Mike Petroni March 24, 2012
Twenty or so swinging hammers create a cacophony of nails losing their length. Down to the wood they go, buried by force to prove their worth in binding, in cinching, in holding fast. The disjointed percussion of taps beat behind the yelling of instructions, the drone of hand saws and the conversations shared by workers. [...]
Mike Petroni March 1, 2012
Exam Time. It’s 1:15 am and you have just tracked some fresh snow into your room. Your roommate greets you with a grunt and a roll. “When you getting up?” you ask. “8” they mumble. “I need to get up at 7” you declare, removing all your cloths and getting in bed immediately, no pajamas, [...]
Mike Petroni February 21, 2012
It’s Thursday, the golden sparkling beginning of what slusers call the weekend. The clock strikes 11:40am and hundreds of students clamor down steps, pass through doors into the dry bite of February air. Lunch time, one hour, go. I am standing in the pub trying to plot my course to the vitamin water. 100 [...]
Mike Petroni February 14, 2012
So SLU welcomes us back with a campus wide hockey rink to slip on. I almost broke my back the other day outside ODY, so watch your step. We got to stay healthy for all that hung over skiing in our immediate future. More bad news, my roommate just changed his wake up alarm to [...]
Mike Petroni February 14, 2012
Due to a lack of time this week, I pulled this from the Petroni archives to share with you all. Enjoy. I turned the radio dial frantically searching through the static to find some way of stifling the silence in the car. Failing to find anything but Death Metal and sensual R&B, I clicked off [...]
Mike Petroni February 14, 2012
Falls down, frost covers ground, students meek from lack of sleep typing into the hypnotizing glare of the computer machine, memorizing hundreds of facts, dressing up for this and that and then it ends my friends, goodbye Fall 2011, what a time. And now we find ourselves saying goodbye to friends that we may never [...]
Mike Petroni November 30, 2011
According to the most recent US Census data, nearly 20 percent of people living in St. Lawrence County are beneath the poverty line. That’s one in five adults who need to rely on food stamps and other government programs to get by week to week, year to year. Surfing through websites, I found a page [...]
Mike Petroni November 16, 2011
Rivers running through the valley, skies’a blowing blue and I am falling madly for movement, for the smooth release of pace. May my feet keep my face away from still air. Still there? No. I’ve been eaten by the flow, torn away from home, and go I must and embrace with lust this new scene [...]
Mike Petroni November 2, 2011
Here are some of the activities hosted by our beloved theme houses. Each residence contributes to St. Lawrence’s dynamic social and educational scene. I joined a theme house as a sophomore and it enriched and enlivened my college experience. The sad part about this list is that it only displays a fraction of the events [...]
Mike Petroni October 28, 2011
Some say music heals, that the rhythmic sounds have physical effects on the body and mind. There is even a rising field of psychologists who use music to treat the disabling effects of Alzheimer’s, strokes, and premature births. This is no joke. According to some neurologists, music provides an alternative entry point to the brain. [...]
