Mini Tour Fact Sheet

Sticky points

• putting academic divisions into a box or comparing them

• Alcohol

• Talk about Sorority and Fraternity Life (SFL) affiliation

• Nicknames (B-school)

• “weed out” or other inappropriate coments

• Shortened words

Frat

Fraternity

Green life

Sorority and fraternity life

dorm

residential hallf

freshman

first year

tutoring

academic mentoring

William H and Elizabeth Gray Danforth University Center (the DUC)

• Primary dining hall option with multiple kiosk options (lunch on campus, ibbys which is named after elixabeth “ibby” danforth, new qdoba)

• Center for career engagement (career center): helps students secure top internships and jobs, student mentors who help with resume and cover letters and linkdens and applications, we are building a new building for this

• Center for diversity and inclusion (supports and advocated for all types of students from underrepresented and marginalized populations, hosts events open to all students like dialogue across differences, pride nights, international fashion show, and more)

• Office of student affairs and student union

  • helps with over 400 student led orgs

  • student union is student run government elected by the student body for the student body

• Office of scholars programs and the taylor family center

  • Helps first generation and low income students their entier four years at washu

  • office of scholas program hosts merit-based undergraduate programs that support students all 4 years

Brookings Quadrangle

• location of convocation

  • After your first week at washu (bear beginnings), everybody wears their res hall tshirts and attends with their RAs and WUSAs, followed by party in the park at tisch park after

• Previous venue for wild (walk in, lay down) which is a concert held for the entier washu community

  • Previous performers include carly rae jepson, jason derulo, lizzo, mac miller, kid laroi, black eyed peas

• The all student thater puts on a student run show on the stage each aptil

• When washu hosted 2nd presidential debate, CNN broadcasted from beaumont pavillion (although the event was hosted in the rec). In total, we have hosted 5 presidential debates and the one and only 2008 VP debate

• Busch hall: oldest building on campus (1901)

• Ridgley hall/holmes lounge: displayed queen victorias jewels and other exhibits during the 1904 worlds fair

• The archway is called brookings hall and is home to chancellor martins office

  • Seal story

The Athleic complex & gary m sumers recreaction center & francis olympic feild

• space dedicated to helping students find balance with willness, fitness, sports, and recreation activities. Entier university community beyond just athletes.

• Offer a variety of weekly “BearFit classes” which are weekly fitness classes ranging from yoga to taekwando to cycling

• Varsity athletics are NCAA division 3. 9 mens sports and 10 womens sports

  • 40 club sports (mostly don’t need tryouts)

  • lots of intramurals ~75% of students

• Francis feild- 1904 olympic games, the first one in western hemisphere

  • olympic rings

• Suers recreation center offer on campus job opportunities

• The Athletic Complex and Recreation Center recently hosted a presidential debate

  between Hillary Clinton & Donald Trump in October 2016

Olin library

• largest library out of 12, most popular study spot

• A large variety of study spots

• Computer and printing access

• Home of an orignial southwick broadside declaration of independence

  • Dates july 12 1776

  • was printed before the original handwritten copy (the one on display at the national archives was signed)

• 5 floors, quiter as you go up

• Research librarians + special collections

Mallinckrodt Center

• home of campus bookstore, subway, edison theater, and writing cetner

• Houses WashU skandalaris center for entreprenurial studies

  • Works with student entreprenurial program (StEP) where students can own and operate a service-oreinted buisness on campus (bear bikes, beary sweet shop, washu wash, campus creamery)

• Performing arts department (PAD) productions and student-run produdctions are performed in edison theatre and the A.E. hotchner black box theatre

  • Recent shows; RENT, cabaret, legally blonde, currently mean girls

• Writing center and the speaking studio provides free, 1-on-1 tutoring to all undergraduate and graduate, faculty, or staff for any writing or public speaking project

• Many student cultural groups have performances in edison theater

  • Dwiali for the hindu festival of lights, lunar new year festival in winter, black anthology in the spring, and the association of latin american students carnaval.

other resources

Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Student Financial Services