“I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of...

I cannot stomach the thought of attending one more debate about what was recently termed the “Clock Tower Accords.” I will explain why. As a lifelong honor-roll student, I was ecstatic to be accepted...

Reflections from spring break immersion trip to Los Angeles prisons, detention centers They looked so young. I sat on the side of the chapel at the juvenile detention center in Sylmar, California, and...

Words can be distracting. Over the weekend of March 8-9, a video circulated the internet featuring members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter singing a horrifically...

If you’re a student at Saint Louis University, you probably know an adjunct professor, and I bet you’ve even had one as an instructor. We adjuncts make up about 41 percent of the teaching staff at...

“It’s like déjà vu all over again.” As Yogi Berra, that great St. Louis baseball legend from The Hill would say, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” The recent outrage over the Clock...

I recently finished Tim O’Brien’s novel “Tomcat in Love,” which, like his other books, has – at least as an undertone – elements of the Vietnam War driving the main plot. O’Brien himself...

During my two and a half years at Saint Louis University, as an American studies and sociology double major, I have spent hours reading about, listening to lectures on and studying the many different political,...

Let me start by saying I do not speak for everyone. This is a concept Mr. Butch Giessman apparently does not understand. I do not speak for all alumni. I do not speak for my entire class, for my...