Washington & Lee University News

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about journalistic ethics? What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere's snarky tone last week when Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., announced that Mr.

Of the finds he listed, I thought these were the most interesting. First, that race wasn't much of a factor in his journalistic rise and fall: Blair rejected the notion that his story should have any bearing on the future of other black journalists or efforts to achieve "diversity" in American newsrooms.

NYTimes.com "But how much stock can you put in what's said by someone best known for lying?" asks David Folkenflik .

A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists." Town officials in Kent are balking, saying it would be inappropriate to single out a religious group in a project on town property and ...

A member of the City of Lexington Ministerial Association: The Reverend William M. Klein - A member of the Bar of Rockbridge County/City of Lexington: Donald Jackson Ellis, Esq.

I'm going to give everybody until 5 p.m. today to enter the contest to win Alton Brown's book, "Good Eats: The Early Years." The winner will be announced on this blog on Monday.

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics? What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere's snarky tone last week when Washington & Lee University in Virginia announced Blair would speak Friday at a journalism conference there.

If you organized a conference on marital fidelity and made Elliot Spitzer the keynote speaker, that would raise some eyebrows.

Some big international names in the theater world will be attending the 10th National Symposium of Theater in Academe at Washington and Lee University from November 11 - "14. Titled "Performyth," the symposium has expanded this year to include the First International Theater Festival.

The Florida Board of Governors has appointed William R. Johnston and Felice C. Schulaner to the board of trustees at New College of Florida.

Thirty years after Iranian students, in the aftermath of the revolution of 1979, occupied the American Embassy and took American hostages, Hossein Sheiban, a professor of history and visiting scholar at Washington and Lee University, will give a talk that looks back over Iran's history and examines the country's situation today.

Despite the changing seasons, there's been much recognition for all the green on campus.

LEXINGTON - Jayson Blair, who was at the center of a major journalism scandal as a New York Times reporter in 2003, will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University's 48th Journalism Ethics Institute on Nov.

LEXINGTON - Carolyn Denard, associate dean for undergraduate education at Emory University, will give a talk at Washington and Lee University at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

From the Civil War to civil rights, Southern newspapers have always played a major role in the region's history.

Hill International , the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that two executives have joined the firm as Vice Presidents in Hill's Washington, DC office.

A symposium at Washington and Lee University's School of Law will explore recent violence on college campuses from the perspective of psychology, medical science and the law.

Max Frank Music Over the last few years, Terry Vosbein , a Professor of Music at Washington and Lee University and a classically-trained composer of symphonies, operas, and chamber music , has been exhaustively researching the unrecorded scores from the Stan Kenton Collection at the University of North Texas.

The Campus-Community Coalition at Washington and Lee University will hold an open-forum discussion in Stackhouse Theatre in Elrod Commons Wednesday, Oct.

Election 2009: Six people vying for three seats on the Board of Finance By CHASE WRIGHT Times Staff Writer STAMFORD -- Democrats have held a majority on the Board of Finance for about as long as Mayor Dannel Malloy has been in office.