 The campus tour season is in full swing as the University community moves into April Welcome, Undergraduate Admissions' annual full-court press to introduce admitted students to life at Washington University. |
Rolling out the April Welcome wagonBy Christine FarmerThe University is rolling out the welcome wagon in April for students admitted to next fall's freshman class. April Welcome, an annual month-long event, will bring about 1,000 prospective students from the Class of 2004 to campus for a sampling of life at Washington University. The admitted students, who received an open invitation to visit campus any time in April, were culled from an all-time record of approximately 19,000 undergraduate applications, an increase of about 10 percent over last year's record numbers. In addition, about 500 high school juniors also will come to campus in April as they begin their college searches. |
Eminent black psychologist keynotes MLK symposium
Clinical psychologist and author Na'im Akbar will deliver the keynote address for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium on "Afri-can Americans: Change Agents for America," at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 5, in Graham Chapel. The lecture, part of the Assembly Series, is free and open to the public. Akbar has been acclaimed by Essence Magazine as "one of the world's preeminent psychologists and a pioneer in the development of an African-centered approach in modern psychology." He teaches in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University, Tallahassee, and heads a private consulting firm, Mind Productions and Associates Inc. |
 Na'im Akbar |
Displacement, deracination are themes of German symposiumBy David MoessnerDeracination, displacement, confusion, dislocation and identity crisis are the central themes in the stories and dramas of Heinrich von Kleist, the most prominent author of German Romanticism and one of the outstanding writers of European Romanticism in general. Fittingly, they also serve as the topics to be discussed Friday, March 31, through Sunday, April 2, at the 15th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature. Titled "Heinrich von Kleist's Works: Aspects of Displacement and Deracination," the symposium features lectures from leading scholars from Germany, Australia and the United States. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Women's Building Formal Lounge. Author Hans Christoph Buch from Berlin will give the banquet address, titled "My Fascination with Heinrich von Kleist," at 7 p.m. Friday at the Whittemore House. |
 A slice of college life Area high school students Mike Lantzy (left), a sophomore from Parkway North High School, and Kela Whitney, a freshman from Soldan Inter- national Studies school, participate in a genetics experiment in a Rebstock Hall laboratory. Science outreach personnel brought honors students from the two schools, one in the city, the other in the county, to the University for a day that provided a slice of college life, in the lab and elsewhere on campus. |
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