In “It’s Hard Being the Kane,” a song recorded by 80’s rapper Big Daddy Kane, Kane spits out the line “my vocabulary will just have you very/dazed and amazed so I fear no adversary.” No lyrics could better describe the later rap styling of Henry Biggs, currently an assistant dean and the associate director in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy here at Wash.

It is not often that you get to see a plaster cast of a vagina hanging on a wall. However, at the recent art exhibition Work in Process, organized by the student group Residential Area Real Art (RARA), there were at least six.

Washington University junior Sarah Haselkorn has been a businesswoman since she was in seventh grade. A recent restaurateur of Green Bean, a new salad bar opening in the Central West End, Haselkorn says that she has always been “on a fast track to just do something.” It all began with a summer camp she managed throughout middle school.

When you hear the word guido, the first things that probably come to mind are gym, tan, laundry, grenades and Snooki. However, when it comes to Washington University, guido should hold an entirely different meaning. Guido Weiss, the oldest serving professor at Washington University and former chair of the math department, is much more than a meathead in a tank top.

A schoolteacher’s magic trick went a little awry last week when he opened a televised school committee meeting by magically removing another teacher’s bra. Although her bra was not truly removed, the illusion behind the act was controversial, creepy and brought a whole new meaning to the utterance A”bra”-cadabra.

When Kanye West calls for us to “watch the throne” in his recently released collaboration with Jay-Z, he is referring to the sacred chair commonly known as the toilet. Well, perhaps not exactly, but Kanye does write much of his material while in the privacy of his bathroom, sitting on the john. As aspiring students [...]

It began at the esophagus and ended at the rectum. No, I’m not talking about the stir-fry dinner that you downed last night. I’m talking about the Grossology exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center. This special exhibit, inspired by a best-selling children’s book series by Sylvia Branzei, is on display at the Science Center through March 27. Now is the perfect time to take a breather from mid-term cramming and explore the body as if you were 6 years old again.

Every day in the United States over 16,000 tons of clothing and textiles are thrown away and over 100,000 women are forced into sex trafficking. How do these two statistics come together? Inspired by both of these issues, Washington University alumnus Jessica Lin piloted the social justice company Hello Rewind in February of this year.