Jasmine Wallace May 3, 2013
By JASMINE WALLACE St. Lawrence is home to many casual and competitive equestrians alike, but only a portion of them ride at the Elsa Gunnison Appleton Riding Hall. A handful of St. Lawrence students have found a home away from home for their horses and for themselves at Honey Dew Acres LLC, a boarding and [...]
Jasmine Wallace April 15, 2013
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 [...]
Jasmine Wallace April 3, 2013
Shaneequa Castle ’13 spent last summer researching Jamaican dancehall. She will share her experiences with the St. Lawrence community when she hosts Dancehall 101 Week. “Dancehall often receives criticism in the media. It’s kind of like the hip-hop of Jamaica,” said Castle. “I wanted to be able to provide a medium for people to express [...]
Jasmine Wallace March 22, 2013
Pam Houston visited St. Lawrence as part of the Writer’s Series on Wednesday, March 6. She transported the audience from Iceland to Turkey, and to many places in between, while reading from her latest novel: Contents May Have Shifted. Dr. Jill Talbot introduced Houston to the audience as a writer that readers can easily relate [...]
Jasmine Wallace March 1, 2013
By Ross P. Robinson Italian intellectuals, it seems, were building up their own social networks long before the debut of Facebook. A collaborative investigation involving researchers from Reading University, Royal Holloway, and the British Library is examining the works of the sixteenth-century Italian Academies–and has managed to uncover a communication scheme bearing numerous parallels to [...]
Jasmine Wallace March 1, 2013
By Jasmine Wallace Bernard Cooper was featured at the Writer’s Series on Thursday, March 21. He read from several works, including his most recently published memoir, and discussed his inspirations and influences in creative writing. Cooper currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Bennington College. He has written two memoir collections, Maps to Anywhere [...]
Jasmine Wallace March 1, 2013
By Samantha Colton Although many of us celebrated our New Year weeks ago, students, faculty, community members, and students from all four area schools gathered in Eben Holden last Friday night to celebrate the Chinese New Year. St. Lawrence trustee Hook Huang was also in attendance. The event was organized by St. Lawrence’s Chinese Culture [...]
Jasmine Wallace February 24, 2013
Rebecca Solnit visited St. Lawrence last Thursday as part of the Writer’s Series. She read from an unpublished essay about the mystery of Henry David Thoreau’s laundry. Solnit is the author of 13 books, including Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, many of which are available [...]
Jasmine Wallace February 3, 2013
Though many students actively engage with the community on campus, few have the opportunity to interact extensively with other residents of St. Lawrence county. A new off-campus program called the Sustainability Semester is giving eight students the opportunity to do this and more, all while gaining skills related to sustainable living. “The students seem to [...]
Jasmine Wallace November 14, 2012
By RILEY SPELLMAN Many students and faculty do not know about KSLU, St. Lawrence’s campus radio station. The station returned to campus only a few years ago, but since then, the station has been completely “revamped,” according to KSLU co-president Chelsea Draper ‘15. “I believe [the renovations were] around the same time that the new [...]
