WashU’s Emergency Support Team (EST) is now able to receive funding for its operations in the 2027 fiscal year as an Executive Entity of Student Union (SU) after a unanimous and nearly unanimous vote in SU Treasury and Senate, respectively, on April 7. 

After the Emergency Support Team (EST) narrowly lost its funding for the upcoming fiscal year, Student Union’s Executive Council voted 4-2-0 in favor of providing EST an avenue to fund its operations for the next academic year. Now, whether the motion passes rests on Senate and Treasury’s vote tomorrow.

St. Louis’ Most Rev. Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski and Rabbi Noam Marans emphasized the power of Catholic-Jewish dialogue and relationships in a conversation moderated by Friar David J. Suwalsky for the 60th year of Nostra Aetate, Feb. 5. 

Student Union’s (SU) rerun of this semester’s senate election opened on the evening of Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. and will close on Dec. 5 at 9 p.m. The redo of the election comes after SU’s Constitutional Council found that the ballot required votes for 12 candidates for each Senate and Treasury instead of being able to cast votes for up to 12 candidates for each.

This semester’s Student Union election saw the lowest student body turnout since the spring of 2015, with 9.81% of the student body voting for 12 new senators, 12 new Treasury representatives, and members of the Arts & Sciences Council. 

All five of the proposed amendments to the Student Union (SU) constitution failed in a special election held from April 15 to April 16.

After a flyer from Patriot Front — a white nationalist group — calling to “deport invaders” and “keep America American” was recently found in Graham Chapel, several of WashU’s affinity groups organized an emergency town hall to address white supremacy in Tisch Commons at 6 p.m. on April 8. 

This semester’s Student Union (SU) election, featuring seats open in Senate, Treasury, and the Executive Branch, began this Tuesday at 9:00 pm CST and will end this Thursday at 9:00 pm CST. 

Student Union (SU) unanimously passed its $4.6 million general budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Feb. 18. This year’s Treasury budget was passed in 49 minutes, making it the second-fastest budget passed in SU history. The budget will create a new fund to pay for cleaning costs for student organizations, increase the budget for Night at the Pageant to $100,000, and decrease funding for student council.

January’s early winter storm was deemed “the most challenging winter weather event during my tenure at WashU” by WashU Facilities Grounds Manager Chris Anderson — and St. Louis’ winter may just be getting started. Current trends indicate more extreme winter conditions in St. Louis in upcoming years and decades, which has been a cause of concern for some students and faculty who feel that while WashU is ready, St. Louis is not prepared to respond.