Students who are in need of legal advice can access a free resource in the Commuter Center.
The university’s law firm – Moore, Costello and Hart – has been offering free legal advice since the late 1980s. But the service dates back even further than that.
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Hana is the Big Five’s diversity organization. It consists of some 70 to 80 members and 50 who regularly attend the meetings, although meetings are open to anyone.
The social host ordinance that was expected to go into effect Nov. 13 was actually supposed to be set for Dec. 12.
City clerk Shari Moore said that the way an ordinance works is that it goes into effect, “30 days after approval and publication.”
Some students may think their student activity fee just goes toward a T-shirt every once in a while, but that money is actually divided between the Undergraduate Student Government and St. Thomas Activities and Recreation (STAR) to do more than just provide T-shirts.
Brady Narloch, USG vice president of financial affairs, said STAR typically receives 60 percent of activity fee so the staff can do programming.
While Student Alumni Council’s name suggests it may not apply to current students, one of SAC’s main goals is to link students with alumni through alumni-student mentoring programs.
“I think the trickiest part about that is that people hear [the name] and they think, ‘Oh I’m not alumni yet. This doesn’t pertain to me. It doesn’t really matter,’” said senior Sara Hamrick, Student Alumni Council president.
The student who collapsed in Scooter’s Friday night is still at Regions Hospital in critical but stable condition.
The student has been identified as 21-year-old Gauthier Biyanga Mubwa, a second-semester student and native of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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John Hershey, neighborhood liaison for St. Thomas, said he has received about 40 separate complaints from neighbors this semester regarding student behavior.
“I’ve received a lot more really bitter complaints from people about roving bands of students,” Hershey said. “Not just that they’re in the neighborhood but that they’re being disrespectful … who knows what’s true and what’s not, but I don’t have reason to disbelieve them.”
In 1905, the College of St. Thomas built an infirmary on North Campus, now known as the Alumni and Constituent Relations building. Forty years later, math professor Capt. Thomas Gartland was living on the third floor and found graffiti on the walls. The graffiti listed names of students who had died in the building.
According to an article published in The Aquin on April 6, 1966, Gartland found names like “Spike O’Conner, Scarlet Fever, 1921,” and “Harold O’Brien, Mumps, 1924.” He even found written in a corner, “After three weeks in this place I don’t think anything could be worser.”
As H1N1 cases rise in Minnesota, Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, expects a surge in cases in the next six to eight weeks.
With that, he fears that there will not be enough of the vaccine in time for Minnesotans.
“I’m afraid too little vaccine is going to get here before the peak hits,” Osterholm told about 600 people at a flu summit organized by the Minnesota Department of health.
