When WashU responded to the cries of hungry students with a new “All You Care to Eat” program in Bear’s Den (BD), two investigative journalists hunkered down in a booth and got to the bottom of it. The bottom of the piles of food on our many plates, that is. That’s how we found ourselves sitting under the blue BD lights on a Friday evening, catfish, chocolate cake, and tuna salad sandwiches piled up in front of us. Let’s rewind a bit to when we wandered into BD, which had transformed into a utopia for grubby little goblins such as […]

10. DUC Showers For a quick, during-the-day hookup between classes, why go all the way back to the South 40 or the Village when you can get down right in the middle of campus? Located on the second floor of the Danforth University Center, the public showers might provide a perfect quickie.

I am in no way qualified to give advice. I’m a freshman. I’m the baby of the family. I’m underage. I learned something this weekend, though, and I think it’s important enough to share. I learned that even when you are 19 years old and can’t wait for tomorrow, there are always people who won’t make it. For some people, this is it.

One of the major selling points of Washington University is that almost 80 percent of students live in University-owned housing for all four years.