Alana Hauser

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Food Truck Friday frenzy

For those of you who only venture off campus at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday mornings to stuff your face with fresh Dough to Door (I know I am not alone […]

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Students create new applications in Hackathon

From Words with Friends to Instagram to iFart Mobile, the app market is a diverse assortment of both useful and pointless time-consuming technologies. To add to this collection, a group of Wash. U.

Massages and awareness: Wash. U.’s suicide prevention campaign

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.

Ambassador Houssein Mousavian visits the University and addresses Iran’s current nuclear position

At the request of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian was arrested and placed in jail for espionage, accused of conspiring with western officials. Although in prison for less than two weeks, Mousavian was barred for five years from serving in Iran’s diplomatic corps.

Introducing: Professor George Pepe

Professor George Pepe lightheartedly suggested that he suffers from logorrhea. “Logos, meaning word, and rhoia, meaning flow,” he said after his self-diagnosis. As outgoing chair of the University’s Department of Classics, Pepe is well versed in Latin and the origins of words.

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MBA student hikes for children from abused homes

Michael McLaughlin has two marks on his face. The first is a reddish, hook-shaped birthmark above his left eye. The second, lying faintly between his eyebrows, is a scar left after his mother threw a lamp at his face, knocking him unconscious.

Dean by day, rapper by night

In “It’s Hard Being the Kane,” a song recorded by 80’s rapper Big Daddy Kane, Kane spits out the line “my vocabulary will just have you very/dazed and amazed so I fear no adversary.” No lyrics could better describe the later rap styling of Henry Biggs, currently an assistant dean and the associate director in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy here at Wash.

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What is a sketch? Work in Process

It is not often that you get to see a plaster cast of a vagina hanging on a wall. However, at the recent art exhibition Work in Process, organized by the student group Residential Area Real Art (RARA), there were at least six.

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Green Bean offers fresh perspective on business and salad

Washington University junior Sarah Haselkorn has been a businesswoman since she was in seventh grade. A recent restaurateur of Green Bean, a new salad bar opening in the Central West End, Haselkorn says that she has always been “on a fast track to just do something.” It all began with a summer camp she managed throughout middle school.

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Introducing: Professor Guido Weiss

When you hear the word guido, the first things that probably come to mind are gym, tan, laundry, grenades and Snooki. However, when it comes to Washington University, guido should hold an entirely different meaning. Guido Weiss, the oldest serving professor at Washington University and former chair of the math department, is much more than a meathead in a tank top.

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