The Hill News

Once in a while wehear a story so incredible that we cannot believe it occurred outside of amovie. Sometimes it can change the way we look at the world, even if only for ashort time. It makes us wonder if miracles happen or if people just get lucky. Onerainy afternoon, I wandered into an office, tired, wet, and cold, and heard oneof these incredible stories. It’s hard notto believe in miracles once you’ve met Hugh Biele, a visiting instructor in theGender Studies Department at St.

The Saints men’s hockey team lost some of their momentum last weekend, tying Clarkson 3-3 at Appleton Arena on Friday night and losing 3-1 the next night in Potsdam.
  St. Lawrence entered the weekend without one of their most productive forwards, as senior Casey Parenteau suffered an injury in the game against Colgate that has likely ruled him out for the season.

St. Lawrence has just added a new study abroad program in Chiang Mai, Thailand.  The program has been established through Payap University and will be based on an American calendar and taught in English by University doctors and professors. This program is geared towards majors and those interested in: Asian studies, religious studies, globalization, democratization, fine arts, human rights, migration, and economic development. 

A former college roommate of Martin Luther King Jr. told a St. Lawrence audience last week that the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott wasn’t an attempt “to crush the enemy, but to turn an adversary into a friend.”

“I feel dizzy” was sophomore Alissa Beideck’s response when asked her thoughts on the recent flu that has swept campus. While other students were more alert, her sentiments were echoed by many who currently have or have recently suffered from influenza, the scourge of college campuses nationwide.

The Hill News will publish again January 30, 2009. 

On April 27, 1974, Donald Edwards was driving through downtown on his way home when he saw a young man who was pinned with half his body out of a vehicle.

Shortly before, the young man’s vehicle had veered off the road and struck a tree. Edwards stopped, jumped out of his car and tried to relieve the pressure on the young man’s back.

In the process, Edwards wrenched his own back and today is in constant pain from the injury.

Mary Keenan wiped away tears that relentlessly slid down her rouge cheeks as she recalled the elderly man from Clinton County, NY, who called her house one afternoon and spoke with her college-age son. “He asked my son if his mother was Mary Keenan from the USDA Rural Development office. When my son said, ‘Yes,’ the man said, ‘I want you to know that your mother is the only person who gave me a chance and helped me.’” Keenan added with a fresh set of tears, “My son just replied, ‘Yep, that’s my mom.’”

Imagine choosing to live at or below the poverty line. This is what Lucinda Hannington, a 2008 St. Lawrence University graduate has chosen to do, and she now lives on a little less than $10,000 a year.

On a recent Wednesday, Ben Augliano ‘09 was nervous before his first meeting with his SLU Buddy. Augliano imagined his buddy, a grade school student, walking into the room, seeing this 6’6” man standing over him and being scared.

But when the towering Augliano arrived at the classroom at F.S. Banford Elementary School in Canton and introduced himself, his new young friend, Jeremy, was delighted.