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DUC chairs get a new look

Oct 31, 2024 | studlife.com | Abbie Sapira

Frequent visitors to the DUC’s second floor may know the orange, oldened-with-use armchairs that have been a staple of the second floor for many years. As of Oct. 8 this year, they have been replaced with 16 new gray chairs. Manager of Furniture & Design at WashU, Audrey Metz, oversaw this change amongst other recent furniture projects, which include a number of places on the Danforth and Medical campuses. Metz said in a statement to Student Life that the DUC chairs needed to be replaced.
Rated Unfit: WashU’s course evaluation system

Oct 23, 2024 | studlife.com | Abbie Sapira |Anya Rao

As the fall semester wraps up, you are swarmed with the stress of finals and the anticipation of winter break when you see the email appear in your inbox: “Reminder: Course Evaluations Are Open.” Begrudgingly, you decide to address them sooner rather than later, going through the motions of rating professors on inconsistent scales and answering the same multiple-choice questions 50 times over. Only if you have a really strong opinion do you leave a comment on the form.
Make me a match: Jewish matchmaker proves matchmaking is still in style

Apr 17, 2024 | studlife.com | Abbie Sapira

Matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom isn’t messing around when it comes to finding love, and college, she believes, is the perfect time to find a partner. The star of the popular Netflix reality show “Jewish Matchmaking,” Ben Shalom has helped bring together more than 200 couples and offered her advice to WashU students during her talk in Graham Chapel on April 9. “Don’t leave university without your person. And you [may need to] go back and get higher education and get another degree.
SU Treasury funds Chabad, Black Senior Alliance, among other clubs

Feb 28, 2024 | studlife.com | Abbie Sapira

Student Union (SU) Treasury heard appeals from 11 clubs and organizations, including Chabad and the Black Senior Alliance, and approved appeals amounting to $57,832.57, Feb. 27. Treasury representatives also voted in favor of an amendment to allow SU Senate to make changes to proposed resolutions during regular meetings before they are voted on, whereas previously, if senators wanted to make substantive changes to a resolution, it had to be sent back to the committee that proposed it for approval.