The new Anderson Athletic Center was officially opened Tuesday, August 31 after 15 months of planning and construction. “We all waited as the project developed,” Athletic Director Steve Fritz said at the ribbon cutting ceremony. "We waited with curiosity. We...

St. Thomas students might want to hit the treadmill instead of the books, with hopes of achieving better grades this fall, according to a recent study....

Brewing your own beer may be an interesting, cost-effective alternative to buying a case of Sam Adams at the liquor store, and it’s also a hobby in which some college students have taken interest....

More than 100 crosses are scattered across the front lawn on the Minneapolis campus as a “Cemetery of the Innocents,” organized by Lex Vitae, a pro-life student group at St. Thomas’ law school....

Saying farewell to the Metrodome also meant saying goodbye to the much-loved Dome Dogs. But the Minnesota Twins will serve new hot dogs at Target Field. The team announced Monday that it signed a contract with Schweigert Meats, a subsidiary of...

St. Thomas will open its new coffee shop in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library in the second week of February, as it will drop the white curtain now hanging around the construction site on the first floor. “[The white curtain] keeps the...

St. Thomas students studying on Grand Cayman Island were not injured after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake hit near the Cayman Islands this morning....

St. Thomas took its final step toward building the Anderson Student Center, setting up ground breaking for as early as April or May. The Executive Committee of the St. Thomas Board of Trustees approved plan on Thursday. The only hurdle remaining...

Facebook is making some changes to privacy settings, allowing users to control visibility of every piece of posted information. In a letter to all users, founder Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will end regional networks because the social Web site’s community has...

Students lined up outside the Tommie Triage Trailer, located behind Brady Hall, at 11 a.m. Monday to receive their H1N1 vaccine. “I don’t have a car so it’s not like I could get anywhere,” freshman Rose Miron said as she waited...

The No. 9-ranked Tommie volleyball team left Wednesday morning for Oshkosh, Wis., to compete in the 2009 NCAA Division III Tournament. The team will play Thursday in an opening match against No. 7-ranked UW-Whitewater in the single-elimination tournament. This is the 11th...

The library’s “Harry Potter Room” on the second floor was filled with Hogwarts-themed treats, trivia and a showing of the “Sorcerer’s Stone” Tuesday night. The Harry Potter party was sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government and the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library and aimed...

Hand sanitizer is flying off store shelves around the United States as the number of H1N1 cases rises this fall. Sanitizer sales are up 70.5 percent this year over last year, Nielsen Business Media reported this week....

This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. ...

  The Rev. Peter Laird, St. Thomas graduate and faculty member at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, will be the new vicar general and moderator of the curia, the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul announced Tuesday. Laird will succeed...