Paving a path to WashU for rural students
WashU’s Heartland Initiative aims to expand educational access to students from small towns in Missouri and southern Illinois. This fall, a new team of rural admissions officers logged 10,000 miles traveling to 80 schools in rural Missouri and Illinois, some for the very first time.
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40 years ago, a stage play tested free speech limits in St. Louis. It’s back.
See the play. And savor your right and ability to do so, unimpeded by state or religious censors. Then, when you leave the theater, find ways of fighting to keep it that way, writes PhD student Nicholas Dolan.
Here’s what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the waterways of New Orleans
I’m not currently teaching, but if I have the chance to propose a course, I’ve been eyeing the lagoons in bustling Forest Park, a short walk from campus – the perfect setting for a redux version of my fly-fishing course, writes Christopher Schaberg.
Exploring the meaning of ‘screen time’
Author Phillip Maciak, a lecturer in Arts & Sciences, has published the book “Avidly Reads Screen Time,” a cultural criticism and history about our relationship with screens. Read about this and other recent works on the Source Bookshelf.
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WashU balloon goes over big
For the first time, WashU sponsored a hot air balloon in the Great Forest Park Balloon Race, an annual hot air balloon festival held in Forest Park. “Time Traveler” was among the dozens of entrants that delighted the STL community Sept. 15-16, 2023.
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Rescuing adventure
Shopping. Driving. Parenting. Eating out. Working out. Today, sources of adventure are as limitless as a marketer’s imagination. No activity is too mundane, no product too crass, no invocation too preposterous. In Adventure: An Argument for Limits, Christopher Schaberg grapples with classical conceptions of adventure, their 21st-century simulacra, and the earnest question: What constitutes adventure today?