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Fall 2013 class recommendations
It’s time to choose classes for the fall semester. Filling clusters and integrations aside, this is an exciting time and a chance to get outside of your academic comfort zone. Here are our picks for the best classes on campus: Sahil Patel, Editor-in-Chief: Beginning Hindi I The Hindi I and II sequence equals 10 total credits and a Language & the Arts cluster.
The Ivory Soapbox: Brad Paisley & LL COOL J
Country singer Brad Paisley recently released a new song in collaboration with LL Cool J called “Accidental Racist.” It immediately sparked a firestorm, with left-wing blogs and websites decrying it as an appalling reinforcement of 21st-century racism—or something to that effect.
Is the current focus on University expansion sustainable?
Last November, Student Life reported on the elimination of the January Program, largely due to organizational concerns about increasing class sizes, according to University administrators. With two over-enrolled classes already on campus (2014 and 2016), it is clear that the University is already experiencing significant growing pains.
Taking an initiative
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the uproar over the shortage of Macklemore tickets and asked why this was the only thing Wash. U. was capable of getting mad about. Despite an incredibly intelligent and passionate student body, Wash. U. seemed to me to be incapable of organizing and uniting.
Op-ed submission: Critiquing Clinton
The recent visit to campus of former President Bill Clinton has generated much excitement but a sad lack of critical reflection. While it’s to be applauded that Wash. U.
Saint Louis Bread Co. offers model for profitable charity
At Friday evening’s opening plenary session for the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative University conference, fashion mogul and HIV/AIDS awareness activist Kenneth Cole spoke of the need to fuse business and public service into one mission.
Where to draw the line: separating church and state
According to a new poll announced under the fairly self-explanatory banner in the Huffington Post, “Christianity as state religion supported by one-third of Americans, poll finds,” a comfortable chunk of Americans really hate the Constitution. Given that separation of church and state is supposedly a given in America, should we the people be alarmed?