On Sunday, Sept. 11, students held a memorial service for the 10th anniversary of the attacks. While most were concerned with the moving content of the service and personal ties and emotions regarding this anniversary, professor Heidi Kolk had a different concern. “No one was going to record it,” she exclaimed.

Starting this year, students have the option to major solely in American Culture Studies (AMCS), a course of study that previously could only be a secondary major. In light of the change, the major has been redesigned to provide students with some of the depth they would have garnered from a second major in the past.

On Saturday morning, 200 people gathered in Graham Chapel to mourn the passing of Professor Wayne Fields’ granddaughter, 4-year-old Sarah Brooks.

Washington University Libraries received one of the largest grants in the institution’s history, a $376,426 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The money will fund the St. Louis Freedom Suits Legal Encoding Project, which aims to digitize pre-Civil War lawsuits that slaves brought against slaveholders in the St. Louis Circuit Court.