The new Syllabi Central website, created by senior Jake Novick and junior Joseph Marcus allows students to upload syllabi from their former classes. The site has been up and running for two weeks. While the recent launch of the Student Union-sponsored website is a great idea that can benefit students and faculty, it will fail without participation from the entire Wash. U. community.

A new iPhone app, released last Friday, allows students to check course listings on the go. Former Washington University student Dan Brewster developed the app, Course Monkey, as part of his iPhone app development class in the 2010 fall semester. It is the University’s first course listing app.

From now on, students in the College of Arts & Sciences wishing to retake a course will have additional hurdles to overcome this semester. The final decision on whether a student can retake a course now belongs to the department offering the course. According to an e-mail from the College of Arts & Sciences, “the [...]

I just finished a course where, after taking the last exam, more than 75 percnt of the class walked out of the classroom without staying to watch the final DVD. I’m sure the extra stress of this final week of classes squashed right next to Thanksgiving had something to do with the mass exodus, but [...]