Staff Editorials

Staff Editorial: Our Fall 2023 course recommendations

Unfortunately, we can’t make the choices for you. However, we can do our best to guide you toward some of our favorites.

Staff Editorial: It’s time to revive (or recreate) WashU campus traditions

Be it individual students deciding to start something wacky, or leaders in student government and Campus Life coming up with more campus activities, WashU needs more campus traditions. 

Staff Editorial: WashU administration must express consistent support for its transgender healthcare programs

The University must rectify this by voicing more consistent support for the Center as well as for its transgender students during this time of crisis.

Staff Editorial: Regarding tuition, we need less pomp, more circumstance

The issue is, students and families don’t know exactly where their money is going, or how it’s being used, nor are we privy to any information about how tuition increases are calculated each year. We are asking for a detailed breakdown of University expenses, broken down by general category.

Staff Editorial: Our Spring 2023 class recommendations

As the excitement around Thanksgiving Break grows, it can be easy to lose track of another impending deadline: class registration. Whether you have poured over course listings and have a robust list of classes or this article is your wake up call to poke around the course listings, the Student Life Editorial Board is here to help. 

Staff Editorial: Your voice matters. Here’s proof.

A swift administrative response to criticism is surprising. But it shouldn’t be.

Staff Editorial: Dust off that U-Pass

Early during welcome week, first years are given three plastic cards, along with a thick stack of paperwork. The first two — the Student ID card and room key — are slid in and out of phone wallets every day. They get scratched, worn, and usually lost a few times. But the third card, the […]

Staff Editorial: WashU’s COVID accommodations are failing students

We understand that WashU, like other universities, is in a difficult spot with limited housing and uncertainty on what the future may hold. However, if the University refuses to make accommodations, the onus falls on students to make them — and it shouldn’t.

Staff Editorial: Let the snow day remind you to appreciate essential workers

Both the students and WashU should remember that the campus’s essential workers are people, too.

Our societally accepted addiction: technology, social media and the need to break away

Why I terminated my social media accounts and how it has helped me focus and enjoy the world more.

| Senior Editor

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