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A Period Piece: Students Welcome Sanitary Bins in SIH Bathrooms

A Period Piece: Students Welcome Sanitary Bins in SIH Bathrooms

Sabine Gillelen, Staff Writer March 19, 2025
For years, menstruating students had no way to discretely dispose of their used pads and tampons. Now, there are bins in half the stalls of SIH bathrooms. Here is how they got there.
Convivium Magazine’s Open Mics: A Stage for Every Story

Convivium Magazine’s Open Mics: A Stage for Every Story

Agatha Thomas, Staff Writer March 7, 2025
From poetry to music to whatever lies in the bottom of your notes app, anything goes at Convivium open mics. The first of the 2025 Spring semester was hosted in collaboration with BASU.
The creative team poses on stage after the final performance of Rapture, Bilster, Burn! in December, 2024. Top row (left to right) Javier Sowatskey, Carson Poteet, Brendan Guzman | Bottom Row (left to right): Ernesto Lange, Leticia Mondada, Kate Ivanova. Photo courtesy of Namita Chawla.

Behind the Scenes at the Fall-Semester Play: Rapture, Blister, Burn!

Namita Chawla, Staff Writer December 30, 2024

“Alright everybody, let’s run Act 2 Scene 4 - but remember I want you to create an improvised foolish version,” Ernesto Lange, one of the assistant directors, shouted from across the theatre. “Think...

Before the PhDs: Faculty at Our Age

Before the PhDs: Faculty at Our Age

Namita Chawla, Staff Writer December 1, 2024

Student uses one of the new, fancy bathrooms in Manresa Hall.

Manresa Hall Opens With Modern Spaces and Labs

Charles Mut-Tracy, Shane Kirkland, and Sofía Ordoñez November 29, 2024

Manresa Hall, the newest addition to the SLU-Madrid campus, opened this September with six classrooms, a conference room, and labs for engineering, communications and nursing majors. About 250 meters...

Bill Johnson gives a speech to SLU-Madrid's faculty and staff members.

Bill Johnson Chosen as New Rector at SLU-Madrid

Amelie Van Hess, Editor-in-Chief November 29, 2024

After a year of trial and error through temporary campus leadership upon Paul Vita, former dean, leaving after many years of leading the university, dawn broke on a new era at SLU-Madrid. As of Oct. 1,...

Students sample yogurt-covered crickets at a bug tasting event this fall organized by the Gourmet Club.

Menú del Día: Crickets and Mealworms for Dessert

Inchara Shetty and Ria Kolalaria November 16, 2024
Students sampled chips and sweets made from insects this semester following a talk about environmentally friendly food sources
Group of former Suffolk students.

Suffolk Students Transfer to SLU-Madrid After Campus Closure

Hannah Goodwin and Reagan Tran November 8, 2024

Following the sudden closure of Suffolk University’s Madrid campus over the summer, 25 former students are scrambling to finish their degrees at Saint Louis University-Madrid. This semester, SLU-Madrid...

Student using ChatGPT to outline an essay.

Students and Professors Divided Over Use of AI in Classes

Luka Gobejishvili, Contributing Writer November 8, 2024

Some professors have raised concerns about the quality of student work when using AI tools like ChatGPT. “We get these essays that are bland, boring, and lack emotion or passion,” said Anne McCabe,...

Directors of Netflix Documentary "No Estás Sola" Visit SLU-Madrid

Directors of Netflix Documentary “No Estás Sola” Visit SLU-Madrid

Agatha Thomas, Staff Writer November 8, 2024

On October 30th, Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, directors and creators of the Netflix documentary “No Estás Sola,” visited SLU-Madrid for a Q&A event co-sponsored by the visual and performing...

Senior Alex Martinez talks to his workshop group before playing soccer.

Volunteers Make Wish Come True for Children in Puertollano

Reagan Tran, Contributing Writer November 3, 2024

Over a late October weekend, professor Hamish Binns and nine students danced, played sports and conducted workshops with children at primary school Colegio Mireia Belmonte in Puertollano, Ciudad Real....

Statement inside of the Columbine Memorial in Littleton, Colorado

Columbine High School Alum Reflects on Changes Since 1999

Lilla Orbán, Staff Writer November 1, 2024

Amelie Van Hess, a Communications major at Saint Louis University-Madrid, is no stranger to the rippling effects school shootings have on students, teachers, and families. Van Hess, a fourth year permanent...

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