Republican challenger Ed Martin has refused to concede his loss in the 3rd Congressional District election to incumbent Democrat Russ Carnahan. The Martin campaign has pointed to a late-night influx of heavy Carnahan votes from seven city precincts as reason for investigation.

On Saturday morning, 200 people gathered in Graham Chapel to mourn the passing of Professor Wayne Fields’ granddaughter, 4-year-old Sarah Brooks.

“You can separate church and state, but you can’t separate religion and politics,” Jon Meacham said Tuesday in the inaugural keynote event for the John C. Danforth Center on Religion in Graham Chapel. Student Life’s Kate Gaertner sat down with Meacham after the event’s reception to talk about how civic responsibility and politics relate to the role of the university in American life.

As members of Washington University Students for Undergraduate Student Diversity (WU/FUSED) work to increase socioeconomic diversity on campus, Washington University has moved up three spots to crack America’s top 35 most expensive schools in tuition, room and board.

On Tuesday, junior Kirsten Miller announced plans to resign from her position as Student Union’s vice president of administration because she will be spending next semester abroad. Miller’s resignation will take effect Nov. 21 in order to allow a smooth transition for her successor.

With five days to go before the senior class trip, the Senior Class Council was forced to change its plans for housing nearly half of the trip’s participants.
The Fairmont Millenium Hotel had agreed to house 128 of the trip’s 272 participants, but pulled out of the contract with the Senior Class Council on Wednesday after overbooking the hotel.

On Sunday evening, the scene at the intersection of Melville Avenue and Kingsbury Boulevard was nothing short of wholesome. At a block party sponsored by Student Union, some students flipped burgers as others supervised children with Play-Doh and still others made conversation with elderly neighbors.

For most students, Greek life happens outside the classroom, but on Tuesday night, professors, students and administrators gathered in Wilson 214 to discuss the role of the Greek system on campus.

Classes don’t begin for another three weeks, but thanks to social media, students now know to expect Major Lazer and Wale on campus October 9. In the past, Team 31 has shrouded the list of performers for each semester’s Walk In, Lay Down (W.I.L.D.) in secrecy, making a much-anticipated public announcement at the beginning of [...]

On Sunday afternoon, 710 members of the Class of 2010 gathered in the Field House of the Athletic Complex, just like they will at Thursday and Friday’s graduation ceremonies. But instead of receiving diplomas, they received massages—and a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The senior class will now hold the Guinness record [...]