St. Thomas celebrated Pride Week for the fourth year from Oct. 7-11. Events held throughout the week were planned by Layton Hernandez, a graduate assistant for the Diversity Activities Board. Reporter Rae Beaner has the full story.
St. Thomas issued an all-clear alert Tuesday morning, following a bomb threat that led the university to temporarily close four buildings and cancel some classes through early afternoon.
The Campus Engagement Election Project awarded a grant and assistance to St. Thomas to help encourage students to vote. CEEP is a national nonpartisan project that connects with students from colleges and universities and engages them in federal, state and local elections.
Tensions rose when more than 100 students, faculty, staff and community members joined administration members in a three-hour discussion following the sit-in demonstration against racism on campus. The Oct. 25 meeting in the Anderson Student Center’s Dorsey Way focused on President Julie Sullivan’s “Action Plan to Combat Racism.”
More than 500 students, faculty and staff sat in the Anderson Student Center atrium for a BESA-organized protest on Oct. 25. Protesters sat in silence for about 20 minutes before five speakers presented.
The Anderson Student Center and the lower quad shone bright Wednesday evening at St. Thomas’ annual tree-lighting ceremony.
Designer Christine Hastings looks at the statistics behind the Anderson Student Center’s Christmas tree.
St. Thomas students can donate leftover Flex dollars to Summit Marketplace, which will use the money to buy food for The Open Door for the second year in a row.
Marijuana possession, an altered parking pass and two thefts in the Anderson Student Center are all part of this week’s Public Safety briefs.
One last walk through the arches is quickly approaching for this year’s 1,230 seniors.
Student volunteers rode the teeter-totter outside the Anderson Student Center for 48 hours last week with a goal to raise awareness for domestic abuse and sexual assault.
“Lee and Pennyism,” a pseudo-religion dedicated to the couple who donated $60 million to the university, has spread through the student body since early last semester.
This is News in :90 for Tuesday, March 3, 2015.
Best College Values recently ranked the Anderson Student Center No. 10 out of the 30 ‘most amazing’ student unions in the nation.
St. Thomas’ Black Empowerment Student Alliance and Muslim Student Association held a ‘die-in’ Thursday in the Anderson Student Center.
