As summer break starts for students, St. Thomas Physical plant employees will begin projects including a sculpture garden and construction on the South Campus fields and in the Murray-Herrick Campus Center.

What started out as composition lessons lead to the music department offering students a composition minor for the first time.

With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.

Pageants are known for glitz and glam, but for senior Nataly Sanchez, something different motivated her to strap on her heels and compete in the Miss Minnesota Latina Pageant on May 25 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center.

The Rev. Dennis Dease isn’t the only faculty member leaving St. Thomas this year; seven professors plan to end their tenures at the university as well.

St. Thomas’ feminist group, FemCom, said “goodbye” to derogatory language and stereotyping when its members wrote a public address to the student body.

The Ireland Hall Teeter-Totter Marathon has already raised $400 more than last year’s event.

Residence Life is eliminating some night access policies and adding a new style of dorm room to help on-campus upperclassmen student retention rates starting next fall.

Even though areas to the north and south of campus may have flooding issues, St.Thomas students have nothing to worry about, Thomas Hickson, associate professor of geology, said.

Phillip Philips told St. Thomas STAR officials that he’s canceling the remainder of his spring concert tour including a performance that was scheduled for Saturday on the John P. Monahan Plaza.

Many commencement speeches are given by prominent members of a university, but for St. John’s University’s parting speech, an iconic Tommie will take the podium.

A Minnesota man coming in for questioning about a missing woman has shot himself in the police parking lot Thursday in Eden Prairie.

As students, faculty and staff prepare to see the Rev. Dennis Dease enter retirement on June 30, preparations for university president-elect Julie Sullivan’s inaugural ceremonies are set for Thursday, Oct. 17 on the St. Paul campus.

Senior Albert Conteh didn’t consider himself a dancer until he went to his first PULSE show his freshman year.

St. Thomas students spent their Saturday morning last weekend picking up trash and ridding the area of everything from cans to giant stuffed animals.