Assistant track and field coach Erik Diley and junior jumper Eyo Ekpo join reporter Baihly Warfield in The Locker Room to talk about the top finishes at the Tomcat Twilight meet and what the team is doing to prepare for this weekend’s Capital City Classic at Hamline University.

St. Thomas’ newest addition to campus, a men’s a cappella group, sings in the Anderson Student Center’s Woulfe Alumni Hall every Thursday and Sunday night. The group hopes to become an official St. Thomas club by next fall.

Class of 1964 St. Thomas alumnus Tom Cronin said when he found out he would receive the 2012 Monsignor James Lavin Award, he didn’t know much about it. After doing further research on what the award was, he said he was surprised.

After a three-day voting process, the Undergraduate Student Government announced April 13 that Mike Orth was re-elected council president winning 92 percent of the votes and running unopposed.

Started by three St. Thomas students, this summer’s second annual Midwest Tomato Fest is moving to a new location two blocks away from the Metrodome. This year’s festival is expected to be bigger, better and messier than last summer’s.

St. John’s University announced Tuesday, April 10, that it selected Michael Hemesath, an economics professor at Carleton College, as the university’s 13th president. Hemesath becomes the university’s first full-term lay president in the school’s 155-year history, although the school did have an interim lay president in 2008-09.

Tracking the St. Thomas shuttle may become easier for students in the future, but someone is going to have to pick up the bill first.

Best Buy Co. Inc. announced last week it will close 50 of its stores and eliminate 400 corporate positions. The announcement, however, did not faze some St. Thomas students who are former or current employees of the company.

John Tauer, St. Thomas’ interim men’s basketball coach and psychology professor of 12 years, was named to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s “2012 40 Under Forty” list. He said being named to the list was a tremendous honor.

The Students in Free Enterprise club and Sam’s Club have financially helped three St. Thomas students implement process improvements and sustainable tools in an Eagan gas station and deli. The students worked to decrease customer wait time and improve unnecessary bottlenecks from forming around register areas.

St. Thomas senior Shawn Zobel recently released “2012 Draft Preview,” a book he’s released for the last six years. This year, the book contains analysis on 255 players participating in the draft and took him nearly nine months to complete. Zobel hopes his work will help land him his NFL dream job.

St. Thomas students are dropping their golf clubs to pick up frisbees as a new hobby. Watch the video story here.

St. Thomas students and neighbors said they saw a man driving a truck erratically on Selby Avenue between Finn Street and Cretin Avenue Saturday morning that eventually crashed into the baseball field’s fence.

Some St. Thomas students are competing in Tough Mudder, a 12-mile obstacle course. It’s designed by the British Special Forces and has 28 unique obstacles. Participants must walk through blazing kerosene-soaked straw, be shocked by dangling wires that hold up to 10,000 volts and scale a quarter pipe.

The St. Thomas law school was dropped out of the U.S. News and World Report rankings after the school accidentally provided incorrect information regarding employment rates after graduation. U.S. News placed the university in its “unranked” category; it had been tied in rank with seven other schools at No. 119.