News from the Academy

Fenster writes:

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

The interim dean of Saint Louis University’s law school is stepping down after making a series of controversial comments, saying that he is too politically incorrect for the job, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Thomas Q. Keefe took over the position last year amid controversy, when the law school’s dean resigned abruptly over disagreements with the Jesuit institution’s president, the Rev. Lawrence Biondi. But Mr. Keefe raised eyebrows when he said he would exercise independence in the role and would not be Father Biondi’s “butt boy.” Other comments landed him in more trouble, including one in which he said he got “drunker than 10 big Indians,” a remark that he does not deny making, according to the newspaper.