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Photo via CBS News 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Photo Credit: For America 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…

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…

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.…