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Graffiti found across campus
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The electrical box across Edgar Road from the Emerson Library is adorned with graffiti. The campus has seen a recent increase in the amount of graffiti on buildings and other structures, such as the parking garage and various signs throughout campus. Another notable area is the crosswalks at Big Bend Boulevard and Edgar Road, as well as the crosswalk at Edgar Road and Garden Avenue.
WU Press publishes book
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Photography professor Susan Hacker Stang is about to release her debut book through the Webster University Press, established last January. "It's been a big dream of mine to have my own ISBN number," Stang said. The concept of starting a press at WU was initiated from the amount of scholarly work faculty and staff were doing throughout the network, said Jim Staley, associate vice president for Academic Affairs.
Confucius Institute to bring Chinese culture, language
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Webster University's worldwide network will expand next year to include a new partner: the Chinese government. WU is positioned to become Missouri's only university to host a Confucius Institute. The institute will teach Chinese language and culture to the St.
University enacts smoking restriction
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Short of an all-out smoking ban, the university has established a smoke-free zone around every building. Now, students and other community members cannot smoke within 30 feet of any building entrance. The new regulation was recommended by the Sustainability Coalition at its Nov.
SGA tables frat idea
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Webster University might see its first-ever fraternity on campus. Freshmen Kevin McWilliams, an advertising and marketing communications major, and Evan Murray, an audio production major, proposed to start a chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity at WU at the Student Government Association meeting on Dec.
Accessibility Committee works for more talking crosswalk signals
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After working for just a little more than two months, the audible crosswalk signals at the intersection of Edgar Road and Garden Avenue suddenly went silent. The speakers, installed in June 2006, failed from a manufacturing defect and were turned back on this past summer, once again helping visually impaired individuals cross the busy thoroughfare.
Students win China scholarship
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Two Webster University students will be studying halfway around the world for free next year. The students are taking advantage of a Chinese government scholarship that allows them to study for a semester at a Chinese university on China's dime. Sophomore international relations major Ricardo Falla and senior social sciences major Joshua Nicholas were the recipients of the scholarship for spring 2008.
Memorial service honors students
Bryan Coplin
A memorial service was held for four Webster University students at noon Dec. 4 in the Winifred Moore Auditorium. Four students have died in 2007: Emily C. Garegnani, who The Journal previously reported on; Aditya Shah a Thailand student from Katmandu, Nepal, who died in a motorbike crash; Kathleen Woolbright, a St.
NEWS BRIEFS
Attempted robbery on campus Three unidentified males assaulted another male on the Quad at 3:15 p.m. Dec. 2. They took the victim's wallet, but he was able to get it back. The incident is being investigated by the Webster Groves Police Department. It is not known if anyone involved was a student at Webster University.
MISDEMEANORS AND MISHAPS
Nov. 27, 8:19 p.m.: A resident assistant hurt his right knee while playing indoor soccer in the University Center. Nov. 29, 4:10 p.m.: Writing was found on a student's car in the parking garage. Dec. 1, 5:40 p.m.: A water sprinkler failed and water damaged property in West Hall.
WEBSTER GROVES BLOTTER
Nov. 26: A burglary was reported with forced entry through the rear door of a residence in the 10 block of Villawood Lane. Nov. 26: A window was broken out of a parked vehicle overnight in the 700 block of Marshall Avenue. Nov. 26: Six hundred dollars of assorted liquor was stolen from a business in the 8600 block of Big Bend Boulevard.
Study finds women as violent as men
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Junior Scott Morrow, a journalism major, said his girlfriend threw a can of soda at him after they had been dating for eight months. The two were having an argument and she became upset that he wouldn't follow her to work in his car because she was low on gasoline.
