Do you remember being inundated with photos, news clips, tweets and Facebook statuses? It was the hottest issue at the time, the most important thing that people were talking about. No, I’m not referring to Bristol Palin’s planned visit during SHAC’s Sex Week earlier this year. I’m talking about the largest accidental oil spill ever to occur.

In collaboration with WUSLAM, Residential Area Real Art installed an exhibit in the DUC Visitor’s Lounge in response to the campus wide smoking ban, the oil spill and global pollution.

Dear Editor, Just after the last Student Life edition in spring, it was reported that WU Physics Professor Jonathan Katz was removed from a U.S. Department of Energy scientific team working on the oil spill due to his outspoken, self-proclaimed homophobia. The commercial press noted that his removal has drawn criticism from some conservatives.

Everything counts once it’s on the internet. Physics professor Jonathan I. Katz was asked by the Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu to join a team of scientists to help […]