Some St. Thomas students spent their Thursday morning gawking at the demolition of O’Shaughnessy Hall.

“I heard a rumor that the building was going to get demolished at 7:15,” sophomore Dominic Bouck said. “I thought it was pretty cool. I imagined a round ball so the claw was a little surprising.”

The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library will open its doors 7:30 a.m. Wednesday to the not-so-familiar smell of freshly brewing coffee.

With construction finally complete, Coffee Bené will open its independently run coffee shop on the first floor of the library.

The full-service coffee shop is the result of a partnership between the library and Coffee Bené.

The St. Thomas women’s hockey team took on St. Olaf last weekend, defending a five-game MIAC winning streak. But the Oles put an end to that streak on Friday night in Mendota Heights, Minn. The 1-0 loss marked only the second time St. Olaf has beaten the Tommies.

The St. Thomas swimming and diving team raced to success and broke records this weekend at the two-day Minnesota Challenge at the University of Minnesota.

The men’s team had four top-three finishes, with senior All-American Peter Mullee contributing to each. Mullee won the 100-yard backstroke and beat 50 other competitors, including five Division I Gopher swimmers.

St. Thomas men’s basketball pushed its conference home winning streak to 53 games after defeating Augsburg 77-66 Wednesday, Jan. 27, at Concordia University’s Gangelhoff Center.

From the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis to the Coffee Bené construction in the library, photographers Aaron Hays and Josh Kleven captured some images from on and off-campus locations.

St. Thomas men’s basketball got a 77-68 win over St. Mary’s Monday night at Concordia University’s Gangelhoff Center.

The win also broke the MIAC’s old record of 31-straight MIAC victories, held by the 1965-67 St. Thomas teams.

Photographers Aaron Hays and Josh Kleven capture the cold and snow that gripped campus this week.

Students escaped the cold and rushed into the seats of the Brady Educational Center auditorium for the “Be Visible” event, presented by Invisible Children on Saturday night.

PULSE and Dance Club partnered to fund raise for the Invisible Children organization’s Schools for Schools campaign, and to help the chapter on campus spread the word about war-torn Uganda.

STAR is sponsoring free six-minute Aqua Massages in Campus Square until 5 p.m. today.

“The whole pressure, the pulsating water is really relaxing compared to getting a normal massage,” said Junior Dan Wanous.

Wisconsin-Superior scored a goal in each period Tuesday night in Mendota Heights and shut out the No. 10-ranked St. Thomas women’s hockey team.

The Tommies (4-3-2) had a five-game unbeaten streak end. Goalie Lauren Bradel had 16 saves.

Volunteers from the Commuter Center and Off-Campus Services and representatives from the Undergraduate Student Government passed out hot chocolate, ice scrapers and snow emergency information today in Lot H and in the Anderson Parking Facility.

St. Thomas took advantage of the Kohawks not having its stellar sophomore quarterback Brad Boyle due to injury.

The Tommie defense harrassed Boyle’s freshman replacements grabbing two picks in a dominating 34-7 win over Coe College Saturday in O’Shaughnessy Stadium in the second round of the NCAA playoffs.

I had the opportunity to travel on a packed charter bus last weekend with 40 other activists to Fort Benning near Columbus, Ga., to stand outside the fort’s gates with thousands of others, practicing a nonviolent protest of U.S. foreign policy in solidarity with the millions of Latin American people it has abused.

St. Thomas got scores from all phases of the game to win handily by a score of 43-21 in Monmouth, Ill., Saturday.