So you want to get published. You’re last name isn’t Rowling or Meyer, and you wouldn’t spend your time writing about angsty teenagers anyway, so what do you do? Luckily, you attend a small liberal arts institution that offers a wide range of outlets just waiting to publish your brilliant words. The Laurentian Magazine: The [...]
St. Lawrence’s philosophy honorary society, Phi Sigma Tau, presented an undergraduate philosophy conference last weekend. The conference drew panelists and audience members from four local universities in addition to St. Lawrence, and presented those involved with the opportunity to share and discuss their research. “I think that the students found it very empowering,” said Associate [...]
Last Wednesday, associate professor Stephen Pekar from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Queens College visited St. Lawrence University. Delivering a lecture on the past climate changes in Antarctica, Dr. Pekar described his experience and research in Antarctica. Dr. Pekar and his team worked on a huge ocean drilling ship called the JOIDES [...]
After being denied access to her partner of nine years as she lay on her deathbed, Charlene Strong turned her full attention toward advocating for LGBTQ equality. Strong, the co-producer of the film about her story, titled For My Wife, spoke on campus Sunday following a screening of her film. Strong’s partner, Kate Fleming, died [...]
By NATALIE DIGNAM and ASHLEY GREY As part of an effort to raise awareness of the civil conflicts in Nepal, Literacy for Nepal brought Julie Bridgham to campus to visit classes and screen her award-winning documentary The Sari Soldiers. In 2008, Bridgham received the Nestor Almendros Prize for her courage and commitment to human rights [...]
By LEANNE EVANS While most St. Lawrence students spent the past week in the Canton, students involved in the Model Organization of the American States had the exciting opportunity to go to Washington D.C. St. Lawrence was proudly represented by this group of students, where the week was spent fostering diplomatic leadership skills along with [...]
With three politically oriented clubs on campus bearing the word democracy in its name, it is hard to tell what are the differences among these three clubs: SLU College Democrats, Democracy Matters, and Laurentians for Socialist Democracy. Colleen Ryan ’15, president of both SLU College Democrats and Democracy Matters, recognizes that many students are especially [...]
Most people, researchers included, don’t give much thought to mosses that live by the sides of the road. However, this overlooked habitat is the focus of the research of Eddie Richter ’12. After starting to work with Dr. Karl McKnight of the biology department, Richter did a St. Lawrence Fellowship last summer and collected 400 [...]
St. Lawrence sophomore, Madison Wilcox, is organizing the event “Kick it With Krissy” in order to raise funds for a local child with leukemia by using the benefits of the university resources. It is a student-organized event with the intention of getting St. Lawrence students, as well as the public, involved in the cause for [...]
SLU’s resident country music star, Blaine Holcomb ’14, will soon be playing much larger venues than Pub 56. Holcomb is the newest member of The Fulton Chain Gang, a band that’s been around for nearly two decades. Holcomb got his big break last spring when entered a national country music competition, the Texaco Country Showdown, [...]
