While most college students are still sound asleep, St. Thomas first-year Hazel Erickson is wasting no time in her pursuit of a tough profession: politics. She wakes up early two or three days a week and heads to downtown St. Paul before her classes as an intern for Minnesota Public Interest Research Group.
This is News in :90 for Tuesday, March 28, 2017.
About 25 Twin Cities congregations are joining a movement to offer sanctuary to immigrants who fear deportation.
Some neighbors are fed up with the noisy student behavior that comes with the warm weather, but Neighborhood Liaison Amy Gage is working with Undergraduate Student Government in hopes of getting student leaders involved in creating better relations between students and neighbors.
This is News in :90 for Monday, March 27, 2017.
The St. Thomas men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams participated in the national championship last week, both placing below the Emory University men and women, who swept the competition in Shenandoah, Texas, becoming the second institution in Division III history to accomplish the feat.
Since St. Thomas has been without a theater program for about seven years, performers on campus head down the street to St. Catherine’s University to participate in its plays and musicals. Chief video editor Lydia Lockwood spoke with some St. Thomas thespians about the possibility of restarting a campus theater program.
Ever wondered what professors are doing when they aren’t teaching classes or grading papers? In the case of justice and peace professor Mike Klein and English professor Heather Bouwman, that mystery has been solved.
This is News in :90 for Friday, March 17, 2017.
This is News in :90 for Thursday, March 16, 2017.
Mayzer Muhammad, president of St. Thomas Undergraduate Student Government, has disavowed tweets made three years ago and has denied that he is anti-Semitic.
Students gathered in Woulfe Alumni Hall on March 13 for a healthy sex teach-in hosted by St. Thomas’ Feminist Community, which featured a panel of seven St. Thomas students from a variety of sexual identities who talked candidly about their experiences with sex and sexuality.
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, March 15, 2017.
After Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton suggested a 17-percent increase to state grant funding, St. Thomas students spent their annual Day at the Capitol lobbying and showing support for the budget increase.
Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday.
