After defeating Brandeis University 83-58 on Jan. 3, No. 6 WashU men’s basketball broke their five game winning streak on Sunday, losing 77-62 to the No. 5 New York University (NYU) on Feb. 2. The Bears are now 15-3 overall and 5-2 in University Athletic Association (UAA) play.
The No. 11 WashU men’s basketball team traveled along the East Coast this past weekend, beating the University of Rochester 99-82 on Jan. 24 and No. 2 Emory University 81-63 on Jan 26. The win over the Emory Eagles marks the first victory for the Bears against a Top 10 team this season.
This is a frightening precedent that we are setting — one that emphasizes that there is a “right” and a “wrong” political ideology. WashU’s political culture should combat this, but the University’s dominant liberal population and loud far-left community fosters a practice where people refrain from discussing non-mainstreamed political views.
The No. 5 WashU men’s basketball fell to The University of Chicago 66-71 in the Bears’ first University Athletic Association (UAA) game of the season. With the loss, the Bears are now 10-2 this season.
Sophomore Sophie Viscovich has had a successful soccer career at WashU so far, being named as an All-UAA Honorable Mention in both of her first two collegiate seasons. Student Life sat down with Viscovich to discuss how she was introduced to soccer, her time on the WashU women’s soccer team, and her life outside the game.
WashU Women’s Club Lacrosse team (WULAX), whose record for the fall of 2024 was 2-4-1, will be joining a formal lacrosse league for spring 2025.
Fourteen million women around the world, annually, experience postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). 70,000 of those women die as a result of it. Primary PPH occurs within the first 24 hours of giving birth and is characterized by excessive bleeding — the loss of over 500 milliliters of blood. It transpires in 3-5% of deliveries
As Bill Nye the Science Guy once said, “Science is a part of everyone’s everyday life.” Here at WashU, science may be slightly more present than Bill Nye could conceive of. “Up and Atom” aims to break it down for you — from lab sciences to social sciences and beyond. Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Ryan Bogdan, has earned the spot as the first spotlighted lab director.
In their first game of the season against Coe’s Kohawks, on Aug. 30, the Bears came up on top in a five-set thriller. However, the day following the win, they lost to Hope in five sets and fell 0-3 against Northwestern.
Student Life sat down with Brooks to discuss her life outside of softball, how Division III softball compares to growing up playing competitively in Florida, and how she stays calm under pressure on the mound.
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