03.30.2009 5:02 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
To the Editor:
Opposition to the school bond issue in Clayton (Proposition S) is far more complicated than Bill McClellan would lead one to believe. This bond leaves out the Wydown Middle School, the school most in need of renovation, meaning…
11.21.2008 5:17 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Chancellor Mark Wrighton of Washington University has publicly announced a 5% reduction in his salary beginning January 1. That represents a $25,000.00 annualized drop in compensation (not total remuneration). A second similar drop is scheduled for July 1 which will…
05.23.2008 11:37 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Considerable space was used to report the selection of Phyllis Schlafly for an honorary degree at Washington University. However, the St Louis Post Dispatch essentially ignored the other recepients except to merely list their names.
These recepients had made notable contributions…
05.21.2008 5:22 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I am completely fed up with liberals on universities whining and screaming and tearing their hair out and acting like Nazis whenever a conservative dares to set foot on the grounds of some academic alleged utopia of “free intellectual inquiry”…
05.14.2008 10:57 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Washington University in St. Louis just dropped a few rungs in my estimation from the wannabe ”elite” college it would like to portray itself to an also-ran when it blesses Phyllis Schlafly with an honorary degree. That gesture applauds and sanctions her backward attitude toward our society.…
05.13.2008 3:43 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I am stunned to learn that my alma mater is awarding an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly. In light of her narrow focus on issues and processes that are the antithesis of the principles of liberal arts education, it seems…
05.06.2008 2:49 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I am deeply dismayed to learn that Washington University has announced that an honorary doctorate will be given to self-proclaimed anti-feminist and anti-humanist Phyllis Schlafly at this year’s Spring Commencement.
Schlafly has devoted her life to demagogical grandstanding that is not…