By SARAH DEAKINS Thelmo announced the eleven candidates running for open positions on the Senior Executive Board on Wednesday night at the weekly meeting in the Hannon Room. Campaigning has officially started and candidates are expected to follow the appropriate guidelines outlined in their meeting with Elections Chair Raymond Price. “I’m stunned because this is [...]
By SARAH DEAKINS Administration and faculty at St. Lawrence University remain skeptical of the growth of Greek life and wonder if the system itself is appropriate in a liberal arts setting. In recent years, St. Lawrence University has been challenged by Greek expansion on campus as a result of the re-colonization of Beta Theta Pi [...]
by Danielle Durocher Due to the current economic crisis families are beginning to pay more and more attention to the affordability aspect of college. In relation to this crisis, college rankings have increasingly begun to influence prospective students and their parents. SLU was recently ranked number 59 out of 100 Liberal Arts schools in Kiplinger [...]
By MAX FREW With the student population at St. Lawrence continuously growing, Dana Dining Hall has an increasing need for a change. When Dana was opened in 2000 it was meant to provide for a student population around 1800. But the St. Lawrence community has already expanded to over 2200 students this year, with another [...]
By DANIELLE DUROCHER Cell coverage in the Adirondacks continues to be a problem for St. Lawrence students that are traveling through and living among the mountains. More than half of the student body needs to travel through the Adirondack Mountains to reach campus. According to data received from the admissions office there are 876 New [...]
By ALLI SHEA On the first weekend of November, St. Lawrence University will host its first official Homecoming Weekend since 1996. Hoping to re-establish what was formally a deeply rooted tradition of the university, students, alumni, and administration alike have worked to re-create the weekend – bigger and better than ever before. With several sports [...]
By SARAH DEAKINS St. Lawrence University’s Board of Trustee assures students “a lifetime of thoughtfulness” as a result of the newly approved Strategic Map, also known as the “St. Lawrence Promise”. While skepticism has risen from a variety of faculty, staff and students, those present at Board of Trustees’ meetings over the course of the [...]
By SAMANTHA FOSTER Hydraulic fracturing may be a solution to energy production despite the undisputed environmental challenges, according to experts. This week a New York State advisory panel delayed the establishment of regulatory bodies that would oversee fracking, the use of pressurized fluid when drilling for natural gas. St. Lawrence Geology department chair Jeffrey Chiarenzelli [...]
By CATIE MATSON After much deliberating the European leaders announced Wednesday they would approve a second bailout of $180 billion to aid Greece in their finical debt. Many Europeans do not believe the other Eurozone countries should be paying for Greece’s mistakes. The uncertainty in Greece’s future leads to a passionate debate about what the [...]
The story of your life will soon be available on the Internet, thanks to Facebook’s newest brainchild, Timeline. The new application, set to launch in the next few weeks, is a revolutionary profile view. Everything you’ve shared over the course of your time on the site is now ordered chronologically, allowing you to scroll through [...]
