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A woman whose family home in Loris was destroyed in a Dec. 14 fire urged the city council on Monday to staff the fire station around the clock. Wende Boyd told the council that it took far too long for volunteer firefighters to arrive at the house on McQueen Street, despite it being located just 1,500 feet from the fire station.

“WU/FUSED deserves the majority of the credit, along with a few former key administrators, for getting the momentum [for socioeconomic diversity] going,” Scotty Jacobs, WashU alumni and former Student Representative to the Board of Trustees, said.

“Access Ain’t Inclusion.” This is a phrase popularized by Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, an Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in his book “Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students.”