The University basked in the glow of rising rankings in the media. Princeton Review ranked Washington University Dining Services number two in the nation, based upon student feedback, diversity of cuisine, new policies, and student-administrator meetings. The university also moved up in U.S. News and World Report rankings to #14, the highest ranking the University had ever received to that point.
As I assemble what looks to be a mountain of stuff to haul away from Wash U, I’m encouraged to think that, on some levels at least, I’ll be carrying less baggage than I brought with me.
Space was tight. A couple of fluorescent lights shone all night long. And the floor was really, really hard.
After a night spent sleeping in hallways and under desks in the Admissions Office, student protesters rose around 6 a.m. yesterday morning to freshen up (sans showering) and get back to work. By late afternoon, the lack of sleep was starting to show as students sprawled across the office to nap.
By noon, the temperature had hit 76 degrees. Students lounged on the Quad, reading, eating lunch and languidly tossing around a Frisbee. Several prospective freshmen sat on benches doing campus interviews. And, right under the Brookings Arch, a rambunctious group of students in homemade t-shirts had taken over the Admissions Office and were leaning out the window chanting: “What do we want? A living wage! When do we want it? Now!”
Less than two weeks after a Lee 3 RA discovered human feces in her dorm room, Residential Life responded to “ongoing concerns regarding the alcohol and drug policy” by making the floor substance-free.
During a floor meeting Monday night, students received a ResLife document informing them that the floor would now be sub-free as a “community consequence” for substance-related disciplinary problems. The floor will be substance free for the rest of the semester.
Traditionally, students are not assigned to live on a substance-free floor unless they request one. While on these floors, students cannot use or possess tobacco, alcohol or other drugs.
Floor residents have come under fire several times this year for unruly behavior. Most recently, on March 18, someone unlawfully entered the Lee 3 RAs’ rooms, vandalizing both rooms and defecating in one. WUPD is continuing to investigate these break-ins and is still sifting through the evidence.
“We have some leads, and we’re continuing to make progress,” said Police Chief Don Strom.
Newsstands across campus stood empty Wednesday after hundreds of copies of Student Life were stolen and stuffed into nearby trash cans sometime during the morning.
Former U.S. House minority leader Richard Gephardt will take the lectern in the Quadrangle in late May to deliver the 2005 Commencement address.
Gephardt represented Missouri’s Third District in the House of Representatives for nearly 30 years before stepping down in 2004. During his political career, Gephardt ran for president twice and was chosen as majority and then minority leader by Democrats in the House.
In addition to addressing the graduates, Gephardt will accept an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. The University’s 144th Commencement ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. on May 20 in the Quad.
A discrepancy over parking rights put the University at odds with the St. Louis transportation company Metro this week.
Students living on a stretch of University Drive learned last week that they could not park on the street for the next month while Metro moves in heavy construction supplies. As of early yesterday afternoon, Washington University officials knew nothing about the restriction.
“There has been little to no communication between Metro and the University, and it’s really not fair to students,” said Assistant Director of Building Services Jim Severine.
It started out at a party. Two drunken girls began kissing each other in front of a guy to make his girlfriend jealous. Then they decided two wasn’t enough. That’s about when “Joe’s” prospects started looking up.
“They started kissing me at the party, and then we came back to my place,” said Joe, a senior whose pride soon overtook his awkwardness at describing his m‚nage … trois. And why not, he said. “Let’s be honest, every guy wants to.”
Joe asked that his name be changed to protect his reputation-and to keep his new girlfriend from learning about his playboy past.
Burglars hitting apartments off campus are becoming increasingly brazen in their attempts at theft. Last Friday around 10 a.m., students living in an apartment on the 6100 block of Waterman Ave. surprised a suspect who had walked into the apartment through an unlocked door.
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