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Dear Fellow Members of the St. Lawrence Community, I want to take this time to introduce myself to you all and express openly what my vision for The Hill News is going forward. This semester, I am beginning my tenure as…

I’ve been hearing a lot of news lately about these disgusting things called vaccines. Now, I never got vaccines as a kid, and I certainly won’t be giving vaccines to my kids, my pets, or anything really. How can anyone put…

Greetings Saints, and welcome to the beginning of the end of the semester. I’m writing for a few unrelated reasons. The first is to wish all of you, and more so to my senior classmates, good luck on finals. It’s almost the end of the…

Last month The New York Times published an investigative report outlining how Facebook’s executives have dithered and obfuscated facts in the face of mounting scrutiny. The most damning disclosure from the report concerns Facebook’s…

You’ve been eyeing someone for a while. You see them pass by at the Pub and think, “when am I going to finally talk to them?” Then, on a night out, your friend introduces you to this person and you are instantly infatuated. You two spend…

Climate change should terrify you. It is the greatest threat the world has ever faced, and it shocks me how little people are talking about it. The United Nations just published a report outlining the dire issue, estimating…

St. Lawrence University resides in the foothills of the Adirondacks located at 44.5892° N, 75.1609° W in a rural town set in the North Country nestled up against the Canadian border. Once winter hits—it hits hard. Snow, freezing rain and…

American missionary John Allen Chau was shot and killed by a Sentinelese tribesperson on a remote island off of the Indian coast on Nov. 21. Chau was a devout Christian, and steadfast in his desire to spread the word of the gospel. The…