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  • Taxes, Tinder, And The Timely Terrors Of My Twenties

    I’m curious – what does your Tinder bio say (if you have one, of course)? Perhaps it’s a witty one liner from your favorite episode of Parks and Recreation that shows you’re into situational workplace television, or a lyric from your favorite Migos song, which I suppose just says you’re well acquainted with Spotify’s Rap…

  • Washington University In St. JUULouis

    My obsession with the JUUL began one Saturday night when I was cozied up in my dorm room watching YouTube videos about butchering meat. As I lay in my pajamas, knees propped up, I was deeply engrossed in the knife work of a craft butcher who was carefully demonstrating how to fillet a Denver steak.…

  • A WUPR Interview with Student Union Executives

    BY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY POLITICAL REVIEW EXECUTIVE BOARD WUPR: Thanks for sitting down with us. Emma, you’re the first female president in quite some time and looking at the most recent election, there were very few women on the ballot. How do you plan on tackling the problem of gender diversity in SU? Emma: Great question.…

  • Wash U and its Community

    BY MADELEINE SHER I was coming up the stairs from doing laundry in the basement when I hear a loud, raucous yelling from a large group of people.  I went into the kitchen and looked out the window and saw them all in the street, just in front of the old Delmar Transit station.  This…

  • Beyond the Numbers: The Challenges of Low Income Students at Wealthy Schools

    BY VICTORIA SGARRO Negative $27. For the first time in his life, Daniel* came face to face with a bank statement of less than zero. He stared fiercely at the computer screen glowing in his lap, as if he could will the tiny black minus sign to disappear. Although money has been a constant worry…

  • A Great Education

    There’s so much more to education than the basic curriculum. Gender socialization occurs in many ways, but perhaps the most profound socialization occurs in school. From the earliest stages, children create their own sets of norms, values, and expectations and, most importantly, enforce them. (For more on gender norms, see my column from a few…