150? Cool. Top 10? Awesome!

The university passed the 150-year mark this year. And on Sunday it’s throwing itself a very public birthday bash, complete with more than 200 activities between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the main and medical school campuses. It’s a family affair with lots of kid stuff and a birthday cake, 8 feet in diameter and made of lollipops in the school’s colors, red and green. Everything is free and everyone is invited.

Journalists back watchdog role despite 9-11

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the rules of war, but they also changed media coverage of war and politics, several prominent journalists concluded at a panel discussion Saturday celebrating the 125th anniversary of Student Life, Washington University’s campus newspaper.