Forum

People-pleasing isn’t as pleasing as you think

To please or not to please?  Is it actually a choice, or are we really just conditioned to be people-pleasers by those who want to reap the rewards? 

| Managing Photo Editor

Smoke and mirrors at the presidential debate

One key change — a differentiation with dangerous implications for the future of our democracy — is not being thoroughly scrutinized: no live audience. 

| Senior Forum Editor

Staff Editorial: WashU Admin: We are listening, will you?

If administrators only answer certain criticisms, are students really being listened to?

Letter to the Editor: Formerly suspended faculty misrepresent April 2024 event; let’s pursue dialogue instead

I can only imagine the fear young Jewish college students felt when they were abruptly shaken from their studies to such violent chanting by unknown strangers who had descended upon their campus.

| WashU B.A. ’97; J.D. ’01, WashU Hillel CEO

Letter to the Editor: In defense of (some) trad wives

By choosing this lifestyle on their own terms, some ‘trad wives’ serve as valuable examples of young women freely selecting a profession that aligns with their chosen way of life.

| Senior Forum Editor

Opinion Submission: Stop running WashU like a corporation

I am deeply in support of the expansion of university resources and the long-term sustainability of higher education. I am not convinced, however, that tying up billions of dollars in private capital is the best way to fulfill WashU’s obligations as an educational institution.

| Class of 2025

Normalize trashy content

As a WashU student likely flooded with work, you deserve a show (or a StudLife article) that takes no brain energy to understand.

| Managing Forum Editor

Letter from DEI Editors

After careful evaluation of Student Life’s coverage and staff diversity audits, we realized that the paper doesn’t represent the diversity of ethnicities, religions, and perspectives that make up the WashU community.

and | DEI Editors

The rise of ‘trad wives’ reverses strides in women’s autonomy

The “trad wife” trend brings our society backward in time and dismisses today’s cultural strides. The way this power dynamic can resurface long after feminist legislation and protests worked to dismantle female inferiority showcases how male desires and patriarchal practices continue to oppress those with less power.

| Staff Writer

Opinion Submission: A letter from suspended faculty against genocide

We look forward to getting back to business, but not business as usual. After a 65-year-old man was nearly beaten to death by WUPD cops, after a hundred of us were violently arrested at a peaceful protest on our own front lawn, after the Board of Trustees has made clear it will not respect the will of student and faculty democracy, there can be no more business as usual.

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