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GOP Debate Gets Personal
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Last Thursday, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump took the stage for a Republican debate.
Not so similar to other debates, many references were made that were unrelated to political ability. Rubio…
Turkey’s Assault on the Press: Largest Newspaper in Country Seized by Erdogan Government
Photo via Al Jazeera
Last weekend, chaos erupted in Turkey as the government took control of the nation’s largest newspaper in a worrisome leap toward limiting free speech. A court ordered the seizure of the paper and the appointment of…
Kirk Douglas Does it Again: $2 Million Scholarship Endowment
By KATIE KULL
STAFF WRITER
St. Lawrence alum and American film star Kirk Douglas ’39 and his wife, Anne, have recently donated $2 million to student scholarships, as well as to maintain operation of Kirk Douglas Hall. This money will be…
Campus Hidden Gem: SLU Exchange Program with Fisk University
By BRENDA WINN
NEWS EDITOR
For the past 24 years, St. Lawrence has been sending students to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee to study for a semester. In 1995, the two universities officially signed an exchange program agreement…
SLU Internships and Fellowships Earn Spot as a Princeton Review Top College
By ALI PRICE
STAFF WRITER
In a recent publication by the Princeton Review titled, Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give you the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck, St. Lawrence was raked one of the best 25 colleges for…
Strong Debate Performance Doesn’t Translate for Rubio; Clinton Sweeps the South
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Last week’s Republican debate featured an aggressive, supercharged Marco Rubio who went after front runner Donald Trump with a vengeance. However effective his tactics may have seemed, they did not…
The Peace Corps Wants More… SLU Students, That is
By KATIE WILSON
STAFF WRITER
For the second year running, St. Lawrence has placed fourteenth on the Peace Corps annual rankings of the Top Volunteer-producing Colleges & Universities-thus begging the question: what gives…
Divest SLU
By CLAY DUCLOS
STAFF WRITER
Following their first ever presentation in front of the entire Board of Trustees this past Friday, lead members of DivestSLU expressed optimism in how divestment will be carried out in the future of St.…