With the relocation of the weight room to the concession area of O’Shaughnessy Stadium, some St. Thomas students are choosing alternative places to work out.
Strength coach Tyrone Stenzel said the new weight room is “really undersized.”
“It’s just that we have a space crunch, and there’s really no place we can go,” Stenzel said.
This is News in :90 for Monday, Feb. 8, 2010.
St. Thomas students waited outside the Box Office in Murray-Herrick Campus Center today to purchase tickets to “Footloose” at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre. Students who purchase the tickets will attend the musical on Sunday, Feb. 14.
“The tickets are only five dollars, so it’s a really good deal because it includes dinner and the show,” said Amber Marti, a graduate assistant with Campus and Residence Life.
St. Thomas internal construction staff met Monday, Feb. 1, for its regular meeting and discussed possible renovation ideas for the South Campus gym.
With 3.1 inches of snow falling in a 24-hour period, the Twin Cities are under a winter storm warning until noon Tuesday and are facing record snowfall for February.
As of noon Monday, the city of Saint Paul had not declared a snow emergency.
About 30 faculty members gathered Friday afternoon to learn more about the recent reduction in J-Term study abroad courses for 2011 and express their concerns.
“There are a lot of issues to discuss,” business professor Dawn Swink said. “I’m concerned because it seems like we are cutting out international study abroad opportunities.”
Joseph Kreitzer and Angeline Barretta-Herman, associate vice presidents for Academic Affairs, discussed the factors that led to the administrative decision to allow fewer J-Term study abroad courses this coming year.
St. Thomas’s annual poster sale drew a crowd of students interested in spicing up the walls of their dorm rooms, apartments and houses.
Students perusing the sale, located in the lower level of Murray-Herrick in the campus square, were asked which posters they considered to be the best or most interesting.
Many students, like freshman Cynthia Burton, can’t pick a specific favorite.
Investigations have begun on the antilock brake systems on the 2010 Toyota Prius. There have been around 124 reports from U.S. customers citing brake trouble on slick or rough surfaces.
For more than two decades, St. Thomas students have spent their J-Terms and spring breaks giving back to communities in need through the student-led organization, VISION.
[slidepress gallery=’nin2510-2′] This is News in :90 for Friday, Feb. 5, 2010.
Senior Hannah Forstrom thinks other students should have the same opportunity she did to study in Italy over J-Term as part of the “Pilgrimage in Italy” theology course.
“It was such an enriching experience,” Forstrom said. “The benefits are endless.”
But students won’t have that chance in 2011 because “Pilgrimage in Italy” is one of several J-Term courses the university won’t offer for financial reasons.
Reporter Matt Linden sat down with senior Molly Hanten to get an in-depth look into her experience with the VISION program.
[slidepress gallery=’nin2410-2′] This is News in :90 for Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010.
With the spring semester under way, St. Thomas students are once again facing a costly task: purchasing textbooks for their classes. However, the book rental program, which is in its third semester at the bookstore, gives students a cheaper option than buying used or new books.
One year after a group of St. Thomas students envisioned placing solar panels atop Brady Hall, their wait is finally over.
Twenty solar panels, which are intended to reduce energy costs by $500 a year, were installed on the roof of the residence hall by late Wednesday evening.
Winter weather and questions about Brady’s structural stability delayed installation, which was planned for Dec. 19, according to junior David Hackworthy, who was a part of the student group.
