Any time there is a major election or international event, the instinctive response of politically aware college students is to bemoan the atmosphere of apathy that pervades their fair campus. Washington University students prove to be no exception. The recent kerfuffle in Egypt and Libya has given rise to debate about the extent to which Wash. U.

Amid a relaxed atmosphere, Controversy N’ Coffee and WU/FUSED hosted a multicultural panel on the topic of socioeconomic diversity to a group of nearly forty students Thursday evening. The panel was composed of John Berg, Vice Chancellor of Admissions; Pam Hansen, Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni & Development Programs; Harvey Fields, Assistant Director of Academic [...]

In light of your open letter to Professor Peter Benson (“A response to Peter Benson,” Oct. 2), we feel that it is necessary to state the position of Controversy n’ Coffee, as a student group dedicated to fostering dialogue in the Wash. U. community.

You went on to refer to smokers as “diseased,” but the real disease here is not my pastime, but rather your ideology, which lowers every student in this University to the state of a peon incapable of making his own decisions correctly.

Debate over Washington University’s tobacco ban heated up last week during the first Controversy n’ Coffee of the school year, titled “Jumping on the ‘Ban’ Wagon: A Panel Discussion on Smoking Bans.”

A growing student group on campus has a vision: to confront controversy and serve coffee. Its name? Controversy N’ Coffee. This group, which meets weekly, holds panels once a month on political topics with professors, administrators and community members who specialize in the subject of the month. The goal of the group is to help [...]