Author: Neil Schoenherr

Students may come home exhausted from the stress of final exams.When college students return home for their winter break, it can be an adjustment for the entire family. While parents may have preconceived ideas about how the family will spend the holidays, students are anxious to try out their newfound independence. “The winter break is the first extended time at home for most freshmen since they left for college in the summer,” says Karen Levin Coburn, associate vice chancellor for students and dean of the freshman transition at Washington University in St. Louis. “The first semester at college may have been their first glimpse of freedom. They wonder if it is possible to go home and still maintain their newfound independence.” More…

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis elected Gordon W. Philpott, M.D., an emeritus professor of surgery at the School of Medicine, as a member, according to Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor. A recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award, Philpott graduated in 1961 from the Washington University School of Medicine, after earning his bachelor’s in 1957 from Yale. He joined the University surgery faculty in 1968, focusing his efforts on treating breast cancer, as well as colorectal cancer.

The Bear Necessities store in Wohl Student Center will be holding its annual holiday sale from 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. Dec. 5. All WUSTL insignia merchandise already marked down will be offered at 50 percent savings.

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Benefits-eligible employees and full-time students who have completed registration for the spring semester may request a spring 2007 U-Pass.

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The Record Monday and Record Thursday will not be published next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Look for the next Record Thursday print and e-mail editions Nov. 30 and the next Record Monday e-mail Dec. 4.

Claudia BurrisThe Siteman Cancer Center unveiled its new mobile mammography van at a ceremony Oct. 24 at the Center for Advanced Medicine. Members of “Menopause the Musical,” a traveling stage show celebrating women undergoing the midlife change, performed at the event. The new van, one of just 10 in the country with digital mammography equipment, offers convenient screening in community-based settings.

The fall Universal Transit Pass, allowing WUSTL community members to use Metro, the region’s public transportation system, for no charge, will expire Dec. 31. Benefits-eligible employees may request a spring 2007 U-Pass beginning Nov. 27. Students may request a pass beginning Dec. 1.

The Department of English in Arts & Sciences has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Big Read programs next semester. Modeled on successful “city reads” programs, the Big Read is a new national program designed to encourage literary reading by helping communities come together to read and discuss a single book.