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The medical school’s Student Arts Commission is hosting a “Coffee House Concert” from 5:15-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, in the second floor atrium of the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. The concert showcases students’ musical and performance talents.

Merl M. Huntsinger (BU 47), who retired from Washington University in 1981 as treasurer and secretary, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, in a New Orleans hospital. He was 97. 

Sandra Brennan, longtime assistant to the dean of the Sam Fox School Design & Visual Arts, died at her home in Webster Groves Monday, Oct. 29, following a long illness. She was 73. 

With the change yesterday to standard time, darkness will come earlier in the evening. The Washington University Police Department offers several safety reminders as part of the “Don’t be in the Dark” campaign.

To be a great university, WUSTL needs to be a good neighbor. That’s the policy that guides Rose Windmiller and her colleagues in the Office of Government and Community Relations. “It’s important that we maintain good relationships with our neighbors and those in the St. Louis area,” says Windmiller, assistant vice chancellor. “The long-term health of the area is vitally important to the university. Faculty and staff live here. Our students live here.”

The U.S. Government Printing Office honored Olin Library for excellence as a Federal Depository Library. The library received praise for training other librarians.

At the annual Founders Day gala Saturday, Nov. 3, six outstanding alumni and two exceptional supporters will be honored for their dedication to Washington University.

The WUSTL Police Department is once again teaming up with the Kurt Warner First Things First Foundation and Operation Food Search for the 12th annual Warners’ Warm-up Winter Coat Drive. The coat drive takes place from Thursday, Nov. 1, through Wednesday, Nov. 14. The WUSTL police station will serve as a drop-off location for new or gently used winter coats for disadvantaged men, women and children.

Former U.S. Rep. Richard A. “Dick” Gephardt (D-Mo.) will discuss the 2012 presidential and congressional elections from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, in the Danforth University Center (DUC), Room 234. Gephardt’s talk, “A Political Insider’s Guide to the 2012 Election,” is free and open to the public.

Steven S. Smith, PhD, director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy and the​ Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science and professor of political science, will be featured on 60 Minutes at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, on CBS talking about partisanship and procedural warfare in the Senate.