On Friday, Nov. 20 the St. Thomas literary club hosted a poetry slam in Scooters to raise student awareness about the February installation of a stained glass window in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library honoring author Zora Neale Hurston.
This is the first stain glass window dedicated to a female African-American author in the library.
News in :90 – Nov. 20, 2009
This is News in :90 for Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
Steamed heat in res halls saves energy, money
Minnesota winter is just around the corner. As temperatures drop, residents on campus look forward to turning up the heat. But the process of heating and cooling residence halls is much more complex than flipping a switch.
Official: H1N1 cases see lowest weekly increase
A St. Thomas health official reported the lowest weekly increase in H1N1 cases of the semester Nov. 18, with just more than a 2 percent increase from the previous week.
Most schools see drop in study abroad; not St. Thomas
Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad — but not at St. Thomas.
Nearly 60 percent of the schools and study-abroad groups surveyed in early September by The Forum on Education Abroad report decreased enrollment from a year ago, since the global economic crisis.
Connected. – Nov. 19, 2009
In this week’s edition of ‘Connected.’, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops debates the amount of authority bishops have at Catholic colleges, students hold “die-in” to protest the School for Americas, more college graduates are entering the military, pigs chow down on left-over caf food, and the UST Dance Team will compete in national competition.
News in :90 – Nov. 19, 2009
[slidepress gallery=’nin-11.19.09′] This is News in :90 for Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
Bus times, class schedules not mixing well
Senior Jelena Tolimir remembers the day she was stranded in Minneapolis.
She had been sitting at the bus stop for an hour. As the sky turned darker, she realized the St. Thomas shuttle wasn’t coming to bring her back to St. Paul.
“I didn’t realize the shuttle ran only until 7 p.m. on Saturday nights,” Tolimir said.
LEED tag for student center, not athletic center
Right down the road from St. Thomas, Macalaster College reached a milestone in sustainability. In 2009, Macalaster opened the doors of Markim Hall, its new LEED platinum certified building.
Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED provides building owners and operators a framework for identifying practical and measurable green building design, construction and maintenance solutions.
Bishops discuss increased oversight of Catholic colleges
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops went behind closed doors at its fall meeting Wednesday to discuss what action it should take to increase oversight of the nation’s more than 200 Roman Catholic colleges and universities, which includes St. Thomas.
Bus crash near Austin kills 2, injures 21
At least two people are dead and 21 are injured after a tour bus ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch, officials said.
Minnesota Department of Public Safety spokesman Andy Skoogman has confirmed the deaths from the crash that happened about 3:30 p.m. today just two miles west of Austin on Interstate 90.
From your fork to the farm, where your leftovers go
[slidepress gallery=’smellystoryphotos-111809′] Five days a week, Pete Barthold from Barthold Recycling Inc., comes to St. Thomas to pick up the hundreds of gallons of leftover food. The scraps from the St. Thomas cafeteria help feed nearly 3,000 pigs.
News in :90 – Nov. 18, 2009
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009.
Students stage ‘die-in’ protesting School of the Americas
Students for Justice and Peace held a “die-in” in the Lower Quad Tuesday to silently protest the School of the Americas.
Can’t finish caf meal? These pigs will
The St. Thomas cafeteria produces nearly 5,000 meals each day. With the high number of people being served, it is common to see nearly 200 gallons of wasted food at the end of the day.
In an effort to become more sustainable, the cafeteria puts the wasted food to good use. Scraps from the cafeteria help feed nearly 3,000 pigs at a pig farm just north of Andover in St. Francis.