The long-awaited holiday season is almost here, and it’s time to start preparing! With the diversity of students here at Washington University comes a variety of holidays and ways to celebrate them.
Bright and early on Saturday morning, students from eight different schools from as far away as the University of Illinois gathered to participate in the second annual St. Louis Race to Entrepreneurship. Even through the speed trivia and the sleepy 9 a.
Past Ursa’s, toward the underpass, there is a small stretch of campus-related businesses, varying from a movie rental store to a laundry service. Among these connected offices lies one service that every undergrad is familiar with—Cornerstone.
Romance 101
We’ve all been there. In fact, what I am going to write about in today’s column is so common that singer-songwriter Jewel wrote about it in her hit song, “You Were Meant For Me”—that “hearts are broken every day.
Stepping Out
Sometimes a guy feels the need to go east on Delmar. It’s just more fun that way, especially when you’re going to a supposed neighborhood gem like Miss Saigon. Truthfully, I did not want to go here.
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Health Beat
The acaí berry, discovered by Westerners only within the past 10 or 15 years, is becoming the new craze in health food stores and Hollywood Boulevard alike.
A look at Wash. U.’s medieval combat group: Ursa
You see them from the windows of Liggett-Koenig as they practice on the lawn Saturdays from 2-5 p.m., or in the Village Quad on Fridays from 3-5 p.m. clad in elaborate leather armor, bearing (foam) swords and shields.
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If you’ve ever walked by Umrath Lounge between 7 and 9 p.m. on Tuesday nights, chances are you’ve heard a distinctive clashing mixed with a chorus of fierce shouting.
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As college students, most of us living on a budget, it can be annoying—and sometimes downright painful—to shell out the dough necessary to eat off the meal plan. It’s why we attack the free food.
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The primary mission of Washington University is education—education of undergraduates, graduates and adults. For years, this mission has extended past the University’s walls in an array of tutoring and other community service programs.
Hot Seams
It’s fall, which means two things: nice weather and social functions. Your lineup includes two black-tie events and one business casual event.
For some of the 28 million Americans with profound hearing loss, deafness is more than a lack of hearing—it’s a way of life. To these people, deaf is a culture, complete with its own history and language. St.
If you’re reading this, you probably haven’t moved to Canada, which means that your candidate of choice has won! Congratulations! Or maybe your candidate did lose and you’re holed up in your room crying into your copy of StudLife. Our condolences.
Whether this upcoming spring will be your first at Washington University or you are a seasoned veteran, it’s coming time to pick what new areas of knowledge to dive into.
Amendment 1: To make English the official language of Missouri
“That English shall be the language of all official proceedings in this state.
Shining a light on the Fleshlight
If you could design sex, how would it feel? For those afraid, uninformed, or simply uninterested in sex toys, you may have never heard of a fleshlight, one of the more popular male sex toys that transcends sexual orientation.
Stepping Out
Located between Phoenix Rising and Good Works Furniture, Fro-Yo occupies the space that was formerly Crazy Bowls & Wraps.
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EHow.com is a fun little Web site, a digital encyclopedia of small, user-written how-to guides, offering thousands of tips. Think Wikipedia, but instead of reading about the biology of apple trees, you learn to make apple pie.
Proposition M requests a half-cent sales tax increase in St. Louis County to support MetroLink and MetroBus services and expansions. If passed, St. Louis City will also begin to levy a quarter-cent sales tax suggested in 1997 but will not be enacted unless St.
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Stepping Out
The word Bici—pronounced “beachy”—in Bici Café means “bicycle” in Italian. Years ago, the building where the café is now located was a bike shop and is only as far from campus as the Loop.
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I have to admit, I’m impressed. This century has produced an abundance of advances in technology, medical treatment and many other things. However, somewhere along the line, the glories that we knew from childhood must have been lost in translation.
Health Beat
Prior to my abroad experience last semester, I had never thought of tea as a form of medicine. Tea was a drink—an alternative to coffee or hot chocolate in the wintertime.
Proposition C
Proposition C: The Environmental Initiative A law which would require investor-owned electric utilities to have at least 2 percent of their electrical retail sales come from renewable energy sources including wind power and biomass by 2011.
The Velocity Café and Cyclery debuted St. Louis’ first bicycle shop/café on Saturday with coffee, free samples and a combination of musical artists. The idea behind Velocity Café and Cyclery is to “blend all the best aspects of cycling and café culture.
Proposition A
Walking into the voting booth on Nov. 4, Washington University students voting in Missouri will have more choices to make than just voting for the next president of the United States.
You might think, “Only Friday for Fall Break? Puh-leez, that is not even a break.” While one day off for Fall Break might not seem like much for every student, it creates great opportunities for some student groups on campus.
Proposition A
Walking into the voting booth on Nov. 4, Washington University students voting in Missouri will have more choices to make than just voting for the next president of the United States.
314 Events & The Skandalaris Center
Senior Ross Green and his roommate noticed a problem with the St. Louis nightlife their freshman year. “There was no consistency,” Green said. “Some Thursday nights there would be nothing going on, others [there] would be four or five things happening.
Stepping Out
Rating: 4.5/5 392 North Euclid St. Louis, Mo. 63108 Very few restaurants can claim to have a staff that is truly like a family. Duff’s Restaurant in the Central West End, however, certainly can.
Romance 101
I’d like to think that it’s not just I who has had an infatuation with that special bartender. Maybe it’s the fact that he knows how to make great drinks that makes him sexy. Or maybe it’s his devilish good looks.
Hot Seams
It’s no longer seen as just a “kiddie candy” day, and since you’re tired of always going as Batman or another Disney princess, you’ve been browsing stores and magazines for more than a month now.
It took Associate Professor of Political Science Andrew Rehfeld some time to convince his entire family to move into a college dorm.
Juliette Brindak started MissOandFriends.com when she was 13 years old. She is now a Washington University sophomore, and her Web site has reached preteen girls around the country as a site “created by girls for girls.
Some universities are known for the sweet sound of mockingbirds chirping on any given morning. Others are famous for the loud, bellowing noises of 18th century bells chiming from the top of Gothic towers.
We all know them: those people whose camera phones are an extension of their bodies, on hand at any point in time to aim and snap a photo of anything and everything that comes along. For camera phone-lovers everywhere comes Snapherd.
Advice column
Dear Scene, Not even a month in, and I’m having roommate issues! We decided not to fill out one of those roommate contracts (I know, mistake!), figuring everything would be cool.
Health Beat
I push myself off from the ground, sweat dripping down my brow, my back, my arms and my legs. I take a deep breath as I stare at myself in the mirror. My flushed face and focused eyes stare back at me, determined to finish the 90-minute stretch and sweat session.
In 2002, during his junior year, Jay Swoboda started the social enterprise program, What’s Up magazine.
This weekend, Jugglefest will invade Washington University, offering plenty of activities to keep juggling buffs and newbies alike fully occupied.
Entrepreneurship on Campus Pt. 1
They serve food here?
Jennifer's Pharmacy and Soda Shoppe peeks out unassumingly from the line of restaurants on Central Street in Clayton.
Stepping Out
After more than two years at Wash. U., we were beginning to wonder if we would ever find great Chinese food in St. Louis. Then we tried Wong’s Wok.
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Romance 101
“If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends.” Wise words from a wise group of girls. See, the Spice Girls really knew what they were talking about a decade ago when they incorporated this advice into their debut single.
In the last five years, social networking sites have become more and more popular. They serve as a place where people of all ages can communicate with each other through messages, pictures and instant messengers.
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Soulard Market befuddles your senses. Calls of “strawberries!” and “fresh frog legs!” collide and bounce into you.
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It’s 2 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon. You’ve just sat through an economics lecture followed by an equally riveting calculus class. With the prospect of two more classes and a six-page paper to write, the rest of the day is looking pretty dreary.
Tim Bono could pass for an undergraduate. Not only does he look young and sound young for an ’05 Wash. U. graduate and a Ph.D. student, but he also lives on the South 40 as the only graduate student in Shepley Hall.
Romance 101
“Mean Girls” is one of my favorite movies for a number of reasons. Not only is it based on my hometown—and quite accurately so—but it also features a variety of romantic issues and plights common to many young adults in the real world.
Imagine this: Your favorite band is coming to St. Louis, and you’re super-pumped to see them play. And by purchasing a ticket, you are single-handedly feeding a hungry child in St. Louis for the whole weekend. LiveFeed, one of St.
Stepping Out
What do you think of when you hear the word “pi”? Math majors, engineers and pre-meds may begin to quickly rattle off the digits 3.14159—okay, that’s as far as I remember.
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