Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 located in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

, Missouri

Missouri

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, United States

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. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River

Mississippi River

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. It is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities

Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities

The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities is a consortium of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and two theological centers in the United States committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities, sharing resources, and advocating and...

. The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. SLU's athletic teams compete in NCAA's Division I and the Atlantic 10 Conference. It has a current enrollment of 13,785 students representing all 50 states and more than 77 foreign countries. There are currently 8,406 undergraduate students enrolled in SLU as well as 2,437 graduate students and 2,942 professional students. This year’s enrollment marks the first year that SLU’s enrollment passed 13,000. Of all the students, 59 percent are from out of state.
The university provides undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. Its average class size is 23 and the student-faculty ratio is 13:1.

Its Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Spain campus has from 600–650 students, a faculty of 110, an average class size of 18 and a student-faculty ratio of 8:1.

Saint Louis University (SLU) is located on Lindell Boulevard, originally outside the City of St. Louis in an area originally called Lindell's Grove, and is the second-oldest Jesuit college in the nation (only Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 has been in existence longer). The first M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...

 degree awarded west of the Mississippi

Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...

 was conferred by Saint Louis University in 1836.

History

Saint Louis University traces its origins to the Saint Louis Academy, founded on 16 November 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg, Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, and placed under the charge of the Reverend François Niel and others of the secular clergy attached to the Saint Louis Cathedral. Its first location was in a private residence located near the Mississippi River in an area now occupied by the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It was designated as a National Memorial by Executive Order 7523, on December 21, 1935, and is maintained by the National Park Service .The park was established to...

.

Already having a two-story building for the 65 students using Bishop Dubourg's personal library of 8,000 volumes for its printed materials, the name Saint Louis Academy was changed in 1820 to Saint Louis College (while the secondary school division remained Saint Louis Academy, now known as St. Louis University High School). In 1827 Bishop Dubourg placed Saint Louis College in the care of the Society of Jesus, not long after which it received its charter as a university by act of the Missouri Legislature. In 1829 it moved to Washington Avenue and Ninth at the site of today's America's Center

America's Center

America's Center is a convention center located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, and is situated next to the Edward Jones Dome, the home of the National Football League's St. Louis Rams. The venue opened in 1977 as the Cervantes Convention Center, and has held major events over the years,...

 by the Edward Jones Dome

Edward Jones Dome

The Edward Jones Dome The Edward Jones Dome The Edward Jones Dome (more formally known as the Edward Jones Dome at America's Center, and previously known as The Trans World Dome (from 1995–2001) is a multi-purpose stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, and home of the St. Louis Rams of the NFL. It was...

. In 1852 the university and its teaching priests were the subject of a viciously anti-Catholic novel, The Mysteries of St. Louis, written by newspaper editor Henry Boernstein

Henry Boernstein

Henry Boernstein [in Europe, Heinrich Börnstein] for many years published the Anzeiger des Westens in St. Louis, Missouri, the oldest German newspaper west of the Mississippi River...

 whose popular paper, the Anzeiger des Westens

Anzeiger des Westens

The Anzeiger des Westens was the first German-language newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, and, along with the Westliche Post and the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, one of the three most successful German-language papers in the United States Midwest serving the German-American population with news and...

was also a foe of the university.

In 1867 after the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 the University purchased "Lindell's Grove" to be the site of its current campus. Lindell's Grove was the site of the Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 "Camp Jackson Affair". 0n May 10, 1861 U.S. Regulars and Federally enrolled Missouri Volunteers arrested the Missouri Volunteer Militia

Missouri State Militia (pre-Missouri State Guard)

The Missouri Volunteer Militia was the state militia organization of Missouri prior to the Missouri State Guard in the American Civil War.Prior to the Civil War, Missouri had an informal state militia that could be called up by the governor for emergencies or annual drill "in accordance with the...

 after the militia received a secret shipment of siege Artillery, infantry weapons and ammunition from the Confederate

Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...

 Government. While the Militia was arrested without violence, angry local citizens rushed to the site, and rioting broke out, in which 28 people were killed. The Camp Jackson Affair lead to open conflict within the state, culminating with a successful Federal offensive in mid-June 1861 which expelled the state's pro-secession governor Claiborne Fox Jackson

Claiborne Fox Jackson

Claiborne Fox Jackson was a lawyer, soldier, and Democratic politician from Missouri. He was the 15th Governor of Missouri in 1861, then governor-in-exile for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 from the state capitol (Jefferson City). Jackson later led a Missouri Confederate government-in-exile, dying of cancer in Litter Rock, Arkansas in 1862.

The first (and most iconic) building on campus, DuBourg Hall, began construction in 1888, and the college moved to its new location in 1889.

During the early 1940s, many local priests, especially the Jesuits, began to challenge the segregationist

Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home...

 policies at the city's Catholic colleges and parochial schools. After the Pittsburgh Courier

Pittsburgh Courier

The Pittsburgh Courier was an American newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which was published from 1907 to 1965. Once the country's most widely circulated Black newspaper, the legacy and influence of the Pittsburgh Courier is unparalleled.A pillar of the Black Press, it rose...

, an African-American newspaper, ran a 1944 expose on St. Louis Archbishop John J. Glennon's

John J. Glennon

John Joseph Glennon was an Irish American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of St. Louis from 1903 until his death in 1946, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946.-Early life and ministry:...

 interference with the admittance of a black student at the local Webster College

Webster University

Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Webster University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools...

, Father Claude Heithaus, professor of Classical Archaeology at Saint Louis University, delivered an angry sermon accusing his own institution of immoral behavior in its segregation policies. By summer of 1944, Saint Louis University had opened its doors to African American

African American

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s, after its president, Father Patrick Holloran, secured Glennon's reluctant approval.

Expansion

During the past twenty years, the University has seen the modernization and construction of campus buildings as well as the revitalization of surrounding Midtown St. Louis. Some of the highlights of Biondi's tenure at SLU include the investment of more than $840 million in enhancements and expansions including the major expansion of the John Cook School of Business

John Cook School of Business

John Cook School of Business is the business school of Saint Louis University, a Jesuit, Catholic university located in St. Louis, Missouri. The business school was founded in 1910 and is the oldest business school west of the Mississippi River and 15th oldest in the United States...

; construction of McDonnell Douglas Hall, home to Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology

Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology

Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology is a college within Saint Louis University.-History:right|thumb|[[de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver]] restored by Parks students in 1991...

; the Center for Advanced Dental Education; the Doisy College of Health Sciences Building and the expansion and renovation of the Busch Student Center. Part of this expansion was the closing of two blocks of West Pine Boulevard (the section between N. Vandeventer Ave. and N. Grand Blvd.) and two blocks of N. Spring Ave. (between Lindell Blvd. and Laclede Ave.), both public streets which the campus had previously expanded across, converting them into a pedestrian mall. Furthermore, the University completed construction of the $82 million Edward A. Doisy Research Center in 2007 and the on-campus Chaifetz Arena in 2008.

In addition, for over thirty years the university has maintained a campus in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

Spain

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 with a student body of around 700. The Madrid campus was the first freestanding campus operated by an American university in Europe and the first American institution to be recognized by Spain's higher education authority as an official foreign university. In the early 1970s, the campus was the site of an emerging new stream of Bible-based liturgical music that has enjoyed a worldwide impact. The composers were known as the St. Louis Jesuits

St. Louis Jesuits

The St. Louis Jesuits, a group of Catholic composers who popularized a contemporary style of church music through their compositions and recordings in the 1970s and 1980s. The group, made up of Jesuit seminarians at St...

. After a twenty-year hiatus, they released a new album in the fall of 2005.

Shift to majority lay board of trustees

In 1967, Saint Louis University became one of the first Catholic universities to increase layperson decision making power. At the time, then board chairman Fr. Paul Reinert, SJ

Paul C. Reinert

Rev. Paul Clare Reinert, S.J., was the president of Saint Louis University and a community leader in St. Louis, Missouri....

, stepped aside to be replaced by layman Daniel Schlafly. The board also shifted to an 18 to 10 majority of laypeople. This was largely instituted due to the landmark Maryland Court of Appeals

Maryland Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals of Maryland is the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland. The court, which is composed of one chief judge and six associate judges, meets in the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building in the state capital, Annapolis...

 case, Horace Mann vs. the Board of Public Works of Maryland, in which grants to "largely sectarian" colleges were declared unconstitutional. The Second Vatican Council

Second Vatican Council

The Second Vatican Council addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed...

 has also been mentioned as a major influence on this decision for its increased focus on the laity, as well as the decreased recruitment of nuns and priests since the council.

From 1985 to 1992 the Chairman of the Board of Trustees was William H.T. Bush

William H.T. Bush

William Henry Trotter "Bucky" Bush is the youngest son of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, the younger brother of former President George H.W. Bush, and the uncle of former President George W...

 (younger brother of former President George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

). The younger Bush also taught classes at the school.

Since the move to lay oversight, debate has erupted many times over how much influence the Roman Catholic Church should have on the affairs of the university. The decision by the University to sell its hospital to Tenet Healthcare Corp.

Tenet Healthcare

Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health-care delivery systems company based in Dallas, Texas. THC owns and operates 49 acute-care hospitals in 11 states and 90 outpatient centers in 12 states, with a majority of these hospitals in California, Florida and Texas...

 in 1997 met much resistance by both local and national Church leaders, but went ahead as planned.

Timeline

• 1903—Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore Roosevelt
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   attends a Latin disputation at Saint Louis University. It is a "Grand Act" (a defense covering Philosophy and Theology) given by Spanish Jesuit Fr. Joachim Villalonga in celebration of the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase
  Louisiana Purchase Exposition
  The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the Saint Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1904.- Background :...
  
  .
• 1904—Both the World's Fair and the third Olympic Games of the modern era are held in St. Louis. Blue and White games are played before Exposition crowds. St. Louis (under Coach Martin Delaney) outscores its opponents 336 to 0 for the season, including a win over Kentucky
  University of Kentucky
  The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
  
   by the score of 5–0, a 17–0 victory over the University of Missouri
  University of Missouri
  The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...
  
   and a 51–0 trouncing of Arkansas
  University of Arkansas
  The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...
  
  . The Spaulding Athletic Almanac of 1905 offers this commentary: “The (Olympic) Department knew perfectly well that it would be unable to have an Olympic Foot Ball Championship, though it felt incumbent to advertise it. Owing to the conditions in American colleges it would be utterly impossible to have an Olympic foot ball championship decided. The only college that seemed absolutely willing to give up its financial interests to play for the World’s Fair Championship was the St. Louis University and there is more apparently in this honor than appears in this report. There were many exhibition contests held in the Stadium under the auspices of the Department wherein teams from the St. Louis University and Washington University took part and competed against other teams from universities east and west of the Mississippi River. The Missouri-Purdue game was played in the Stadium on October 28….. The Olympic College Foot Ball Championship was won by St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., by default.”
• 1906—Bradbury Robinson
  Bradbury Robinson
  Bradbury Norton Robinson, Jr. was a pioneering American football player, physician, and local politician. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 and at Saint Louis University from 1904 to 1907. In 1904, though personal connections to Wisconsin governor Robert M. La...
  
   throws the first legal forward pass in the history of American football to Jack Schneider, under the direction of SLU coach Eddie Cochems
  Eddie Cochems
  Edward Bulwer "Eddie" Cochems was an American football player and coach. He played football for the University of Wisconsin from 1898 to 1901 and was the head football coach at North Dakota State , Clemson , Saint Louis University , and Maine . During his three years at St...
  
   (September 5, against Carroll College of Waukesha).
• 1943—Professor of Biochemistry Edward Adelbert Doisy
  Edward Adelbert Doisy
  Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K and its chemical structure.Doisy was born in Hume, Illinois, on November 3, 1893. He completed his A.B. degree in 1914 and his M.S...
  
   shares (with Henrik Dam
  Henrik Dam
  Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy work in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology. Dam's key experiment involved feeding a cholesterol-free diet to chickens...
  
  ) the Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
   in Physiology or Medicine for his work on Vitamin K
  Vitamin K
  Vitamin K is a group of structurally similar, fat soluble vitamins that are needed for the posttranslational modification of certain proteins required for blood coagulation and in metabolic pathways in bone and other tissue. They are 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives...
  
  , which he had isolated in a pure form in 1939.
• 1949—Jesuit Priests from SLU assist a teenage boy, Robbie Mannheim, believed to suffer from demonic possession. The boy's experience serves as the basis of the documentary In The Grip Of Evil and is dramatized in the 1971 novel The Exorcist
  The Exorcist
  The Exorcist is a novel of supernatural suspense by William Peter Blatty, published by Harper & Row in 1971. It was inspired by a 1949 case of demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University, a Jesuit school...
  
  followed by the 1973 film The Exorcist
  The Exorcist (film)
  The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her...
  
  .
• 1967—First lay incorporation of a Jesuit university in the United States. The membership of the Board of Trustees went from 13 Jesuit priests to 18 lay members and 10 Jesuits. Fr. Paul Reinert, S.J.
  Paul C. Reinert
  Rev. Paul Clare Reinert, S.J., was the president of Saint Louis University and a community leader in St. Louis, Missouri....
  
  , yielded the chairmanship to Daniel L. Schlafly. (Reported in Time magazine, February 3, 1967: "A Louder Voice for Laymen.")
• 2006—Cardinal Sfeir, Patriarch of the 12–15 million-member Maronite Catholic Church and one of the most important figures in the Middle East, was bestowed with Saint Louis University's highest honor, the Sword of Ignatius Loyola, on June 30, 2006.
• 2007—On April 27, 2007 Rick Majerus
  Rick Majerus
  Rick Majerus is an American college basketball coach, and the men's basketball head coach at Saint Louis University. He coached previously at Marquette University , Ball State University , and the University of Utah .-Biography:Majerus graduated from Marquette University High School in 1966 and...
  
   accepted the head coaching position for the Men's Basketball team.

Colleges and schools

Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

Graduate and Professional

Frost Campus College of Arts & Sciences (1818) College of Philosophy and Letters (1889) John Cook School of Business John Cook School of Business John Cook School of Business is the business school of Saint Louis University, a Jesuit, Catholic university located in St. Louis, Missouri. The business school was founded in 1910 and is the oldest business school west of the Mississippi River and 15th oldest in the United States...  (1910) Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology is a college within Saint Louis University.-History:right|thumb|[[de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver]] restored by Parks students in 1991...  (1927) Saint Louis University School of Social Work Saint Louis University School of Social Work The Saint Louis University School of Social Work, located in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of nine graduate schools within Saint Louis University.It was established in 1930 and has been accredited by the Council on Social Work Education since 1952....  (1930) College of Education and Public Service (1998)

Frost Campus The Graduate School (1832) Saint Louis University School of Law Saint Louis University School of Law Saint Louis University School of Law , also known as SLU LAW, is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is one of the professional graduate schools of Saint Louis University. Opened in 1843, it is the first law school west of the Mississippi River. The school has been ABA...  (1843) John Cook School of Business John Cook School of Business John Cook School of Business is the business school of Saint Louis University, a Jesuit, Catholic university located in St. Louis, Missouri. The business school was founded in 1910 and is the oldest business school west of the Mississippi River and 15th oldest in the United States...  (1910) School of Social Work Saint Louis University School of Social Work The Saint Louis University School of Social Work, located in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of nine graduate schools within Saint Louis University.It was established in 1930 and has been accredited by the Council on Social Work Education since 1952....  (1930) School for Professional Studies Saint Louis University School for Professional Studies Saint Louis University School for Professional Studies offers busy adults convenient access to academic and professional programs. Highlights of the School include online, evening and weekend classes, a flexible-accelerated schedule, affordable tuition and personalized programs.Professional...  (1996) Medical Center School of Medicine Saint Louis University School of Medicine Saint Louis University School of Medicine is a private, American medical school within Saint Louis University.It was established in 1836 as the Medical Department of the university and had the distinction, in 1839, of awarding the first M.D. degree granted west of the Mississippi River...  (1891) School of Nursing (1928) Doisy College of Health Sciences (1928) Saint Louis University School of Public Health Saint Louis University School of Public Health The School of Public Health is one of nine graduate schools within Saint Louis University.-Programs of Study:*Master of Health Administration*Master of Public Health*Master of Science in Public Health...  (1991)

Campus

SLU's campus consists of over 235 acres (95.1 ha) of land and 7.2 million GSF, with 131 buildings on campus.

Libraries and museums

Saint Louis University has four libraries. Pius XII Memorial Library is the general academic library. It holds over 1 million books, 6,000 journal subscriptions, and 140 electronic databases. The Knights of Columbus

Knights of Columbus

The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded in the United States in 1882, it is named in honor of Christopher Columbus....

 Vatican Film Library

Vatican Film Library

The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library in St. Louis, Missouri is the only collection, outside the Vatican itself, of microfilms of more than 37,000 works from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, the Vatican Library in Europe. It is located in the Pius XII Library on the campus of Saint Louis...

 holds a unique collection of microfilm focusing on the manuscripts housed in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. The Omer Poos Law Library houses the law collection and is within the School of Law

Saint Louis University School of Law

Saint Louis University School of Law , also known as SLU LAW, is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is one of the professional graduate schools of Saint Louis University. Opened in 1843, it is the first law school west of the Mississippi River. The school has been ABA...

. The Medical Center Library serves the health and medical community at SLU.

Every year the Saint Louis University Library Associates present the St. Louis Literary Award

St. Louis Literary Award

Every year the Saint Louis University Library Associates present the St. Louis Literary Award to a distinguished figure in literature.Past Recipients of the Award:*2010 Don DeLillo*2009 Sir Salman Rushdie*2008 E. L. Doctorow*2007 William H. Gass...

 to a distinguished figure in literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

. Sir Salman Rushdie received the 2009 Literary Award. E.L. Doctorow received the 2008 Saint Louis Literary Award.

The University also has several museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art.

Housing

Saint Louis has both dormitory and apartment space on-campus. As part of the First Year Experience (FYE) program, resident freshman students are required to live on campus (unless a commuter from the Saint Louis area) for the first two years of their careers at SLU, before being released to move into Upperclassmen or off-campus housing.
The sophomore residency requirement caused controversy when initiated in the 2009-10 school year, as the University lacked adequate housing to house all sophomores and upperclassmen who requested on-campus housing. Around 1000 juniors and seniors were pushed off campus when sophomores were granted access to traditionally Junior and Senior housing options. In the 2010-11 school year, the school announced the transfer of the Student Housing Scholarship (of $1,000 to $2,000) to Tuition Scholarship, which made off-campus housing more affordable and pursued by upperclassmen.

Freshman Year Experience options

The Griesedieck Complex (also known as "Gries", pronounced "greez") contains 16 stories of living space in its main building, with additional dorm space in its two wings: Walsh, all girl wing, and Clemens, all guy wing. Gries is located in the heart of the campus, in front of the quad, and has an average freshman living space, 10' 7.5" by 18' 2", with community showers and bathrooms. Reinert Hall, named after Jesuit Father Paul C. Reinert, is located two blocks south of the main campus in a converted Marriott

Marriott

- Corporations :* Marriott International, international hotel company* Marriott Hotels & Resorts* Marriott Corporation , originally known as Hot Shoppes, Inc...

 hotel. Where the building lacks in location it makes up for in living space, containing some of the largest dormitories across the country, 12' 1" by 27', complete with private full baths in each room, though each room houses three to four roommates. Reinert also has access to 24-hour in-building study/meeting rooms and its own dining hall.
Other on-campus housing is the site of several different FYE Learning Communities, which allow freshmen to live and study with like-minded or like-majored peers. Fusz Hall houses the Honors Learning Community, while Marguerite Hall houses both the Micah Program and the Business Learning Community.

Upperclass options

Several housing choices exist for sophomores, juniors and seniors. SLU does not have Greek houses on campus; however, the Sigma Chi chapter owns a house located less than a block from campus, and DeMattias Hall acts as a Greek dormitory and de facto community House. Next to DeMattias Hall is Marguerite Hall, which offers 8 floors of suite-style two-occupancy dorm rooms. Continuing up West Pine Mall, is Pruellage (formerly Notre Dame Hall). While many honors students once chose to live here, in 2008 it was changed to "The Language Villa," where foreign students and language students can live together. The choice of moving the foreign and language students from the Language Houses on Laclede Street to Notre Dame Hall created some controversy in both the language and honors communities. The former Language Houses,once French,German, and Spanish, are now occupied by upperclassmen notably from the Micah Program. Another dorm option is Fusz Hall, catercorner to the University's Clocktower. It contains a food court.

Grand Forest, the Village, and the Marchetti Towers are the on-campus apartment options available. Because of its proximity to the Chaifetz Arena, many student-athletes live in Grand Forest. Similarly, the Village, just across from DeMattias, houses many Greeks. The Marchetti Towers are just west of Grand Forest and consists of two, 12-story towers. During the summer of 2008, Marchetti Towers underwent a $3.8 million renovation.

Edward A. Doisy Research Center

SLU recently completed building a $67 million, 10-story tall research center connected to its Medical Campus Building. It is designed to be a green building

Green building

Green building refers to a structure and using process that is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition...

 and is named for Edward Adelbert Doisy

Edward Adelbert Doisy

Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K and its chemical structure.Doisy was born in Hume, Illinois, on November 3, 1893. He completed his A.B. degree in 1914 and his M.S...

, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

 laureate of 1943 and a long-time faculty member at SLU's medical school. With improvements to other research building facilities, the total cost of the project is forecast to be around $80 million. The building had its official dedication ceremony on December 7, 2007, with faculty and staff having begun to move in during the previous weeks.

In July 2010, the Edward A. Doisy Research Center became home to the Center for World Health and Medicine, a non-profit drug discovery group dedicated to developing therapies for orphan and neglected diseases.

Chaifetz Arena

The multi-purpose arena, construction of which was completed in early April 2008 at a cost of $80.5 million, contains 10,600 seats for basketball, a training facility, state-of-the-art locker rooms, and a practice facility that can house an additional 1,000 spectators. It is located on the eastern-most end of campus, just north of I-64/U.S. Highway 40

U.S. Route 40

U.S. Route 40 is an east–west United States highway. As with most routes whose numbers end in a zero, U.S. 40 once traversed the entire United States. It is one of the original 1920s U.S. Highways, and its first termini were San Francisco, California, and Atlantic City, New Jersey...

. The arena replaced Scottrade Center

Scottrade Center

Scottrade Center is a 19,150 seat arena located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, opened in 1994. It is the home of the St...

 as the University's primary location for large events, notably Commencement

Graduation

Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become Graduates. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as Graduands. The date of graduation is often called degree day. The graduation itself is also...

 celebrations and varsity sports. On February 28, 2007, the arena was named in honor of University alumnus (1975) Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz, founder and CEO of ComPsych Corp., who made a $12 million naming rights gift to the Arena. The University's official dedication ceremony for the Arena was held on April 10, 2008.http://www.slu.edu/x21663.xml

Saint Louis University School of Law

The law school also recently unveiled plans for a new building. The law school is currently attempting to raise the estimated $30–35 million necessary, with the original estimation of groundbreaking in 2010. Plans for the new building were postponed indefinitely after the financial crisis of 2007–2010. http://www.slu.edu/x30420.xml

Athletics

The St. Louis Billikens are the collegiate athletic teams from Saint Louis University. This NCAA Division I program has teams in soccer, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, swimming and diving, cross country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

, track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, and field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

. They compete in the Atlantic Ten Conference

Atlantic Ten Conference

The Atlantic 10 Conference is a college athletic conference which operates mostly on the United States' eastern seaboard. It also has two member schools in Ohio: Dayton and Xavier, located in Dayton and Cincinnati, respectively. Another member, Saint Louis is located in St. Louis, Missouri...

 (where they are the westernmost member, and both the first member located west of the Mississippi and in the Central Time Zone). The school has nationally recognized soccer programs for men and women. The school has heavily invested in its on-campus athletic facilities in the past twenty years with the creation of Hermann Stadium

Hermann Stadium

Hermann Stadium, or fully, Robert R. Hermann Stadium is located in Midtown St. Louis, Missouri, on the campus of Saint Louis University. The first game played was August 21, 1999. This is where the both the Billiken men's and women's soccer teams play. Also, several other events take place here,...

 and Chaifetz Arena. Chris May is the current director of athletics.

Student organizations

Saint Louis University has a large number of student organizations that cover a variety of interests: student government, club sports, organizations focused on media and publications, performing arts, religion and volunteerism and service.

Student Organization Controversies

On several occasions, controversies have arisen when student groups organized events that SLU considered to be inconsistent with its Catholic, Jesuit mission. Controversial programming included:

• The Vagina Monologues: Beginning in 2007, SLU informed its feminist student organization, Una, that they would no longer be allowed to perform Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues on campus. Since that time, Una has performed the Vagina Monologues off campus. In 2010, in addition to the off campus production of Ensler's Monologues, Una produced the SLU Monologues, a collection of stories from the student body based on the style of the Vagina Monologues.
• The All of Us Campaign: In the spring of 2009, controversy arose when SLU's Rainbow Alliance, a student organization supporting and advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members of the SLU community, attempted to organize a straight ally program called the All of Us Campaign. The All of Us Campaign encouraged allies to pledge their support to the LGBT community by acknowledging and seeking to overcome straight privilege. SLU administrators took issue with the campaign's position on same-sex marriage, which they argued to be contradictory to the Jesuit mission. The conflict was resolved when organizers of the All of Us Campaign negotiated with administrators to develop a new pledge which was acceptable to both parties.

Non-Greek student groups

• Alpha Phi Omega
  Alpha Phi Omega
  Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...
  
   (APO)- A co-educational service fraternity that promotes the values of leadership, friendship, and service. Being one of the largest chapters in the nation, SLU's chapter (founded in 1944) performed over 15,000 hours to the St. Louis community in the 2009-2010 academic year.
• Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization (CEO)- An organization that increases entrepreneurship awareness through hands-on experiences and bringing a variety of speakers to campus. More information on CEO can be found at www.sluceo.com.
• Philosophy Club – open to all "majors, minors, and lovers of wisdom."
• Service Leadership – certificate program through the Business School where participants are encouraged to become leaders through service
• College Republicans – SLU's chapter is one of the largest, most active chapters in the state. In 2006, the SLU College Republicans contributed over 1,400 hours to Senator Jim Talent's Re-election campaign. The College Republicans also hosted Governor Sarah Palin during the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
• Bare Naked Statues – BNS is the award-winning all-male a cappella
  A cappella
  A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
  
   group on campus. They have 2 professionally recorded CDs and have been featured on the Voices Only A Cappella compilation CD.
• Beyond All Reason - (also known as BAR) is SLU's premier all-female a cappella group. They were established in 2002. As of 2009, they are working on their first professionally recorded CD. In the meantime, you can hear them sing on campus and off campus at events including the Breast Cancer Walk and Cardinals games.
• College Democrats - Support and campaign for Democratic candidates and causes at the local, state, and national level. Spearheaded a campaign in 2008 to obtain an on-campus polling place, resulting in a large increase in voter turnout among SLU students.
• Great Issues Committee – speaker's bureau; brings speakers to the University's campus, second most funded organization from SGA, recent speakers include Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
  
  , Cornel West
  Cornel West
  Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America....
  
  , Vicente Fox
  Vicente Fox
  Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...
  
  , and Bill Nye
  Bill Nye
  William Sanford "Bill" Nye , popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer, and scientist...
  
  
• Parks Guard
  Parks Guard
  Parks Guard Rifle Drill Team, or PG, was founded in 1948 as an Air Force Rifle Drill team representing Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, a college of Saint Louis University.-History:...
  
   – Military drill team that competes in military drill competitions and conducts honor guard ceremonies for local events
• RHA
  RHA
  RHA is an acronym that may refer to:* Regional Health Authority* Religious Heritage of America* Rental Housing Association of Puget Sound* Residence Hall Association...
  
   – Residence Hall Association – plans events on campus, advocates on-campus residents needs, and oversees the Residence Hall/Apartment Councils
• Presidential Scholars Society – an undergraduate social organization and scholastic honor society
  Honor society
  In the United States, an honor society is a rank organization that recognizes excellence among peers. Numerous societies recognize various fields and circumstances. The Order of the Arrow, for example, is the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America...
  
   whose members have received SLU's highest academic award, the Presidential Scholarship.
• Rainbow Alliance - support and advocacy group for LGBT
  LGBT
  LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
  
   students and their straight allies.
• Student Activities Board
• Campus Kitchen
  Campus Kitchen
  A Campus Kitchen is an on-campus student service program that is a member of the nonprofit organization, The Campus Kitchens Project. At a Campus Kitchen, students use on-campus kitchen space and donated food from their cafeterias to prepare and deliver nourishing meals to their communities.The...
  
   – Program where student volunteers cook safe, unused food from campus dining facilities and deliver meals to low-income individuals and local community organizations.
• SLU Students for Life - (also called SFL) The on-campus SLU organization arranged around pro-life values that contributes to a culture of life and respect for human dignity, especially that of the unborn. This group encourages attendance at the annual March for Life
  March for Life
  March for Life is an annual pro-life rally protesting abortion, held in Washington, D.C., on or around the anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion in the case Roe v. Wade. The march is organized by the March for Life Education and Defense Fund. The overall goal...
  
   and occasionally holds events, particularly during Respect Life month.
• S.U.F.A. – Students United For Africa is a student organization that focusses on the issue of world poverty and social justice.The main function of the club is to raise money to support their school in Kasena, Ghana (Current efforts are on building a library and finding books to fill it)
• Just Earth! – An environmental student organization who mission it is to educate and serve. Host the yearly Spring Cleaning Salvage Drive which collects the usable items (furniture, clothes, etc.) students throw away for charitable organizations.

Fraternities

• Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856. Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South...
  
  
• Alpha Delta Gamma
  Alpha Delta Gamma
  Alpha Delta Gamma National Fraternity is an American Greek-letter social fraternity and one of 74 members of the North-American Interfraternity Conference...
  
  
• Beta Theta Pi
  Beta Theta Pi
  Beta Theta Pi , often just called Beta, is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi. It has over 138 active chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada...
  
  
• Delta Sigma Phi
  Delta Sigma Phi
  Delta Sigma Phi is a fraternity established at the City College of New York in 1899 and is a charter member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference. The headquarters of the fraternity is the Taggart Mansion located in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  
• Phi Delta Theta
  Phi Delta Theta
  Phi Delta Theta , also known as Phi Delt, is an international fraternity founded at Miami University in 1848 and headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad. The fraternity has about 169 active chapters and colonies in over 43 U.S...
  
  
• Phi Kappa Theta
  Phi Kappa Theta
  Phi Kappa Theta is a national social fraternity with over 50 chapters and colonies at universities across the United States. "Phi Kaps", as they are commonly referred to colloquially, are known for diversity among their brothers and a dedication to service.-History:Phi Kappa Theta was established...
  
  
• Sigma Phi Epsilon
  Sigma Phi Epsilon
  Sigma Phi Epsilon , commonly nicknamed SigEp or SPE, is a social college fraternity for male college students in the United States. It was founded on November 1, 1901, at Richmond College , and its national headquarters remains in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded on three principles: Virtue,...
  
  
• Sigma Tau Gamma
  Sigma Tau Gamma
  Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity also named "Sig Tau" or "the Knights" is a U.S. all-male college secret-social fraternity founded on June 28, 1920 at University of Central Missouri...
  
  
• Sigma Chi
  Sigma Chi
  Sigma Chi is the largest and one of the oldest college Greek-letter secret and social fraternities in North America with 244 active chapters and more than . Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon...
  
  
• Tau Kappa Epsilon
  Tau Kappa Epsilon
  Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent...
  
  

Sororities

• Alpha Delta Pi
  Alpha Delta Pi
  Alpha Delta Pi is a fraternity founded on May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The Executive office for this sorority is located on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. Alpha Delta Pi is one of the two "Macon Magnolias," a term used to celebrate the bonds it shares with Phi Mu...
  
  
• Delta Gamma
  Delta Gamma
  Delta Gamma is one of the oldest and largest women's fraternities in the United States and Canada, with its Executive Offices based in Columbus, Ohio.-History:...
  
  
• Gamma Phi Beta
  Gamma Phi Beta
  Gamma Phi Beta is an international sorority that was founded on November 11, 1874, at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. The term "sorority," meaning sisterhood, was coined for Gamma Phi Beta by Dr. Frank Smalley, a professor at Syracuse University.The four founders are Helen M. Dodge,...
  
  
• Kappa Delta
  Kappa Delta
  Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the university...
  
  
• Sigma Kappa
  Sigma Kappa
  Sigma Kappa is a sorority founded in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Sigma Kappa was founded by five women: Mary Caffrey Low Carver, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Mabel Fuller Pierce, Frances Elliott Mann Hall and Louise Helen Coburn...
  
  
• Zeta Tau Alpha
  Zeta Tau Alpha
  Zeta Tau Alpha is a women's fraternity, founded October 15, 1898 at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia. The Executive office is located in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  
• Phi Alpha Chi

Academia

• George Hardin Brown, medieval literature
• Jesse Grant Chapline
  Jesse Grant Chapline
  Jesse Grant Chapline was an American educator and politician who founded distance learning facility La Salle Extension University in Chicago.-Life and career:...
  
  , American educator and politician who founded distance learning college
• Michael J. Garanzini
  Michael J. Garanzini
  Reverend Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. is an American priest of the Society of Jesus religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States...
  
  , S.J.
  Society of Jesus
  The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...
  
   (B.A. 1971) – President of Loyola University of Chicago (since 2001), former president of SLU student government association, 1969–1970.
• William P. Leahy
  William P. Leahy
  Leahy's memberships include the American Catholic Historical Association, the American Historical Association, the History of Education Society, and the Organization of American Historians....
  
  , S.J. (M.A. 1972, 1975) – President of Boston College
  Boston College
  Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
  
   since 1996.
• Dr. J. Bernard Machen (D.D.S. 1968) – President of the University of Florida
  University of Florida
  The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
  
   since 2004.
• Walter J. Ong
  Walter J. Ong
  Father Walter Jackson Ong, Ph.D. , was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness...
  
  , S.J. (M.A. 1941) – Cultural and religious historian, philosopher, and lecturer.

The Arts

• Thomas P. Barnett
  Thomas P. Barnett
  Thomas P. Barnett , also known professionally as Tom Barnett and Tom P. Barnett, was an American architect and painter from St. Louis, Missouri. Barnett was nationally recognized for both his work in architecture and in painting.-Architectural work:Barnett trained under his father, St. Louis...
  
   (1886) - Prominent architect and American impressionist painter.
• Richard Dooling
  Richard Dooling
  Richard Patrick Dooling is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel White Man's Grave, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.Dooling's first novel, Critical...
  
   (B.A. 1976; J.D. 1987) – Lawyer and author of four novels: Critical Care; White Man's Grave; Brain Storm; Bet Your Life.
• Robert Guillaume
  Robert Guillaume
  Robert "Bob" Guillaume is an American stage and television actor, best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night...
  
   (Attended) – Stage and television actor (Benson, Soap).
• James Gunn (B.A. 1992) – Film director (Slither), screenwriter (Dawn of the Dead
  Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
  Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 horror film directed by Zack Snyder in his directorial debut. It is a remake of George A. Romero's 1978 film of the same name and stars Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, and Jake Weber. The film depict a handful of human survivors living in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin shopping mall...
  
  , Scooby-Doo
  Scooby-Doo (film)
  Scooby-Doo is a 2002 American comedy film based on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon series Scooby-Doo about a group of young detectives and their talking dog. It is the first installment in the Scooby-Doo live action film series...
  
  ), and novelist (The Toy Collector
  The Toy Collector
  The Toy Collector is a novel written by James Gunn, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2000. It is the story of a hospital orderly who steals drugs from the hospital which he sells to help keep his toy collection habit alive....
  
  ).
• Andreas Katsulas
  Andreas Katsulas
  Andrew "Andreas" Katsulas was a Greek-American actor known for his roles as Ambassador G'Kar in the science fiction television series Babylon 5, as the one-armed villain Sykes in the film The Fugitive , and as the Romulan Commander Tomalak on Star Trek: The Next Generation...
  
   (B.A.) – Actor, (The Fugitive, Babylon 5, Star Trek: The Next Generation).
• David Merrick
  David Merrick
  David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.-Life and career:Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law...
  
   (J.D. 1937) – Broadway producer.

Business

• Michael Bidwill
  Michael Bidwill
  Michael Bidwill is a National Football League executive with the Arizona Cardinals. He is the son of franchise owner Bill Bidwill and the current President of the club.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1987) – President, Arizona Cardinals
  Arizona Cardinals
  The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  .
• August Busch IV
  August Busch IV
  August Anheuser Busch IV is the former CEO of Anheuser-Busch who ended the family control of the company in 2008 when it was sold to InBev.-Early life:...
  
   (B.S.; M.B.A.) – Former President and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch
  Anheuser-Busch
  Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. , is an American brewing company. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and 18 in other countries. It was, until December 2009, also one of America's largest theme park operators; operating ten theme parks across the United States through the...
  
   Companies, Inc.
• Mark Lamping
  Mark Lamping
  Mark Lamping is the CEO of the New Meadowlands Stadium Company, and the former president of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, a post he held from September 1, 1994 until March 13, 2008.- Life and career :...
  
   (M.B.A.) – Former President of the St. Louis Cardinals
  St. Louis Cardinals
  The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
  
  .
• Walden O'Dell
  Walden O'Dell
  Walden "Wally" O'Dell was chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Diebold, a US-based security and financial products company.He was an active fundraiser for George W...
  
   (B.S.; M.S.) – CEO and Chairman of Diebold, Inc. (1999–2005).
• Rex Sinquefield
  Rex Sinquefield
  Rex Sinquefield, 62, is a conservative businessman active in Missouri politics and philanthropic causes.-Background:Raised in in Saint Louis, Sinquefield received his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1972, his B.S. in 1967 from St. Louis University, where he is a member of the board of...
  
   (B.A.) – Co-founder and co-chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors
  Dimensional Fund Advisors
  Dimensional Fund Advisors is an investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas with regional offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Santa Monica, Sydney, and Vancouver. The company was founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield, both graduates of the University of Chicago Booth School of...
  
  ; president of the Show-Me Institute.

Politics

• Stephen R. Wigginton (J.D. 1988) - United States Attorney
  United States Attorney
  United States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...
  
   for the Southern District of Illinois (2010–Present)
• Dave Barrett
  Dave Barrett
  David Barrett, OC , commonly known as Dave Barrett, is a retired politician and social worker in British Columbia, Canada...
  
   (M.S.W. 1956) – Premier of British Columbia, Canada (1972–1975).
• Enrique Bolaños
  Enrique Bolaños
  Enrique José Bolaños Geyer was the President of Nicaragua from 10 January 2002 to 10 January 2007. President Bolaños is of Spanish and German heritage and was born in Masaya ....
  
   (B.A. 1962) – President of Nicaragua.
• Freeman Bosley, Jr.
  Freeman Bosley, Jr.
  Freeman R. Bosley Jr. was the forty-third mayor of St. Louis , and the city's first African-American mayor.-Early life and education:...
  
   (B.A. 1976; J.D. 1979) – St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
  
  's first African-American mayor
  Mayor
  In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
  
  .
• Jack W. Buechner (J.D. 1965) – U.S. Congressman, Missouri (1987–1991).
• Quico Canseco
  Quico Canseco
  Francisco "Quico" R. Canseco is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life and education:...
  
   (B.A., J.D.) - U.S. Congressman, Texas (2011–Present).
• Alfonso J. Cervantes
  Alfonso J. Cervantes
  Alfonso Juan Cervantes was the thirty-ninth Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1965 to 1973.- Personal life and early political career :...
  
   – Forty-third mayor of the City of St. Louis (1965–1973).
• William Lacy Clay, Sr. (B.S. 1953) – U.S. Congressman, Missouri (1969–2001).
• James F. Conway (B.S., M.B.A.) – Forty-fifth mayor of the City of St. Louis (1977–1981).
• Joseph M. Darst – Forty-first mayor of the City of St. Louis (1949–1953).
• Jason Grill
  Jason Grill
  Jason Grill is an attorney and former Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He resides in Parkville, Missouri, United States....
  
   - Representative in the Missouri House of Representatives
  Missouri House of Representatives
  The Missouri House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 163 members, representing districts with an average size of 31,000 residents. House members are elected for two-year terms during general elections held in even-numbered years.In 1992 Missouri...
  
  , (2006–2010).
• Robert Emmett Hannegan
  Robert E. Hannegan
  Robert Emmet Hannegan was a St. Louis, Missouri politician who served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue from October 1943 to January 1944. He also served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1944 to 1947 and United States Postmaster General from 1945 to 1947...
  
   (1903–1949) (J.D. 1925) – Commissioner of U.S. Internal Revenue (1943–1945); Chairman, Democratic National Committee (1944–1947); U.S. Postmaster General (Truman administration, 1945–1947); President, St, Louis Cardinals (1947–1949).
• Lester C. Hunt
  Lester C. Hunt
  Lester Callaway Hunt was a Democratic politician and dentist from the state of Wyoming. He served as the 19th Governor of Wyoming from 1943 to 1949 and as United States Senator from January 3, 1949 until his suicide on June 19, 1954....
  
   – Governor of Wyoming (1943–1949), U.S. Senator, Wyoming (1949–1954).
• John M. Nations (J.D. 1988) – Mayor, Chesterfield, Missouri 2001 – http://www.lawyers.com/Missouri/St.-Louis/John-M.-Nations-1046392-a.html?
• William F. Quinn
  William F. Quinn
  William Francis Quinn was the Governor of the Territory of Hawai'i from 1957 to 1959 and the Governor of the State of Hawai'i from 1959 to 1962. Originally appointed to the office by President Dwight D...
  
   – First Governor of Hawaii (1959–1963).
• Richard J. Rabbitt
  Richard J. Rabbitt
  Richard J. Rabbitt is a Democratic politician from St. Louis, Missouri who was Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976....
  
   – (B.S. and L.l.b) – Speaker of Missouri House of Representatives
• David Safavian
  David Safavian
  David Hossein Safavian is a former chief of staff of the United States General Services Administration and a figure in the Jack Abramoff lobbying and corruption scandal....
  
   (B.A.) – Chief of Staff, General Services Administration (2002–2003).
• Francis Slay (J.D. 1980) – Forty-ninth mayor of the City of St. Louis.
• James F. Strother
  James F. Strother
  James French Strother was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the son of George Strother and grandfather of another named James French Strother....
  
   – Virginia House of Delegate (1840–1851), Speaker of the Virginia House (1851), U.S. Congressman, Virginia (1851–1853).
• John B. Sullivan
  John B. Sullivan
  John Berchmans Sullivan was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri. He was a Democrat. He was married to Leonor Kretzer Sullivan....
  
   – U.S. Congressman, Missouri (1941–1943, 1945–1947, 1949–1951).
• Joseph P. Teasdale
  Joseph P. Teasdale
  Joseph Patrick Teasdale is an American politician. He served as the 48th Governor of Missouri from 1977 to 1981. He is member of the Democratic Party....
  
   (J.D.) – Governor of Missouri (1977–1981).
• Harold L. Volkmer – U.S. Congressman, Missouri (1977–1997).

Science

• Jan Garavaglia, MD - Star of Dr. G.: Medical Examiner.
• Gene Kranz
  Gene Kranz
  Kranz's book, titled Failure Is Not an Option, published five years after the movie, stated, "...a creed that we all lived by: "Failure is not an option."" . The book has three index references for the phrase, but none of those give any indication of the phrase being apocryphal...
  
   (B.S. 1954) – Lead NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   flight director during the Apollo 11
  Apollo 11
  In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...
  
   moon landing and leader of the Apollo 13
  Apollo 13
  Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST. The landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command...
  
   rescue mission.

Sports

• Anthony Bonner
  Anthony Bonner
  Anthony Bonner is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 1st round of the 1990 NBA Draft. He played six seasons in the NBA for the Kings, New York Knicks, and Orlando Magic averaging 6.9 ppg in his career...
  
   – SLU's all-time leading scorer in men's basketball and played six seasons in the NBA for the Sacramento Kings
  Sacramento Kings
  The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California, United States. They are currently members of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...
  
  , New York Knicks
  New York Knicks
  The New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
   and the Orlando Magic
  Orlando Magic
  The Orlando Magic is a professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association and are currently coached by Stan Van Gundy...
  
  .
• Jim Petersen - Left Striker for the United States 2010 World Cup Team.
• Richard Boushka
  Richard Boushka
  Richard James "Dick" Boushka was an American basketball player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Boushka played collegiately at Saint Louis University....
  
   — Basketball All-American in 1954–55, Olympic gold medalist in 1956. Drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers.
• Bob Ferry
  Bob Ferry
  Robert Dean "Bob" Ferry is a retired American basketball player and executive.A 6'8" center from Saint Louis University, Ferry was selected by the St. Louis Hawks with the seventh pick of the 1959 NBA Draft...
  
   – Basketball All-American in 1958–59, enjoyed a ten-year career in the NBA with the St. Louis Hawks, Detroit Pistons
  Detroit Pistons
  The Detroit Pistons are a franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills. It was originally founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Pistons as a member of the National Basketball League in 1941, where...
  
  , and Baltimore Bullets
  Washington Wizards
  The Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., previously known as Washington Bullets. They play in the National Basketball Association .-Early years:...
  
  . Former assistant coach and general manager of the Baltimore Bullets; NBA Executive of the Year in 1979 and 1982.
• Larry Hughes
  Larry Hughes
  Larry Darnell Hughes is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the Charlotte Bobcats. He is a and shooting guard. Hughes attended Saint Louis University and was the eight pick in the 1998 NBA Draft, selected by the Philadelphia 76ers...
  
   – NBA basketball player – attended but never graduated, was drafted after his freshman year into the NBA by the Philadelphia 76ers
  Philadelphia 76ers
  The Philadelphia 76ers are a professional basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association . Originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA...
  
  . Currently out of the league.
• Pat Leahy – Placekicker
  Placekicker
  Placekicker, or simply kicker , is the title of the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals, extra points...
  
   for the New York Jets
  New York Jets
  The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   from 1974 to 1990, played soccer at SLU
• Ed Macauley
  Ed Macauley
  Charles Edward "Ed" Macauley was a professional basketball player in the NBA. His playing nickname was "Easy Ed."...
  
   (1949) – NBA Hall of Famer
• Brian McBride
  Brian McBride
  Brian Robert McBride is a retired American soccer player who finished his career for Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer , but spent the majority of his time in MLS playing for the Columbus Crew. For much of his career he played in Europe, notably for Fulham in the English Premier League...
  
   – First American to score in more than one FIFA World Cup tournament, doing so once in 1998 (vs. Iran), and twice in 2002 (game-winners vs. Portugal and Mexico). He is also SLU's all-time leading goal-scorer and held the freshman scoring record until 2003, when he was surpassed by Vedad Ibišević
  Vedad Ibiševic
  Vedad Ibišević is a Bosnian footballer playing as striker for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in the German Bundesliga and the Bosnian national team. He has also played in Switzerland, the USA and France...
  
  .
• George Michael
  George Michael (sportscaster)
  George Michael was an American sportscaster best known nationally for The George Michael Sports Machine, his long-running sports highlights television program. Originally named George Michael's Sports Final when it began as a local show in Washington, D.C...
  
   - Emmy-winning sportscaster, creator and host of The George Michael Sports Machine
  The George Michael Sports Machine
  The George Michael Sports Machine is a syndicated, sports-related television program which aired from 1984 until 2007. The show was hosted by George Michael, a former radio disc jockey-turned television sports anchor, and was produced at WRC-TV, the NBC-owned station in Washington,...
  
  
• Tim Ream
  Tim Ream
  Timothy "Tim" Ream is an American soccer player who currently plays for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer and the United States national team. He usually plays as a central defender.-Youth and college:...
  
   - Current defender
  Defender
  Defender usually refers to a position in association football .Defender or The Defender may also refer to:-Film and television:* The Defender or The Bodyguard from Beijing, a film starring Jet Li...
  
   for the New York Red Bulls
• Jerry Trupiano
  Jerry Trupiano
  Jerome Michael "Jerry" Trupiano is an American radio sportscaster and the former color commentator voice of the Boston Red Sox...
  
   – Former Boston Red Sox
  Boston Red Sox
  The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
  
   Radio Broadcaster

Miscellaneous

• Thomas Anthony Dooley
  Thomas Anthony Dooley
  Thomas Anthony Dooley III was an American who, while serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, became increasingly famous for his humanitarian and political activities in South East Asia during the late 1950s until his early death from cancer...
  
   – (M.D. 1958) – humanitarian who worked in Southeastern Asia; author of Deliver Us from Evil, The Edge of Tomorrow, and The Night They Burned the Mountain.
• John Kaiser
  John Anthony Kaiser
  John Anthony Kaiser was a Roman Catholic priest who was murdered in Morendat, Kenya by unknown assailants.-Early life:...
  
   – M.H.M. (B.A. 1960) – Mill Hill Missionary died under suspicious circumstances while serving in Kenya. Received an Award for Distinguished Service in the Promotion of Human Rights from the Law Society of Kenya prior to his death.
• Bradbury Robinson
  Bradbury Robinson
  Bradbury Norton Robinson, Jr. was a pioneering American football player, physician, and local politician. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 and at Saint Louis University from 1904 to 1907. In 1904, though personal connections to Wisconsin governor Robert M. La...
  
   (B.S. & M.D. 1908) – Threw the first legal forward pass in football history for SLU in 1906. Captained SLU's baseball and track teams. Practiced surgery at the Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice and medical research group specializing in treating difficult patients . Patients are referred to Mayo Clinic from across the U.S. and the world, and it is known for innovative and effective treatments. Mayo Clinic is known for being at the top of...
  
   (1908–1910) and served on the staff of Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming
  Hugh S. Cumming
  Hugh Smith Cumming was an American physician, and soldier. He was appointed the fifth Surgeon General of the United States from 1920 to 1936.- Early life :Cumming was born in Hampton, Virginia...
  
   (1920–1926). Twice elected mayor of St. Louis, Michigan
  St. Louis, Michigan
  St. Louis is a city in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 4,494. The 2010 census estimate places the population at 7,482.-Geography:...
  
   (1931 and 1937).
• Sister Rose Thering
  Sister Rose Thering
  Sister Rose Thering, O.P., was a Roman Catholic Dominican Religious Sister, who gained note as an activist against antisemitism, educator and a professor of Catholic-Jewish dialogue at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.Rose Elizabeth Thering was born in Plain, Wisconsin, the sixth of 11 children...
  
  , O.P. (Ph.D. 1961) – Dominican nun whose campaign against anti-Semitism in Catholic textbooks is the subject of the Oscar-nominated 39-minute documentary film directed by Oren Jacoby, Sister Rose's Passion.
• Bobby Wilks
  Bobby Wilks
  Bobby Charles Wilks , was an American Coast Guard aviator. He was the first African American Coast Guard aviator and the first African American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain. Captain Wilks, who also was the first African American to command a Coast Guard air station, was involved in a...
  
  , (M.A. 1954) - First African American Coast Guard aviator, the first African American to reach the rank of captain in the Coast Guard and the first African American to command a Coast Guard air station.

Past

• Vernon Bourke
  Vernon Bourke
  Vernon J. Bourke was a Canadian-born American professor, author, and Thomist philosopher. His area of expertise was ethics, and especially the moral philosophy of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.-Family Life:...
  
  , (1931–1975) Philosopher and author, considered an authority on Thomistic moral philosophy; first hockey coach of the university.
• Edward Adelbert Doisy
  Edward Adelbert Doisy
  Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K and its chemical structure.Doisy was born in Hume, Illinois, on November 3, 1893. He completed his A.B. degree in 1914 and his M.S...
  
  , (November 3, 1893–October 23, 1986) Biochemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
  
   in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K
  Vitamin K
  Vitamin K is a group of structurally similar, fat soluble vitamins that are needed for the posttranslational modification of certain proteins required for blood coagulation and in metabolic pathways in bone and other tissue. They are 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives...
  
   and its chemical structure.
• Marshall McLuhan
  Marshall McLuhan
  Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...
  
  , (1937–1944) well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village".
• Kurt Schuschnigg
  Kurt Schuschnigg
  Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg was Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic, following the assassination of his predecessor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, in July 1934, until Germany’s invasion of Austria, , in March 1938...
  
  , (1948–1967) Chancellor of Austria from 1934 to 1938, when Austria was annexed by Germany and was controlled by Adolf Hitler until 1945.
• Thomas Shippey – Author and former faculty member of Oxford University, where he taught Old English. Widely considered one of the leading academic scholars of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Present

• Clarence H. Miller
  Clarence H. Miller
  Clarence H. Miller is an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of...
  
  , Emeritus Professor of English known for his contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, including his translations of St. Thomas More's Utopia and Erasmus's Praise of Folly.
• Donald T. Critchlow
  Donald T. Critchlow
  Donald T. Critchlow is a historian specializing in American political history.Critchlow was born in Pasadena, California in 1948, and graduated from Maryville High School in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1968 and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the...
  
  , twentieth-century American political historian and is the author of more than thirteen books.
• John F. Kavanuagh S.J., Professor of Philosophy, known for his contributions to the debate concerning personhood and the ethics of killing. He is a regular columnist for America Magazine and is a frequent winner of the Catholic Press Association
  Catholic Press Association
  The Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada is an association of newspaper and media specialists specialized on reporting on the Roman Catholic Church. Founded in 1911, it has over 600 member organizations...
  
   award for best regular column.
• Thomas W. Hungerford
  Thomas W. Hungerford
  Thomas William Hungerford is an American mathematician who works in algebra and mathematics education. He is the author or coauthor of several widely used and widely cited textbooks covering high-school to graduate-level mathematics. From 1963 until 1980 he taught at the University of Washington...
  
  , mathematician and author of many textbooks including Abstract algebra: an introduction
• Thomas Madden
  Thomas Madden
  Thomas F. Madden is an American historian, a former Chair of the History Department at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and Director of Saint Louis University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies...
  
  , historian of Venice and the crusades; author of The New Concise History of the Crusades and Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice

External links

• Official website
• Madrid, Spain campus
• Official Athletics website