Thousands of newly-minted voters at WashU will cast their ballots in one of their first major elections in November. With presidential candidates who are nearly neck-and-neck according to recent polls and contentious state issues such as abortion and sports gambling on Missouri’s ballot, how are WashU’s newest voters feeling about the upcoming 2024 election?

For many WashU community members, the defining political issue on campus in the past year has been the Israel-Hamas war that began on Oct. 7. 

After a semester of contentious resolutions and the veto of Senate’s most recent resolution, Student Union (SU) Senate has shifted their attention to data-driven reports highlighting prominent issues affecting students in hopes of further capturing the University’s ears.

Students can expect not one, but two headlining acts at this year’s Night at the Pageant (NAP), which will take place on Friday, Nov. 9, according to Vice President of Programming and Head of the Student Programming Board (SPB), Abby Sode. This shift in NAP programming is the result of a $25,000 increase in NAP’s talent budget, which was approved unanimously by Student Union (SU) Treasury on Sept. 3. 

In an op-ed published on July 17 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jamie Reed — whistleblower and former case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center (WUTC) of St. Louis Children’s Hospital — wrote that the WUTC “quietly announced” last week that they will be “permanently closed.” However, sources from other news outlets deny the closure allegations.

Over the summer, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin released a statement to the Washington University community in response to the Supreme Court ruling to end affirmative action at higher education institutions. Martin wrote that, while administrators will abide by the law, WashU’s commitment to diversity will remain the same.  Expanded dining options opened on campus with […]

The Washington University College Democrats and WashU College Republicans (WUCR) debated abortion, gun violence, climate change, the Israel-Hamas war, and the Russia-Ukraine war in their semesterly Campus Crossfire in Tisch Commons, April 24. 

Juniors Aidan Li, Makenna Fluegel, and Sean Wang were selected for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship — an annual $7,500 scholarship awarded to 438 undergraduates nationwide that recognizes exceptional undergraduates planning to pursue a PhD in science, math, or engineering — April 5.

As part of a pro-Palestine demonstration led by around 50 Washington University community members and St. Louis residents, a group of protestors set up an encampment that was shut down by WashU Police Department (WUPD), April 20.

As part of a conversation about student conduct, Associate Dean of Student Conduct and Community Standards, Nicole Gore, presented a new iteration of the Student Code of Conduct at the last Student Union (SU) joint session of the semester, April 9.