Last September, after April protests that resulted in over 100 arrests, the WashU board of trustees established an ad hoc committee to review the administration’s response to the protests. The committee’s findings and recommendations for how the administration should proceed were published in a final report early this morning.
Carrying a banner that read “WUPD protects property, not people,” students marched from Brookings Hall to the South 40 to call on University administrators to defund and abolish the Washington University Police Department, Oct. 24.
Washington University Graduate Workers Union organized their first protest of the semester during the Student Activities Fair this past Friday from 4:15 to 5 p.m.
On the unseasonably temperate first day of classes, students sat outside the Danforth University Center lounging on new Adirondack chairs enjoying the weather and catching up with friends. But just as the St. Louis community continues to face the effects of last August’s events in Ferguson, Washington University students continue to support the movements that followed.
Students garbed in black fell to the floor in Tisch Commons just after noon on Monday, simulating dead bodies and calling attention to the deaths of people of color as tour groups and students eating lunch looked on.
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