This year’s intramural football league wanted to include more than just men, so a co-ed division was created in the traditionally male sport.
Friends Julia Brandes and Ellen Traynor are some of the women taking advantage of the first year of co-ed intramural football. And these women are no strangers to the game of football.
“My dad taught me how to play football a long time ago,” Brandes said.
In this week’s edition of ‘Connected.’, H1N1 cases continue to climb at St. Thomas, engineering department constructs new bio-diesel system, St. Thomas hosts the Opus Prize ceremony in November, intramural football gets new players, and a Tommie sailer qualifies for national competition.
[slidepress gallery=’nin-10.22.09′] This is News in :90 for Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
The emergence and popularity of social media and blogs is difficult to ignore. In August, the New York Times reported that at least once a month, four out of five adults use social media, such as blogs, social networks and review sites in some form.
While cigarettes hog the limelight, college students find a different way to get their nicotine fix: smokeless tobacco.
In 2000, Tracy Ertl made a trip to Rome for a special purpose. Throughout her childhood she had lived in a broken, disruptive home; a home where she was a victim of sexual abuse by her own father.
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.
The Rev. Peter Laird, St. Thomas graduate and faculty member at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, will be the new vicar general and moderator of the curia.
Most college students think a smaller tuition increase is to their benefit. If the St. Thomas Board of Trustees gets its way, that may be the case for the 2010-2011 school year.
University Student Government President Kevin Hampton said Tuesday that funding for five student clubs will be settled next Sunday, Oct. 25.
[slidepress gallery=’nin-10.20.09′] This is News in :90 for Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009.
The Northfield, Minn.- based company created the shuttle service Aug. 31 to help people who commute to St. Thomas, especially from the Northfield area.
St. Thomas students will present their unique business ideas Oct. 30 in the final competitions of the Fowler Business Concept Challenge.
The preliminary submission, presented Oct. 15, consisted of a brief description of the business concept (product or service), targeted a specific customer, provided solutions for solving the customer’s problem and demonstrated how the product or service will generate revenue and profit.
The Rev. Dennis Dease, university president, received a Partner in Hope Award for his efforts in opening community-based medical clinics in Uganda.
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.
