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Record: News for the WUSTL Campus & Community March 7, 2011  
 
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Victory for free speech with note of concern

The Supreme Court’s decision March 2 that a military funeral protest by Westboro Baptist Church is protected by the First Amendment is a free speech victory, but “there is one note of concern for free speech advocates, which is the opinion’s toleration of ‘free speech zone’ theory,” says Neil Richards, JD, constitutional law expert and professor of law. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21986.aspx

 
 
Washington People: Joseph Loewenstein

Many modern copies of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto IV include the phrase “glitter and light” when describing the beauty of Queen Lucifera. But is that the phrase Spenser intended to depict the monarch? This is one of many questions Joseph Loewenstein, PhD, professor of English in Arts & Sciences, tackles as an editor of a new Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21908.aspx

 
 
Trustees meet, hear presentations from medical school faculty

At the Washington University Board of Trustees meeting Thursday and Friday, March 3 and 4, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton reported on a number of recent developments on the Medical and Danforth campuses. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21988.aspx

 
 
Emergency siren tests today and tomorrow

WUSTL will test its emergency sirens at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow as part of a Missouri statewide tornado drill. The drill is part of Missouri Severe Weather Awareness Week March 7-11. The Tuesday siren test is in addition to St. Louis City’s and St. Louis County’s monthly siren test today and the university’s WUSTLAlerts test Wednesday, March 9. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21985.aspx

 
  TODAY’S CALENDAR HIGHLIGHT (http://news.wustl.edu/Pages/Calendar.aspx)
  • 4 p.m. Dept. of Psychology Lecture. “Grumpy Old Men (And Women)? Not So Much.” Susan Charles, assoc. prof. of psychology and social behavior and nursing science, School of Social Ecology, U. of California, Irvine. Wilson Hall, Rm. 214. (314) 935-6567.
 
  ANNOUNCEMENTS (http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20115.aspx)
  • Take the WUSTL Sustainability pledge. Students, faculty and staff can show their commitment to sustainability by taking the WUSTL Sustainability Pledge at SustainabilityPledge.wustl.edu. The pledge asks those who sign it to live more sustainably at their workplace, school and home by reducing personal energy consumption, producing less waste, conserving resources and recycling.
 
  NOTABLES: Faculty, staff and student news and achievements (http://news.wustl.edu/CC/Pages/Notables.aspx)
 
  WASHINGTON PEOPLE: Joseph Loewenstein (http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21908.aspx)
 
  SPORTS (http://news.wustl.edu/CC/Pages/sports.aspx)
  • Softball takes trip south. The softball team took part in the Warrior Spring Fling in Conway, Ark., Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6, facing MacMurray College, University of Dallas and Hendrix College. Visit bearsports.wustl.edu to see how the softball team and other WUSTL teams competing over the weekend — women’s basketball, women’s tennis and baseball — fared.
 
 
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