In a special election Monday, students voted to amend the Student Union constitution to allow block funding to appear on the fall election ballot, as opposed to the spring ballot as in previous years.

A last-minute change in the way block funding will be allocated for next year has left some student groups scrambling to put together budgets that would normally be due in the spring. Five block funded groups, Uncle Joe’s, Campus Y, Emergency Support Team, S.A.R.A.H.

Dear Editor, This letter is in response to the article “Free birth control limits abortion, WU study finds” published on October 15th, 2012. After reading your article and the study cited in the article, the logical conclusion for me was that insurance providers should be required to cover all birth control methods without co-pay to make it even more accessible.

An estimated 1,000 more students than last year flocked to Brookings Quadrangle on Friday for the fall W.I.L.D. concert. Among the nearly 5,000 students in attendance, some who needed medical attention at the paramedics’ tent in the Quad were turned away for lack of space, said some students staffing the event.

The Emergency Support Team, better known as EST to the rest of us, is one of the main lines of defense on Wash. U.’s campus against our occasional mishaps. This leads us to question why Student Health Services (SHS) would cut EST funding by $8,000.

This fall’s W.I.L.D. ended with the highest number of student injuries than any other in recent memory—and more serious ones than ever before—leading to concern from administrators.

Student Health Services has cut Washington University’s Emergency Support Team’s funding by $8,000 due to departmental budget cuts. Though the cut will not affect the services that EST offers, students who want to join EST will have to pay around $1,000 to be trained.