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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