In the upcoming 2026-2027 school year, all sophomores will be required to live on campus. As a result, juniors will no longer receive priority for on-campus University housing, according to Will Andrews, Executive Director of Residential Life.

Despite backing off of various construction projects this past year, WashU has laid out plans to build two new dormitories on the South 40 in an effort to accommodate the increasing demand for on-campus housing.

Former member of Russian parliament, Ilya Ponomarev, spoke about Russian censorship and indoctrination in contemporary Russian society in a talk organized by the WashU Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) on Oct. 8. AHS held the event in response to what they view as the University’s deprioritization of the Russian department and Global Studies as a whole.  

Through a newly approved rezoning effort, the University will build new dormitories on the South 40 to increase housing capacity from 3,200 to 4,200 students, according to Chancellor Andrew Martin. While there are no concrete plans for this project, the University hopes that with the new dorms all underclassmen can be housed on the South 40.

While some WashU students flocked to the red, white, and blue decked polling locations on Nov. 5, hundreds of others carried out their slightly-less-ceremonious ballot submissions through absentee voting in […]