Those of us whose relationships to power are more contingent, more conditional should wield those tools at our own risk or, perhaps, not at all. Instead, we should model for our students what it looks like to destabilize the truth claims made by those in positions of power — with deep respect, but rigorously.

The story of the ROTC fires continues as producers Jeremy Slaten and Alan Zhou recount the tumultuous end of the 1969-1970 school year.

If we keep spreading the narrative that WashU is a place of suppression of expression, then yes, it will be a space of uncomfortable silence. We, the student body, have both passively and actively created that perceived reality for ourselves.

Washington University’s Board of Trustees recently established an ad hoc committee in response to last semester’s protests to examine the University’s open campus policies and promote campus safety.

I deeply value the intellectual community I have found at WashU, and am regularly struck with admiration for the students, faculty, and staff who constitute it. That is why it pains me to see our community represented in a national news outlet by such a morally unserious statement. WashU deserves better.

These policies reach beyond the scope of the suspensions after April 27. WashU administrators have the authority to evict students from housing based on subjective criteria and without an investigation, conduct hearing, or confirmation that the student has somewhere to go.

Washington University revised its Danforth Campus Facilities Access Policy and introduced two new subsections under the Safety and Security section of the policy. The new subsections outline the factors considered by administrators when determining event security needs and explicitly prohibiting sleeping or camping outdoors or in nonresidential areas without University approval. 

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can be better. We can have civil conversations about our perspectives and how they are informed by our individual lived experiences.

Several WashU students who were suspended after the April pro-Palestine campus protests interviewed with Student Life to recount their experiences with Washington University’s disciplinary process, discuss their grievances with the administration, and provide updates on their enrollment status.

After almost a year of students and community members demanding that Washington University cut ties with and divest from aerospace company Boeing, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Scott Wilson stated on Sept. 4 that, to the best of his knowledge, the University is not invested in the company at all. This statement was repeated by Chancellor Andrew Martin at the joint Senate and Treasury Student Union (SU) meeting on Sept. 10.