The admissions office expects 1,470 freshmen will arrive on campus for orientation on Aug. 24.
Nannette Tarbouni, the director of undergraduate admissions, says her office was shooting for a class size of 1,350 students when it mailed out acceptance letters last April.
The admissions office expects 1,470 freshmen to arrive on campus for orientation on Aug. 24. To provide housing for this larger-than-expected class, the Office of Residential Life has created new, off campus housing options for upperclassmen.
Washington University did not allow three Iowa college athletic teams from competing on campus due to concerns of a mumps outbreak, a spokesperson in the athletic department confirmed yesterday.
After a show one recent Saturday night, Matthew Craig, an actor in the improvisational group Second City, was giving a visitor a tour around the group’s theatre when he was stopped by three attractive co-eds in the lobby.
Washington University announced Thursday that it will increase undergraduate tuition for the 2006-2007 school year by the biggest margin in six years – the result of rising energy and employee health care costs.
Next year, tuition will cost $32,800 – a 5.5 percent increase from this year’s tuition of $31,100. Total costs for residential students will rise 5.1 percent from $41,854 to $43,976.
In a letter to parents and students, Executive Vice Chancellor Edward Macias wrote, “Our increases reflect the nationwide cost pressures on colleges and universities, including some costs that are rising in ways obvious to all of us – such as energy and employee health benefits.”
His letter continued, “How severe are these cost pressures? Our primary energy source – natural gas – is expected to nearly double over last year’s prices. Employee health benefits have increased by 16 percent annually over the past five years.”
Scott Jaschik, editor of the online magazine Inside Higher Ed, said the rising cost of health care has been plaguing schools nationwide.
“We usually don’t think of universities as employers, but they are and they face a lot of the same pressures large corporations do,” said Jaschik.
Inside Higher Ed has also documented the struggles colleges are facing in paying their energy bills. The magazine reported that university energy bills had spiked 20 percent on average, translating to millions of dollars in additional operating costs. The crunch has caused some colleges to turn off their ventilators at night and others to turn the thermostat down a few degrees, the magazine reported.
A girl from my high school days calls me all too frequently, probably because I blocked her on instant messenger. For lack of a better word, she was and still is kind of a bitch.
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