On Tuesday, Missouri held its Republican Primary. Rick Santorum was the winner, meaning that he gets declared delegates in the Republican National Convention. Or rather, he would have, if the Missouri Primary counted in the greater election. Tuesday’s primary served no real purpose.

Recently, the College of Arts & Sciences decided to change the requirements for the Dean’s List for its students. Previously, students in the College of Arts & Sciences were only required to have a semester GPA of 3.5 in order to receive the honor for that semester. Starting in the current spring 2012 semester, the requirement will be a GPA of 3.6 in order for a student to make Dean’s List.

Last Friday, the Obama administration announced that universities and hospitals, regardless of religious affiliation, cannot deny full birth control coverage to their female employees. Most employers have until Aug. 1 to come under compliance; nonprofits with religious affiliations have an additional year.

With the most recent announcement that Sofia Vergara would not be coming to Wash. U., students are once again disappointed that a big speaker has cancelled after having high initial expectations for a year filled with Al Gore, Vergara and John Legend.

Frat Row was alive this first weekend back from winter break as hundreds of students braved the icy elements to have a good time. Markedly absent from those hundreds were sophomore students in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Joe Paterno died on Sunday morning. There is a chance, however, that you heard about it on Saturday night, when many news organizations reported that Paterno had died many hours before he actually did. The original report came from Onward State, Pennsylvania State University’s independent student news blog, which tweeted the erroneous information.

The Internet went dark Wednesday (or part of it did, anyway) in protest of two laws that are soon to be voted on in Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. These bills are designed to curb Internet piracy (which we agree is a problem) through a means that would hurt some of the most respected online corporations.

Last weekend’s recognition ceremony for students graduating at the end of the fall semester got us thinking about who we want to speak at commencement in May 2012.

The city of Clayton recently took a step forward in equal rights and opportunities, passing an ordinance that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. While we commend this change and the future similar legislation, we wish that other St. Louis County municipalities had similar ordinances.