Browsing Category 'Opinion'

A wise man once told me that the best way to improve life was to stop taking it so seriously. As I am writing alone this week, I’d like to take the opportunity to share this wisdom with you, the St.  Lawrence community. For decades, people have been fighting a long and futile battle over [...]

After a wave of Americans, led by the Tea Party movement, brought a new Republican majority to the House of Representatives, the Republicans made a promise to the American people that this time around, they would be responsible with the budget and work to cut the deficit, rather than grow it. It appears that they [...]

To the Community of St. Lawrence University; It has come to my attention that recently our campus has been subjected to some extremely disrespectful, distasteful, and ignorant behavior. On February 10, 2011, the St. Lawrence University Chapter of Delta Delta Delta held an event for only the members of the sorority to partake in a [...]

SNOW Much Fun!

hillnews February 7, 2011

Thoughts On Why We Study in the Arctic

Guns in the hands of responsible citizens will keep us safer.

High-capacity gun magazines are both unnecessary and dangerous

A Voice For Vegans

acmoss09 February 3, 2011

By Abigail Moss You look at the pub menu during the noon lunch rush on a Tuesday. Let’s say that you don’t consume the products of animals, including meat, dairy and eggs. In other words, you’re a vegan. Let’s also say that you don’t like processed foods. Immediately, your choices are very, very limited. You [...]

When the news first broke that Wikileaks’s Julian Assange released information on the war in Afghanistan, a rare glimpse was provided to the American people of a whole new political argument. Many political pundits were not entirely sure how to act. Some labeled Assange a terrorist, while very few openly supported his actions, but it [...]

On Sunday November 28th, WikiLeaks released 251,287 pages of United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever leaked to the public. The U.S. government denies responsibility for the site’s many technological issues, which slowed the release of these secret documents. Website founder Julian Assange alleges that abusive elements of the U.S. government [...]

As a senior, dealing with Res Life (on both intimate and representative levels) for four years, and drinking a lot has led me to strongly hate St. Lawrence’s on-campus housing policy. I find Res Life to be overly callous, insensitive and frustrating. It is also difficult to agree with many of their policies, even when [...]