Uh, talk about wasteful spending. A half-hour speech netted a $65,000 payout to Chelsea Clinton and a $1.4 million golf course to boot.
Topic: Missouri
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
St. Louis University removes Catholic Priest Statue due to Concerns of Racism
It is a statue depicting a Catholic priest praying over an American Indian, but people complained that it was a symbol of colonialism and racism.
Professors Want Students to Fight Against White Privilege, not to just Acknowledge It
Fight The Man! This is what it seems like professors are telling their students nowadays. But, this story is one of a panel discussion by professors at St. Louis University, where one professor urged students…
St. Louis Student Senator: Supporting College President as Urgent as Denouncing Slavery
It is a really odd and flawed statement, to compare the abolition of slavery to supporting the embattled university president at St. Louis University. The president appeased protesters who camped on their campus during the Ferguson,…
St. Louis University Under Pressure for Ferguson, anti-Police Monument
The president is backtracking, at least publicly, that the university will build a monument specifically commemorating the Ferguson protests. But, large donors threatened to pull back funding if it were built, leaving the university in…
Protesters Interrupt Missouri Prosecutor who was involved in Ferguson Case
Student protesters at St. Louis University chanted and sang, interrupting the speaker, before they were escorted out by campus security. The speaker was the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, who was the chief prosecutor in…
Proposed Ferguson Protest Monument at St. Louis University Offends Donors, Alumni
The monument was agreed on by protesters, who were on St. Louis University campus during and after the Ferguson, Missouri riots, and the university president in order to get the protesters to leave. Now wealthy…
St. Louis University Students Upset at Ferguson Prosecutor’s Speech
The liberal narrative of Michael Brown’s shooting and the ensuing riots continues, as students at St. Louis University did not like how their law school invited the case’s prosecutor to speak to law students.