Category Archive: Community Stories

A focus on Hamline-Midway

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This spring Piper Realism turns its attention to our own backyard–St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood. Inside, you’ll find Where We Live, four team projects on different topics: the built landscape, education, arts & culture,… Continue reading

Hamline students urge the administration to speak up

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Black organizations at Hamline came together on November 5th for a healing event to give students a space to let out their concerns. Nasro Araye was one of those students who came to… Continue reading

The price of convenience

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The days of early September were filled with students eagerly returning to school for a new semester and other St. Paul residents walking the streets going about their day to day business. However,… Continue reading

Taking the Trash Out?

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It is a brisk fall Minnesota morning and the familiar echo of loud dumping, plastic lids shutting, and truck tires screeching fill the still sleeping ally ways of Saint Paul, Minnesota.  For many… Continue reading

A Day in the Life of a Vaper

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By: Olivia Hjerleid Though the day doesn’t usually start with vaping for the Hamline sophomore who we will anonymously call Joe, it often ends with it.  The 19-year-old vapes almost daily, though he… Continue reading

Hamline students struggle to find time for politics

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Nicole Ronchetti Jordan Brezinka has been feeling more than a little overwhelmed. Not just by her coursework and regular responsibilities, which certainly don’t help, but by politics. The high stakes of the Democratic… Continue reading

Students fight for food

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Students and advocates seek to address food insecurity on Hamline University’s campus. by Christian Buonfiglio On a typical Wednesday afternoon, the Hamline Food Resource Center is quiet, but steady. Students are asked for… Continue reading