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City of Clayton, Mo., Apologizes to 10 Black Students Wrongly Accused of Dining and Dashing
City officials of Clayton, Mo., are finally issuing a formal apology after police officers wrongly accused 10 black Washington University students of dining and dashing at a local IHOP. On Thursday, City Manager Craig Owens and Police Chief Kevin Murphy met with some of the students who were involved in the controversial encounter, where they…
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Kanye West’s ‘Breakdown’ Subject of University Lecture
A professor at Washington University in Saint Louis is using Kanye West’s recent hospitalization as part of his course’s final lecture on mental illness. Jeffrey McCune’s lecture, titled “Name One Genius That Ain’t Crazy: Kanye West and the Politics of Self-Diagnosis,” will take a look at how someone like West can be considered both a…