About: Dennis Sweeney
- Profile
- Dennis Sweeney has written 29 articles.
Posts by Dennis Sweeney:
VIDEO: EnPageant comes back
As part of EnWeek this week, the Engineering Student Council revived EnPageant, a talent and beauty contest between male student representatives of each of the Engineering School’s departments.
VIDEO: Sex survey predictions
Managing Editor Dennis Sweeney interviewed students the week of Valentine’s Day to gather their predictions for the results of the 2010 Student Life sex survey.
In-person critique more productive than written mudslinging
The kind of people who read an article and are moved to respond in an online comment probably feel more strongly about the issue addressed in the article than those who read it and move on, or than those who don’t read it at all. Video interviews have a higher chance of capturing the latter two types.
VIDEO: Student Life interviews SU President Jeff Nelson
‘Generations’ an actually viable concept
With a degree in the liberal arts, you get a lot out of the Sunday funnies. This last Sunday, on the front page of the Cincinnati Enquirer’s comics, Jeremy in “Zits” shows his parents a highly technical presentation he put together for a high school class. How much time did he spend doing it? “All together? About 20 minutes.” His parents’ response, and the punchline of the strip: “Stop the Internet. I want to get off,” his mom says with a dazed look. Responds his dad, “I fell off a while back.”
AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Women’s soccer championship
VIDEO: Fan bus to San Antonio
A spirited group of twenty-three students made the journey to San Antonio, Texas to watch Wash. U. Women’s Soccer play in its second ever NCAA Final Four and its first ever National Championship. Sports Editor Johann Qua Hiansen captured the devoted fans’ cheering as the team fought its way to a second place finish in [...]
VIDEO: Students respond to tomato absence
Bon Appétit, the food provider for most of Washington University’s campus, recently announced that it would no longer serve tomato slices or wedges on campus in order to assure higher wages and better conditions for workers who pick tomatoes in Florida. Bon Appétit—which imports tomatoes from Florida during the winter—signed an agreement with the Coalition [...]
VIDEO: Bohemian Rhapsody in the DUC
Senior Maryse Pearce organized a group singing of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in the DUC Tuesday, November 14th. Tuesday was the 18th anniversary of Queen frontman Freddy Mercury’s death due to AIDS.
AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Volleyball Championship
Advertisement
Loading ...
Recent Popular Articles
Advertisement
Student Life is the independent student newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis. Keep in touch with Washington University by subscribing to an RSS feed of our stories or an RSS feed of our comments. Privacy Policy | Comments Policy | Web Policy