Although football players are often depicted as hyper-masculine and apathetic students, these students aren’t dumb jocks. For the past year and a half, senior Michael Weiss and five other members of the Washington University football team have worked to deconstruct the social barriers that put teens at risk of social isolation.

Washington University has set a Guinness World Record with a bang. “Puphs” filled the DUC Commons Saturday evening, as students engaged in a nerf gun battle large enough to break the Guinness World Record.