Student Union Senate passed a resolution urging the University to implement an expungement policy and expand it to include marijuana offenses.
Washington University participated in National Alcohol Screening Day, an initiative that provides outreach, education and screening to raise awareness about harmful drinking behaviors, April 6.
In an attempt to encourage students to seek medical help for alcohol-related emergencies, Washington University has implemented a medical amnesty and active bystander protocol.
A zero-tolerance policy banning alcohol consumption in the Lee/Beaumont Residential College is in effect until Tuesday after multiple students were sent to the hospital for drinking-related issues.
There are certain traits that the world’s most successful people share. Successful individuals are creative and hardworking. They pay attention to details and are highly sociable creatures. But there is another skill that I am willing to bet that they possess.
For some Washington University law students, “passing the bar” might well have been “passing out at the bar.” A Halloween celebration held at Anheuser-Busch Hall on Oct. 26 resulted in excessive drinking and allegedly culminated in students vomiting puddles in front of the building.
Mum’s the word on the drunken Halloween Party in the law school that led the school to impose a prohibition until the end of the semester.
Last Wednesday, the New York City Council voted by overwhelming majority to increase the smoking age in the city to 21. This was done as part of an initiative to stop the smoking epidemic and to increase health among the citizens of New York. But the problem of tobacco use cannot be stopped by something as crude as a ban.
Around 6 p.m. the afternoon of Friday’s Walk In Lay Down event, a small group of students were sitting in a freshman’s JKL room, with sealed bottles of alcohol visible and the door open, when they say a residential college director entered the suite.
Starting next year, healthy living communities for freshmen, more commonly known as substance-free floors, will be eliminated from the South 40.
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