The Record

Sustainability is all the rage. In this trend, massive research dollars and thousands of minds have been committed to coming up with the newest ideas for improvement (i.e. CSB/SJU Year of Sustainability). Out with the old, inefficient technology and in with the new, green inventions. But personally, the campaign slogan is out with the fairly [...]

Sal’s Bar in downtown St. Joseph has been faithfully serving Johnnies and Bennies for decades, and along with their years of service, comes tradition. I’m sure many students — even some not yet old enough to enter the bar — have heard tales of closing time at Sal’s: Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” plays as gallant Johnnies [...]

Hey you! Yeah, you Freshman or First Year or teenager or Freshie, or whatever label you want to be identified by. You, with the lanyard around your neck and the not-so-discrete class schedule and school map in your pocket. You, who stand up early on the Link, try overly hard to be Johnnie-esque and hold [...]

Summer is a time for hanging out with friends, going to the beach, working and road tripping. What do these statements all have in common? If you guessed transportation, you are right. After eight months of the Link shuttling us around, we actually have to start driving ourselves. You might be a little rusty at [...]

As members of College Republicans and Students Fostering Conservative Thought (SFCT) hosted “Cut-The-Pork” Pig Roast Wednesday, many patrons did not realize that two clubs that emphasize being fiscally conservative just cut themselves the biggest pork in club funding. Four of the 10 members of the Co-Funding Board (CFB) are members of College Republicans or SFCT, so [...]

Last week, I received an out of the ordinary e-mail response to my column. A fellow Johnnie critiqued my analysis of the political discourse surrounding the health care bill. Now, he has every right to do this, but he ended his letter with this line, “I leave you, hoping that one day you may free yourself from [...]

In American society, we place a premium on the health of our citizens, especially our youth. This has been evident in both our recent political health care reform as well as our history of restrictions and criminalization of substances which are viewed as detrimental to our health. In accordance with this, I propose that the legal [...]

I hesitated to write something for the last Record of this 2009-10 CSB/SJU school year. Granted, it will be my last, but at the same time, there are so many great writers on campus who are probably writing with the same intentions as me. I want to give my final farewell to this campus I love and maybe even leave [...]

One of the obvious reasons we are here at CSB/SJU is for our education. At a university with such great resources and facilities, I have become frustrated when trying to use them. Our libraries have become overcrowded during busy hours of the day. It is annoying when I go to the library and find myself standing around [...]

Kirby Johnson: St. John’s University senior, soon-to-be alumnus. That last part is a scary thought shared by many seniors as graduation approaches. For me, the reality of our looming graduation started a little bit less than a year ago when the first person told me, “Wow, you’re already a senior. Before you know it you’ll be [...]