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What Makes a Major? Exploring the Academic Preferences of SLUdents.
Emma Cummings-Krueger
As soon as the start of Fall 2015 semester, the St. Lawrence student body could potentially include a handful of statistics majors. With the proposal to add a stats major in the final stages of ratification, SLU’s…
Chapel Renovations Wrap Up
By Emery Younger
On October 6, 2013 the spire of Gunnison Chapel was engulfed in flames, after electrical wiring in the tower’s roof caught fire and spread to the copper coated spire. Within four minutes of the fire being reported,…
Pub Policy: Problematic?
Students returned to campus Sunday, March 22, and were met with a change to the Pub Ordering Policy. This policy was spearheaded by Thelmo “due to an excessive amount of wasted Pub orders every day.” Thelmo and Dining Services implemented…
Ted Cruz Announces Presidential Campaign
Early on Monday morning the 2016 Presidential election officially began, when Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas announced on Twitter that he would be making a run for the White House. Cruz also released a video announcing his campaign,…
CERN Proposes Existence of Parallel Universes
CERN, the research group that discovered the Higgs-Boson, or ‘god particle,’ is now preparing to search for parallel universes. In Physics Letters B, Ahmed Ali, Mir Faizal, and Mohammed Khalil have proposed that the absence of miniature…
California Enters its Fourth Year of Drought
After a winter of low rainfall and record-breaking high temperatures, Californians are consigning themselves to the reality that the current drought, which has been affecting the state since late 2011, will continue into 2015. In its…
Outside the Bubble: Homeland (In)security
Throughout the last five years, the Republicans used the Senate’s filibuster rule to strike down several legislations and presidential nominations. The GOP was rapidly deemed “the party of no” by the Democratic Party, but now it appears…
Turn Down for Jamie Utt
By Amanda Korb
Body Beautiful Week commenced last Sunday in Sykes Formal Lounge with Diversity and Inclusion Consultant Jamie Utt, who hosted a discussion about Sex-Positive Party Culture. The idea? To improve campus culture to deter from…