A campus group dedicated to students who are interested in technology entrepreneurship is on the rise. Members of Washington University Technology Entrepreneurs (WUTE) are behind business ventures including the Greenvelope virtual invitation service and Cloudy, a social application. WUTE was formed over the 2009-10 year.

Last weekend, I logged onto Facebook to see what was going on. As I studied my newsfeed (which has changed 15 times in two years), some pretty striking statuses came to my attention. They spoke of ignorance and racism, specifically targeting some freshman girl, Claire Ferguson. I saw several different statuses as I scrolled down, and wondered what was going on.

We tend to eat dinner with those who look like us, and we feel inclined to join cultural groups with those who have similar backgrounds. To some, this may understandably bring to mind the term “segregation,” yet I believe the term “identity” is more fitting to the situation at hand.

If you’ve been following the uproar over the new Residential Life room reservation fees, there are three things you probably know: First, that student groups are unhappy about it; second, that ResLife made the decision out of financial need; and third, that ResLife has not been open to student group input on the fee structure or on how this affects student groups.

Student Union Treasury voted Tuesday not to formally recognize Mock Trial as a student group, which was suggested for approval as a Category II student group by Student Group Activities Committee (SGAC).

Thirty-one students and 11 professionals, including physicians and physical therapists, journeyed to a village in Honduras this January to assist locals with their health care and public health. The group, called the Washington University Medical Brigades, set up medical clinics in three villages. Each clinic was divided into several sections. The Medical Brigades first set [...]

Due to a 16-percent drop in the funding percentage the determines their budget, Category I student groups will need to do a little more fundraising this semester. The groups will receive 77 percent of the budgets they were allocated. Although that number is higher than the 68 percent that was expected earlier this year because [...]

Student Union is planning to transition from its current Unix-based e-mail system to Google Apps this semester in order to make logistics more intuitive for student groups. Student Union (SU) groups will now each have a Gmail e-mail account, while at the same time retaining their @su.wustl.edu address. The Google Apps suites offers Gmail, Google [...]

Beginning this semester, Washington University will charge fees for the use of spaces in the Danforth University Center. Not all student groups, however, will have to pay to use the space in the Danforth University Center (DUC). “Any student group recognized by Student Union would not have to pay. There are a couple of regular, [...]

There are many student groups on campus that make valuable contributions to the University and St. Louis communities—far more than we have space to praise in a short editorial. Still, we would like to commend two groups in particular that have been extremely active in the past week, beneficial to the campus and which often [...]