Author: Neil Schoenherr

The event, co-sponsored by the University, will begin and end at Brookings Hall and will wind through Forest Park.

Washington University reports no change in status regarding the student sit in since Thursday, when the University put forward its plan for supporting lower-paid contract workers. We continue to meet with the students, but no further agreements have been reached. We are relieved to learn they have ended their hunger strike.

Photo by Kevin LowderThe Graduate Student Research Symposium gave students an opportunity to present their work to a broad audience of diverse backgrounds.

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Photo by Kevin LowderEngineering student council members constructed birdhouses that will be sold at Thurtene Carnival; proceeds go to WashU Build.

Vice Chancellor for Students Jim McLeod and Dr. Alan Glass, director of Student Health and Counseling, met with the sit-in students late yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon in another attempt to discourage them from participating in a hunger strike. Dr. Glass advised the students on the serious health implications of their actions and provided increased warnings to any students who might have a chronic health condition or be taking certain medications. Dr. Glass plans to visit the students each day to assess their condition.

A sociocultural anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis spent 18 months in a Mexican convent in an attempt to understand young women’s motivations for leaving their homes, friends, school and independence to become a nun. Rebecca J. Lester, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, was also interested in understanding “what goes on emotionally, psychologically and spiritually with these women as they try to decide if they should pledge themselves eternally to Christ and the church.” Lester found while doing her fieldwork at the convent from 1994-95 that the more interesting question was “what kept these women there, day after day?” In her new book, “Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent,” released April 5, Lester sets out to explain the force of “the call.”

More than 120,000 people from the St. Louis area are expected to attend the event from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. April 16-17.

She has an interest in learning and memory, as well as the implications and applications of such research on educational instruction and policy.