Sociologist Pepper Schwartz will speak about sex, love, and life in a conversation scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16 in Graham Chapel. In anticipation of the event, Schwartz sat for an interview with Student Life to discuss the event and her views on sex, sexuality, love, and related topics.

“My whole friend group thinks me and my best friend are in love. I may have feelings for him, but I am worried it could ruin the friendship and the group dynamic. Should I make a move? Stay in the friend zone? What if he doesn’t like me back? How do I handle this?”

It’s Valentine’s Day. You’re reading the Sex Issue of your student newspaper, likely alone. And there’s a distinct moment where you think to yourself: This is embarrassing.

In an era where everything has become digitized, personal connection is often lost. In order to combat this, we should normalize taking our personal thoughts, writing them all down on a piece of paper, and sending them to that special someone. Not sure where to start or how to begin?

A Beyoncé bit, a marathon, an empty seat — the ways in which best friends meet and cement their friendship status can appear just about anywhere. While friendships are sometimes surface-level, routine, or circumstantial, best friendships are a separate tier, reserved for mutual number-one status. Maybe they’re the first person you invite to lunch, or the one you always call with news (good or bad), or the person you just miss the most when you’re separated. Regardless, that person is special in a way understandable only to the two people involved. Before a friendship enters this sacred territory, it starts with an ordinary moment.

At WashU in the world of 1963, Bonnie Holland was the “cute girl from Chicago” that Gary Arlen had met at a party the first week of college. She was smart, full of character, and had a dazzling smile. When they had class together their sophomore year, he approached her in what he described as “love at almost first sight.”

The sounds of chatter, hearty laughs, and jazzy piano music were all you could hear coming from Dardick’s first-floor common room on Saturday, Nov. 9. The up-and-coming Vitamin Water Club hosted its very first “VITAPROM,” where its members dressed up in their most formal, prom-like attire and enjoyed sipping on exactly what you would expect: Vitaminwater.

Matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom isn’t messing around when it comes to finding love, and college, she believes, is the perfect time to find a partner. The star of the popular Netflix reality show “Jewish Matchmaking,” Ben Shalom has helped bring together more than 200 couples and offered her advice to WashU students during her talk […]

Cars lie abandoned on highways where their drivers left them after the Cordyceps fungus infection spread in 2003. Although the majority of the show takes place in 2023, it is a realm that shares little resemblance with the world we walk around in today. 

Do we have to love someone to want them happy and free and alive?