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Article: SLU's Biondi sues professor and wants him to pay for it.(off the record)(St. Louis University's Lawrence Biondi versus Avis Meyer)
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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When a college official doesn't like what is printed in the student newspaper it's easy to blame the faculty adviser. So it is with the Rev. Lawrence Biondi, president of St. Louis University, who for years has been targeting Professor Avis Meyer as his nemesis.
Biondi's latest salvo, with the help of a big downtown law firm, is to demand that Meyer pay $6,327 in legal fees the university incurred in a suit for damages threatened against Meyer. It was not filed.
Meyer has been told that he might avoid the legal bill if he agrees to never show his face again at the office of the University News. That initial demand was made by attorney Frank Janoski, of ...