This week students who dined in the cafeterias on campus had an opportunity to show some love for the environment by participating in Trayless Tuesday. But will Trayless Tuesdays continue to be a weekly event for St. Thomas?
“Not at this time,” said Director of Dining Services Todd Empanger.
Opus Corporation, the construction company, moved the demolition date of nearby O’Shaughnessy Hall to the beginning of March instead of at the end of the school year in May.
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009.
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A St. Thomas health official said the number of reported H1N1 cases at St. Thomas has reached 277. Although its arrival date is still not set, the vaccine may arrive on campus around Thanksgiving.
Challenges remain because of the need to convert offices for financial aid, ROTC and athletic staff during the construction projects.
Last April, three students were paired with the Opus Foundation to evaluate three humanitarian sites nominated for the Opus Prize and these students came back with much more than another stamp in their passports.
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Among the top recipients of USG funding are Volunteers in Action, Campus Crusade for Christ, SHINE, Saint Paul’s Outreach, HANA, KUST and the Rock Climbing Club.
St. Thomas students and their professor have designed the first portable biodiesel production system, which can fit in the back of a pickup truck.
“Other companies were trying to get this done and we got it done in a year before they did,” said graduate student John Gorman, who worked on the system last year.
This is News in :90 for Oct. 23, 2009.
The surveys have been scrutinized, the results are in and St. Thomas’ law school can be found near the top of the heap in the Princeton Review’s “Best Quality of Life” category yet again.
Author Ron Hansen spoke at St. Thomas Thursday night about his newest novel “Exiles,” which tells the story of 19th-century poet and priest Gerard Hopkins and the tragic shipwreck which inspired one of Hopkins’ poems.
