Washington University was ranked the seventh best value in private universities by the Princeton Review. The ranking was based on factors including financial aid and academics. It was compiled using official university data and results from student surveys.

It was not his first time participating in the Olin Cup, but the young Washington University alum was greeted with a much different result than last time. Eric Elias, who graduated with a degree in finance in 2007, took part in the competition in his senior year, but ran into technical issues that kept his group from being successful.

Excited students, faculty, parents and members of the St. Louis community filled Edison Theatre on Friday and Saturday to enjoy “Lest We Forget,” a Black Anthology production. Black Anthology is an annual student production that explores important issues pertinent to the African-American culture through drama, poetry, dance and music.

“Cross your legs like this—not like that—so no one suspects you are the mommy’s boy we’re concerned you’re becoming,” Professor Mark Behr read during a lecture on campus Tuesday evening.

Bubbles floated through the 560 Music Building as students and their neighbors enjoyed soup and each other’s company at a Winter Wonderland celebration on Sunday.

Occupy activists may not have actually been protesting anything on campus yesterday, but that didn’t stop their meeting from being relocated.

Although the fireworks took place earlier in the week, a profusion of dance numbers, sparkles and costumes set the crowd of the 16th annual Lunar New Year Festival (LNYF) ablaze with excitement. When the lights dimmed in Edison Theater on Friday and Saturday evenings, students were treated to a three-hour-long sample of both traditional and modern Asian dances.

While man may have created global warming, the problem is too significant to be solved by lifestyle changes, said Dr. Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences to an audience barely filling LabSci 300 Monday afternoon.

The Washington University chapter of Habitat for Humanity has been awarded a $5000 matching grant by State Farm.

Emergency vehicles were called to clean up a chemical spill in the Laboratory Sciences Building Monday night, interrupting an organic chemistry exam and cutting off traffic on Snow Way drive for nearly two hours. A graduate student spilled three chemicals that produced a tear gas-like substance in one of the building’s labs Monday night.