The Board of Trustees voted at its February meeting to allow Roman Catholic religious or Roman Catholic lay people – Catholics who aren’t priests or members of religious orders – to be hired as president in addition to priests.
The proposal would limit the number of transfer credits St. Thomas students can take once they enroll to 12 transfer credits.
Only 30 percent of college students get eight or more hours of sleep per night, and many display poor sleep habits, according to a new study.
This is News in :90 for Friday, March 11, 2011.
St. Thomas student Ben Fahey is studying abroad in Japan and is safe after a monumental earthquake and tsunami hit the country, said Tim Dohmen, study abroad adviser.
Students visited the Minnesota Capitol Thursday for St. Thomas Day at the Capitol to lobby legislators to continue to support the State Grant Program.
Residents are concerned with increased student house rentals in the neighborhood. The percent of non-homestead residences, which are residences that are not the owner’s principal home, rose from 23.9 percent in 2002 to 40.5 percent in 2009 in the neighborhood surrounding St. Thomas.
Students could pick up fire safety information and 9-volt batteries for their smoke detectors Thursday during convocation hour outside the Commuter Center at the “Change Your Clocks, Change Your Batteries” event.
This is News in :90 for Thursday, March 10, 2011.
In recent months, there has been news of possible sales tax increases and increases in clothing prices in the U.S. and in Minnesota. One proposal calls for a clothing tax in Minnesota.
St. Thomas math professor Douglas Dokken punched the Goldy Gopher mascot in the face two times Saturday during a University of Minnesota men’s gymnastics meet and was cited for disorderly conduct.
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
The latest in a string of campus burglaries and thefts occurred Saturday, March 5 when the St. Paul Police Department arrested one of two men in connection with the attempted theft of $30,000 worth of university property.
Students signed petitions that addressed the refugee situation in Libya and that presented possible solutions to ending the violence, such as a no-fly zone over Libya to halt airstrikes.
The group leaves Wednesday morning for Chicago to perform two concerts at the American Choral Directors Association convention. Only five college or university choirs are invited to perform at the convention.
