What to Know About the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Rebecca LiVigni, Managing Editor
February 7, 2020
Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has dominated the global news cycle for the last month, with live updates provided daily from nearly every major news source. The first case was reported in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China. Since the initial outbreak, which has been suspected to have begun in a live fish, a...
The University Spotlight: Elizabeth Cooper
Jack Connaghan, Photo Editor
December 5, 2019
What did you do last summer? For most college students, summers are spent either working a part-time job or internship, taking summer classes or binge watching decades-old television shows on Netflix. But what if you could spend your summer as a counselor and English teacher at an equestrian language camp ...
University Spotlights: Andrew Zhang
Jack Connaghan, Staff Writer
November 21, 2019
Andy Zhang, a senior with a caramel tuft of hair and a passion for education, is not planning on being a Jesuit. In fact, he’s planning to accept a job as a consultant after graduation and hopes to one day own a business. But if SLU has taught him anything, it’s that you don’t need to be...
STEM: Meet Your Librarian
Rebecca LiVigni, Photo Editor
April 10, 2018
In honor of National Library Worker's Day, today April 10, Unews asked Lee Cummings, SLU library’s STEM Research and Instruction Librarian, to sit down and speak with me about his work at Pius XII Library.
Healthy Is Hot!
Callie Calamia, Guest Contributor
October 9, 2017
Healthy is Hot was founded in May of 2017 in response to lack of reproductive healthcare access on Saint Louis University’s campus. A spark was ignited in our co-founders when, last year, Student Government Association passed a bill to allow contraceptives to be provided by the University Health Center...
Moving Toward a Smooth Freshman Welcome
Meredyth Staunch, Managing Editor
September 21, 2017
On Wednesday, Aug. 23, approximately 1600 freshmen flocked to campus with their bed sheets, mini fridges and giant smiles on their faces. The long awaited Fall Welcome move-in day began at 8 a.m. and ended at around 6 p.m. However, despite previous move-in days, this year marked the first time of moving...
Semblances of safety at SLU
April 30, 2015
Late Sunday night, April 26, a young woman was lacerated on the neck by a man with a knife, outside of Starbucks, on Grand Boulevard. Bleeding, she ran into the Starbucks, where the doors were barred, preventing her male assailant from continuing the attack. Eventually, the attacker was subdued and a...
Moral complicity and collective guilt
April 30, 2015
Earlier this month, the 93-year-old Oskar Groening, a former member of the Waffen-SS who was stationed at Auschwitz as an accountant, was charged as an accessory to 300,000 murders stemming from his time at the extermination camp. Groening is part of an aging coterie of former Nazis and SS members who are...
Slowly growing sick of sequels
April 23, 2015
In two teaser trailers these past few months, “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” has garnered more than 100 million YouTube views in its effort to build up excitement before the franchise returns to the silver screen in December. “Episode VII” is set three decades after the end of the s...
Win for photography and for Ferguson
April 23, 2015
On Monday, the photography staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for its coverage of the death of Michael Brown and the events in Ferguson that followed. The 19 photos submitted for the Pulitzer depict mourners of Brown, protesters, vandalism and the...
Is baseball our pastime?
April 16, 2015
On April 3, a San Francisco Chronicle article stated that baseball, our national pastime, was past its time. The article cites statistics saying that Americans are twice as likely to say the National Football League (NFL) is their favorite professional sports league over Major League Baseball (MLB). In...
Distancing from death penalty
April 16, 2015
On April 8, in Boston, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts in federal court due to his participation in the Boston Marathon bombing. The bombing, which took place on April 15, 2013, during the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 240 others, was the worst terrori...
