A coalition of student groups advocating for the University to use disaggregated demographic data hosted a town hall prior to releasing a survey about different student identities.

Our campaign, Disaggregate the Diaspora, is based on the fundamental truth that those in positions of power—not at Wash. U., not anywhere—cannot serve students while generalizing individual diasporas into these wide labels.

You might expect to find a collection of elaborate designer gowns at a place like the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art; after all, two of the New York museum’s most popular exhibitions of all time were its recent Alexander McQueen and punk couture costume exhibits. You probably wouldn’t expect to find runway pieces of the same caliber here in St.