Tag / Issue in Focus
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Missouri Compromised
George Washington wielded uncommon influence by seeming to transcend politics. John Adams nominated him to lead the Continental Army, seeing him as the unifying figure that could turn the thirteen colonies into the United States of America. During his presidency he warned of the toxic effect that political parties would have on American government, a…
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Coming to Terms with “Self-Segregation”
Washington University has a self-segregation problem. The problem does not lie with the communities centered around certain identities, but with the criticism and labeling of such groups as “self-segregating.” This term takes the word “segregation,” which is inextricably linked to a century of legalized oppression and applies it to individuals who find value in hanging…
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The Tenure Tradeoff
It’s Complicated Universities are peculiar organizations. A student’s relationship to a university can take multiple forms; but fundamentally, we, as students, are its customers. On paper, we pay to prepare for the rest of our lives, but anyone who has had a work-study job or a research assistantship will tell you that students are also…
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Special Wash U Politics issue is on stands now!
The latest issue of WUPR is a special report on the visible and behind-the-scenes politics at Wash U, our lovely, most-certainly not-socioeconomically-homogenous university. Read on to learn more about everything from tenure to the hegemony of Collegiate Gothic architecture to the man George himself.
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Wash U’s Sore Thumb
I have always been drawn towards Eliot Hall and I frequently study there. The building’s lack of Wi-Fi prevents me from engaging in any of the innumerable cyber amusements that impede productivity. Its drafty rooms keep me from dozing off. Perhaps my draw to the building is similar to Guy de Maupassant’s attraction to the…
