When WashU junior Soma Amaechina received a call from her mom saying there had been a shooting on Brown University’s campus, Amaechina said she was “shocked.” She lives about 15 minutes away from the Brown University campus, her mom works there, and several of her friends attend the university.

The cost of Workday has been criticized by some members of the University community. On Oct. 23, undergraduate and graduate students and faculty protested outside a meeting between Gray and the WashU Faculty Senate Council. Some of the protesters held signs reading “support workers, not Workday.” 

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.

In the fall of 2024, Qimeng Duan, a third-year anthropology Ph.D. student, unknowingly reversed into a gate at an autoshop. As an international student, Duan was unfamiliar with U.S. reporting requirements for minor car accidents, especially because she did not notice any damage. A few hours later, however, police arrived at her apartment. 

In September of this year, the Trump administration announced a new price tag for H-1B visa fees: $100,000. The previous fees ranged between $2,000 and $5,000. Several months later, there are new signs of what the future of H-1B visas could look like.

An individual was taken into custody after reportedly filming a Corner 17 employee in a women’s restroom in Olin Library, according to the employee.

As you get older at WashU, the housing possibilities get greater and greater. The world (or at least University City) is your oyster. Hurray!

I barely remember anything from first-year move-in despite it only being a few months ago. The 90-degree heat paired with the emotional stress of leaving my parents and the creeping fear that somehow everyone already knew each other did not lend itself to much social interaction.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the petition filed by former University of Michigan Law Professor Laura Beny against Mark D. West, WashU’s provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. The petition asked the Supreme Court to review the legal standard applied in her racial and gender discrimination case against the University of Michigan and West.

Last week, three students and two faculty members recounted their experiences of the April 27 pro-Palestine protest and attempted encampment in the first event explicitly related to remembering the events of April 27 since they took place over a year and a half ago. The teach-in responded to a declining population of WashU students who were present during the demonstration — during which 23 students and four faculty members were arrested — and also raised money for Palestinian families.