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The annual struggle accompanying Washington University’s housing lottery has been largely unaffected by changes to Residential and Greek Life that offer more beds for different students. Students housing is assigned beginning in March.

Treasury will vote Tuesday on whether to approve a statutory amendment to Student Union’s constitution that would put more oversight on how the vice president of finance can allocate long-term savings. The amendment would specifically require the approval of the Executive Council on any long-term savings expenditures over $5,000.

With the crowd screaming and the hosts swearing in admiration as he pulled off flips and more exotic “airflare suicides” in the Gargoyle, Miguel Rosario aka Gravity and his two-man crew stole the fifth annual Show Me STyLez competition Saturday.

This year’s ThurtenE Carnival profits are going to Provident Inc. one of St. Louis’s oldest charities that offers community events such as counseling and safe after school activities for local children. According to ThurtenE honorary member and junior Dara Baker, a mutual selection process went into choosing Provident.

With their unsnapped glow sticks in their pockets as they stared at the ground, students joined in a moment of silence in observation of the Boston bombings and manhunt among other worldwide tragedies of the past week.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has redoubled its attack on Washington University’s use of cats after a student sent PETA video footage showing a class practicing medical procedures on cats.

“If you want to know how the world really sees you, it would be the second thing somebody says to describe you to someone else.” Comedian Demetri Martin shared this and many other observations with the students filling Graham Chapel during the Social Programming Board’s spring comedy show Monday night.

The third annual PB&Joy food drive has sharpened its focus on nutrition this year, targeting donation items beyond just peanut butter and jelly to bring in at least 2,000 more pounds of food donations than in the past.

Microaggression, rape culture and difficult reporting processes were just three of the Danforth Campus’ many diversity-related struggles discussed at the Diversity Affairs Council’s first town hall meeting.

This year’s ThurtenE Carnival, with the theme “Stay Enchanted,” comes with a heightened sense of sustainability, featuring the introduction of new measures such as compostable eating instruments and repurposed rain barrels.