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Three times a week at 11 a.m., students rush the doors of Lab Sci 300, shoving past the stream of winded freshmen trying to leave. The students are hurrying to get their front-row seats for optimal viewing of professor Richard Loomis’s next general chemistry lecture.

Son of anti-gay professor comes out

The son of a Washington University physics professor notorious for vocally condemning homosexuality came out as gay in Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

| Contributing Reporter

How many more Mr. Smiths will it take?

If you haven’t heard the news yet, promising state senator and Wash. U. professor Jeff Smith pled guilty to charges presented by the FBI regarding illegal campaign practices in 2004. […]

| Forum Editor

Life lessons and the unoccupied mind of Professor Kit Wellman

On Tuesday, April 21, Washington University philosophy professor Kit Wellman was asked to give his “Last Lecture.”

| Staff Columnist

Q. and A. with Professor David Peters

Student Life’s Michelle Merlin sat down with the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering David Peters from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering. Peters recently published a book not […]

| Staff Reporter

Study says liberal professors do not create liberal students

A recent study concluding that the political views of university professors have a minimal impact on their students’ views is drawing mixed reactions from Washington University undergraduates.

| Contributing Reporter

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