Oh, what a time it’s been! Four crazy years and countless reams of paper – we swiftly approach graduation. As I look over the last proofs of the Hill News as editor-in-chief, it seems obligatory to share my reflections. I’ll try not to be too self-indulgent. I went through the trouble of studying media production [...]
By STEVE KNIGHT This year’s Springfest will be revolutionary, coordinators said, but it could also be “make-it or break-it.” Collaboration of student organizations and theme houses has made Springfest a festival as well as a concert. “Music festivals are not just a stage with bands and people standing around on a grassy field,” Andrew Hosmer [...]
Audacious, haphazard, foolish and lunatic are some of the words Mark and Kristin Kimball said have been used to describe their farm cooperative in Essex, NY. But there’s another word for their farm: successful. Besides using organic methods and draft horse power, their farm economics set them apart. Their 200 cooperative members are allowed a [...]
By STEVE KNIGHT Senior staff members, faculty, and student representatives recognize the twice annual registration struggle for courses students want and need. Exactly how to go about fixing the Academic Planning and Registration website, or APR, is not yet clear. As the University gradually increases student enrollment and faculty council prepares a new curriculum, the [...]
By STEVE KNIGHT The university will prove the Strategic Map to be a “living document” by incorporating a faculty-revised preamble and rolling out a progress report in mid-April. Tom Evelyn, vice president of communications, said President Fox and others who have seen the revision agree it’s a more inclusive representation of our university. He said [...]
Lauded as a “major victory” for students, Governor Cuomo’s competitive education grants program has also been blamed for stifling rural school districts. Canton High School is one under-funded rural school among 27 districts that protested the state’s education funding formula Wednesday in Albany. Many of the school districts have similar complaints: low tax base, budget [...]
By ALLY FRIEDMAN Last Thursday, a group of St. Lawrence first years met with adults from Iran, Nigeria, South Korea, and Mexico who are all learning English as a second language. The event was organized by Robin Crowell, a professor who teaches the First Year Seminar “Critical Issues in Teaching English in Foreign Countries” as [...]
Students, parents, teachers and residents from across the North Country met in Canton’s H.C. Williams Senior High School auditorium Wednesday night to organize for a larger share of state education funds. “There’s supposed to be an equity budget ratio throughout the state and we are taking it the hardest because we don’t have a firm [...]
By STEVE KNIGHT You can plan a pretty “First Ever Third Annual Great Mount Titus North Country Global Cool Down Weekend Event” but you can’t predict the weather. Ski areas across the country are suffering from a lack of natural snow this season. Mount Titus and Big Tupper closed this week for rain and lack [...]
Photographs of the UC Davis pepper spray incident shocked Occupy sympathizers familiar with police aggression but galvanized by the perceived banality of the violence against students. St. Lawrence students shared their thoughts about the police attack and made connections to their own campus for a Hill News vox populi. J. J. Stopyra ‘13: I have [...]
