Many around the world will celebrate the Lunar New Year, as they always do. There are numerous names to the Lunar New Year in different countries, but they all revolve around the same calendar, or the...

On Sept. 26, 2020, America watched the President host a Rose Garden ceremony to officially announce the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States. Normally, the only...

In mid-July, I decided to drive down from my family home in Chicago to St. Louis to visit a few of my friends from school. This decision would ultimately prove to be costly.  The day I was supposed to...

Periods have never been enjoyable, but they have become even less so during the COVID-19 pandemic. While many Americans have been focused on finding toilet paper and hand sanitizer, many impoverished women...

Long after a vaccine is rolled out and case numbers decline, the effects of the virus will linger in the lives of the homeless and economically disadvantaged. Individuals and families who are homeless,...

As COVID-19 casts its shadow over the school year, it is important to administer tests to prevent an outbreak of the virus on campus.  Because of this, many in the SLU community are wondering about...

Being a first-year college student usually comes with a certain amount of stress and excitement. During the year of a global pandemic, students are still stressed and excited, just for different reasons.   The...

We are a month into the fall semester. We have been nasal swabbed, zoomed out in class (yes, I did it again), vigorously questioned and have experienced the emotional roller coaster of returning to college...

For all my life, I have been a firm believer in the “snitches get stitches” idiom, but during a pandemic, this rule no longer applies. As long as college campuses are the COVID-19 hotspots of the country,...

It seems like every advertisement, billboard and commercial describes life in the age of COVID-19 in the same way.  Big bold font will gloss over a McDonald’s ad: “We’re all in this together,”...

With the threat of COVID-19 looming over college campuses, many schools are taking extraordinary measures to keep students safe and the virus in check. SLU has seen success in the first five weeks on campus,...