News in :90 – Dec. 11, 2019

St. Cloud State University in Minnesota plans to end its football and golf programs to comply with a Title IX court order and manage its budget shortages.

The announcement was made Tuesday and will start next fall.

This will affect about 115 student athletes, seven coaches and two graduate assistant coaches, St. Cloud State President Robbyn Wacker said.

Men’s soccer will be added to keep the program in compliance with NCAA rules, the St. Cloud Times reported.

St. Cloud State must comply with a federal court’s August order in a Title IX lawsuit by balancing the opportunities and benefits it offers female and male students in the athletic program.

Athletic budgets have struggled under declining student athletic fees tied to a declining student enrollment and increasing costs, Wacker said.

The mayor of Jersey City said Wednesday it’s “clear” that gunmen in a furious shooting that left six people dead targeted a Jewish market.

Mayor Steven Fulop refused to call it an anti-Semitic attack but said surveillance video shows the gunemen got out of their van at a kosher grocery store after bypassing other buildings on the way.

Neither the state attorney general, who is running the investigation, nor any other law enforcement authority has confirmed the shooters target Jews. City Public Safety Director James Shea said Tuesday that terrorism wasn’t suspected.

A police officers, three bystanders and two suspects all died in the violence Tuesday afternoon in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from New York City.

The shooting began near a cemetery, where Detective Joseph Seals, 40, was cut down by gunfire. The gunmen then drove a stolen rental van to another part of the city engaged police in a lengthy shootout from inside the kosher market, where the five other bodies were later found

Fulop said a review of security camera footage has led to the conclusion that the gunmen targeted the market.

A new Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) complex was announced in an email from Provost Richard Plumb to the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and College of Health faculty and was announced to all students, faculty and staff in an email from President Julie Sullivan.

The complex, according to Plumb, will be on South Campus and was announced after an anonymous donation was made as the lead gift for the project. In the future, the donor will be announced and the building will bear the name of the donor.

The total project is expected to cost $100 million. The university has to raise $75 million of the total cost, and the other $25 million will come from the university taking out a bond.

The goal of the project is to bring interdisciplinary action to St. Thomas. Though current students will likely not see the final product of the building, Plumb wants faculty and staff to be excited about the project.

Carly Noble can be reached at nobl1781@stthomas.edu.

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