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Woody is two-year-old English Labrador Retriever whose job is to play with and support people at SLU. He is photographed at the Simon Recreation Center on Jan. 25, 2024.

Meet Duo Dog Woody, SLU’s new facility dog

Sky Carroll, Senior Writer February 22, 2024

Depending on where you meet him, Duo Dog Woody will be ready to cater to whatever you need at that moment. He might bring you a toy, come up to you for pets or just sit with you in comfort.  Woody,...

Overview of excavation site in Italy, led by Saint Louis University team.
(Photo by Douglas Boin / Spello Project)

SLU Professor makes archaeological breakthrough in Italy

Grant Bellchamber, Senior Writer February 22, 2024

A team in Italy led by Douglas Boin, a professor in Saint Louis University’s History Department, excavated three walls belonging to an Ancient Roman Cult Temple in the summer of 2023, a discovery with...

Houses that line Shaw neighborhood, packed with cars as people return home for the day.

Gentrification transforms the Shaw Neighborhood

Lauren Hutchens, News Editor February 21, 2024

The Shaw Neighborhood, previously deemed unwelcoming to outsiders, has undergone a profound transformation, now emerging as an up-and-coming area due to gentrification. The gentrification in the South...

Humphreys Restaurant & Tavern sits on the corner of Spring Street and Laclede directly across from SLUs campus.

Aggressive incident at Humphrey’s shocks community

Kaleb Yu, Contributor February 18, 2024

Updated on Feb. 19 at 6:38 p.m. to include information provided by Humphrey's management. A previous version of the story named the bar owner but the name has been removed at the request of the individual.   After...

American flag flipped upside down saying, Boeing killed 20,000+ and counting on the railing in front of the Richard A. Chaifetz Business School on Feb. 9. (The University News / Lauren Hutchens)

Chaifetz School of Business locks down, shutting out protestors’ calls to cut ties with Boeing

Owen Herdrick and Lauren Hutchens February 13, 2024

To protest Saint Louis University's partnership with Boeing and Israel’s persistent bombing of Gaza, around 70 people gathered in front of the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business on Feb. 9. The...

SLU Omkara onstage at the Origins Championship at UCSD.

SLU’s Omkara competes in national Indian classical dance championship in San Diego

Aditya Gunturu, Staff Writer February 12, 2024

As students were beginning to return to campus, a group of Saint Louis University student dancers were preparing for their biggest event yet. On Jan. 14, Omkara, SLU's classical Indian dance team, traveled...

Students decorated the sidewalks outside Simon Recreation Center with chalk during their Wellness Day on Feb. 9 (Shah Shamsipour / The University News)

SLUdents take off for the fourth university wide Wellness Day

Shah Shamsipour, Staff Writer February 11, 2024

Students dedicated their Friday to wellness while enjoying the day off. For SLU’s fourth Wellness Day, the university arranged 10 events ranging from an art creation station to gardening. The first...

A technical glitch compromosied the safety of residents living on Spring Halls fourth floor.

Technical glitch allowed all student ID cards to open rooms on a Spring Hall floor

Ulaa Kuziez, News Editor January 31, 2024

Keycard scanners malfunctioned in Spring Hall and temporarily compromised the safety of residents living on the hall’s fourth floor.  The technical malfunction allowed any student ID card to open...

Snow Day Zoom Scandal

Sophia Brummond, Copy Editor January 31, 2024

Uninvited students made insensitive remarks and bullied the professors and students through Zoom conferences over a snow day at Saint Louis University.  After school was called off on Monday, Jan....

Campus dining card update causes confusion

Mariya Yasinovska, Copy Editor January 31, 2024

During the first week of the spring semester at Saint Louis University, several on-campus dining locations were unable to accept Flex dollars, causing food access issues for many students on campus.  One...

OccupySLU hosts sit-in at campus Starbucks in support of Gaza ceasefire

OccupySLU hosts sit-in at campus Starbucks in support of Gaza ceasefire

Zekhra Gafurova, Senior Writer January 28, 2024

OccupySLU, a student organization continuing the work from the original 2014 movement, organized a two day student sit-in at Starbucks to protest SLU’s “complicit role in the genocide of Gaza,”...

The Good Place actor Jameela Jamil talks disability justice at SLU

The Good Place actor Jameela Jamil talks disability justice at SLU

Shah Shamsipour and Zekhra Gafurova January 28, 2024

SLU’s Great Issues Committee hosted Jameela Jamil, who stars as Tahani Al-Jamil in The Good Place, as their first guest speaker of the year. Jamil, who has a disability called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome...

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