My name is Brendan Watson, and I am a recovering Howard Dean supporter. I believed in his message for America. I believed in him when he said we needed to boot special interest politics, and instead make the system accountable to those that rely on it the most: schoolchildren, the elderly and infirm, and the poor. No, he wasn’t perfect. But I believed that he was genuine, and that he’d involve the disenchanted and the disenfranchised in formulating solutions to some of our most pressing social, economic, and political problems.
The Fontbonne Griffins snapped the softball team’s record-setting 22-game winning streak on Saturday, defeating the Bears 3-0 in the first game of a double-header contest at St. Louis Community College. “It was a little intimidating coming into this game with Washington University undefeated and ranked third in the country,” said Fontbonne pitcher Kelly Morris, who went seven innings, gave up only one hit, no runs and struck out six for the win.
An acquaintance of mine who was at his prime in the late 1960s and early 1970s proposed to me that there is a relationship between the popularity of smoking marijuana and fondue, noting that in his young adulthood the two declined in popularity around the same time.
Sigma Chi has come under investigation for hazing after two of that fraternity’s pledges were hospitalized due to alcohol poisoning. Jill Carnaghi, assistant vice chancellor for students and director of campus life, who supervises the office of Greek Life noted, however, that alcohol is not the only focus of the investigation.
Strong weekend performances by first baseman junior Liz Swary, a combined no-hitter by pitchers sophomore Ashley Johnson and senior Lorri Fehlker and a strong offensive performance by freshman pitcher Laurel Sagartz improved the softball team’s record to 21-0.
My love for food stems from my parents’ love for fine cuisine. But it wasn’t always fine dining and high spirits in my family. Rather, our love of fine dining has evolved over time. This evolution is mostly due to the fact that my parents have evolved as cooks, graduating from the “Joy of Cooking” of my youth to more complex cuisine from Gourmet Magazine, the New York Times food section, and a number of cookbooks from small specialty restaurants across the world.
In the quad, at Happy Hour, on WUTV and at services at St. Louis Hillel, Rabbi Shafner has been a welcoming and familiar face to Washington University students of all religious affiliations for the past eight years. In July, however, Shafner will leave his post as campus rabbi to lead the Bais Abraham congregation.
Natural Light and Southern Comfort have long had their place in college. But Cabernet Sauvignon? It used to be that the only time students enjoyed wine was when they went to an art show opening or crashed one of the University’s blue-ribbon events. Wine, however, is no longer only for the refined.
My friends will tell you I give my advice whether I am asked for it or not. However, I do like when it is solicited. That is why when Student Life began circulating its “Top of the Hilltop” survey last week (see page 4), I had to weigh in. Honestly, I could care less about beauty services.
Whatever your stereotypical image is of motorcycle riders, it probably is not of Charles Falco, Chair of Condensed Matter Physics and a Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.
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