The 2014 midterm elections prompted St. Thomas students to vote at one of two local polling locations Tuesday.
Local polls open for students
Governor, Senate, state House are Minnesota prizes
Minnesota joins the rest of the nation Tuesday in a midterm election for everything from governor to local school board seats.
Rolling Stone features St. Thomas law professor
St. Thomas School of Law professor Mark Osler was profiled in Rolling Stone magazine about his advocacy for the elimination of mandatory drug sentencing minimums.
Haunted Cretin scares more than 500 students
Shrieks could be heard coming from Cretin Hall on the eve of Halloween as 512 students made their way through the residence hall’s annual haunted house.
IRT working to improve Wi-Fi on campus
Information Resources and Technologies began upgrading St. Thomas’ wireless network this month in response to frequent Wi-Fi outages this semester.
University hopes to boost out-of-state enrollment
Because of a recent decline in Minnesota high school graduates, St. Thomas is looking to ramp up out-of-state recruitment.
In Depth – Drunken driving
Wells Farnham, Public Safety crime prevention officer, joins Sports Editor Tom Pitzen to discuss the repercussions of drunken driving.
Love Your Melon celebrates 2 years, stops by campus
Fourteen cities and states declared Oct. 22 Love Your Melon Day in honor of the non-profit that two St. Thomas seniors founded in an entrepreneurship class in 2012.
Swing dancing club grows in popularity
More than 20 new dancers attended the St. Thomas Swing Club’s second practice Oct. 14 in the Anderson Athletic and Recreation Complex.
St. Thomas TEDx Talk focuses on re-imagining education
St. Thomas hosted its first TEDx Talk Wednesday night to let local educators come together and share ideas about improving education.
Students celebrate National Coming Out Day
Members from St. Thomas’ Queer-Straight Alliance handed out shirts Monday afternoon to celebrate National Coming Out Day, which officially took place Saturday.
Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates and educates
A poetry reading, one-act play and arts and crafts activities were a few of the many events that St. Thomas students, staff and faculty participated in to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
Scheduling Services switches to user-friendly system
Campus Scheduling Services is aiming to ease the process of finding and requesting appropriate space for on-campus events by changing its current WebViewer system to a new 25Live system.
Food truck visits St. Thomas
Mike Salvatore, owner of Sal’s Food Truck, is new to the streets but plans to make St. Thomas a regular stopping place.
Alumnus strikes up business partnership with Vikings player
St. Thomas 2014 graduate Robbie Harrell launched Minnesota Ice Sculptures last year and gained an unlikely business partner along the way.