More than 200 students, faculty and staff gathered in Koch Commons Thursday night for a “BE-In” event to reclaim the space of Ireland Hall after a racial slur was found in one of its bathrooms. The event was followed by a peaceful protest in front of the men’s dormitory.
More than 500 students, faculty and staff sat in the Anderson Student Center atrium for a BESA-organized protest on Oct. 25. Opinions Editor Anna Hoffman argues that as citizens of a free country, it is our duty to support those discriminated against with protest and action.
The university issued its first “Bias-motivated Incident Report” after a poster declaring “It’s OK to be white” was found on the southeast corner of Cretin and Summit avenues.
Hundreds of community members filled the Anderson Student Center Thursday afternoon at St. Thomas as part of a sit-in protest organized by the Black Empowerment Student Alliance. Chief Story Editor Solveig Rennan and Video Editor Charlie Siddons documented the event.
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.
St. Thomas tweeted Feb. 27 that it will not penalize students who were involved in protests about gun laws in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
Five St. Thomas students organized a walkout on March 14 as part of March for Our Lives, a national movement dedicated to student-led activism around ending gun violence.
Two St. Thomas students have a role in the Super Bowl halftime show, MSP expects record numbers, and police arrest activists blocking a Metro Transit route. Senior Reporter Lauren Andrego has today’s News in :90.
Seventeen players from the Augsburg football team joined the movement Colin Kaepernick started over a year ago, kneeling while the national anthem is played before a game.
One black student, Samantha Wells, found an anonymous note on her car windshield Saturday calling her a racial slur.
A Minnesota man and St. Thomas alum convicted in the shootings of five black men who were demonstrating against the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
Dozens of U.S. colleges are opposing President Donald Trump’s sweeping travel ban that has left some students and professors stranded abroad.
Protesters from the group 15 Now Coalition and other groups rallied for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour Tuesday night outside Coffman Union in Minneapolis.
Anger, fear, and hope reverberated in chants echoed by thousands of protesters on Thursday night during a “Stop Trump” rally that culmninated in a standoff with police on Interstate 94.
St. Thomas senior Cari Monroe, an environmental studies major, is using what she has learned in the classroom to take a stand against the Dakota Access pipeline, which has been the subject of intense protests for months.
