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Security/Emergency Contacts

W&L Emergency Hotline
(540) 462-5277

W&L Public Safety
Emergency: 911 (W&L Public Safety will be notified immediately, along with local emergency respondents)
540-458-8999 x8999

W&L Switchboard
540-458-8400 x8400

Inclement Weather Information
(540) 462-5277

Facilities Management
540-458-8490 x8490

Sexual Misconduct Resources
540-458-8401 x8401

Student Health and Counseling
540-458-8401 x8401 (includes after-hours on-call service)

Police, Fire, Rescue, Other Emergency
911 (W&L Public Safety will be notified immediately, along with local emergency respondents)

Poison Control:
800-222-1222

Virginia Department of Emergency Management:

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W&L, RANA Dedicate the Peterson Co-Location Center
The 4,500-square-foot co-location center serving both Washington and Lee University and the Rockbridge Area Network Authority was formally dedicated on Friday, June 14, as the Richard A. Peterson Center.
W&L Alum Michael McGuire on Value of Liberal Arts
The following op-ed by Michael McGuire, who graduated in May with a double major in journalism and Spanish, was published in The Baltimore Sun on Thursday, June 13, 2013, and is reprinted here by permission. A good problem to have: 'You can do anything' In quickly changing world, a liberal arts education may be more [...]
W&L Announces Promotions and Tenure
The Board of Trustees approved the promotions and tenures of 14 faculty members during its meeting in Lexington in May.
Shepherd Consortium Dispatches Students to Poverty Internships
92 college and law students gathered in Lexington last weekend to prepare for unusual eight-week internships with agencies that work to benefit impoverished members of society, sponsored by the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty.
W&L Dancers Perform Aerial Dance at Corcoran
Performing aerial dance is challenging under any circumstances, but Washington and Lee's Repertory Dance Company confronted some special challenges when it performed at Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art last month.
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