Canton has switched their downtown Christmas lights from the usual incandescent bulbs to LEDs, a more efficient type of lighting. The new lights were purchased from Coakley Carpet Ace One Hardware, a 107-year-old family business owned by Bill Coakley, brother of SLU Vice President of Administrative Operations Tom Coakley. The cost of the new lights [...]
Whether you’re looking up the latest pictures of Suri Cruise, downloading the new Hilary Duff single, or chatting online with your pen pal in prison, one thing remains constant: the slow Internet on campus. OK, maybe SLU students don’t do any of these things. But the fact still remains that our web speed is excruciatingly [...]
St. Lawrence’s endowment investing process is a complicated monetary maelstrom. First, a group of trustees scrape private donations into a large pile. Advisors and managers send this money into the world, sometimes going to pooled funds (which can contain hundreds of companies); the money comes back, usually with a higher ratio of Benjamins to Grants, [...]
There were only 400 ballots submitted in the most recent Thelmo election. The student body successfully elected a Vice President of University Relations, a Secretary, and a Vice President of Senate Affairs. However, we do not have a president. Caroline D. Bishop ’10, Thelmo Elections Chair, informed the student body in an email that “[they] [...]
The results of the THELMO election are as follows. VP University Relations: Alex Reinman Secretary: Nicole Carnevale VP Senate Affairs: Meg Crabtree THELMO only had about 400 total ballots submitted for the entirety of the voting period. The presidential candidate did not receive the required number of votes(594) so THELMO is opening up the election [...]
New York’s typically Republican congressional district recently elected a new representative, Democrat Bill Owens, who defeated his conservative opponent with 49 percent of the vote on November 3, 2009 in a special election. Owens was sworn into office on November 6, 2009 by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The following day, Congressman Owens voted in favor [...]
With updated courses and current enrollment on APR, questions are circulating regarding the amount and diversity of various courses offered for the spring 2010 semester. Each department has individually planned their curriculum, taking into account class sizes, major requirements, and student needs, yet many are still concerned about filling their requirements and creating an ideal [...]
The Outing Club has brought to our attention that there is a major problem in America and beyond: mustaches are on their way to extinction. “Of late, conservationists have been too concerned with keeping dolphins out of nets and clubs away from baby seals,” they write in their plea to the campus community. They urge [...]
Imagine being a student 30 years ago, when the Gray Lanes was the center of a vibrant social scene in the Canton Main Street area. That scene is different today; few students frequent downtown businesses other than the Tick Tock and Sergi’s. That may change soon. A local developer plans to restore the historic Gray [...]
Remember when sharing used to be a common neighborly activity? A cup of sugar or maybe a power drill didn’t seem so odd to lend to those that lived around you. In this day and age, it seems as though we are putting up more and more fences and letting fewer and fewer people into [...]
