Subject: Higher Education

• Public Sex, Wash. U. Style

  December 22, 2006

• A Queer Debate

  October 18, 2006

• Wash U. Med School is the Funnest Place in St. Louis!

  November 10, 2008

• Going the Distance

  March 17, 1999

• Medical School Ethics Policies: How Area Universities Stack Up

  The March 2 New York Times contains a story that smacks down the Harvard Medical School's lax ethics policies when it comes to getting in bed with pharmaceutical companies. Timesman Duff Wilson reports that Harvard students and some faculty members complain that drug companies are exerting undue influence via professors who do double duty as teachers and pharmaceutical industry pitchmen.Writes Wilson:They say they are concerned that the same money that helped build the school's world-class statu

  March 3, 2009

• Washington University: Tourist Mecca?

  Wikimedia CommonsWish you were here!An article in Sunday's New York Times touts the university campus as the hot new tourist destination. Universities, you see, usually have at least one picturesque corner or impressive building (fit for the cover of the admissions catalog), some sort of historical landmark, maybe a museum or two for cultural edification and some legendary restaurant or pizza joint nearby, usually spoken of with wistful nostalgia by misty-eyed alumni.(Except for my beloved under

  March 4, 2009

• Review Preview: Mattingly Brewing Company

  Jennifer SilverbergThis week I visit Mattingly Brewing Company, the small brewpub in Benton Park. When I was a grad student in Iowa City, my classmates and I often hung out after our weekly writing workshop at this bar called Martinis. Six days of the week it was a cesspool of underage corn-fed coeds and frat boys looking to screw 'em, but on Tuesdays it became the refuge of several dozen wannabe Hemingways and their bruised egos. There we drowned our dreams thanks to what remains the most incre

  March 9, 2009

• April is the Cruelest Month

  Washington UniversityNanette Tarbouni, the woman responsible for the fates of thousands of high-school seniors.That high-pitched wailing you hear across our nation? Is the sound of hundreds of thousands of high-school seniors bemoaning the cruel fate that did not let them in to their first-choice college.You can read all about it on the The New York Times' new blog, The Choice.(Though, quite honestly, it is mostly devoid of wailing from its student bloggers, except for one young man who must cho

  April 2, 2009

• A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY

  November 17, 1999

• Webb gems: Saint Louis University professor Joe Webb's online alter ego is a big hit on campus

  November 12, 2008

• Playing Doctor

  Attend medical school — on the cheap!

  September 10, 2008

• Young agrarians at Wash. U. hope to bring us back to the garden

  August 13, 2008

• Letters Column

  Week of February 9, 2006

  February 8, 2006

• Wet Painters

  October 31, 2007

• Project: Latin Jazz

  August 30, 2006

• Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Fight

  November 22, 2000

• The Burning Baby

  January 24, 2007

• Grand Debate

  October 25, 2006

• Peer-to-Peer Pressure

  Wash. U. students find a way around their Kazaa conundrum

  February 11, 2004

• Local Motion: Wydown

  8 p.m. Friday, July 7. Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

  July 5, 2006

• Dried Out

  Washington U. students fear their campus is turning into a booze-free zone

  February 9, 2005

• Best Sporting Goods Store

  Play It Again Sports

  September 29, 2004

• Cardinal Saint

  Unreal eavesdrops on Pujols and the Heavenly Father; plus, we analyze the Lou's staggering crunk deficit, pay one last visit to Sanford-Brown and witness the demise of Wash. U.'s peer-to-peer network

  March 3, 2004

• Gland of Opportunity

  Dr. William J. Catalona built an unrivaled repository of blood and tissue samples. Washington University wants to keep it. Now a judge will decide: Who owns the prostates?

  November 19, 2003

• Letters

  Week of November 5, 2003

  November 5, 2003

• Can You Get a Witness?

  Right makes might: Washington University's other newspaper

  October 8, 2003

• Foul Ball

  Baseball coach Jim Brady has been fighting his bosses in the UMSL athletic department for seven years. And he thought colon cancer was a pain in the ass.

  May 14, 2003

• Father Knows Best

  Lawrence Biondi radically remakes St. Louis University, leaving resentment in his wake

  August 14, 2002

• Still Lips Still Whisper

  June 5, 2002

• Which of Your Organs Do You Think Is in the Most Trouble?

  November 14, 2001

• We Deserve Better

  October 31, 2001

• Best High School

  September 26, 2001

• Best Attorney Who Looks the Part

  September 26, 2001

• Letters

  November 29, 2000

• Prescription for Resignation

  October 11, 2000

• Best 15 Minutes of Fame

  September 27, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  September 20, 2000

• The Talented Mr. Spellmann

  September 6, 2000

• The Sacred & the Profane

  June 9, 1999

• The Great Communicators

  January 6, 1999

• The Doctor is Out

  December 23, 1998

• Missouri House Votes To Let College Students Pack Heat Along With Textbooks

  Employing the same sort of logic that St. Louis alderman Quincy Troupe used when he suggested earlier this year that every north St. Louisan should pack a pistol in order protect themselves from crime, the Missouri House of Representatives gave final passage yesterday to an amendment that would allow college students to carry concealed weapons on campus and in classrooms.Ironically, the Columbia Missourian reports, the vote took place on a dubious anniversary:Wikimedia CommonsExactly two years a

  April 17, 2009

• BFA, MFA, A-OK

  June 17, 2009

• Gut Check: Ian dines with kings, but keeps the common touch

  July 1, 2009

• Marc Baltes Storms the "Dorm Room" at 33 Wine Shop & Tasting Bar

  Hedwig von Ebbel, Wikimedia Commons​As I waddled back to my car last night after the latest Dorm Room dinner at Lafayette Square's 33 Wine Shop & Tasting Bar, the evening air thick with woodsmoke from the grill where Marc Baltes was braising pork shoulder for the next seating, I wondered which St. Louis restaurateur will be smart enough to give Baltes a kitchen of his own.

  August 25, 2009

• Real Men of Genius: Mizzou Chancellor Kindly Requests A-B to Quit Selling Bud Light in Black and Gold Cans

  budlight.com​ Add Mizzou to the list of schools that fail to see the "genius" of the Bud Light Fan Can. Chancellor Brady Deaton has officially registered his disapproval.As Chad reported last week, Fan Cans,  A-B's latest ad campaign for the fall, involves selling cans of Bud-Light decorated with stripes in various color combinations which, curiously, recall the colors of college football teams, though no names or logos appear.Strangely enough, many of the administrators of colleges whose

  August 31, 2009

• Gut Check: Dorm Room dinnertime!

  September 2, 2009

• Former Webster University President in Millionaire Academics Club, Sort Of

  The New York Times reported yesterday that salaries among college presidents rose 5.5 percent in 2007-08 fiscal year. (Hold your rage, for now; they stopped calculating before the beginning of the Great Recession.)  The median compensation for a college president is $627,750, but naturally, some earn more. Much, much more.Near the top of the rankings, at number four, is former Webster University president Richard S. Meyers, who earned $1,429,738 in 2007-08. That's more than $150,000 less th

  November 3, 2009

• Wash U. Students Steamed About "Dirty Energy" Flash Executives

  Wikimedia CommonsWash U. kids show big balls in protesting reception attended by energy executives, including some from the coal (above) industry.​Actually, it was a flash mob. Some 100 students clad in yellow T-shirts and arm-bands paraded into the "America Energy First Conference" cocktail reception being held at Wash U. on Monday night and staged a flash mob to protest what they said was an "over-representation" of dirty-energy sources at the conference. A campus group called Green Action l

  November 4, 2009

• Metro Planning to Once Again Ask Voters for a Tax Increase

  'Cause you can't keep MetroLink down.​That's the news from the Washington University Student Life newspaper. In an article today the paper reports that Wash. U. has already forked over $25,000 to support a tax measure that could go before voters as soon as this April. Philanthropist Sam Fox has given another $10,000, according to the Student Life. In November 2008 voters in St. Louis County narrowly defeated Proposition M that would have boosted the sales tax by half a percent to pay for futur

  November 11, 2009