Particularly when dealing with sensitive subject matter, WUnderground is committed to preserving the anonymity of the students we interview. We therefore find it necessary to publicly apologize to sophomore Jason Tang, who told us he felt that Holmes Lounge was overrated under the condition that we do not print his name. Tang, who is double majoring in Physics ...
Read More »Avengers: Infinity War: Good, but No Fight Club
WUndergound’s Arts & Culture staff was lucky enough to receive a press pass to the highly anticipated Avengers: Infinity War. Our spoiler-free verdict: very entertaining film, but does not hold a candle to David Fincher’s Fight Club. Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of an expansive, 10-year cinematic universe, that ...
Read More »We Don’t Have the Budget for a Title
Unfortunately, we’ve run out of money to pay someone to write this article. If we did have someone to write this article, we’d tell you about the latest big news going on in the United States of America. We think it’s something to do with Trump and North Korea and ...
Read More »Student Went Home For Spring Break Because He Wanted To, Definitely Not Because His Friends Ditched Him
Freshman Chase Carter spent spring break at his parents’ house in Greenwich, Connecticut, despite allegedly receiving “multiple” invitations from “friends” to join them in exotic locales such as Cancun, Mexico, and Branson, Missouri. He claims that he wanted to relax and hang out with his friends from high school, whom ...
Read More »Westworld Spinoff Midwestworld Receives Mixed Reviews
Viewers and critics alike had long awaited the premiere of HBO’s Westworld spinoff. Last Tuesday, after nearly a year of speculation, HBO released the pilot to wildly varying reviews. “Midwestworld is boring, racist, and remarkably accurate,” observed Twitter user @mattsimmons, who told reporters he grew up in a Michigan suburb, ...
Read More »WashU Recognizes City-County Line, Rebrands as “Washington University Near St. Louis”
After myriad student complaints and protests, Washington University in St. Louis will officially be changing its name to “Washington University Near St. Louis” by the fall 2018 semester. This comes as a big win to students, especially those native to the city of Chicago who played an integral role in ...
Read More »DNC Hacker: “wustl-2.0” Was Too Spotty to Hack
The hacker responsible for the leaking of private Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 election, known online as “Guccifer 2.0,” was in the news again this week when it surfaced that they had been working on behalf of the Russian state. In a series of emails exchanged with WUnderground, ...
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WUnderground’s Comprehensive Guide to Making the Most out of Student Libel
April Fools’ is around the corner, and you know what that means: it’s time for this year’s long awaited issue of Student Libel, StudLife’s annual humor issue! Not sure how to maximize your enjoyment? Luckily for you, we here at WUnderground know our way around a humor newspaper, and we’re ...
Read More »Student Life Files Lost & Found Report for Second Half of Website Title
On Tuesday, Student Life, WashU’s independent, student-run “newspaper,” filed a lost & found report with WUPD after misplacing the second half of its website title. As the top search result for “studlife” is a page entitled “StudLife’s” (shown above), WUnderground staff initially assumed that this was one of the publication’s ...
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