Features

English professor Ron Hughes debated his outfit choice before his first day at Forest Park 23 years ago. He never liked wearing pants and decided to go with shorts instead. […]

Most students understand the frustration of dealing with the college bureaucracy on a whole range of issues.  Music major Kristian Houston, 29, decided to share her experiences with Forest Park students by writing and performing a play called “Kollege the Musikal.” […]

Ken White lives in San Francisco, but he came home to St. Louis recently for his father’s funeral and felt he had to stop by the Pat Connolly Tavern. […]

Most pieces in the Leon Hicks exhibit at the Forest Park Gallery of Contemporary Art date back to the 1960s and ’70s, but they still appear raw and fresh to many students who have viewed them. […]

Terrell Carter has a resume that demands a double take: Police officer, author, artist, college professor and leader of a non-profit organization. […]

Students, faculty and staff walk past the sculpture in front of C Tower every day, but few know much about it.  “It looks like a woman with no head,” said general studies student Patrick Burley, 20. “I would name it ‘Headless Woman.’”  Amber Harris, a 45-year-old nursing student, has mixed feelings about the sculpture.  “To me, it’s a symbol of how men view women,” she said, “No head, just her body. She is missing her best feature: her mind.” […]

Danny Lawrence walked across the concrete deck of the Forest Park pool, climbed down the ladder on the 12-foot end and began to get acclimated for swimming class.  “Oooh, the water’s cold today,” he said. […]

Two new gardens are helping to beautify Forest Park’s urban campus.  Faculty and staff members have planted a butterfly garden in front of A Tower, and this is the second summer that produce is being grown in the cafeteria courtyard.  The 20-by-18-foot butterfly garden is a part of the Milkweed for Monarchs Initiative, which is designed to boost declining monarch butterfly populations. […]

Joe Wilson’s trademark line is “no excuses,” a term plastered around his office and repeated in his syllabus. The Forest Park chemistry associate professor was born legally blind, but that didn’t keep him from earning a doctorate degree, becoming an admired teacher and winning a college Innovation of the Year Award in 2014. […]

Katie Rhoades was a 19-year-old stripper in Portland, Ore., when she met a woman who introduced her to a pimp. Three days later, they were on their way to San Francisco. “We were going there for the purpose of prostitution,” said Rhoades, now 34 and living in St. Louis. […]