Bob Barker Gives Another Million to Animal Rights Cause
Former Game Show Host Donates $1 Million to Establish Animal Rights Professorship
11/4/09
In what is becoming a recurring theme, Bob Barker, the former host of the long running television game show The Price is Right, just announced that he is giving $1 million to his alma mater in order to create a professorship on animal rights that will eventually develop into a full undergraduate degree program. Barker is an avowed anti-hunter. This gift to Drury University, a small liberal arts college in Springfield, Missouri, is not the first time Barker has donated a portion of his wealth to advancing the cause of animal rights. In early 2007 Barker gave $1 million to the university in order to establish an undergraduate animal ethics class. Eighteen students enrolled for the first course during the most recent semester. He also gave $1 million to the University of Virginia earlier this year to create an animal rights program. Overall, he has seeded animal rights law endowment funds at eight law schools.
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