By NICOLE LEINDERS Last Friday, April 26th, around 4:45pm, you may have noticed a group of students running across campus stripping off their clothes. No, they were not day drinking. No, it wasn’t a dare. They were donating their clothes to charity! Earlier that day, I made my way towards the circle in front of [...]
By AMY FEIEREISEL A line for pastured meat sausages winds between local farm stands and local business tables. The sun is shining, the breeze blowing and crowds of people walk from building to building, talking to the people they came with as well as the ones they’ve met. This is the scene presented at April [...]
Dear Fellow Classmates, In writing my final editorial for The Hill News, I would like to reflect on the last four years and the most valuable lessons I’ve learned while at SLU. St. Lawrence is a place full of opportunities. Professors and staff members are willing and ready to help you at every turn, and [...]
Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund) and Former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., will be speaking at Commencement this year. Commencement will take place on May 19th. Ferguson graciously agreed to participate in an email [...]
We are truly a generation of the Self. Behaviors that a couple of decades ago would have been grounds for a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder are today normalities, if not near-universalities. Perhaps our newfound self-absorption is best represented by the enormous number of pictures we take of ourselves, to the extent that Facebook is [...]
Alexa Unser ’08 spoke as part of the Laurentian Magazine’s Young Artist Series last week. She presented on the art that she produced for her thesis show and also discussed the challenges of working as young artist today. “I really appreciate the opportunity to come back and see everybody,” said Unser, who explained that faculty [...]
By JAKE MILENDER GUEST COLUMNIST For some inexplicable reason my Spotify decided to crash this past Sunday morning while I was getting dressed for Easter brunch. I’d just finished washing off my Ticker-musk when “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe” cut out mid-chorus. Painfully ironic as it was, the situation only continued to get worse, as [...]
It’s currently 37 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday April 3, 2013 as I struggle to come up with a topic for this week. The suites are not well insulated so I’m forced to bundle up while sitting on my love couch. Remember this past Saturday when it got up to record high of 52 degrees and [...]
