New professorship

Susan Irene Rotroff, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Classics in Arts and Sciences, has been named the first Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities. A formal installation ceremony will take place at 4:30 p.m. May 19 in Holmes Lounge.

"Susan is a wonderfully talented and interactive faculty member," said Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Arts and Sciences. "She brings great depth and breadth to our excellent faculty work in classics and archaeology, and her teaching is much sought after by our students.

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It's the law

Several dozen law students have taken their training into the community, teaching North St. Louis fifth-graders practical legal concepts that affect the youths' everyday lives -- from the reasons for laws to the difference between a burglary and a robbery.

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Eliot gets one-year reprieve to meet student housing need

Eliot Residence Hall will remain open for another year to accommodate students who wish to remain on the South 40.

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University's United Way campaign raises $410,783

Washington University employees have outdone themselves once again, raising a total of $410,782.73 for the United Way of St. Louis -- almost $36,000 more than the three-campus campaign goal.

Though the drive ran officially from Sept. 9 through Oct. 31, 1998, it takes the organizers two to three months to tally the total, because gifts and pledges continue to come in well past the first of the year. Results have just been announced.

Ann B. Prenatt, director of employee relations and chair of the 1998 drive, expressed real gratitude and a certain degree of wonder at the final figures.

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