News Digest
July 25, 2005 - Click on an image for a larger version

Campus News Three St. Lawrence University trustees residing in California, and their respective spouses, have made gifts to the University that total over $6.25 million, all for the next comprehensive campaign. Their gifts bring the next comprehensive campaign's total to over $52.1 million. For more

Alumni News Missouri Governor Matt Blunt has appointed Lewis Mills '81, of Jefferson City, to a task force charged with conducting a review of state and federal eminent domain laws and establishing criteria that state and local government entities will employ when the use of eminent domain is proposed. The creation of the task force comes in reaction to the recent related decision by the United States Supreme Court. For more

Devon Energy Corporation has announced that William A. Van Wie '67 has been appointed to the new position of vice president and general manager, exploration. He will be responsible for coordinating Devon's global exploration activities. Van Wie was previously vice president and general manager of Devon's Gulf Division. He will remain in Houston, Texas. For more

St. Lawrence In the News Assistant Professor of Global Studies Vernadette Gonzalez was recently interviewed by community radio station KBOO in Portland, Oregon, about the global trafficking of women and an article she co-authored, "Filipinas.com: Wives, Workers and Whores on the Cyberfrontier" (published in the anthology AsianAmerica.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace). The program is scheduled to air on Tuesday, July 26, from 1 to 2 p.m. Pacific time, on KBOO.org. For more

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