Lights on Laurentians

“Can you pass me that?” asks Dom. “And shut that fucking door.” “Sure, just let me get my share of it first,” Tony reaches behind his back to close their dorm room’s door. The walls are beige, with an American…

NATHAN SERLIN ’24 PROFESIONAL TRAPPER Steve Rinella – famous author, TV host, podcaster and perhaps philosopher – said on an episode of Meat Eater, that when we are all broken down to our core we are all just a collection…

MATT McCLUSKEY FRIEND OF THE GARDEN CREATURE Comfort is being able to take a break from being inside my own head. Since cross-country skiing has been out this winter, there have been scant opportunities to do…

 GABRIELLE ALDRICH WOODCARVING ENTHUSIAST  In my backyard, there are two boxelder trees. Throughout the warmer months, these trees become more bothersome than beneficial. Boxelder trees attract boxelder bugs, harmless yet pesky…

Stephen Button recalls being 11 years old when he and his friends had a sleepover in the kitchen of his house at 56 Park Street. “I woke up the next morning and discovered the window had been broken out by some SLU students,”…

Every Tuesday night, a camouflage tarp is placed on the floor of the Habitat for Humanity theme house to prepare for woodcarving club. Sabria Roggendorf '25 and Gabrielle Aldrich '24 prepare for their weekly woodcarving meeting, pulling…

*Original names have been changed to protect student confidentiality Inside the dimly lit walls of Canton's Tick Tock Inn, a group of exhausted students congregate in a darkened corner, murmuring below the volume of the music…

"I didn't want to go to St. Lawrence because I lived in Canton, so I fought that for a while," says Laura Wells '23. Despite her ambivalence to attend college in her hometown, Laura eventually caved in. She liked SLU too much. …