Rep. Josh Gottheimer spoke to a select group of WashU students about the ongoing government shutdown, the state of American universities, bipartisanship and compromise in Congress, and the future of AI in a fireside chat last Friday.

This weekend, 35 Washington University students went to Washington, D.C. to join with other protestors in forming a ring around the White House. They were protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would connect the Canadian tar sands to oil refineries in Okla. and Texas.

Well my friends, we have come to the end. Soon, I’ll join the land of politicos in Washington D.C., to whom political arguments come more naturally than breathing. My family has lived in D.C. since my freshman year, and although I love living in a 68.3 square mile area packed tightly with a sea of navy blue suits, it’s hard to acknowledge that I will have to join the fray of voices in the most political city in America.

Undergraduates at Washington University have taken the nation’s capital by storm as part of the new Washington University Semester in D.C. Program.

“Reason is how mankind advances. If we were afraid of everything, we would have never harnessed the power of fire,” Jon Stewart said on Saturday. Only a handful of the 155 Washington University students who took a 16.5-hour bus ride to Washington D.C. heard these words.

An appeal to subsidize a bus trip taking 165 students to “The Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 30 was funded by the Student Union Treasury Tuesday night.

Watch out, D.C. Washington University students will soon have the option of going to Washington, D.C., in a semester-long D.C. immersion program.