News
Digest
February 27, 2006
2005-2006
is St. Lawrence's Sesquicentennial Year!
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Campus
News
Haverford College Dean of Students Joseph Tolliver has been named
vice president and dean of student life at St. Lawrence, effective
July 1, 2006. Read
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 The
Women's Hockey team beat Harvard and Dartmouth to claim their second
ECAC Hockey League regular season championship in the last three years
and clinch the #1 seed in the ECACHL tournament. Read
more |
 Applications
are available now for St. Lawrence University's Young Writers Conference
for talented and promising high school student writers, to be held
September 8 through 10 at the Canaras Conference Center in the Adirondacks.
Read
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Campus
Events
Workshops, film screenings and discussions are among the events
that will mark the celebration of National Foreign Language Week at
St. Lawrence University, March 4 through 12. Highlighting the importance
of language learning and promoting international experience and exposure
to different cultures, the events have been organized by the modern
languages and literatures department and the Center
for International and Intercultural Studies.
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 An
exhibition called "The Workmanship of Risk" will be in the
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
at St. Lawrence University from Wednesday, March 1, through Thursday,
April 6. A lecture by exhibition curators Sabrina Gschwandtner and
Cat Mazza will take place in the gallery on Wednesday, March 1, at
7 p.m.; it is open to the public, free of charge. Read
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 "The
Gallery Has A Posse: Contemporary Sticker Art" will be on exhibition
in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
at St. Lawrence University from Wednesday, March 1, through Thursday,
April 6.
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 The
third annual gospel music workshop and concert, featuring Grammy and
Stellar Award-nominated Chicago Mass Choir member William R. Hamilton,
will take place Thursday through Saturday, March 9 through 11, at
St. Lawrence University. Read
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Alumni
News
 Former
Saint women's hockey star Gina Kingsbury '04 became the third Saint
athlete to earn an Olympic gold medal February 20, when she was part
of the Canadian women's hockey team's gold medal win over Sweden.
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Laurentians
in the News
 A
story about former Olympic biathlete Lawton Redman '98, in service
in Iraq, appeared in the Minneapolis /Star-Tribune/ on February
20; the story, which mentioned that he is a St. Lawrence alumnus,
also ran on wire services and appeared in other papers, including
the San Francisco /Chronicle/.
More Laurentians
In the News
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Sesquicentennial
News:
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!! Charter Day, April 3,
2006. Events on campus and around the world. Stay tuned for
details!
Bring a birthday card to the event
nearest you...write your best wishes to SLU on its 150th birthday
and your greetings to the people who'll celebrate our 200th birthday
in 2056. Cards will be saved for 50 years!
February in SLU History:
1906 Agriculture School chartered; becomes Canton College.
1926 First intercollegiate men’s ice hockey
game, a 1-0 loss to Clarkson.
1950 Life Magazine covers Winter Carnival.
1966 New York State Senator Robert Kennedy speaks
on campus.
1990 Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther
Party and a member of the “Chicago Seven,” speaks during
Black History Month.
Reminder: Rev. Richard Gilbert '58 gives the Mackay
Lecture tomorrow night, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. in Eben Holden.
Check out the several new feature stories about St.
Lawrence's history and traditions:
Our Adirondack
Connections
Ghost Stories
North Country
Leaders' Names Live on in Building Names
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