Though many students are aware of how public high schools train them to become obedient 9-5 workers with limited creativity and personal opinion, I don’t think enough people notice this aspect of suppression. It stood out to me because I always felt like something was wrong, and I became combative without fully understanding why: I had to ignore an author’s endorsement of systemic and interpersonal discrimination and focus my analysis on textual elements. 

According to the results of this year’s Student Life Sex Survey, most Washington University students tend to date someone within the same school or division of major.

Washington University excels in its peer group of research institutions in advancing knowledge and conveying it to students through a world-class faculty. However, the University lags behind in providing some of the tools we need to work on our assignments, namely required software that is frequently not available to students at affordable prices.

To the unknowing passerby, the rowdy scene in McMillan Café on Wednesday evening might have resembled an unrehearsed, B-rated drag show. But the seven young men strutting around in dresses were no drag queens—they were contestants in the Mr. Engineering Pageant (EnPageant).

Junior Caroline Fernandez is on a quest—a quest to bring one marginalized group of students to the forefront of the Washington University population. OK, so “marginalized” might be a bit dramatic, but this group is certainly subject to stereotypes and misconceptions. “Engineers are not just nerds,” Fernandez said. “Engineers do other things…We’re human, too!