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.
Night Access policies change, ‘Super Single’ rooms added
Mississippi River not likely to flood
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 Phillips cancels St. Thomas spring concert
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.
The Rev. Dennis Dease to give SJU’s commencement speech
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.
Man shoots self in police parking lot
A Minnesota man coming in for questioning about a missing woman has shot himself in the police parking lot Thursday in Eden Prairie.
President-elect Julie Sullivan’s inauguration date set
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.
Tommie Spotlight: Albert Conteh
Senior Albert Conteh didn’t consider himself a dancer until he went to his first PULSE show his freshman year.
Students clean up Mississippi River
St. Thomas students spent their Saturday morning last weekend picking up trash and ridding the area of everything from cans to giant stuffed animals.
Trio creates soap company for class project
Students started a soap business for the lemonade stand-inspired project in their entrepreneurship class.
Tommies participate in Undergraduate Communication Research Conference
Communication and journalism majors and minors, along with students from other departments, submitted their research papers from past classes to present their work to a panel of scholars.
Fargo students forgo class to help out flood prep
Hundreds of high school students pitched in Friday to place 100,000 sandbags around Fargo and help protect homes against Red River flooding.
Honor society cuts tuition benefit
Future members of St. Thomas’ Delta Epsilon Sigma chapter will not be able to take advantage tuition benefit that the society will take away for budgetary reasons.
University offers Elementary Chinese course starting fall 2013
Student demand for an Elementary Mandarin Chinese course prompted the languages department to add it in the St. Thomas Undergraduate Catalog starting fall 2013.
US News ranks Mahtomedi best Minnesota high school
U.S. News released its 2013 list of the nation’s best high schools Tuesday and Mahtomedi graduates who attend St. Thomas were pleased to see their alma mater ranked first among Minnesota schools.
Minnesota school district gets bulletproof whiteboards
A Minnesota school district where two students were killed in a 2003 shooting unveiled a new device Tuesday aimed at adding a last-ditch layer of safety for teachers and students: bulletproof whiteboards.