Protests at St. Olaf College, the elimination of St. Catherine University’s Interior Design Program and Ash tree removal lead today’s headlines. University Affairs Editor Noah Brown has the latest in the May 1 edition of News in :90.
So far in 2017, about 800 ash trees in St. Paul have been cut down because of emerald ash borer, and neighbors are now left waiting for the stumps to be removed
Elections for the 2017-2018 Undergraduate Student Government class council are currently underway. Voting will close at 4 p.m. Thursday. The following are bios for the student body president and executive board.
St. Thomas music lovers came together Tuesday night at the KUST Sampler release party to celebrate what they all share in common: music.
A St. Thomas alum is facing sentencing in the shooting of five black men who were demonstrating against the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis.
The land that makes up the university campus will likely not be affected by the Archdiocese’s bankruptcy case because the Archdiocese owns no land related to the school, said Sara Gross Methner, St. Thomas’ general counsel.
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This is News in :90 for Monday, April 10, 2017.
Take Back the Night is a charitable foundation dedicated to helping spread sexual assault awareness and ending all forms of sexual violence. FemCom has organized a march to uphold these ideals and to show solidarity with Sexual Assault Awareness month.
St. Thomas Public Safety issued an all clear after alerting students and faculty of an accidental gun shot in Flynn Hall.
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This is News in :90 for Tuesday, April 4, 2017.
The Under-Told Stories project, a PBS NewsHour program that partnered with St. Thomas last year, hosted PBS NewsHour Executive Producer Sara Just for an exclusive discussion with students on Wednesday to further their goal of blending international journalism and teaching.
Free speech for students on college campuses is a widely debated topic, but only recently has free speech for professors been called into question as well. St. Thomas professor Barbara Gorski was named to the Professor Watchlist in fall 2016 for allegedly showing a liberal bias in the classroom.
About 25 Twin Cities congregations are joining a movement to offer sanctuary to immigrants who fear deportation.
