WU Senior Class Treasurer Regis Murayi speaks at a news conference, along with Senior Class President Fernando Cutz and the five other students alleging racial discrimation by the Original Mothers bar. (Matt Mitgang | Student Life)
For all of Chicagoland’s storied toughness,…
Most folks have a couple of guys over for a beer, it’s no big deal. President Barack Obama is not most folks. Nor, for that matter, are James Crowley, a Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard…
Tim Smith
Tim Smith grew up playing a lot of basketball at the Boys Club of St. Louis on Sidney and 11th Streets. He graduated from Affton High School in 1997 and went on to Forest Park Community College and later the…
With their banks of sophisticated machines and legions of expert staff, hospital intensive care units are the very incarnation of expensive, high-tech health care.
Charges for a single day can top $3,000. And no wonder, given the unbelievable complexity of what…
Of all the challenges in medicine, none may be more maddening than the gap between new discoveries by scientific researchers and effective therapies for treating sick patients. Closing that gap takes more than money, but without money, the gap never…
The ghosts of Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln slept soundly last night. The vice presidential debate at Washington University did not threaten their immortal legacy of 1858.
On the other hand, Democrat Joe Biden did not stick his foot in his mouth.…
Eleven months ago, when the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that Washington University would host the vice presidential debate this year, it was a little like being awarded the ArenaBowl instead of the Super Bowl. Indoor football’s championship game is a…
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Pop quiz:
Below, you’ll find transcripts from two television interviews that aired last week. One comes from the interview of Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, by “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric. The other…
In 1963, Mollie Orshansky took a grocery list, performed some simple arithmetic, and immortalized herself in American economics. She became “Miss Poverty.”
Forty-five years later, her grocery-list formula still is the official definition of poverty in America. Using Ms. Orshansky’s method,…
A big crowd was on hand for the Transit Summit held this morning at Washington University.
The program was organized by Metro and its purpose was to brief local officials on a variety of matters having to do with where things…
On July 31 — 15 years to the day after the first MetroLink train pulled out of Union Station amid much ballyhoo — politicians and civic leaders will gather at Washington University for what’s being billed as a “transit summit.”
Although not…
In a letter Wednesday afternoon to the Post-Dispatch, law school dean Kent Syverud took issue with comments attributed to Phyllis Schlafly in which she personally attacked law school faculty members opposed to her receiving an honorary degree from the university on…
Midday on Wednesday, Wash. U. Chancellor Mark Wrighton said he will not rescind the offer to bestow an honorary degree Friday on conservative author Phyllis Schlafly. His statement took the form of an e-mail message, the complete text of which follows.…
The Boston Globe today reports that Jack M. Wilson, president of the
University of Massachusetts, may rescind an honorary degree awarded to President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, who is facing international scorn and sanctions for his authoritarian regime’s bloody campaign against political opponents.
This…
In a sharply worded letter Friday to Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton, 14 faculty members of the Washington University School of Law called on Wrighton to rescind the university’s offer of an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly at commencement ceremonies on…
Given the vigorous earlier comments, pro and con, on a post about the issue of Phyllis Schlafly receiving an honorary degree from Washington University, here are a couple of additional resources:
First, this solid reporting job from earlier in the week by…
An outraged former colleague e-mailed this morning to say:
Hi there. Washoo is honoring Phyllis Schlafly at commencement this year, at which the guest speaker is Chris Matthews. These choices represent the enlightened thinking of our most prestigious academic institutions. There…
