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“The recent strikes by grocery workers in Missouri, California and West Virginia are indicative of a general economic dissatisfaction that could potentially expand into a broader confrontation between labor and management,” says Neil Bernstein, an expert in labor law and legal issues relating to striking workers and a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, is closely following the grocery strikes.

Homecoming queen Bettey Jo Bussman (right) and her court in 1965. Homecoming is always a ritual at colleges, and Washington University is no different. Here, Homecoming isn’t just a day, it’s an entire week. This year, Parents Weekend is just a part of the Homecoming festivities. On Oct. 18, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will talk […]

Professor Stamos Metzidakis and wife Sarah are the fifth family to live in the South 40; “It’s been a wonderful experience so far,” Stamos says.

Democratic Rep. Melvin Price (seated), who served Illinois from 1945-1988, visits the University’s computer center in November 1958. Some of the equipment in the center had been used to track orbits of the Russian Sputnik satellites. With Price are (from left) Edwin Roth, cartographer and astronomer; Robert Carty, technical supervisor; and Harvey Cohn, director of […]

The following incidents were reported to University Police Oct. 1-7. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Oct. 3 4:54 p.m. — A student […]

Photo by Mary ButkusUniversity Trustee Andrew Taylor and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton chat with Enterprise Rent-A-Car Scholarship recipients at a recent dinner.

Terry Teachout, author of The New York Times Notable Book The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, will read for the 2003-04 Center for the Humanities’ Writers Series Oct. 13-14. Teachout will host two events while at the University. He will read from his work at 8 p.m. Oct. 13 in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 204. […]

Bijoy K. Ghosh, Ph.D., Eliot M. Fried, Ph.D., Kenneth J. Goldman, Ph.D., Jonathan B. Losos, Ph.D., Robert Pollak, Ph.D., and more…

Renowned critic Helen Vendler and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham will participate in a three-day discussion on poets and poetry Oct. 15-17 as part of the University’s Fall Reading Series 2003, sponsored by The Writing Program and the Department of English, both in Arts & Sciences. “Conversations About Poetry” will kick off at 8 p.m. […]

File photoLei Wang, Deanna Barch and John Csernansky review brain images at the Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research.Researchers are working to identify changes as early as possible in an effort to halt Alzheimer’s progress before people become severely impaired.