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Dear Dub: The Idea of Beauty
This week is Body Beautiful Week at St. Lawrence - a week of action intended to take a stand against our culture’s narrow definitions of beauty. This idea of body pride, of accepting parts of ourselves societal norms often tell us are…
Letter from the editor
As the semester winds down, and I come to terms with my impending graduation from St. Lawrence University, I firmly believe that it is in the Hill News Office that I have learned the most in the shortest amount of time. I have spent only a…
The Confidence Gap
By, Emma Hennessey
We all have heard the most famous statistic about the wage gap: that women, on average, earn 79 cents for every dollar men make for the same work. This does not even account for the fact that an African-American woman…
Applying Ethical Practices to our Environment
By, Emily Hoffman
As a child I was raised with certain ethics and lessons that I’m sure many of you were raised with as well. Be kind to others, treat others how you’d want to be treated, be respectful, and leave a place cleaner than you…
Exclusive Interview with God
After millennia of trying, God has finally been proven real by a team of researchers from Liberty University. The Hill News was able to sit down with God for an exclusive interview that covered a variety of topics.
THN: What is your…
You Call Yourself a Saint?
By JORDAN SHERIDAN
About three weeks ago, my roommate and I left for a road trip down to North Carolina for a fellow Laurentians’ wedding. This wedding was also the same weekend of Titus. When we got back to campus early Monday morning,…
On Changing SLU’s Culture Surrounding Campus Sexual Assault
By EMMA HENNESSEY
COLUMNIST
and
SARAH HEATHERTON
GUEST WRITER
Last week, there was a front-page story on the Hill surrounding the discussion that erupted at that week’s Thelmo meeting when the bystander intervention group Stand By Me…
Stop Debating Settled Science and Look Forward
Photo via George Skidmore/Flickr
Two weeks ago, the National Academy of Sciences, a council of highly respected scientists, lent their support to manipulating the genes of humans in very limited circumstances. Later that week, the Senate…