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a letter from the editor A welcome from Student Life’s editor-in-chief to this year’s issue of ‘The Starting Line’ Emma Baker | Editor-in-Chief Hello readers and let me be one of many to welcome you to Washington University!

Sitting down to write this letter, I had a chance to reflect on the past few years as I prepare for my final year here. In many ways, I had the inverse experience of what I imagine many going off to college expect.

Despite spending the first 18 years of my life moving roughly every two years, St. Louis was where my family would travel back to for holidays or where we would take quick visits in between moves. In many ways, St. Louis had always served as my de facto home.

Despite all the familiar comforts of knowing St. Louis, I was still new to the Wash. U. community and I was not at all prepared for how that newness would feel in my first months of school.

It took the better part of that year to find my stride. After time, just like many others who felt the same, I soon met friends who were, and continue to be, exceedingly kind and generous. Together, we supported each other through brighter moments—like our late night library and newspaper deadline sessions or while exploring all that St. Louis has to offer—and the more challenging moments, like when we all unexpectedly had to leave campus, not knowing where or when we would see each other in person again.

These were the people who would make Washington University feel like home for me. As I look back on my time on campus, it is my hope that you, too, find these relationships that will challenge, comfort and carry you

through your time here.

In this letter, I’m tasked to give advice informed by my long (read: three year) time on this campus. Regardless of where you’re studying from, here are some things that I learned and wish I would have known (or learned) earlier: 1. This is time-honored advice, but I will repeat it because it’s so true: Get to know your professors and take advantage of any available office hours. That protected time to talk to an expert in their field is a really special way to engage with course material and will help you to appreciate the class more than you might have already.

2. Google Calendar will never betray you.

3. Critique Washington University and stay aware of the power and influence it holds as an institution.

Advocate for change and learn how to use your voice to support those around you who also push for a better, more equitable and more fair place for everyone.

4. Borrowing from above, when you become part of the Wash. U. community, you also become part of the St. Louis community. Educate yourself about St. Louis and the network of systemic inequalities in this region and then use your privilege to advocate for change.

5. No matter how focused you are while studying, please remember to drink water and take stretch breaks.

Especially that last part—your back will thank you for it.

6. Make time in your schedule to take classes with interesting course descriptions or classes that will

teach something new, regardless of your major, current career plans or what you *think* you should be studying. Those will be some of the ones where you will learn and grow the most.

7. If you’re living on campus this year, you should do your laundry at either odd hours of the day or during unorthodox times of the week (my personal favorite is Wednesday mornings before 8 a.m.) You’ll have your pick of machines and won’t need to worry if you’re a few minutes behind when the wash or dry cycle ends.

8. Figure out what you need to do to feel centered during the inevitable stressful moments of school and practice that when you need it. The first year of college represents a new chapter in your life; try your best to be kind and patient with yourself.

9. Take your work seriously, but try to not take yourself too seriously.

10. Appreciate that your worth as a person is not and will never be defined by your performance in class. Work hard, but work hard for you and the people and things you care about, not just for an A on your transcript. Grades are important, but the knowledge you gain in college is worth a lot more than what is shown in a GPA. 11. The baked goods from Cherry Tree are rarely a bad idea. I will use this space to let you know that the cheesecake-related desserts are quite often an excellent idea.

12. Be gracious to your peers and all those who make up the Washington University community, especially when you don’t have to be.

I feel that a lot of college advice I received (and that I am also guilty of giving) is centered around the idea that the best, most challenging, most thought-provoking parts of the undergraduate experience happen in moments not regulated by the classroom or by capital-A Academia.

They happen in your common room, in dining facilities, during the minutes of chatter before class begins, I was told. Spoiler: They’re correct.

My college experience has been immeasurably shaped—and reshaped—by these “in-between” moments of my time here. As we all prepare for a new kind of semester, I hope you know that these experiences are not bound by place.

Rather, they’re defined by the people you’re with, and that doesn’t change whether your desk is in a dorm room on the South 40 or thousands of miles away. You’re about to meet people who will challenge your assumptions and broaden your worldview. You’re about to meet people who, in enough time, you will care about unconditionally and they will feel the same about you. Whether you meet these people over a webcam or from a safe few feet away, take the time to get to know them and keep your mind open. I promise the rest will take care of itself.

I hope that we will get to see each other in person soon enough. Take care.

Warmly,

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CENTRAL WEST END: at the heart of it all MEET THE STUDENT LIFE STAFF: Emma Baker Editor-in-Chief editor@studlife.com Matthew Friedman Associate Editor Jayla Butler Kya Vaughn Managing Editors Em McPhie Ted Moskal Senior News Editors news@studlife.com Kya Vaughn Senior Forum Editor forum@studlife.com Isabella Neubauer Sabrina Spence Senior Cadenza Editors cadenza@studlife.com Benjamin Simon Senior Scene Editor scene@studlife.com Dorian DeBose Joshua Shapiro Senior Sports Editors sports@studlife.com

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Students and administrators work toward changes promoting racial equity

by Em McPhie | Senior News Editor Following months of petitions circulated on social media and town halls held over Zoom, Washington University students and administrators are unveiling steps toward racial equity — some more concrete than others — to be taken during the coming semester.

One such student-led initiative is the WashU Takes Responsibility campaign, which was formed by junior Moriah Johnson and several other Black students in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.

“It seemed as though there was a disconnect between what was going

on in the world and at Wash. U.,” Johnson said. “It seemed like a lot of our peers, or even friends, weren’t really saying anything or talking about what was going on.”

When she approached her friends to ask about the disconnect, Johnson continued, many said that they were unsure of how to approach the issues.

These conversations inspired her to start approaching reforms at the classroom level, with changes such as shifting the required readings for incoming freshmen to be focused on social impact.

Johnson emphasized the value of increasing representation in course

curriculum, such as integrating case studies that focused on Black and Latinx businesses.

“As Black students, we are barely represented among our peers, we’re not seen in the case studies in our actual education, we’re not seen in the administration and staff,” she said.

“At the end of the day, what message does that send to us?”

“We go to an institution that is very wealthy and also produces very wealthy people,” said junior Kam Mack, who is working with Johnson on reforms within the Olin Business School. “I thought there was a really big opportunity to change some of

these outlooks and perspectives among the student body and staff, given that these people are going to be future leaders of business and industry, and will be setting policy that will affect countless minorities and Black individuals in the years going forward.”

Junior Sparkle Whitaker, who is leading the initiatives for Sam Fox, said that they were focused on solving problems such as “little to no scholarship on the negative impact of Western architecture’s expansion into different communities, and minimal business and financial literacy training for our creatives.”

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STUDENT LIFE | THE STARTING LINE “The solutions that we created ultimately depend on changing the curriculum structure and partnering with campus resources,” she said.

One of the most requested elements in the campaign was holding facilitated discussions that forced people to confront uncomfortable topics surrounding race, Whitaker added.

“Talking and sharing experiences is the first step to making anyone accountable for how we inflict harm or practice injustice against each other,” she said.

Another WashU Takes Responsibility initiative is creating a pipeline to increase Black and brown Ph.D. candidates, a step toward the long term goal of diversifying the University’s faculty and staff.

“When we talked about how we wanted to see more Black and brown professors, the pushback we got was that there aren’t that many,” Johnson said. “You have to have the resources at the elementary school level to get into a great high school, resources in high school to get to a great college, resources in college to get to a great graduate program, graduate program to Ph.D. — it really starts at the basic level, and it’s going to take a while.”

At a virtual town hall hosted by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion on July 22, Martin acknowledged racism within the University’s hiring practices, pledging to work towards more inclusive systems.

“I think in particular, as we look at the ways in which we recruit and support our students, our HR practices around our staff, the way in which we recruit and support our faculty, that we have systems in place that disproportionately affect people of color in adverse ways...and that’s something that we need to work on,” he said.

Junior Nana Kusi, one of the students leading the WashU Takes Responsibility initiatives for the College of Arts & Sciences, wrote an open letter to the biology department in June, asking administrators to commit to decolonizing the curriculum, diversifying the department and desegregating the campus climate.

“It is not news that the academic

world, and particularly science, has a history of being racially marginalizing...

Despite being located in a city that is 45.9% Black, the enrolled Black student population of both undergraduate and graduate students in the spring of 2020 at Washington University in St. Louis is reported to be a dismal 10.68%,” Kusi and Ph. D student Rhiannon Vargas wrote.

Mack referenced the letter, pointing to the dire consequences of racial bias in the medical field.

“That can, in some cases, directly contribute to Black lives being lost,” he said. “We shouldn’t just talk about what you need to know to do your job; we should talk about what morals you should carry with you, what things you should be aware of. If we’re not aware of these things, if we ‘don’t see color’ and don’t see people for their differences in perspectives, then we can’t combat these things.”

Johnson highlighted the relevance of racial equity to all areas of education.

“Some people might not think this is important to study within the business field — just keep it in [Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies] or anthropology or sociology,” she said. “But at the end of the day, your finance or accounting or any of those degrees don’t matter if you can’t work in a diverse team.”

At the CDI town hall, Vice Provost Adrienne Davis expressed gratitude for student-led initiatives.

“Part of the history, unfortunately, of universities continuing to move forward in these areas is of student activism...so thank you for your advocacy and your commitment,” she said.

“You shouldn’t have to do it, but we’re grateful to you.”

Martin agreed with the importance of student advocacy, saying that the University community should hold the administration responsible for the commitments it has made.

Other student calls for action have been made through anonymous Instagram accounts such as @ blackatwashu, @metoo_washu and @ abolishwashuwpaandifc.

Martin said that he had read through the Instagram accounts, as

well as through the Twitter hashtag #BlackInTheIvory about racism in academia.

“I do want to say how sorry I am that these are the lived experiences of members of our community, and Black people in particular,” Martin said. “I’m grateful that folks have stepped up to share their stories [and] shed light on issues such as racism and sexual assault within our community.”

However, the administrators were still unwilling to support the abolition of Greek life, echoing their sentiments from a panel the week prior.

“I hear the painful stories,” Wild said.

“But then I also hear people in that community who want the administration to figure out a way to preserve the fraternities and sororities on campus, which sets up a very difficult conversation for how we resolve two different narratives about the experience.”

Administrators took a similar approach to addressing student demands for the defunding or elimination of the Washington University Police Department. Such calls have recently come in the form of a petition from a coalition of Black students, signed by over 7,400 people, and a Juneteenth platform from the Black Law Students Association and the WashU Undergraduate and Graduate Workers Union.

“Some members of our community think it’s very important for us to increase our police presence...Of course, we can’t do both of those things simultaneously,” Martin said.

“And so this is, I think, the most complicated issue for us to deal with in the upcoming academic year.”

“The University is neither placating nor adopting these policy suggestions that have come from a large group of our students,” he added. “What we are doing is we’re taking them seriously.”

Johnson emphasized the importance of listening to and then acting upon the needs of marginalized students.

“At the end of the day, everything that we and other students are saying has a purpose, and it’s coming from

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a real place of hurt and frustration,” she said. “We wish we didn’t have to do any of these things, but it’s the change that we want to see in our University...hopefully the University continues to take those steps of hearing our concerns and then addressing them.”

Martin pointed to the financial pressure caused by the pandemic as an added barrier to large-scale reforms.

“This does not in any way diminish our commitment to act — it simply means we must address those concerns intentionally and thoughtfully, given the constraints that we’re operating under,” he said.

In April, the University projected a revenue loss of $175 million by the end of the fiscal year and placed 1,300 workers on furlough. While CARES Act funding was initially proposed as a potential revenue source, the University ultimately rejected the $6.4 million it had been allocated.

In spite of these challenges, Nicole Hudson, assistant vice chancellor for the Academy for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, said that the newly announced Equity and Inclusion Council would hopefully remedy the University’s previous lack of durable structures that represented multiple departments and had the power to bring about real systemic change.

“That will be a durable, sustainable body of accountability and transparency to move us from the demand and response pattern that we have been in for decades and decades and decades, and perhaps into a more co-creational space where we can really acknowledge what it means to move inside an institution and push some of that forward,” Hudson said.

Whitaker encouraged all students who were interested in getting involved with WashU Takes Responsibility to contact the representatives for their school.

“Simply reach out and ask questions or offer new perspectives and ideas...step up when there is an opportunity for you to be an advocate for yourself, but, more importantly, for your peers,” she wrote. “Trust me — there will be people at your side ready to help.”

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Student activist groups plan to adapt to WU’s social distancing guidelines Ted Moskal | Senior News Editor Student activist groups at Washington University have begun planning to adapt their goals to the University’s social distancing guidelines, which were released in the fall 2020 plan, July 31.

Currently, these guidelines require that all indoor meetings of organizations or groups with more than ten participants be approved by Campus Life. Fewer than 25 people may gather outside with approval from Campus Life, but gatherings of 25 or more people will be prohibited anywhere on campus.

For groups such as the Wash. U. Undergraduate and Graduate Workers Union (WUGWU), Fossil Free WashU and Title Mine, mass gatherings have been a consistent staple of their activism. In previous years, these organizations have held rallies, protests and marches with hundreds of participants.

This summer, WUGWU worked with the Black Law Student Association to hold a march for Black lives on Juneteenth.

This semester, these organizations

will be faced with a unique challenge: how to stay politically engaged while still protecting the health and safety of those participating. For WUGWU executive committee member Grace Ward, this means that WUGWU’s activism might take a different form.

“Our plan is to continue to act as we do, which is to advocate for our membership and to do that mainly [through] direct action, putting pressure on the administration, the board of trustees and other power holders of the University,” Ward said, “but in a way that's going to look strategically different, in terms of the actual material form of the actions.”

Ward mentioned that WUGWU will be also attempting to improve its online media presence and focus more on recruitment.

SU President sophomore Ranen Miao brought up the possibility of innovative solutions such as vehicle-based protests, protests with socially distant spacing or even entirely virtual protests,

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Wash. U. Undergraduate and Graduate Workers Union organized their first protest of the semester during the Student Activities Fair in September 2019.

which could involve phone banking or emailing legislators.

“I think the most important challenge is helping to ensure that students can stay civically and politically engaged while also allowing people to stay physically safe in this time,” Miao said. “How can we ensure that these engagements continue to happen while also protecting the health of those students, especially the most vulnerable students in our communities, such as students who are immunocompromised, for example, and who wouldn't be able to go to these protests, how can we create these spaces that are inclusive of them?”

However, Ward maintained that direct action such as in-person protests are still an important part of WUGWU’s work, and noted that the University has historically used similar excuses to curb student activism.

“We're not going in with a strategy of being by default unwilling to break University guidelines,” Ward said. “But also we recognize that there [are] some very important issues to advocate for, and we recognize again that the administration puts holds on student activism for whatever reason that they can at any time.”

When asked if he would support a protest that did not necessarily follow all University guidelines, Miao said that it would depend on the level of social distancing as well as the overall message of the protest.

“I support students in their civic right to express their freedom of protest, freedom of speech, freedom of petition and peaceful gathering,” Miao said. “As long as people are doing it in a safe way, there doesn't seem to be a reason to have to stop protests in a way that infringes on people's rights.”

For activist organizations such as Leaders in Interpersonal Violence Education (L.I.V.E), which focus more on group facilitations with University-affiliated organizations rather than mass gatherings, the new guidelines pose a different challenge. According to L.I.V.E. Greek chair senior Steven Kish, L.I.V.E. is still in the process of deciding whether or not to host in-person facilitations.

“Candidly, one of the really difficult things to wrestle with here is that part of the facilitation experience is an in-person experience,” Kish said. “It's about being in a room together. There are certain pieces of a conversation that really...would be lost without being in person.”

Other important factors being considered are weather, which could limit outdoor gatherings as the seasons change, and inclusion of students who have chosen to go fully online for the semester.

“The University is discouraging really any meetings that can't be held outside,” Kish said. “So, once it gets past September or October, we're talking about [having meetings] inside. Also... there's a lot of people who we don't want to leave out of the work that's being done…just because they're not [at school] in-person.”

Regardless of how student activism occurs this fall, Miao emphasized the importance of having an active and informed student body.

"These organizations do incredibly meaningful work on our campus,” Miao said. “So Student Union looks forward to supporting L.I.V.E and T.R.U.T.H and every other activist group on our campus as we move into this transition to a hybrid fall 2020 semester and ensuring that our community...can still have these really meaningful conversations.

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After WU announces fall plan, juniors and seniors scramble to find off-campus housing Matthew Friedman | Associate Editor With Washington University’s announced fall semester plan only guaranteeing housing for freshmen and sophomore students, many Washington University juniors and seniors who had housing contracts with Residential Life for the 2020-21 academic year have had to search for off-campus housing.

Approximately 1,600 upperclassmen had their contracts canceled, interim Dean of Students Kawanna Leggett said in a town hall.

Following the University’s July 31 announcement that juniors and seniors would not be guaranteed housing, apartments in the neighborhoods near campus have been hard to come by, students said, as people have snapped

up leases. Students also reported seeing that some monthly rents had shot up.

“I think it’s not fair to [the students],” Student Union President sophomore Ranen Miao said. “To see this policy come out pretty late about how students are going to need to find off-campus housing or not come back to St. Louis was really hard to hear, because I know that a lot of students just didn’t have the appropriate time.”

The decision to only guarantee housing for freshmen and sophomores comes as the University seeks to reduce the density of campus housing and limit the spread of COVID-19, but many students echoed Miao’s

sentiment, expressing dismay that the announcement had not come earlier.

Because the University did not expand on how to find alternate non-University housing in the initial July 31 email, senior Jessica Yu organized resources to help low-income and other students find off-campus housing and figure out how to weigh their decisions financially.

“The University should have done it sooner. They had four months and then they gave students five days,” Yu said, referring to the 5 p.m. deadline on August 5 for students to tell the University whether they would be studying in person this fall. “They could have told students earlier so that they actually had time to prepare for it,” she said.

With that deadline bearing down and the start of the semester just six weeks away, students immediately started looking for places to live. “As soon as the email came out Friday, I was like ‘This is a mad search, everybody is looking. I have to do this as fast as possible,’” junior Katie McGilvery said. McGilvery had planned to live in University housing at the Village before the announcement.

“So many units have been taken up so quickly that I know a lot of students are worried they won’t be able to find something close to campus,” she said. Even when students found lists of available apartments, they found that many had already been taken.

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“I’ve never had more calls in that span of time,” he said.

The University also contributed to students’ housing challenges by reserving 450 beds off-campus, at locations ranging from Everly on the Loop and the Moonrise Hotel, a boutique hotel on the Delmar Loop, to individual properties owned by Quadrangle, a University subsidiary. The University’s contract with Moonrise covers all 125 rooms at the hotel and will last the entire academic year, hotel general manager Jake Westcott confirmed to Student Life.

Some juniors and seniors will be able to live in University-owned housing, but only after going through a special housing selection process.

The Office of Residential Life later provided resources for finding off-campus housing in an email to students on Aug. 4, featuring a list of tips for the housing search and including a link to the University’s Apartment Referral Service, which lists apartments in neighborhoods surrounding the Danforth Campus and has a tool for finding roommates. Yet, as with the initial announcement of the fall plan, students decried the email as coming too late.

“They waited to send out that email,” McGilvery said. “It just seemed like they didn’t care.”

On the afternoon of August 6, McGilvery was finally preparing to sign a lease on a two-bedroom apartment in the Skinker-Debaliviere neighborhood after a week of looking for a place. “I was very anxious,” she said. “Every morning I would wake up, immediately get on [apartment hunting websites] and pore over apartment after apartment. I would get really upset for the rest of the day if I couldn’t find anything.”

The reports of rising rents only amplified that frustration. “It seemed like all of these apartments were suddenly going for more than they were worth,” McGilvery said. “I definitely feel like prices may have been inflated because of the urgency.”

The thought of not being able to afford an apartment worried her throughout the week, as communications from Student Financial Services had been sporadic and confusing. The University has said that students can use their financial aid package to cover off-campus housing as long as they are not living at home, but McGilvery wished that the University had sent an email telling students how much of their rent they could expect financial aid to cover. “[The University] really put it on students to ask [SFS] for help” rather than being proactive with financial aid, she said.

Finding nearby apartments themselves, let alone relatively inexpensive ones, was a struggle for many. As of Aug. 6, there were just 12 two-bedroom apartments and 14 three-bedroom apartments on ARS in the 63130 and 63112 zipcodes, which cover the popular neighborhoods north and east of campus. As a result, students have been searching for housing in neighborhoods where they typically do not look for apartments, from downtown Clayton to the Central West End and the Grove.

Junior Lacy Wilder was one of the students who abandoned the neighborhoods close to campus. Prior to the announcement, Wilder and her roommate planned to live in Residential Life housing. After a day of calling landlords and realtors, the pair ended up in Clayton, a mile and a half away from campus. “It was like every time we would call a place, it had just gotten filled. It felt like there were 4000 people trying to compete for 100 apartments,” Wilder said. “The realtor from the place that we ended up going with was telling me that she couldn’t even make it two minutes without getting a phone call.”

As more students found housing and could start to solidify their plans for the fall semester, Miao said there is still work to be done. “I empathize with every single person who is struggling,” Miao said. “We will continue working with Residential Life to make sure that we’re able to address the housing crisis that’s happening right now.”

Editor’s note: Residential Life was unavailable to comment at the time of publication. Student Life will update the online version with comments from Residential Life at studlife.com.

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A year in review: COVID-19 pandemic cuts 2019-20 year short Jayla Butler, Em McPhie and Ted Moskal | Senior Editors Although students were hit with the news that Provost Holden Thorp would be stepping down from his position over summer 2019, this wasn’t the last of summer news. In June, the WashU Undergraduate and Graduate Workers’ Union (WUGWU) also began to see some of their advocacy work pay off when Washington University announced its plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2021.

After construction that lasted nearly the entirety of the seniors’ college experience, students finally got to see the finished product of

the East End Transformation, which brought changes in the form of a newly-restored Brookings Hall, Sumers Welcome Center, Weil Hall and Schnuck Pavillion, to name a few.

While students were trying out the new kiosk ordering system in Parkside Cafe (and saying farewell to Holmes Lounge and Etta’s), the Kemper Art Museum reopened after a year of being closed for renovations and welcomed renowned artist Ai Weiwei to campus.

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Brookings Quadrangle to welcome Martin into his new role. During the ceremony, Martin announced the Wash. U Pledge, a commitment to provide free tuition for low-income students in Missouri and Southern Illinois.

Another important announcement at Martin’s inauguration was the

news that rapper A$AP Ferg would headline Fall WILD. Kiiara, Mindchatter and student rapper Gosha Guppy also performed at WILD, drawing crowds of students out to Brookings quadrangle.

Later in the month, the Social Programming Board invited comedian Eric Andre to headline the fall

comedy show. At the comedy show, Andre’s performance was a bit more toned down, but nonetheless managed to entertain the hundreds of students who attended.

October ended with the alarming results of the Association of American Universities (AAU) Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct. According to the survey, 42.5% of undergraduate women will experience nonconsensual sexual contact by their fourth year at Washington University, up from 33% in 2015. Organizations such as L.I.V.E. and Title Mine expressed distress over these new statistics, but administrators and student activists pledged to work towards decreasing sexual misconduct on campus in the future.

Student Union Senate also passed the Green Energy Resolution, which called for the University to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035, among other goals. Additionally, student groups such as Fossil Free Wash.

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continued to pressure the administration to take action on a number of issues such as divestment from fossil fuels, a living wage for all University employees and need-blind admissions over the course of the fall.

The very first day of the spring semester opened with an email from Martin to the student body announcing plans to increase WUPD presence in neighborhoods surrounding the University as well as increasing the number of shuttles. The new initiatives were in response to a string of crimes from fall semester, including an incident where a City Faces volunteer had their car stolen during scheduled programming, resulting in the temporary cancellation of all further programming. But in January, the group relaunched with a new framework and more targeted programs.

Later that month, students received an email from Executive Director of Habif Health and Wellness Center Cheri LeBlanc reassuring them that they had little cause to be

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Meanwhile, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from a former Wash. U. student who had been expelled in 2018 after being found guilty of sexual misconduct. Title Mine representatives applauded the progress the University had made since then, but pointed out how much still needed to be done. Just a couple weeks later, the Greek community was rocked by new allegations.

The $52 million Loop Trolley was shut down at the end of 2019 after generating less than 10 percent of its projected revenue from the first year of operation, but in February, the leaders of the project attempted to resurrect it, with the chairman saying that in his mind, the project had not yet really started.

At the end of February, five separate advocacy groups—SU, WUGWU, Title Mine, Green Action and WU/FUSED—joined together in a coalition to present 10 demands to the administration, such as increased mental health services and the demilitarization of WUPD. The coalition, named WUnited, held a rally outside the DUC with around 50 students in attendance.

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Lori White announced at the beginning of March that she would be leaving Wash. U. to serve as the first Black and first female president of DePauw University in Indiana, telling students in an email that she hoped to be an inspiration to a new generation of leaders.

By March, the University community had already begun to see the impacts of the impending pandemic with the cancellation of the Shanghai study abroad program, the return of students studying in Italy and an increase in xenophobic dialogue. On the first day of spring break, students were informed of new travel and event policies following the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in St. Louis.

Just two days later on March 11, administrators instructed all students not to return to campus and announced the extension of spring break by one week. Professors faced challenges in switching their classes to a virtual format, and students panicked as they struggled with financial worries and a lack of personal belongings.

Seniors were heartbroken over the Chancellor’s decision to cancel the commencement ceremony, but a new committee promised a unique celebration at some unknown point in the future.

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Athletes, athletic department prepare for fall without sports Dorian DeBose and Josh Shapiro | Senior Sports Editors Washington University will not participate in varsity athletic competitions this fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The cancellation applies to traditional fall sports such as soccer, cross country and football, as well as baseball and softball, which play non-traditional seasons in the fall. The University’s July 22 decision to cancel the season came after a summer of considering possible avenues for competition.

According to Athletic Director Anthony Azama, creating the unique experience of fall competition while prioritizing the safety and well-being of

student-athletes proved to be nearly impossible. “The reality of it is—and if anybody tells you differently, they're not being honest— the virus is going to dictate what's possible,” Azama said.

“Having safety and well-being as the priority, it just became too obvious.”

For student-athletes, the cancellation was not unexpected, but the news still stung. In addition to confirming their worst expectations, the announcement forced them to reckon with the significance of losing the fall season.

“I think with the way things were going with COVID numbers in the country, it was hard to be fully optimistic that we

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were going to play,” women’s soccer senior Ellie Moreland said. “I was kind of in the mindset of ‘Expect the worst and anything better will make you feel okay.’ But even with that, hearing the news just hit very differently than I expected because I thought I was prepared for it. But it's just that sudden realization that ‘Wait, now it's real’ and I'm not going to be on the field again, then I'm not going to have preseason.

I'm not going to be with my team. All those things slowly hit you.”

Players on the Wash. U. football team found out about the cancellation of fall sports just an hour before the athletic department announced the decision.

Head coach Aaron Keen emailed the team to invite players to a Zoom call where he broke the news.

Senior quarterback and punter Tim Tague recalled seeing other schools and conferences cancel their sports in the weeks leading up to the University’s decision. For Tague, as with Moreland, as reality set in, he began to feel the weight of the announcement.

“It seemed unrealistic for all these other schools to be canceling while somehow we’d still be able to have a season, but it's definitely different when you hear it officially,” he said. “We all obviously had some expectation that this was a real possibility, but when you first hear it, especially for me and the other seniors, that potentially your last time playing football was not on the field but kinda on a Zoom call, it’s pretty upsetting.”

For senior athletes, the cancellation may mark the end of their playing careers. While some players are considering taking the year off or using their fourth year of NCAA eligibility as a first-year graduate student at Wash. U. in the future, many will begin preparing

for the next stages of their academic and professional careers.

“I think it's different for everyone; maybe it's gonna be focusing on med school, or maybe it's gonna be focusing on some other type of athletics like starting a new sport and something like that,” said Moreland, whose focus has shifted from soccer towards her senior thesis and graduate school. “Because soccer is such a big part of our fall, we really do need to find another way to expend our energy and to spend our free time.”

According to Tague, since there are still so many uncertainties—including the possibility of moving the football season to the spring—few players have made decisions yet.

The cancellation also throws a wrench in the process of integrating first-year players on their respective teams. For freshmen, their teams are the group they initially connect with.

Losing the structure of their sports poses an unfamiliar challenge.

The football team had previously met over Zoom to discuss planning questions for the fall and get to know new faces, but Tague observed that the meetings did not come close to the experience of having everyone together for the typical early August preseason.

“I feel horrible for a lot of the freshmen for whom one of the big reasons they were coming here was to play,” Tague said. “It’s not easy for any grade level, but I think for the freshmen and the seniors it hits the worst, if I had to guess.”

Conversely, women’s volleyball junior Michaela Bach noted that the unconventional summer had actually helped her better get to know the incoming freshman. “The freshmen have been able to meet the team over Zoom this

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summer and I think we are actually the closest we have ever been with the freshmen thus far in the summer because we have been so active over Zoom and FaceTime,” Bach said.

In spite of the season’s cancellation, some teams remain hopeful that they will be able continue to practice together, albeit appropriately socially distanced from one another. “The magic happens in practice anyways, so we're not missing that much by not being able to travel and have a real season,” said junior cross country runner Gabby McGinn.

Despite the difficulty of creating a team culture without the bond of sports, Moreland remained determined to welcome freshmen even without knowing what that entails in the age of COVID-19. “The team is our biggest asset and our connection as a team is one of our biggest assets, so even if we might not be contributing to playing with the team this year, we still want to be able to leave that legacy of the team that we had worked so hard to build,” she said. “I think once we all kind

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The football team plays during an opening day victory over the University of Chicago last fall. This season would have been the first for head coach Aaron Keen, who replaced Larry Kindbom, the winningest head coach in program history.

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McGinn also noted that almost all of the cross country runners also participate in track and field, a spring sport. Though many of the senior cross country runners may have run their last races, there is still a glimmer of hope that, come spring, Wash. U. sports will be back in action, providing seniors on the Bears’ cross country team one last chance to run together.

How each team engages with their players will be a quandary throughout the fall semester. The athletic department is in uncharted territory: For the first time in over seven decades, sports

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will not be a fixture on campus. As it has for departments around the country, finding answers in unprecedented times has become the daily task of players, coaches, staff and administrators in the athletic department.

“The reality of it is I don't have all the answers, but I'm going to do my due diligence to make sure we're putting ourselves in the best situation possible,” Azama said. “There is no blueprint for this. I mean, if you told me that I would go possibly two semesters without seeing young people develop and grow through an athletic curriculum of competition, I would probably look at you as if you had three heads. But the reality is this is reality.”

Additional reporting by Matthew Friedman.

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BOTTOM: Members of the women’s volleyball team celebrate during a win against Cornell College last August. The Bears finished the season 24-9, making it to the NCAA tournament before falling to No. 5 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the first round.

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The Danforth campus is equipped with six bike repair stations with air pumps and tools for basic tune-ups.

For those who are able, biking is the quickest way to get around. Chose a used or refurbished bike from local non-profit B-Works or rent one from student-owned Bears Bikes, who also sells at-cost helmets for $15.

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Ways to get involved with the arts on campus Sabrina Spence | Senior Cadenza Editor One thing I love about Wash. U. is the myriad ways that you can involve yourself in the arts on campus.

Everyone you talk to might be premed, but that doesn’t mean they don’t sometimes grace the stage as part of one of the Universities many student groups. Whether you’re musically inclined or find your peace painting in the studio, there’s a place for you.

Audition for a cultural show Wash. U. has 4 large cultural shows each academic year—Diwali, Lunar New Year Festival, Black Anthology and Carnaval. These shows are an important part of the

WU cultural community, providing insight and theatrical performances that highlight the diversity in cultures at the University. The different cultural shows have different formats and cover different aspects of these communities, but each allows you to shine, whether that be as an actor, a dancer or in any other role. If performing isn’t something that you’re interested in but you’d still like to be part of the action, each organization accepts applications from freshmen to add to their board in order to help plan the performance and the promotional events surrounding it, so don’t worry. There’s still a place for you.

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Take a Sam Fox class Have you ever been interested in the visual arts but never really had the time to take it on? Then you should take advantage of the course offerings at Sam Fox. Taking a Sam Fox class can be a great way to dive deeper into something you’re passionate about outside of your major or minor. You can take a class in Digital Photography or something outside of the box like Blacksmithing. No matter what your interest, there’s a class that can peak it.

Get involved with student theatre While Wash. U.’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) provides students with the opportunity to perform on stage, the student theatre groups on campus—Cast N’ Crew, Thyrsus and All Student Theatre (AST)—make it possible for students to take complete control over what they bring to life through theatre. All shows produced by these student groups are student created from start to finish, from the directing and the acting to the design elements.

U. is thriving, with 13 different acapella groups catering to a wide variety of genres. If you’re interested in singing Broadway showtunes or K-Pop hits, you’re bound to find your acapella beat. If singing isn’t your thing and you prefer to dance to the beat of your own drum—or someone else’s—then audition for one of the dance groups!

Performing all different styles of dance, you can learn bhangra, salsa, or ballroom dancing to name a few.

And don’t worry about having previous experience before you audition, because everyone is welcome, from beginners with a peaked interest to people who’ve been taking lessons their whole life.

If those things don’t sound like your cup of tea, there are numerous instrumental groups covering a wide range of musical styles from WU’s first ever mariachi band to some of the more traditional avenues. There’s beatboxing and juggling and even improv. There’s so much to satisfy your appetite in terms of performance groups on campus that there’s something for everyone.

Take a dance class There are plenty of opportunities to take a dance class at Wash. U. whether through the PAD or through UCollege. While the PAD has more traditional dance classes like ballet, hip-hop and jazz, taking a UCollege class can be that added something special to your schedule, whether you’re taking a ballroom dance class or foxtrotting your way through the semester.

Join a performance group Whether you’re a singer, a dancer or interested in any other type of performance art, there’s a group for you to join. The acapella community at Wash.

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Socially Distanced Entertainment Isabella Neubauer | Senior Cadenza Editor Over the last few months, it has often seemed like entertainment options have virtually vanished.

Movie theaters have closed, with major movie releases being pushed to later in the year. Highly anticipated movies like Marvel’s “Black Widow” and “A Quiet Place Part II” are now scheduled for release in late fall, while others like “In The Heights,” based off of the musical of the same name, have been pushed all the way to summer 2021. Concerts have been rescheduled or canceled, as have other live events like comedy shows and theatre. Even Fall WILD was canceled!

With all of the closures and cancellations due to covid, keeping entertained in the fall semester can seem like a challenge. Whether this is your first semester at Washington University and you’re struggling to find things to do in a new environment, or you’ve been here for a while and are wondering what a socially distanced good time can look like, here are some suggestions.

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A guide to mental health support systems for the fall semester Benjamin Simon | Senior Scene Editor Mental health support can come in a variety of forms across campus. For some students, it might mean anonymously chatting with an Uncle Joe’s counselor at 1 a.m. For others, it might mean joining a BearFit dance class at the Sumers Recreation Center.

During quarantine, mental health is more vital than ever. But as Dr. Thomas Brounk, the director of Mental Health Services at Habif Health and Wellness Center, emphasizes, “This is a shared struggle. Everything is harder. So if you are experiencing increased levels of stress, increased frustration, your fuse is shorter, difficulties with adjusting, concentration, it is so hard now to say that is a sign of anything really wrong with you. It’s almost normal to be experiencing those kinds of difficulties.”

Below, we will outline some of the support systems available at Washington University, how they have adjusted to the virus and how they are looking ahead to the fall semester.

Please note that as the University’s pandemic policies continue to change, so will these organizations. Continue checking their websites and social media channels to stay up to date.

Professional mental health services: Habif Mental Health Services at Habif will largely operate online throughout the

fall system. Wash. U. students in the state of Missouri can receive professional telemental counseling sessions through Zoom. However, if the student is not currently in Missouri, they cannot receive the same Habif psychological services, such as therapy, due to legality issues. Instead, they can participate in Mental Health Check-In Appointments over the phone, where counselors listen to students in confidentiality, provide them with tips and connect them to mental health services in their area.

If students return to campus in the fall semester, Dr. Brounk said the counselors at Habif will only meet with them in-person in “limited” cases, where they “may need possible transport to a hospital or be further assessed in a secure environment.”

During the online portion of the spring semester, Habif couldn’t provide many of its normal mental health services. For example, their Group Therapy Services, which range from “Living with Loss” to “Stress & Anxiety Toolkit,” were cut down and programs like Let’s Talk, walk-in counseling sessions that require no paperwork or appointment, were canceled.

Habif will offer its after-hours support line as well, where students will be directed to a mental health professional at Provident, a St. Louis based behavioral health organization.

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For the fall semester, most of these Habif programs will exist virtually. They are even adding new groups, like one for Black students and students returning from leave. Katharine Pei, the director of the First Year Center (FYC) and a four-year advisor, has found the Group Therapy Services particularly effective for students over the years. Although Dr. Brounk said they are still working through the logistics of Let’s Talk, it will return, ideally through Zoom.

Throughout the pandemic, Jordan Worthington, the assistant director of Mental Health Outreach and Programming at Habif, made more of an effort to improve their social media activity.

She shared informative, easy-to-read graphics about the importance of sleep, isolation in the virus and meditation. She plans to continue this throughout the fall.

As the semester progresses, Dr. Brouck encourages students to offer suggestions.

“I just want students to know that because we’re experimenting quite a bit right now that if they have feedback for me, for us, they can email me or call,” Dr. Brounk said. “I’m always interested in hearing and doing whatever we can with the resources we do have to best support all of you.”

For more information visit their website and social media channels.

Student-led groups & connecting with resource Wash. U. features multiple student-led mental health organizations, including Uncle Joe’s, a peer-counseling group, and the Sexual Assault and Rape Anon-

ymous Helpline (S.A.R.A.H.). Freshmen students also have access to Washington University Student Associates (WUSAs) who can provide personalized support and direct students to trained mental health resources.

Uncle Joe’s offers anonymous counseling for students. Before the pandemic, students could speak with an Uncle Joe’s counselor over a 24/7 phone line or through their in-person walk-in service.

“We are not professionally trained but we are peers,” counselor senior Lorenzo Solon said. “We are trained to talk about a lot of the same things that a professional counselor can talk about.” As a resource center, Uncle Joe’s counselors refer students, if they need it, to additional University and St. Louis-based mental health resources.

After shutting down in the spring, co-director senior Braden Patton said the group intends to operate next semester but they are still solidifying the plan. Patton explained it could include some combination of Zoom, phone or in-person counseling.

“I’m sure a lot of people are feeling really isolated...We definitely want to be there for Wash. U.’s community and to try to help out and listen to people whenever they need people to talk to,” Patton said.

Visit the Uncle Joe’s website and social media pages for more information.

WUSAs are another resource that students can use to discuss their concerns and receive direction as student leaders who help freshman students transition to college.

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Habif Health and Wellness Center plans to operate mental health services virtually, utilizing telemental health counseling for students in Missouri and phone check-in appointments.

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Sumers Recreation Center will promote physical health by continuing its virtual BearFit classes, such as Zumba and yoga, this fall.

counseling and how to deal with things like that,” junior Shubham Tayal, a member of the FYC Executive Board and WUSA chair, said, “but they are trained to understand the resources that Wash.

U. does provide.”

Although WUSAs are normally paired with a residential college, this year they’re each randomly assigned 17 students, whom they’ve already sent a personalized email and phone call. The FYC, which runs the WUSA program, has created an interconnected online network for freshman students to meet other students. Among other features, the network includes various affinity groups, like Latinx, LGBTQIA* and faithbased groups, for students to join. Pei said the program is similar to Facebook groups.

“We wanted to make sure that they had a sense of community,” Pei said.

Staying active Even during the pandemic, students will be able use the Sumers Recreation Center to unwind after a long day.

The recreation center will have a soft opening on August 24, with a cap on the amount of people permitted in the gym. Students can reserve a time slot before entering. The basketball gym will be closed.

During the pandemic, Sumers moved its BearFit group classes online, which includes pilates, dancing, yoga and zumba classes with certified instructors. So far, they’ve livestreamed and posted these classes on their Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channels.

Throughout the fall, the majority of BearFit classes will continue to take

place online. They can be found on their website. Meghann Feely, the assistant director of Fitness & Wellness, added that she is considering hosting some classes outside. They will reevaluate as the semester progresses.

“We’re starting off a little gentle,” Feely said, “giving ourselves a little bit of grace...Unfortunately, a lot of people come through gyms. Even our clean gym is still a dirty gym. So we just want to make sure that we’re keeping everyone as safe as we possibly can.”

Jordan Worthington of Habif said that maintaining a routine is especially valuable during the quarantine. For her, that includes a daily morning run. In her downtime, she has explored nature and suggests that students swim at Castor River Shut-Ins, which has 1.5 billion year old granite rocks, or hike at Taum Sauk Mountain, the tallest point in Missouri.

Feely calls it “holistic wellness,” noting that improved physical health often improves mental health.

“Everybody [at Wash. U.] are these amazing achievers and you guys dive 110% into everything you do, which means that we need to support the renewal of that energy,” Feely said, adding that the rec center “offers things that refill everything so [you] can go back the next day and give classes, student groups and things like that 110% without that burnout.”

Feely suggests that students download the rec center app, which will include class schedules, class sign-ups and the ability to reserve time slots.

“We’re trying to make this complicated thing as simple as we possibly can,” Feely said.

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My experience at Zoom University in St. Louis Samra Haseeb | Staff Writer Upon discovering a piece of shocking news, individuals often develop a vivid, ‘snapshot’ memory—also known as a flashbulb memory—that inscribes the moment of reveal into their mind forever.

At my young age of 18, my most recent flashbulb memory might just be March 11, 2020: the day that Washington University students were notified we would not return to campus after Spring Break because of COVID-19. I am willing to admit that after reading the email, I sat in my room bawling for quite some time. Despite having spent just over a semester at Wash. U., I could not

imagine life without Bear’s Den mozzarella sticks and daily meetups with friends at a Whispers Cafe booth. And despite loving my family very much, I dreaded the thought of studying from home. I knew transitioning to remote learning was the right thing to do, but the shift just felt so impossible. How could college lectures of 200+ students move online?

I can now confidently say that through the efforts of University faculty and a whole lot of virtual communication, virtual Wash. U. was made possible. While students enjoyed an extra week of Spring Break, profes-

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sors used that time to reconfigure courses and adjust syllabi as needed. For a few weeks, I would wake up every morning to an inbox full of check-ins and information about how things would operate during these “unprecedented times.” But all things considered, the semester online went much better than I anticipated.

I had two classes that were taught via prerecorded lectures, two that were taught via live video calls and one that was a hybrid of both. One of my live courses was Beginning Arabic which met at 9 a.m. five days a week.

I should note that I am not typically a morning person, but in a time when “uncertainty” was the word of the day, every single day, I was honestly grateful to retain some sense of normalcy.

Even with the freedom to watch prerecorded lectures, I discovered that establishing a regular schedule made everything feel much more manageable. I did things in the same sequence I would have on campus: 9 a.m. Arabic, breakfast, walk, classes, lunch, post-lunch procrastination and then sometimes more class. The process of schedule-building also included watching lectures at varying speeds to determine how fast I could finish while still grasping the content.

Two times speed was a total game changer.

The desk in my house’s basement became the official hub of my schoolwork; enduring the poor WiFi connection was worth it in exchange

for the space and quietness. And between videos posted to Canvas and Zoom meeting links emailed by the masses, my remote learning routine gradually fell into place.

For those who may not know, Zoom is an application that provides online video and audio services through conference meetings.

I must confess I had my doubts about it going in, but Zoom did exactly what it needed to do. Features like screen sharing, chat messaging and breakout rooms enabled the interactive aspect of classes to remain intact. And at some point, everybody started customizing their virtual background— the sole explanation I have for saving images of random locations around campus on my laptop.

The other thing about Zoom is that it broke down the formalities in a college course. It was suddenly like we entered each other’s houses: dogs barking in the background, parents walking in to yell at you and sometimes tuning in to meetings while literally lying in bed.

My one Zoom-related tip: If you are like any normal, distracted student, keep your video on during meetings to guilt yourself into paying attention.

I can tell you personally that being called on by your professor only to realize you have no idea what’s going on because you’ve been scrolling through Tik Tok the last half hour is not the move.

Recognizing that we will continue online learning to some degree this

STUDENT LIFE | THE STARTING LINE fall, I hope to start off with a better outlook than I had on March 11; circumstances may not be ideal, but the ultimate goal here is still to learn. I also hope to take advantage of Zoom office hours held by professors and TAs, which I regret feeling too awkward to attend this past semester.

The semester online brought a lot of hidden benefits. I have a better handle on what it looks like to structure a school day without physically being at school, and my Zoom expertise has grown exponentially—especially considering I had never heard of it before March. Now the application has come in handy to catch up with friends, celebrate the birthdays of people from my residential hall floor and even execute a few quarantine family game nights.

I know that regardless of what happens this upcoming semester and beyond, we will make the most of the experience. The best thing about college is that we are all going through it together. Distance—and even a global pandemic—could never take that away.

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An Ode to Your FOMO Jamila Dawkins | Forum Editor We get it. You’ve spent four years trying to escape high school to get to college, and now that you’re finally here, your freshman fall—the very start of those famed “Best Four Years of Your Life”—has been rocked by a global pandemic. While it’s important to remain positive in the face of an upside-down world, it’s not wrong to point out the obvious: you, the class of 2024, will miss out on a lot of fun events—some long standing traditions, some spontaneous—in this upcoming semester.

Washington University’s student clubs and organizations are innovating to create a fun freshman fall regardless, but

some of the best elements of freshman fall—the crowded, sweaty, chaotic, definitely not socially distant elements—will necessarily be missing.

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Mind you, these events aren’t necessarily canceled for fall semester—but they will most certainly be altered.

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of their four years. It starts at around 10 p.m., when the bounty begins to be set out: waffles, pancakes, ham, eggs, bacon, muffins, croissants, cookies and fruit, among other breakfast favorites.

Another tradition of the night: Moonlit breakfast, where Black students hold down booths in Bear’s Den, bring speakers and effectively organize a dance party in the middle of the dining hall. Last year’s Moonlight was characterized by a winding line running through Bear’s Den, an ample buffet, packed booths filled with laughter and pulsing, loud music. Moonlight, in its full glory, is decidedly not socially distant. But it’s

certainly something to look forward to in upcoming, less dire semesters.

Vertigo: Vertigo is an annual rave organized by EnCouncil and Wash. U. Engineering. Hosted every fall semester, Vertigo transforms the Lopata Gallery into a dance party complete with black and neon lights, a live DJ, booming EDM music and free food and drink. One of the most notable parts of Vertigo is the vibrant illuminated dance floor, designed

by Washington University’s chapter of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This is often the most packed section of the dance floor, with students struggling (even pushing

STUDENT LIFE | THE STARTING LINE and shoving) to stand for a few moments on the bright, pulsing lights. While you may not get to experience the chaos of Vertigo this semester, you can expect to dance to your heart’s content in the upcoming four years.

Scream at the Sky: Scream at the Sky is exactly what it sounds like: Students gather in the center of Mudd Field before final exams start and holler at the sky to their heart’s content. Previously “organized” by students as a way to relieve stress before tackling finals, Scream at the Sky is unlikely to occur in fall semester—unless attendees stand six feet apart and scream into their respective face masks. It’s hard to imagine an event like this happening before next year’s fall semester. By then, ideally, you

will be able to handle your finals stress in a healthier, quieter way—but should you want/need to, you will hopefully be able to yell into the void with your peers.

Jugglers and magicians—in class: Many professors struggle with encouraging class attendance and engagement. Even you, dear incoming student, have probably heard (and celebrated) the fact that attendance is more lax in college. Professor Michael McLaughlin, infamous at Wash. U. for arranging both jugglers and magicians to visit his accounting class, has tackled this problem head-on, drawing crowds of students to his lectures—students not even enrolled in his class. It’s unsure what classes will look like in the fall, and it’s almost certain that they won’t contain spontaneous

magic shows, but if you opt to take one of McLaughlin’s classes in the next four years, perhaps you’ll learn how to juggle both finances and bowling pins.

Lunar New Year Fireworks Show: Organized by the Lunar New Year Festival (LNYF) and the Asian Multicultural Council (AMC), the Lunar New Year Fireworks Show is a celebration of the upcoming year as well as a display of Asian culture at Wash. U. The show is preceded by free food, performances by LNYF and booths that similarly celebrate Asian culture. The cherry on top of the night is the dazzling fireworks show on Mudd Field. It’s a great way to better engage with the holiday while on campus, support Wash. U.’s Asian cultural groups, and relax at the start of

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a new semester.

While this is only a small sampling of in-person activities that will have to be modified for fall semester (with the exception of LNYF, which happens in the Spring), hopefully they will set your sights on the normalcy that will eventually settle back over our campus. This semester isn’t representative of your entire four years—in fact, maybe the only thing we can be certain of is that this semester will be entirely unique. While we continue to wear face masks, wash our hands, maintain social distance and make the most of a pandemic-ridden fall 2020, don’t lose sight of all the in-person eating, dancing, spell-casting and socializing that lies ahead.

To the Class of 2024, you’re not alone Caitlynn Bohanon | Class of 2022 Welcome to Washington University, Class of 2024! The past six months have been a blur for everyone, and 2020 doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. Amid the pandemic, social justice movements, TikTok bans and more, we are all trying to figure out where we fit into society’s ever-changing structure while still attempting to enjoy our college days. Following Chancellor Martin’s announcements of our University’s plan for fall 2020, there are a lot of feelings going through the minds of students everywhere—and I can only imagine adding on the nerves, excitement and curiosities of entering college on top of everything that I am currently feeling.

Entering college is already a scary time, and doing so during a pandemic is almost certainly not the way you have always intended it. I encourage you to take the time to check in with yourself to ensure that you are staying healthy mentally and physically throughout this time. This was especially important for me, as someone who is the oldest of

four siblings and who was the first person in my family to move away for college. I always think about what my dad told me when I expressed how nervous I was to be on my own and so far away from everything I knew. He said, “Don’t worry, give it two weeks and you will be just fine! After two weeks, you will have no idea why you were so worried, and you will have acclimated to a whole new lifestyle.” Let me tell you, my transition to college was definitely not two weeks. I did not feel like myself again until nearly Thanksgiving Break of my first year.

Looking back, I put so much pressure on myself to get acclimated, to get my life together and start having the same kinds of fun that I was seeing everyone else have so quickly after our loved ones drove away from campus.

If there is any advice that I can give you—outside of all the basics that you have heard 1,000 times—it would be one simple thing. Relax. Try not to put so much pressure on yourself to have everything figured out. College, Wash.

U. specifically, is a place where mostly

everyone is really good at faking it. Everywhere you look, it may seem like everyone around you knows exactly what they are doing. The reality is, however, if you look really close, you will see that everyone is just as much of a mess as you are in those first few months of college, and we all just express it in different ways. The point is, the world is so incredibly stressful for everyone, especially right now, and you are no doubt going through some of the biggest changes of your life in the coming weeks. Try not to internalize everything you’re seeing around you; that is the least you can do.

Now is not the time for you to expect perfection for yourself. Now may be the time for you to just exist.

Being a Peer Health Educator, I have slowly learned how to process everything that I am feeling and apply it to my outlook on the world. Corona-time has been no different, except now all of the days blend together and no one seems to be wearing pants at any given time.

Take the time this fall to process everything that will inevitably be thrown at you.

There will be so many emails and Zoom calls and CNN alerts that you may not know what to do with yourself, and that is perfectly okay. Try to take comfort in the fact that everyone is feeling this.

Allow yourself to be overwhelmed, then take some time to practice self-care (however this looks to you), process the information, get a good night’s sleep and keep going.

With all of that being said, I really do hope that you enjoy your time here at Wash. U., and understand that, while things will look very different for now, we are right here beside you. Your Wash. U. community is here to support and guide you through this time, from six feet away of course. As we move into this new era of college life at Wash. U., I hope that we can, as a community, continue to advocate for change, stay informed and aware of public health concerns and work as hard as we can to maintain a positive outlook on the situation that we are in. So let’s mask up, social distance and make this semester the best it can be.

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Emma Baker is a senior double majoring in English and Computer Science. Starting as a news reporter, Emma joined the paper her first week of freshman year and has not left the office since. At any given moment, Emma can be found searching campus for hot water to make a cup of tea, slowly accumulating books from the library and subsequently forgetting to return them until the very last minute (sorry, Olin) and trying to not feel too bittersweet that this is her last year on the paper. Oops, too late. She can’t wait to welcome the incoming class to the Washington University community and to Student Life, should you feel so inclined, whether that be on campus or just virtually.

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Matthew is a rising junior from New York City. You don’t need to know that, though, because if you ever talk to him he’ll inevitably find a way to bring up New York within the first 90 seconds of your conversation. He is a lifelong fan of bagels, pizza and trains who, upon arrival in St. Louis, was seriously alarmed by the lack of any of those things here. But he has come to appreciate the region and now recog-

nizes the importance of solid barbecue (particularly when it is accompanied by Pappy’s sweet potato fries). The first email Matthew ever sent as a Student Life reporter inadvertently went to a 250-person email list. He was forever mortified, but he kept writing for the paper. Matthew is majoring in Political Science, yet halfway through college, his knowledge of politics mostly just consists of a 129-point list of how Mayor Bill de Blasio has failed New York City. Last year, he served as a senior sports editor. His favorite stories have been the women’s soccer team’s playoff push last fall and an oral history of the men’s basketball team’s final week before the season was cancelled.

While the pandemic may prevent Student Life from having endlessly fun production nights on the third floor of DUC, Matthew can’t wait to get started on another year of work with the paper.

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jayla butler managing editor Jayla Butler is a junior from Naperville, Ill. working through her intense discomfort for writing about herself in the third person. At the start of freshman year, Jayla decided she wouldn’t get involved with anything journalism-related after doing it for most of her high -school years, but here she is anyways.

Last year, she served as the paper’s senior news editor and is beyond excited to be a managing editor for her third year at Wash. U. She can’t wait to continue being a part of the Student Life staff, in whatever socially distant form that means this year. On the rare occasion that she’s not in the StudLife office, she can usually be found in Bauer Hall at any given point in time stressing out about her career prospects while listening to Pitbull’s “Hotel Room Service.”

kya vaughn managing / senior forum editor Kya Vaughn is a senior majoring in Biology: Neuroscience (Pre-Med track) with a minor in Writing. She was born and bred in St. Louis (technically St. Charles, but close enough) and she’d likely rather be at the St. Louis Zoo then wherever she is currently. Kya has been writing for Student Life since her first year at Wash. U. Although she has dabbled in most sections of the paper, Kya found her home in Forum, eventually journeying into the roles of senior forum editor and managing editor.

She loves her work at Student Life and the people who make the paper possible. When she’s not reading an op-ed (which are not written by staff writers, by the way), you can find her watching cartoons, baking at midnight or crocheting hats.

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em mcphie senior news editor Em is a junior from California who didn’t start writing for Studlife until last semester, despite being on the email list since her first week of college. She came to terms with never having a stable career years ago, so she’s blissfully majoring in Communication Design and minoring in Writing. Em spent the last two summers in D.C. as a tech policy reporter and editor, where she learned that there’s no law too insignificant to spark hours of heated argument.

When she’s not arguing about something, she’s a big fan of taking long walks, playing trombone and reading her favorite authors, Ada Limón and Kaveh Akbar. She can’t wait for another year of filling news stories with her favorite punctuation mark— the em dash, obviously—and all the controversial quotes that she hopes you, dear reader, will give her.

ted moskal senior news editor

Ted Moskal, a junior from Gloucester, Mass., is double majoring in History and International and Area Studies

with a minor in Russian Language and Literature. Ever since Ted’s SOAR leader, former Editor-in-Chief Elena Quinones, introduced him to the world of StudLife, he has kept returning to the office for top-notch journalism and fun production night banter. Outside of StudLife, Ted is a group leader for the Wilderness Project and is currently interning on congressman Sean Casten’s re-election campaign. In addition to running recreationally, sailing and playing tennis, Ted also enjoys irritating his suitemates by taking up all of their floorspace with increasingly large jigsaw puzzles. This summer, Ted is attempting to reconnect with his New England roots by learning how to fish. Unfortunately, his efforts so far have only yielded a few large chunks of seaweed, but he hopes to catch at least one keeper before returning to the landlocked state of Missouri.

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benjamin simon senior scene editor

isabella neubauer senior cadenza editor / copy chief

Benjamin Simon is a senior studying American Culture Studies and Writing. He is a proud Philadelphia native and loves to remind everyone around him. Benjamin lives in the Wash. U. rec center, but when he’s not hooping, he’s probably eating too many Three Kings wings with his friends or watching “The Wire” on rewind for a sixth time. After three years as a sports staff writer, Benjamin is excited to branch out and cover a new set of topics on campus as the scene editor.

sabrina spence senior cadenza /social media editor

Sabrina Spence is a junior from Memphis, Tenn., majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and double minoring in Drama

and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Back when pre-orientation programs were still a thing, she signed up for FreshPress and has not left the StudLife office since. Even though she’s the loudest person in the office, she probably can’t hear you because her hearing aids are most likely not in or turned off. When not asleep on one of the couches, she’s stage managing productions across campus or writing poetry. Some of her fondest memories in the office involve ordering cheesecake or trying to reclaim her rights, and the only time she has ever written a sports article was for the Sex Issue, and she probably won’t write another one. This will be her second term as cadenza editor and social media director, and nothing would get done without the Taurus to her triple Capricorn, her co-editor Isabella, because Sabrina is too chaotic to be left alone.

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Isabella is a junior from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina—or Charleston, whichever people have heard of. She joined Student Life by accident after waiting to sign up for pre-orientation until the last minute, which turned out to be a stroke of luck, as she’s entering her third semester as co-cadenza editor and co-copy chief. When she’s not scrambling to cover art events on campus, Isabella can be found talking about either of her two interests—superheroes and early human civilizations—or how pretentious she finds all the books she reads for her English major.

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dorian debose senior sports editor Dorian Debose is a senior from Overland Park, Kan. He is beginning his first year in the Brown School of Social Work this semester. Previously, he studied Philosophy with minors in Writing and Sociology. He is a grizzled veteran of the sports section, having been a key contributor and editor for the past three years. As you’d guess, he likes sports quite a bit and feels a great deal of loyalty to the sports section. He dreams of seceding from StudLife to form his own newspaper that publishes at the exact same time and out of the same office as StudLife. His newer, better newspaper would be called StudLife Sports.

In addition to being the lord emperor of the sports section, Dorian is a stand-up comedian who performs all around St. Louis and

Kansas City. His editor-in-chief has described him as “aggressively unfunny,” but we all need someone to keep us humble, he says through tears.

Dorian is the lone heir of the DeBose fortune, consisting of fourteen pennies and three copper colored buttons. As a wealthy socialite, he spends most of his time sneaking into and being removed from country clubs, reading Wikipedia summaries of great novels and evading taxes. He dreams of being shot in the swimming pool of his East Egg mansion after a tragic misunderstanding over car accident culpability.

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Josh Shapiro is a rising junior studying Computer Science and Math. Josh hails from the great state of Connecticut, the pizza capital of the world. When he isn’t yelling at his TV (mostly during Mets games), Josh enjoys getting outdoors and cooking overly elaborate meals. Despite the increasing uncertainty surrounding college athletics at the moment, Josh is very excited to be writing about sports this upcoming year.

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hn hoffmann multimedia editor

HN Hoffmann is a junior from St. Louis studying Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Film & Media Studies. While she’ll eventually end up

doing “brain stuff” for the rest of her life, this purebred American quarter horse is presently excited to start her fourth semester as a multimedia-adjacent senior staffer. When she isn’t scribbling away at graphics for upcoming issues, HN can likely be spotted fervently illustrating pages of her webcomic, carving across campus on an oversized longboard named Winona, flexing, trading anecdotes, organizing an obscene number of hyper-specific Spotify playlists, [REDACTED], going on weeklong Fallout: New Vegas binges and admiring her extensive collection of Hawaiian shirts. There’s no actual proof that anyone by the name of “HN” has ever existed, but rumor has it that said individual may occasionally materialize in various campus tunnels past 4 a.m., heavily dissociating to an overlapped mashup of XIX’s “Kismet” and 100 gecs’ “hand crushed by a mallet.”

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jaden satenstein multimedia editor

Jaden Satenstein is a junior from New York City studying Political Science and Writing who far too confidently considers herself a connoisseur of campus dining. From Village Brunch to Cherry

Tree desserts, Jaden can often be found eating or enthusiastically talking about her next meal point splurge. She also enjoys munching on Ibby’s buffet to-go in the Student Life office with her fellow staffers/best buds. After serving as senior scene editor for three semesters, Jaden has gracefully exited the world of removing Oxford commas to join one that involves more rendezvous with her mortal enemy, InDesign. Now a Multimedia Editor, Jaden is excited to explore new creative mediums of storytelling such as video, photo, design and audio. When she’s not helping make the paper happen, Jaden hosts a theatre-themed radio show, “The Looney Show Tunes Show,” and serves on the board of Thyrsus, an experimental student theatre group. She can’t wait to meet all of you and especially enjoys discussing all things rom-coms, comedy and, of course, food.

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Vivienne Chang engagement director

christine watridge multimedia editor

Vivienne Chang is a sophomore from San Francisco, majoring in Economics and Finance with a minor in Dance. Because she has not yet mastered the art of bio writing, here are some fun facts about her.

1: In her first-year, she ate at Ibby’s so much that she sat at every table in the restaurant. 2: Her favorite animal is the whale shark and she absolutely loves aquariums. 3: Vivienne is passionate about financial empowerment, Taiwanese American culture and the color yellow.

Vivienne is excited to join Student Life’s editorial side this year and to continue checking off boxes in her St. Louis bucket list. She also wants to give thanks to her Dad, Mom and little sister Felicia for growing with her during the 6+ months of quarantine, 我愛你！

Christine Watridge is a junior majoring in Communication Design and Art History. She’s been an art kid her whole life and even cried in front of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” in Florence. Literally. One of her life goals is to visit as many art museums as humanly possible, and she has a growing collection of overpriced pins from museum gift shops. Even though she’s lived in California forever, for some reason she loves using “y’all” in all of her text messages. She’s had an amazing experience at Wash. U., despite the weather changes (who knew that winter actually happened in some places?), and being a part of the incredible community that is StudLife has had a little something to do with it. She is thrilled to continue to be a part of such a vibrant and inclusive community where her Adobe Creative Cloud skills actually get put to use!

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kathleen white engagement director

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Kathleen is a senior double majoring in Economics and International and Area Studies. StudLife pulled Kathleen into its orbit before day one of her freshman year. While floating in that space, Kathleen has served as a junior-turned-senior news editor and is now excited to tackle her new role as director of engagement. Metaphors aside, Kathleen’s life at Wash. U. does not revolve around StudLife. Outside of the office, you might find her working at Sumers, discussing international issues at SIR meetings or facetiming her identical twin. When Kathleen isn’t working on her senior thesis, she’s most likely goofing off at Target with her roommates, running out in the rain or wondering what comes next.

Kathleen had no journalism experience before joining StudLife, so she wants to highly encourage anyone at all interested to join!

Mia Goldberg Design editor Mia Goldberg is a sophomore from the San Francisco Bay Area majoring in Communication Design and minoring in Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction. She has been designing for Student Life since her freshman year and is very excited for the upcoming year and seeing her StudLife family for the first time in way too long. Mia is probably somewhere right now talking about how Adobe Illustrator is better than Photoshop (who doesn’t love a good vector?), suggesting that we order food or writing a Tweet that she thinks is original but isn’t actually. Mia would also like you to know that during quarantine she learned how to DJ. She wishes everyone a great start to the school year!

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Curran is a junior majoring in Physics and Educational Studies.

He hails from the hills of Nashville, where he enjoys hiking, lifting and drives through the country. When he’s feeling less active, you can find him watching CNN, reading about politics or taking pictures around St. Louis. If you want to get him talking, a decision you will soon regret, ask him about Cory Booker or Eli Reed. If you’re at all interested in photography, talk to him about shooting for Student Life!

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Jordan coley copy chief Jordan Coley is a junior majoring in American Culture Studies with minors in English and Sociology who doesn’t have a hometown because she’s moved around so many times. Right now she lives in Montross, Va., but her favorite spot to be in is a liminal space.

Jordan has been copy editing and writing for StudLife since the beginning of her freshman year, and she’s super excited to be continuing her role as copy chief this year. When not in the StudLife office removing Oxford commas (which are, tragically, her favorite type of comma) from articles, she can be found writing poetry, listening to Flo Milli or reading critical race theory.

She also spends way too much time in Olin Library, where she works, studies, drinks copious amounts of matcha tea and occasionally sleeps. She’s really looking forward to meeting all of you— though hopefully not through Zoom— and training more baby copy editors.

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Nathan Springman Webmaster Nathan Springman is a junior from Franklin, Tenn., studying Computer Science and Communication Design. Last year he wrote that he spends his free time thinking of better jokes for next year’s Starting Line issue. And guess what, gang? He didn’t. A list of some of his favorite snacks, in no particular order, include: Wheat Thins, Chocolate Teddy Grahams, Big Cheez-Its, Flavor Blasted Goldfish, eat hot chip and lie. He is very curious to see if the copy section left his Oxford comma in the last sentence. That’s not very AP Style, you know.

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