Lawrence Biondi

Pevely Dairy Site: What Will Happen to Historic Sign Sitting On Top of SLU Building? (PHOTOS)

One of the biggest St. Louis stories this week is news that Father Lawrence Biondi, president of Saint Louis University, will be stepping down after months of faculty and student protest. One controversial component of Biondi's leadership is his record on land acquisition and development -- with som ... More >>

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 >>

SLU: Father Biondi Says "We Share a Common Goal," Amid Renewed Calls for His Resignation

In a lengthy response to a string of controversies and negative media coverage over the last two weeks, Father Lawrence Biondi, the embattled president of Saint Louis University, sent out a campus-wide message defending his recent actions and saying, "We cannot forget that we share a common goal." ... More >>

SLU Faculty Senate Slams Lawrence Biondi: "There Is a Time for Him to Retire and It Is Now"

Update below: Critics of Father Lawrence Biondi, the embattled president of Saint Louis University, say that the latest internal protest of the school's leadership is an unprecedented sign of frustration that the administration can't ignore. SLU Students for No Confidence, a group which has been p ... More >>

SLU Board of Trustees Chairman Thomas Brouster Resigns: "I'm Not Being Pushed Out"

Just one day after a professor released results of a survey showing that a majority of faculty members at Saint Louis University want Father Lawrence Biondi removed as president, the chairman of the school's board of trustees has announced his resignation. The two, Thomas Brouster says, are not at ... More >>

Saint Louis University: After Legal Threats, Survey Released, 73% Want New President

Steven Harris, a professor at Saint Louis University, wanted to gauge faculty opinion on embattled president Father Lawrence Biondi. But as we reported earlier this month, when he began that process, counsel at SLU contacted him and threatened him with legal action -- for copyright infringement. (SL ... More >>

Saint Louis University: Administration Threatens Legal Action Over Professor's Survey

Here's one way to pretty much guarantee negative publicity, courtesy of Saint Louis University officials. SLU's legal counsel, in an apparent attempt to stop a faculty survey on the embattled university president Father Lawrence Biondi, has threatened legal action against the professor drafting th ... 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 >>

SLU President Lawrence Biondi: "To Those Of You Who Have Been Critical...I Have Listened"

Father Lawrence Biondi has been personally hurt by the things his critics have said about his leadership as president of Saint Louis University. But he has listened to them. So says Biondi in a letter sent out university-wide today that, for the first time, appears to publicly recognize the need fo ... More >>

Resigned SLU Theology Chair Jay Hammond On Lawrence Biondi: "He Creates a Culture of Fear"

As we reported last week, Jay Hammond, chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University, resigned in protest of Father Lawrence Biondi -- the latest high-profile case of faculty backlash against university leadership. After publishing Hammond's formal resignation letter and ... More >>

Saint Louis University: More Faculty Protest As Theology Dept. Chair Jay Hammond Resigns

More trouble this week for Father Lawrence Biondi, president of Saint Louis University -- with another high-profile resignation from someone who says that "trust at SLU has been shattered." Jay Hammond, the chair of the Department of Theological Studies, has resigned in protest of Biondi's leaders ... More >>

Which St. Louisan Should Be the Next Pope?

Yes, it may be a bit self-centered of us to think, as soon as we heard the news yesterday of Pope Benedict XVI's impending resignation, which St. Louisan should replace him? But really, isn't it high time there was a Pope from the Western Hemisphere? And why not from St. Louis, the most Catholic of ... More >>

SLU Faculty Issues Comprehensive Report on Why Lawrence Biondi Sucks

Think tension between the faculty and administration at Saint Louis University has simmered down in recent weeks? - SLU Faculty Give Biondi a No-Confidence Vote- Biondi Threatens to Pack Up SLU Medical and Head West - SLU Law School Drama Think again. Today the faculty made public a lengthy report i ... More >>

SLU Faculty Give Biondi a No-Confidence Vote

The faculty council at Saint Louis University's College of Arts & Sciences has overwhelmingly voted to censure the school's president, Father Lawrence Biondi, over plans to alter SLU's tenure system. The no-confidence vote from the faculty council passed yesterday by a margin of 35 to 2 with one ... More >>

SLU Law School Drama! A Roundup

Annette Clark resigned in fury yesterday from her position as dean of SLU's School of Law, and on her way out, issued a scathing letter to Fr. Lawrence Biondi, accusing him of essentially plundering the law school for about $1 million after saying he wouldn't. Oh, and this too, she writes: From the ... More >>

SLU on Trial for Sex Discrimination

www.slu.eduConnie Evashwick​A former dean of Saint Louis University's School of Public Health has sued her old employer, accusing the Jesuit institution of sex discrimination. The battle has now reached the courtroom, with the fourth day of jury trial opening this morning at the Civil Courts B ... More >>

Five Reasons Rick Majerus and SLU Will Make the Big Dance

Image ViaNot even the mascot expected SLU to be this good.​Shhh! Don't tell anyone. We don't want to jinx it but the SLU Billikens are just a few wins away from an NCAA tournament berth.You may not have noticed since the Bills' games are rarely televised locally (and even when they are, they somet ... More >>

Penis Biondi or One More Reason the Internet Can't Be Trusted

Big Man on Campus

Sit back and marvel as Rick Majerus hoists SLU basketball from the morass of mediocrity. (Just don't let him near your pizza.)

Rebuilt to Suit

SLU won't say what it has in store for the Locust Business District.

High Times

Smoking pot leads to a wicked case of the munchies? Who knew?

"Do lawyers have the right to take customers away from their firm and open up their own business? I bet they have non-compete contracts also."

Week of February 8, 2007

Death of a Professor

What drove Saint Louis University’s David Manor to put a bullet in his brain?

Hot Tickets

No, this ain't New York, but the shows sure go on.

Go Fourth

And spread local artistic cheer

Letters

Week of May 5, 2004

Letters

Week of April 28, 2004

Biondi Issues

SLU's no-confidence man could use more campus cred

Sculpture Shock

SLU president Lawrence Biondi says he leased his Trova from the city fair and square, for $10 a year. Others beg to differ.

The Scarlet Letter

In St. Louis, the "A" is for "ambition"

Puppy Love

Week of September 4, 2002

SLU Blue

Week of August 28, 2002

Catfish Dreams

Week of August 14, 2002

Father Knows Best

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

SLU of Despond

And Biondi's sculpture park is ugly, too

Wasted Space

St. Louis University restores a beautiful building to display terrible art

Terrible Twins

Nightmare for a rookie mayor -- Schoemehl and Biondi on the prowl with a Big Idea

Grand Funk

Wildly successful restaurateur Eddie Neill does it again -- or does he?

Grand Guy

Vince Schoemehl is a politician, which is just what Grand Center needs

Prescription for Resignation

Upset over a new pay policy, docs are checking out of St. Louis University Hospital

The Deal of the Century

Convention and Visitors Commission honcho John Ferrara gets hot and bothered about the RFT's treatment of the Trans World Dome deal; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

JUST THE FACTS, MA'AM

Jury duty at the Civil Courts Building: same sit, different day; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN, IT APPEARS, DON'T LISTEN TO ALL THAT JAZZ

Award-winning jazz station KZJZ gets religion, leaving the AM band bereft of jazz; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

BAR FLY

Twenty North leaves its longtime Vandeventer Avenue home for new digs

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

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

War and Parking

In an era about nothing, SLU student activism is a welcom sight