St. Thomas international student Kay-Lin Wang, 20, also known as Calvin, was found dead in his off-campus apartment Friday, Feb. 26, according to a statement from the university.

Wang is originally from China and started taking classes at St. Thomas in the Spring 2020 semester. This is the second St. Thomas student death within a week, and the third within the school year.

One positive COVID-19 test was reported by St. Thomas Center for Well-Being last week, the lowest count recorded since the university began reporting cases last fall.

The case was a student on the St. Paul campus. The data includes more than 1,000 tests administered by athletics’ mandatory testing and Center for Well-Being testing.

Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights and then went on to become an unofficial aide for the Clinton administration, has died.

After time as field secretary for the Georgia NAACP and executive director of the United Negro College Fund, he became head of the National Urban League, becoming the face of Black America’s contemporary struggle for jobs and justice for more than a decade.

Then, his friendship with President Bill Clinton, which began in the 1970s, evolved into a partnership and political alliance. He met Clinton as a young politician in Arkansas, and the two connected over their Southern roots and poor upbringings.

Although Jordan held no official role in the Clinton White House, he was highly influential and had such labels as the “first friend.” He approached Colin Powell about becoming Secretary of State and encouraged Clinton to pass the NAFTA agreement in 1993.

Logan Sriharatsa can be reached at srih1201@stthomas.edu.