Open communication

Photo by Mary ButkusUniversity administrators met with students for a Tuition and Financial Aid Forum Feb. 16 in Wohl Student Center.

Women share UAA title; host second-round game

The No. 11 women’s basketball team is the University Athletic Association champion — again. The Bears claimed a share of their seventh straight conference title with a 73-47 win Feb. 28 at the University of Chicago. With the win, the Bears earned a 15th straight appearance in the Division III NCAA Tournament. WUSTL will host […]

Protecting knowledge

Ever since his stint as a naval officer, Charles R. McManis, J.D., the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law, has repeatedly traversed new and complex waters. McManis’ unusual path to the law and teaching has taken him from sailor and burgeoning philosopher to the forefront of biopiracy prevention and digital intellectual property law in […]

Assembly Series: Sontag to address effects of violent images

Do images of the injured and dead have any effect on their viewers? Do images of suffering and violence generate compassion, arouse hunger for revenge, or do nothing? More than a quarter-century ago, preeminent writer and cultural critic Susan Sontag wrote a seminal work on the power of imagery that established her as one of […]

April Fools

Photo by William MathewsSecond-year law student Gina Mitten took over as “Dean for a Day” April 1 at the School of Law.

Chancellor’s Concert to feature new commissions

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Washington University Chamber Choir will present the 2004 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. April 25 in Graham Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public. It will feature the premiere of three new compositions — commissioned for the University’s Sesquicentennial — by Harold Blumenfeld, John MacIvor Perkins […]

Safe and Secure: Low-income kids benefit from safety program

Photo by Tim ParkerRandall S. Jotte shows Tondra Holman how to secure her 1-year-old daughter, Kenisha, in a car seat.A University program provides car and booster seats to Missouri children at the highest risk for motor vehicle injury and death.
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