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 [...]
By CLAIRE ARROWSMITH Thank you, Frank Evans, for this celeb shot. Here’s hoping I make the cup. How many seniors choose to spend the first semester of their last year abroad? Not many. Was it worth it? Definitely. If you don’t go abroad you’re not getting your money’s worth at SLU. Sure, life on campus [...]
By MIKE PETRONI I have been asked by my lovely girlfriend, Kate Powers, to write up an article about this year’s Negawatt Challenge. As a man who is in need of love, attention and a sexy woman, of a warm body to curl around and hair to tug on, I must, of course, oblige. And [...]
By LAURA STEWART & JOE FRANCISCO “Sorry, I didn’t know that you would actually have to go outside,” Grace told us as we re-entered the squash lobby-turned-media room attached to Leithead. Ten-minutes prior, we had stumbled in on the room as Grace was being interviewed by another news outlet. She greeted with an order, “Go outside!” [...]
Last night, in his first State of the Union address of his second term, President Barack Obama reiterated many issues that have been at the core of the left’s agenda for years. Among his stated policy goals were a higher federal minimum wage, immigration reform, closed loopholes on corporate America, action on climate change, and [...]
