The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Foreign Affairs: Revealing the adventurer within

by Dorotea Lechkova

Have you ever sat on a beach and looked out into the sea? It makes you feel small, temporary. Almost as if, in the grand scheme of things, you are just passing by. It's like the one hundred years we get are nowhere near enough, and the sea can sense this. It can tell our fear of being temporary, of being only human, of having too little time.

SGA president offers advice for new Billikens

by Sam Howard

To the Saint Louis University Community, From Your SGA President: Top 10 pieces of advice for your Billiken experience. 1. Be engaged citzens: Know what's going on and serve in both the SLU community and the St. Louis Community. Vote, attend Indecision 2008, an event this fall and utilize SGA's Billiken Readership Program newspapers.

SoulJoe Boy Tells It

Stepping off of the cross and into the community

by Joe Eggleston

A bubble is something that happens when you accidentally squeeze the shampoo bottle at the wrong time. But a bubble can also be a term for a certain type of isolation, a separation from the world outside. Saint Louis University is often accused of being trapped in a bubble--a cultural one, not a soapy one.

The Beet

Organic farmers keep it real in the Oregon valley

by Robert Singer

Talent is a small Oregon town nestled at the base of the Cascades. Pastures and family farms usurp the strip mall wonderland classic of American development, and that was why I was there: to farm for a while, to see where the things I consumed actually came from and to find an antidote, or at least some hope, to the problem of America's vacant consumption.