St. Thomas’ Rainy Day Women dropped this semester’s Ultimate frisbee Mac-Tommie Cup against the Macalester’s Snatchers 15-2.
Dancers promote upcoming Daft Punk tribute
Four green men and a bull danced across campus Thursday afternoon to promote “Very Disco: A Daft Punk Tribute,” which will be performed Friday on South Campus.
Geology students to trek 1,800 miles by canoe
Two students will hit the road, or the river, when summer arrives, to embark on a 1,800-mile canoe journey northward. In May, juniors Luke Olson and Lindsey Lee will leave from northern Minnesota and end in the Hudson Bay about two months later.
Eliminate disposable plastic water bottles at St. Thomas
That bottle of Aquafina you saw on the ground this morning was near the end of an incredibly long journey. Starting out as perfectly benign tap water, it went through a redundant and energy-intensive purification process before being shipped hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles to get to that cooler in the Grill.
English professors’ folk concerts show their other sides
Have you ever wondered what your professors do on the weekends?
While some were celebrating the semester’s kickoff last Friday with a brew, English professors A.J. Scheiber and Liz Wilkinson entertained Coffee Bene’s patrons with a few hours of music, camaraderie and fun.
Men’s bball breaks record with 32 straight MIAC wins
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.
Eight years is enough, get rid of Guantanamo Bay
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the day that 20 detainees were first brought into Guantanamo Bay.
Football team starting trek to Oregon
Tommie the mascot and a few brave souls withstood freezing temperatures Friday morning to see the Tommie football team head to the airport to make the trip to Oregon.
On the road to close the School of the Americas
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.
Football gets first 9-win season since ’83
[slidepress gallery=’footballnorthwestern-111409′] St. Thomas crushed Northwestern College Saturday 63-14 to all but guarantee an NCAA playoff bid. The Tommies tallied 477 total yards and the offensive explosion of 63 points tied a season-high and modern-day school record.
‘Hip-hop scholar’ aims to make education more entertaining
Latin hip-hop might not be where it is today without the work of people such as “hip-hop scholar” Melisa Riviere, who presented Thursday night in McNeely Hall.
Riviere said her goal as a “hip-hop scholar” is to make education more entertaining, and vice versa. She added that academia and hip-hop have never gotten along.
Cookies were scarce at cookie monster’s birthday bash
Students who showed up late to the cookie monster birthday bash Wednesday night in Scooter’s merely found empty bowls where the cookies had been.
The event, sponsored by STAR to celebrate the 40th birthday of the lovable “Sesame Street” character, ran out of cookies just five minutes after opening at 8 p.m.
Voter turnout light at McNeely Hall
Voters in Minnesota’s two largest cities today are deciding whether to keep their mayors or choose new ones. Incumbents R.T. Rybak and Chris Coleman, both Democrats, are seeking re-election.
Men’s soccer stomps St. Mary’s 7-0, clinches playoff spot
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Johnnies hand Tommies first loss
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