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Article: DePaul University can't hold tigers much longer.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2004
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Byline: Robert Becker
CHICAGO _ Tigers peer out from photos on the office wall of DePaul President Rev. John "Jack" Minogue. And his resume includes a stint on the board of trustees of a big cat refuge in Arkansas.
"I do like tigers," says the popular leader of the largest Catholic university in the country.
Two years ago, Minogue engineered the purchase of a $1 million plot of land in southeast Missouri to build an environmental studies program around his passion for the big cats.
Dubbed "Father Jack's tiger project" by one perplexed university trustee, the odd marriage of an urban university and tigers has since turned into a white ...