Administration
Demonstration policies should be clear and consistent
We often crave clarity on University policy, and this clarity is especially necessary when dealing with questions of students’ rights to expression. This became apparent last week when the Young Americans for Liberty constructed and, responding to a request from the University, dismantled a mock Soviet gulag set up as part of a demonstration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
SU, student leaders address student body at campus State of the Union
Student Union President Jeff Nelson reiterated his administration’s central message in the first-ever Campus State of the Union address Wednesday evening, pledging to renew student activism.
Nelson stated Student Union’s upcoming goals, calling on the student body to support their sports teams, make campus events greener, reduce dining lines and push for a restructuring of dining [...]
WU administration moving forward with tobacco ban
Ashtrays soon will be a relic of bygone days at Washington University as all of the institution’s campuses move toward the implementation of a complete smoking and tobacco ban in July 2010.
Nanette Tarbouni to leave WU
After calling Washington University home for the past 25 years, Director of Undergraduate Admissions Nanette Tarbouni will begin a new chapter in her professional life starting this summer: high school.
Tarbouni has been named director of college counseling at John Burroughs School, effective July 1. Tarbouni will succeed Andy Abbott, who will become the next headmaster [...]
A&S considers teaching track
Plans are underway to implement a new professorship position at Washington University, titled the Professor of the Practice.
Administration postpones WebSTAC improvement
In an effort to make its online resources more accessible, Washington University has taken steps to install infrastructure for a single sign-on technology called WUSTL CONNECT.
Administration should reflect diversity
We are seeing something unprecedented on the national stage: women and people of color in real positions of leadership. Whether we agree more with the politics of the right or the left, it is clear that a transformation in the American polity is at hand. Not only are the two national parties touting gender and [...]

