By AMY FEIEREISEL STAFF WRITER I walk out of the sleet and into the Java Barn, clutching a yoga mat and sporting some ill-fitting exercise pants. My experience with Yoga is limited; friends have showed me a couple poses, and I attempted one session of Bikram Yoga that ended with me passing out, so [...]
Wednesday afternoon SLU students received an email with the subject line “Health Alert,” prompted by the recent increase in illegal substance use on college campuses in the North Country. The email said that three students had been hospitalized due to abuse of these substances, but lacked any other details such as what drugs were used, [...]
By ALLY FREIDMAN Amid talks of a potential new residence hall on part of the quad, Saratoga Associates and Beardsley Design made a recent visit to campus to update the St. Lawrence community and gather feedback regarding recent developments in the SLU facilities master plan. The master plan is a crucial component of the university’s [...]
By NATALIE DIGNAM Ever taken a shortcut on your homework and make up a citation? Or copied a friend’s answers to a question? According to the Student Handbook, doing either of these is considered academic dishonesty, which can put you in danger of receiving a failing grade on an assignment, a lowered grade in a [...]
By EMILY RILEY The number of St. Lawrence athletes diagnosed with ACL injuries has grown in the last few years. Athletic trainers and coaches have initiated prevention programs to ensure SLU athletes are less susceptible to ACL injury in the future. However, the question of why ACL injuries have become so common still hangs in [...]
By LEIGH ANNE O’MEALIA A group of faculty is proposing to add a sustainability requirement to St. Lawrence’s distribution requirements. Proponents hope to expose St. Lawrence students to the interdependence of humans and the natural system. Simultaneously, advocates of the sustainability requirement believe that a course focused on sustainability will help St. Lawrence create a [...]
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 [...]
Audacious, haphazard, foolish and lunatic are some of the words Mark and Kristin Kimball said have been used to describe their farm cooperative in Essex, NY. But there’s another word for their farm: successful. Besides using organic methods and draft horse power, their farm economics set them apart. Their 200 cooperative members are allowed a [...]
St. Lawrence University opened its doors to the Canton community in order to attract young minds to science. Now in its fourth year, Brain Blast is still a hit. Local children who came to Johnson Hall of Science last Friday to learn about the brain. In honor of Brain Awareness Week, Estevez initiated Brain Blast [...]
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 [...]
