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Make a difference day: Not the best way for SLU to serve

Make a difference day: Not the best way for SLU to serve

[email protected] October 27, 2016

Thousands packed Hermann Soccer Stadium on Saturday Oct. 22 for SLU’s Make a Difference Day, in which volunteers travel by bus to work at sites around the St. Louis area. Although SLU boasts over a million...

President Pestello listens to student voices, responds effectively

President Pestello listens to student voices, responds effectively

[email protected] October 27, 2016

Last week, the University News Editorial Board met with University President Fred Pestello to talk about the paper and his role as SLU’s president. In the meeting, we asked him what he thought about...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 13:  Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the National Action Networks 25th Anniversary Convention on April 13, 2016 in New York City. Hillary Clinton spoke during the National Action Networks 25th Anniversary Convention as she campaigns in New York ahead of the New York primary on Tuesday April 19.  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

We’re (mostly) with her

[email protected] October 20, 2016

The UNews endorses Clinton for president... with some reservations In a presidential election year in which party polarization, dangerous rhetoric and distrust of political elites have been major themes,...

Trump: immune to most controversy, but still vulnerable

Trump: immune to most controversy, but still vulnerable

[email protected] October 7, 2016

On Tuesday night, Indiana Governor Mike Pence deflected blow after blow from his opponent, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, in the 2016 Vice Presidential Debate. Kaine repeatedly referenced controversial...

Congress overrides presidential veto, fails to conceive consequences

Congress overrides presidential veto, fails to conceive consequences

[email protected] October 7, 2016

On Wednesday, Sept. 28, Congress voted to override President Obama’s veto of a bill that gives families of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks the authority to sue Saudi Arabia over allegedly supporting...

Ed-Board: tired of September heat, ready for fall

Ed-Board: tired of September heat, ready for fall

[email protected] October 3, 2016

After NASA announced that July was the hottest month in 136 years of modern record-keeping, the agency found that August was just as hot. So far, September in St. Louis has been hotter than an average...

Examining our relationship with science

Examining our relationship with science

[email protected] October 3, 2016

For the past five decades, the sugar industry has guided the conversation about heart disease away from sugar and toward saturated fat. On Sept. 12, JAMA Internal Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal,...

UNewsers: What will you do while Humphrey’s is gone?

UNewsers: What will you do while Humphrey’s is gone?

[email protected] September 27, 2016

In light of the news that Humphrey’s will be closing its doors for a remodeling, we asked our Ed. Board this week what they will do in absence of the upperclassmen-favorite watering hole. For some of...

Nostalgia: benefts of our bittersweet memories

Nostalgia: benefts of our bittersweet memories

[email protected] September 27, 2016

At low points—when college seems too difficult, or the weather takes a turn for the worse, or when days just seem dull—we like to look back at the good old days. These days may be from the recent summertime...

Clinton releases medical records, puts conspiracy theories to rest

Clinton releases medical records, puts conspiracy theories to rest

[email protected] September 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton has a body double. How else could the Democratic presidential candidate walk around New York City on Sunday, one minute healthy as can be, the next stumbling into a van and leaving a shoe...

NCAA bathroom law protest might not do enough

NCAA bathroom law protest might not do enough

[email protected] September 15, 2016

On Monday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that it will be pulling seven championship events scheduled to occur during the 2016-2017 academic year from the state of North...

Tomi Lahren: Conservative phenomenon, liberal fascination

Tomi Lahren: Conservative phenomenon, liberal fascination

[email protected] September 11, 2016

A few years ago, she was a soft-spoken journalism student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. As the host of the school’s political roundtable program, “The Scramble,” Tomi Lahren was the definition...

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