October 2014

By Rebecca Doser FEATURES EDITOR Ingredients: 1 oz. Kahlua coffee liqueur 1 oz. vodka 1 oz. of any specialty fall Coffee-Mate creamer such as Pumpkin Spice, Butter Toffee or Spiced Rum Cake Instructions: In a small…

By Rebecca Doser FEATURES EDITOR Ingredients Hard apple cider Fireball Whiskey Apple slice Sprinkle of cinnamon Instructions Fill a glass half full with Hard Apple Cider (Redd’s, Angry Orchard or Woodchuck) then add a…

I am not a dog. I am not a slug. Not a tiger or a mouse. I am not a tree. I am not what we would call an animal or a plant. I am a human-being. Being a human has plenty of perks: we can open cans with our cool thumbs, we cook things not…

Dear President Fox, Last spring, St. Lawrence University contracted with North Country Grown Co’op (NCGC) to purchase locally grown produce. Those crops were planted, tended, and harvested.  We are now being told that our crops will not…

By: Annie Wilcox FEATURES EDITOR There is a lot at stake this election, particularly for women. Our rights to birth control, abortion, equal pay for equal work, and many others are being debated daily. Conservatives already have too…

Police dressed in riot gear descended on the crowd deploying tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets. Does this scene sound familiar? There are many similarities between the protests in Ferguson and the riot that took place…

By: Rebecca Doser FEATURES EDITOR Amy Farrell ’99 won the Ironman World Championship in Kona on Saturday October 11, 2014 in her women’s 35-39 age group. This event includes a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2 mile run. This…

For the last two months, a rising hub of economic activity has been verbally battling with the Chinese government over democratic voting rights in the semi-sovereign territory. The most interesting thing about the protest to me is…