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Rejoice! We will be able to reunite with all of our fellow Laurentians. Well, maybe. Masked and socially distanced, of course. On June 16th, Student Life and Academic Affairs gave us an update as to…

Edited by Hamidou Sylla and Ramon Veras. Few moments in my life have filled me with so much drive and dedication -- while at the same time leaving me so devastated. I write this with my mind cycling through the countless corporate…

Monday brought sunshine and warm weather, something that had been lacking during the harsh, North Country winter. Students littered campus: sunbathing, passing the frisbee on the quad, and eating lunch on the grass. But then Tuesday…

Sitting from my quarantine window last night in Long Island, NY I listened to the night. Red-wing Blackbirds sang their disjunct shrieking songs as sparrows filled the wet March air with melody. Spring peepers dotted the…

Maybe it’s just the inner liberal arts trash in me, or maybe the confinement in my house with only a one person audience for my creative outlets is just getting to me, but I have one bone to pick with everyone (actually, I have two: the…

Social distancing is perhaps the most isolating thing that I have ever had to experience in my entire life, and I thought I was an introvert for a while. I am happy to report that I am an extrovert that just has social anxiety, so this…

*Editor’s note: The following is a brief series of notes and observations from a student left on campus during quarantine. Each time you go out for a run, walk your dog, what do you see? A ghost town? No. That is nothing when you look…

Dear St. Lawrence community, We write with a heaviness we’re sure is all too familiar to our fellow Laurentians. As seniors ourselves, the uncertainty and quickly-changing nature of our final semester on the campus we’ve come to call…