Bristol Palin, Washington University Agree To Cancel 'Sex Week' Appearance

Uproar over Washington University's decision to pay Bristol Palin around $20,000 to partake in a discussion about "sexual responsibility" during the institution's annual "Sex Week" recently led the St. Louis, Mo., school to reverse its decision.

Students at Wash U have rallied against the selection, announced earlier this week, mounting protests, petitions and referendums, all aimed at overturning the decision by the university's Student Health Advisory Committee to invite Palin, now 20, who is a one-time teen mother and daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the decision to cancel Palin's invite came through a discussion between both parties in which they decided "that the message that they intended on sharing would be overshadowed by controversy."

From the Post-Dispatch's coverage:

Scott Elman, president of the advisory committee, said the decision to halt Palin's appearance as a keynote speaker was "100 percent mutual" between Palin and the committee. Elman added that he was very disappointed that students weren't more open to having Palin speak.

StudLife, Wash U's student publication, reports that "Kathryn Plax, a pediatrician and the director of the Adolescent Center at the medical school," will take Palin's place.

Comments

[gwilder]

08:49 PM on 02/05/2011

She is/was out for the money same as her mom.

[bronceye]

09:31 AM on 02/01/2011

Her speech would be-"Look, don't need no stinkin' college, get knocked up and make a living off of it"?

[Devin1818]

09:28 AM on 02/01/2011

Everything was going so well until she offered to dance.

[Littlekit]

09:21 AM on 02/01/2011

This story is sooo old. Please get it off the page.

[noaxe397]

08:48 AM on 02/01/2011

Wouldn't a real American who believes passionately in something and offered a forum in which to speak show their true patriot love of country by doing so without compensation, other than, perhaps, incidental expenses?

[dmac]

09:27 AM on 02/01/2011

And this relates to BP....how? :)

[noaxe397]

10:09 AM on 02/01/2011

She promotes herself as a teen advocate on matters of sexual relations.  She should be glad there is a forum for her to speak out on this issue without getting paid for it.

[hazlnut]

07:46 AM on 02/01/2011

A high school drop out who got pregnant by a guy named Levi. And they were going to pay her HOW much to talk to college students about abstinence?

[Bonsailady]

08:22 AM on 02/01/2011

$20,000...cuz Mom said she was wrong to get pregnant...maybe Mama Grizzley shouldhave taken her to the Canada plce to get Depoprovera

[brt929]

03:33 PM on 02/01/2011

She didn't need to go to Canada.  She got pregnant while her mother was Governor, I'm sure health care was part of the gig.  Not to mention, I've heard that because of her father's native roots, she is eligible for free federal health care. 

[Reiner-von-Sinn]

07:40 AM on 02/01/2011

This Palin reminds me of a tick.

[donnie-cheesehead]

07:22 AM on 02/01/2011

I heard Lee Harvey Oswald used to teach gun safety and responsibility
at texas high schools.

[RED BONE]

07:00 AM on 02/01/2011

If the students don't want her there then they should not have to have her forced upon them.

[Christy Sargent Anderson]

06:40 AM on 02/01/2011

As it should be, shoulda NEVER been, and now IS!

[nickatnight8]

06:37 AM on 02/01/2011

Good grief HP. This is old news and it's about time you take this story down. Where's the real news?

[Fredday]

07:29 AM on 02/01/2011

Ahhh never used the "internets" before huh? lolol Try "the google". lol

[nickatnight8]

08:50 AM on 02/01/2011

Who peed in your cornflakes this morning?

[nickatnight8]

08:54 AM on 02/01/2011

Feel better now ?

[lulutin]

03:57 AM on 02/01/2011

The real measure of seriousness would be if she'd speak for free (expenses reimbursed of course)...

[Patriot Games]

02:15 AM on 02/01/2011

Congratulations to the students of Washington University. They are not wasting theirs or their parents hard earned money. They are actually getting an education and making smart decisions. Their are better examples of teen age success after birth of a child than Bristol. Just what has she accomplished so far but quitting school and popping out a puppy?

[rightstroke]

01:23 AM on 02/01/2011

drug rehabs are run by ex-addicts....AA has ex-alcoholics...... all rehab is done by people that have already gone through the issue.. they best understand and know how to overcome it.

[fishnetdiver]

02:05 AM on 02/01/2011

true. but that would only work if she were an ex-tramp

[joseph illingworth]

02:12 AM on 02/01/2011

abstinence isn't about stopping having sex, it's about staying a virgin until marriage. to use your metaphor, it's about not doing drugs/drinking in the first place, not stopping once you've started. in this context, she failed. see?

[amd02148]

02:48 AM on 02/01/2011

Fanned/Faved joseph.

[magedfoxx]

01:18 AM on 02/01/2011

OMG!

the Palin People make parasites look good.