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 [...]
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 [...]
EMILY HARRINGTON Age: 23 Hometown: Timmins, Ontario, Canada Major: Geology Favorite Event: Slalom How long have you been skiing? 20 years. What first got you on skis? My parents thought it would be a good weekend sport to keep the kids busy. What is your favorite memory of skiing at SLU? Coming third in [...]
By NICK SIRIANO There is a window on campus that gleams in the late morning sun. It sends the Scarlet and the Brown down upon the brick path and sandstone foundation, glints in the evenings, and in the fall, our colors find their way to the leaves that are reflected under the eaves of Herring [...]
By ALLISON TALBOT As of tomorrow, I’ll have been in London for a month. That month is an Oyster card worth £96 of unlimited tube and bus travel. It’s four plays and five museums (three of which are giants that I’ve visited multiple times). It’s trips around the diverse neighborhoods of London as well as [...]
By ELLE LUCAS The fall semester of 2014 is quickly approaching, bringing with it new housing, a larger student body, and a first year class whose students will be the first to matriculate with three new graduation requirements: a quantitative reasoning course, an integrative learning course, and, most notably, an environmental literacy course. The Academic [...]
By AMY FEIEREISEL With the Innovation Grant deadline fast approaching (March 8!), The Hill News decided to investigate the history of the Innovation Grant Program. We interviewed Lisa Cania, Vice President of Community and Employee Relations, who has a seat on the board that evaluates grant proposals. Hill News: How and when did Innovation [...]
By HUNTER KOSKI Immigration is a sensitive subject among many Republicans. The recent self-deportation policy was one of the reasons why Republicans lost this last election; needless to say, it did not appeal to Hispanic voters. The majority of conservatives have acknowledged the need for a comprehensive amnesty program, however, many conservatives still have not [...]
By JOHN HICKS In the words of President Obama, the United States is the first nation to be founded for the sake of the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny. This is why for centuries immigrants have risked everything to come to the United States. In order to [...]
By MARGARET FITZGERALD To the person who continues to cropdust at public venues: knock it off. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what cropdusting is, please take this time to awkwardly ask one of your friends or rely on the internet and urbandictionary to define this unfortunate travesty. In the past fortnight, I [...]
