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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...

In honor of National Library Workers Day, today April 10, I 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.

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!

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...

Oriflamme members and new SLU families cross Laclede to Grand and Griesedieck residence halls.

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...

Semblances of safety at SLU

Semblances of safety at SLU

[email protected] 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,...

Jessica Park / Chief Illustrator

Moral complicity and collective guilt

[email protected] 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...

Slowly growing sick of sequels

Slowly growing sick of sequels

[email protected] 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...

Win for photography and for Ferguson

Win for photography and for Ferguson

[email protected] 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....

Is baseball our pastime?

Is baseball our pastime?

[email protected] 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...

Distancing from death penalty

Distancing from death penalty

[email protected] 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...

Enjoying (or enduring) Atlas Week

Enjoying (or enduring) Atlas Week

[email protected] April 9, 2015

The 15th annual Sam and Marilyn Fox Atlas Week begins next week on April 12. With 130 events scheduled through the week, there will be plenty of opportunities to find an event that you fancy. To aid in...

Giving ‘Jojo’ a second look

Giving ‘Jojo’ a second look

[email protected] April 9, 2015

An odd story hit major news circuits this weekend when Vijay Chokalingam, the brother of Fox sitcom star Mindy Kaling, claimed that he had applied to numerous prestigious medical schools more than 15 years...

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