Higher Education

Lawrence Biondi's Retirement Speech at SLU Gala: "It Is Time For Me to Move On" (VIDEO)

It is time for Lawrence Biondi to move on. So said Saint Louis University's president Father Lawrence Biondi in his announcement that he will be stepping down as head of the school -- a move that surprised many and sent reporters scrambling for details Saturday night. He broke the news at a priva ... More >>

Father Lawrence Biondi Is Stepping Down as Saint Louis University President

Father Lawrence Biondi, the embattled president of Saint Louis University, announced tonight that he is stepping down -- after months of protest from faculty and students pushing for him to resign as head of the Jesuit school. "Just as I helped lead SLU's transformation when I arrived here more t ... More >>

The Culinary Institute of America Holds its First St. Louis Prospective Student Reception Tonight

Are you waiting for the right excuse to ditch town and leave it all behind to pursue a lucrative career in a mile-high chef's hat? Tired of getting taunted by daytime infomercials? Well, look no further. The Culinary Institute of America forgoes that other CIA's incognito M.O. by hosting its first ... More >>

SLU: Prof. Matthew Hall Criticizes Lawrence Biondi; Trustees Call Him Immature Liar

Over the past month, we've reported on the latest controversies of Saint Louis University, first with the high-profile resignation of the theology chair and most recently with the departure of the interim law dean over inappropriate comments. At the center of much of the conflict at SLU is Father La ... More >>

SLU Law Dean Tom Keefe Resigns Over Offensive Remarks: "If I Was Them, I'd Fire Me"

Update: When news broke yesterday that Saint Louis University Law School Dean Tom Keefe had resigned from his post -- full interview below -- officials at SLU did not respond to requests for comment or provide any official notice to the law school. This afternoon, after a string of media reports in ... More >>

Webster University Breaks Guinness World Record for Longest Ice Cream Dessert

On Wednesday, April 11, Webster University (470 East Lockwood Avenue; 314-968-7128) broke the Guinness World Record for the "Longest Ice Cream Dessert." You might not have known there was a record to break, but up until Wednesday, the record was 152.2 feet. Webster blew that sad little junior sundae ... More >>

Gotta Have Faith

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Lunch at Kayak's Coffee

Chrissy Wilmes​ The Place: Kayak's Coffee (270 North Skinker Boulevard; 314-862-4447), a locally owned café (and recent addition to the Kaldi's family) located just across the street from Washington University and footsteps away from Forest Park. The Lunch: The Aspen, with your choice of an ... More >>

The Sucky Scourge: Bed Bugs at the University of Illinois

www.parkwayexterminating.comGood night, sleep tight, don't let the...​Oh, shudder! Over the weekend, a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana reported bed bugs in her dorm room at Evans Hall.School officials told the News-Gazette that the problem was quickly contained, and didn't spread p ... More >>

Water Cup Confusion Roils Dehydrated Wash U. Bagel Lovers

Image via​A colleague passed along this dramatic tale from Student Life, the student newspaper of our neighbors at Washington University. Seems the new Einstein Bros. outlet at the Olin Business School is causing confusion:Einstein Bros. Bagels, which opened Feb. 4 in the Olin Business School, ha ... More >>

Ronald Partee: Bought Himself a Porsche on Money Embezzled from Goodwill

classmates.comRonald Partee: Knows how to party -- at the expense of others.​A former vice president with the MERS/Goodwill Industries of Missouri pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that he embezzled more than $1 million from the St. Louis-based charity. Ronald Partee, 45, worked in the agency's ... More >>

Mizzou Plans to Cull Degree Programs in 2011

image viaOr, rather, je déteste Mizzou.​Many people consider New Years a perfect time for clearing out their extra junk. The University of Missouri is of this philosophy, too, kind of. At the behest of the state, Mizzou plans to cull sixteen of its lowest-yielding degree programs over the cou ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Special Dream Edicion

KFC Finds Appropriate Metaphor to Advertise Double Down Sandwich

>Image via​KFC has brought back the Double Down, its infamous "sandwich" of bacon, cheese and the frightening-sounding Colonel's sauce between two fried (or grilled, if you're a wuss) chicken-breast fillets.Regular readers know that Gut Check was less than impressed when we taste-tested the Dou ... More >>

Spamming Brothers from Mizzou Face Eight Years in Federal Clink [Updated]

image via​There is justice in the world after all. After five years and eight million spam e-mails, two Mizzou alumni, brothers Amir and Osmaan Shah, have been convicted of jamming people's in-boxes with ads for cheap cameras and tooth-whiteners. (Perhaps there is a connection.) During their ... More >>

Get to the Point

Video: Carl Deselm Eats Three Pounds of Tater Tots at Bar Louie

​Carl Deselm, a medical student at Washington University, again won the Tater Tot-eating contest at Bar Louie last week, ingesting three pounds, five ounces of the Tots. It was the second time Deselm won the competition -- he took home the title and eventually the national title in 2008.Below is a ... More >>

Food Wire: Wash. U. to Start Serving Tomatoes Again

​All winter long, Washington University's dining halls have been tomato-less. In November Bon Appétit, the company that provides food service on the Danforth campus, announced that since Florida tomato farms didn't pay their tomato pickers a living wage, Bon Appétit would no longer do business w ... More >>

Holy Crap! Wash. U. Annual Tuition Rises to $39,400

Wikimedia CommonsWould you pay $50 grand a year to go here?​If you want to go to Washington University next year, you should aspire to be one of the following: 1) A stellar athlete, 2) Someone with phenomenal credit, 3) Super-rich or 4) Really good at proving to the people who give government gran ... More >>

New Study: Heavily-Tattooed People Are More Prone to Deviant Behavior

A new study suggests that people who load up on body art are more likely to engage in risky and criminal behavior. ​The report reveals that those who get four or more tattoos, seven or more piercings, or one "intimate piercing," are far more prone to use illegal drugs, get thrown in the slamme ... More >>

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 allo ... More >>

¡Ask A Mexican!: Why Mexican women don't use tampons

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 coed ... More >>

Vicky

9 p.m. Friday, February 6, and Saturday, February 7. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street.

U-City Police Want Video Surveillance in Delmar Loop, Increased Patrols

The Washington University Student Life is reporting today that University City officials are asking the school for assistance paying for major security upgrades in the Delmar Loop. According to the student paper, University City Police Chief Charles Adams is proposing closed-cir ... More >>

It's Show Time!

The Sheldon brings the art

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

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Mates of State at the Bluebird, Sunday, June 8

Girl Talk Video of the Show, After the Stoppage

The Burning Baby

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Grand Debate

Can a Catholic university like SLU chow down at the municipal trough?

Local Motion: Wydown

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

Letters Column

Week of February 9, 2006

Dried Out

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

Best Sporting Goods Store

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Letters

Week of November 5, 2003

Best Reason to Live in St. Louis

Ghosts

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

Week of November 14, 2001

Best Attorney Who Looks the Part

Charles "Ed" Brown, Brown & Brown

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Letters to the Editor

Published the week of September 20-26, 2000

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY

By Ivan Turgenev; adapted by Brian Friel (St. Louis University Theatre)

The Sacred & the Profane

Father Lawrence Biondi is praised for revamping the campus of St. Louis University and boosting its endowment. But the enemies he's made along the way claim that behind the fountains, statues and donations stands a Jesuit bully who's more interested in th

Down on the Farm

When you talk about growing the economy, you're really talking about growing the workers

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