Interesting.
Washington Univ likes to bill itself as the Harvard of the Midwest. It's a conservative campus with a small radical student population. Last year a group of students staged a sit in to support a living wage for contracted employees such as those who clean their dorms and classrooms.
Wash U is also home to the Weidenbaum Center.
Here is some info on Murray Weidenbaum...
http://wc.wustl.edu/murrayweidenbaum.htmlProfessor Murray Weidenbaum is Honorary Chairman of the Center and Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University. He is known for his research on economic policy, taxes, government spending, and regulation. Weidenbaum created the Center for the Study of American Business in 1975, served as its director during most of the 1975-2000 period, and retired from the directorship at the end of 2000, when the Center was renamed the Weidenbaum Center.
In 1981 and 1982, Professor Weidenbaum was President Reagan's first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In that capacity, he helped formulate the economic policy of the Reagan administration and was a key spokesman for the administration on economic and financial issues. During the years 1982-1989, he was a member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board.
Earlier, Professor Weidenbaum was the first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Nixon administration. He also served as Fiscal Economist in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and as the Corporate Economist at the Boeing Company. He is a member of the boards of directors of Harbour Group, Macroeconomic Advisers, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He is a member of advisory boards of the Center for Strategic Tax Reform, the American Council for Capital Formation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute.