As a student body, we need to support those documenting their authentic experiences and perspectives on WashU, especially since the University doesn’t publicize all aspects of student life. Many college content creators use their platforms to share parts of WashU that need to be changed. These perspectives are important for prospective students to know, current students who may relate, and to advocate for change from the WashU administration and students.

So, what can the WashU community do in this precarious moment? The answer must begin with a clear-eyed recognition that we now operate in a fundamentally altered landscape in which both academic freedom and the institutions supporting it face direct government hostility.

“What’s gonna happen…”
Audience members sat patiently, holding their breath, eyes fixed, as with three words Taylor Mac called the room to action in the Clark-Fox Forum at Hillman Hall. The biennial Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture Series invites renowned artists and colloquium speakers to discuss the power of theater beyond entertainment.

The Coalition for Liberated Students, composed of students advocating for change, joined together to launch their coalition on Feb. 28 in Umrath Lounge. The event also announced the beginning of the coalition’s “Telling You Again” campaign, which seeks to create a better campus environment for students of color.

When Reverend Jonathan Weaver arrived at WashU as a first-year in 1968, there were 27 Black students in his class. Just a few months after he moved in, Weaver helped organize a sit-in to protest an incident of police violence toward a Black student that led to meaningful changes on campus that are still in effect today, including the creation of the African and African American Studies Department. 

At 6 p.m. this evening, WashU alumni Rev. Jonathan Weaver will be addressing an audience at Graham Chapel to talk about his role in organizing a sit-in at Brookings Quadrangle in 1968 where students protested against racism. 

We call on the WashU administration to fill that information gap with improved access to all local media for the WashU community.

At the 38th annual Danforth Campus Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration, audience members gathered in Graham Chapel to hear various speakers and choirs address themes of responsibility, resilience, and justice, in accordance with King’s lessons.

After a year of development from student organizers, WashU will have its own chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This development comes after decreased Black-student enrollment this year following the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action.

While some WashU students flocked to the red, white, and blue decked polling locations on Nov. 5, hundreds of others carried out their slightly-less-ceremonious ballot submissions through absentee voting in […]