Author: Neil Schoenherr

More than 200 people participated in the Take Steps for Kids 5k run/walk April 17 to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters. Hosted by the Wash U Undergraduate Running Club, the race began and ended in Brookings Quadrangle. All proceeds from the race were donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri.

Six outstanding individuals will receive the 2010 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in the Knight Center. Founded during the Sesquicentennial year in 2003-04, the Ethic of Service award annually recognizes select members of the university community who exemplify a character of service and giving to the St. Louis region.

The Locks of Love hair donation and haircut event will be held from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, April 12, in the Fun Room of the Danforth University Center. Members of the WUSTL community who attend can donate 10 inches of hair to receive a free professional haircut or get a professional cut for a $20 donation.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton dons a Metro bus costume and participates with students in a March 31 walking dance improvisation outside the Danforth University Center to raise awareness for Proposition A and mass transit. Proposition A, on next Tuesday’s April 6 ballot in St. Louis County, is a one-half cent sales tax increase to support the operation and expansion of the Metro bus and rail system.

Fox News political analyst Juan Williams will present “The Capacity of America to Address Its Most Pressing Domestic Issues” for the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy’s annual dinner at 8 p.m. Monday, April 4, in the main dining room of the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center.

Participants in the annual Relay For Life, held March 20 and 21 in the Athletic Complex, pause to observe luminaria, each bearing the name of a person who has battled cancer. More than 1,500 people took part in the 12-hour event that raised more than $182,000 for the American Cancer Society to fund cancer research, advocacy, patient services and education.

The 2010 Census is almost here, and Census Bureau officials hope to get an accurate count of everyone living in the United States on April 1, 2010. Here’s everything students attending Washington University need to know.

A new chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the national collegiate Hispanic honor society and largest foreign-language honor society in the world, opened on campus with an induction ceremony March 22 in the Danforth University Center.

The Max Kade Center on Contemporary German Literature will celebrate its 25th anniversary by hosting the 20th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature, “The Ethics of Literature: Contemporary German Writers,” Friday through Sunday, March 26-28, in Room 276 of the Danforth University Center.

The social media giant Twitter began five years ago this month. While millions of people are using it to let their friends know about good places to go for lunch and what their kids are up to, it’s impact on business may be just beginning.