Letters to the Editor

By Lydia Kenney Last week, Daniel Banta ’18 published an article in The Hill News titled “Tune in For This Year’s Oppression™ Olympics.” I cannot begin to express to you all how deeply disgusted and angered I am by the…

Welcome back to SLU everyone. I am replacing Drew Watson as the Editor of Opinions, and am very excited to bring together engaging and thought-provoking content from a variety of students. After a very intriguing summer of news, I am…

I write with reference to Katie Wilson’s April 21, 2017 article “AAUP Annual Faculty Compensation Report.”  Faculty salaries are, as I’m sure the staff at The Hill News must be aware, a sensitive issue, and I thank the paper for its desire…

As St. Lawrence University’s Sustainability Coordinator as well as former president of the North Country Grown Cooperative, I have a perspective that might be helpful in the discussions about the University’s purchasing of local products.…

As a student who feels a strong moral obligation to eating local organic foods, knowing where my food comes from, and supporting my local farmers, I have been very frustrated with choices by dining services. I was extremely disappointed…

     This semester, I have struggled with out-the-door-lines and close-to-legal-capacity crowds that make me feel more like a cow crowded into a pen to be fattened rather than the happy Dana-sitter I was before SLUs decision to raise the…

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…