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SLU Omkara team competes at Navarasa NCSU on Jan. 26, 2025. Photo courtesy of RGBTV Photography.

Three SLU Indian dance teams compete in national circuits with unprecedented success

Aditya Gunturu, Senior Writer February 25, 2025

For the first time, three Indian dance style teams at Saint Louis University are competing on multiple national circuits at the same time.  Though the teams, Omkara, Raas and Shakti, have been on campus...

SGA approves nearly $20,000 in funding over two weeks

Carlee Smith, Senior Writer February 24, 2025

Seven new senators were seated to fill vacancies left by the fall 2024 semester during a Saint Louis University senate meeting on Feb. 12. Additionally, the senate established the annual funding directive...

Tommy Wessel poses for a portrait next to a tree on Saint Louis University’s north campus on Jan. 29, 2025. Wessel left the university after working 18 years as a groundskeeper to pursue his passion for native habitat restoration.  (Ulaa Kuziez / The University News)

Retired groundskeeper Tommy Wessel wants you to appreciate SLU’s landscape — and those who care for it

Ulaa Kuziez, News Editor February 24, 2025

During his final week working on campus, Tommy Wessel digs a few inches into the frozen soil, pressing his shovel and piercing through the rocky, clay layer.  “Found a rock here. What do you think?...

Rob Boyle, associate professor of management at Saint Louis University, stands in his Chaifetz School of Business office on Feb. 10, surrounded by symbols of his dual passions: academia and music. Through his course, “Rhythms of Innovation,” he explores the intersection of creativity, technology and business. (Photo by Jude Thomas / The University News)

From stage to classroom: How Rob Boyle’s music course is redefining innovation education at SLU

Brendan Brunette, Senior Writer February 24, 2025

On a fall evening in 2022, the seventh floor of Grand Hall was loud with music. However, it was not a stereotypical dorm party nor a drunk karaoke scene. Instead, a group of business students were neatly...

President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. meeting onstage at a Turning Point USA rally in Georgia on Oct. 23, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via Vox)

SLU public health majors and faculty are worried about U.S. health under Trump administration

Aditya Gunturu, Senior Writer February 21, 2025

Students and professors at Saint Louis University’s Doisy College of Public Health and Social Justice say they fear that U.S. Secretary of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F Kennedy Jr. will negatively...

Edward J. Feser will lead Saint Louis University as its 34th president starting July 1, 2025. Feser comes to SLU from Oregon State University, where he was provost for eight years. Photo courtesy of Saint Louis University.

Incoming SLU President Dr. Edward J. Feser inherits complex campus, with budget concerns and enrollment uncertainty

Jack Cipfl, Assistant News Editor February 21, 2025

Saint Louis University’s Board of Trustees elected Dr. Edward J. Feser as the 34th university president, an experienced higher education administrator who will take office on July 1, 2025.  Feser...

Baristas at Quarrelsome Coffee prepare drinks for customers during their last week of business on Jan. 29, 2025.

Beloved Quarrelsome Coffee shop closes suddenly after less than 2 years in operation

Andy Cullinane, Assistant Arts & Life Editor February 20, 2025

Quarrelsome Coffee, a beloved coffeehouse and roastery just minutes away from campus, permanently closed its doors on Sunday, Feb. 2.  The coffee shop posted to their Instagram on Saturday with little...

Snow falls at night outside Brown Hall on Feb. 18, 2025.

Should I stay or should I go?

Evelyn Maruszak, Staff Writer February 19, 2025

There is a common gag that schools never cancel for a blizzard, but will cancel for a few snow flurries. However, winter school cancellations are not just about snow. They can be for ice, downed heaters...

Saint Louis University received research 1 status on on Feb. 13, the highest and most coveted classification a university can achieve for its research activity.

SLU receives elite R1 status after decade-long effort

Ulaa Kuziez and Jack Cipfl February 13, 2025

Saint Louis University received Research 1 status today, the highest rank universities can achieve for research activity.  The American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement...

After getting their boba tea, event-goers chat in the Pere Marquette Gallery before the Lunar New Year celebration begins on Jan. 29, 2025. The annual festival was hosted by Saint Louis University's Chinese Language Culture Club.

Photos: Students ring in Lunar New Year at Chinese Language Culture Club festival

Jude Thomas, Staff Writer February 10, 2025

The Chinese Language Culture Club held its annual Lunar New Year Festival in DuBourg Hall’s Pere Marquette Gallery to welcome the Year of the Snake on Jan. 29. The festival, put on with a $400 budget,...

The Student Government Association allocated over $5,000 in spot funding and chartered two student organizations during a senate meeting on Jan. 29, 2025.

SGA greenlights nearly $6,000 in funding, charters two clubs

Carlee Smith, Senior Writer February 3, 2025

The Student Government Association chartered two student organizations and gave nearly 6,000 in funding at a senate meeting on Jan. 29.  They also approved members for the newly formed Clocktower Accords...

At a protest against ICE, attendees gather at the corner of Marlowe Avenue and Woodson Road with an "We Keep Us Safe, Protect Immigrants" banner on Jan. 25, 2025.

St. Louis area protest shows support for immigrant community

Zekhra Gafurova, Online Manager January 30, 2025

While sitting in class, 15-year-old high school student David saw a social media post about immigration officers arresting people around his neighborhood in Overland, Missouri “I had gotten really...

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