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.
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.
St. Thomas received a ‘B’ for its food and recycling program from greenreportcard.org and it seems as if St. Thomas is falling behind, as neighboring schools Macalester College and the University of Minnesota both received an ‘A-‘.
The food and recycling category examines dining service programs by giving points based on the quantity and availability of organic, sustainably produced and locally grown food.
Naked juice bottles and Starbucks coffee cups appear to be recyclable. But the containers cannot be tossed into recycling bins in the Twin Cities and that has been causing confusion for many.
For the second year in a row, St. Thomas received an overall C+ on the college sustainability report card. Meanwhile, the University of Minnesota, Carleton College and Macalester College each received an ‘A-‘.
The Tommies are in.
ESPN News announced at 2:13 p.m. that the St. Thomas football team will face Monmouth College in the first round of the NCAA Division III playoffs. The game will be played at noon Nov. 21, at Monmouth, Ill.
The back room at Davanni’s on Cleveland Avenue was packed with more than 100 players and fans and a roar of shouts rocked the restaurant when St. Thomas’ name appeared on the screen.
With an NCAA playoff appearance on the line, St. Thomas (9-1) had its way with Northwestern College in every aspect of the game on the way to a 63-14 rout Saturday afternoon in O’Shaughnessy Stadium.
On senior day, it was junior running back Ben Wartman who led the Tommie offense that racked up 477 total yards.
A University of St. Thomas graduate student who had been hospitalized for more than a week with pneumonia and a possible H1N1 infection died Friday morning.
Jill Belde, a student in the St. Thomas and St. Catherine University Master of Social Work program, was admitted to United Hospital in St. Paul on Nov. 3, according to her Caring Bridge Web site.
Despite the national trend, St. Thomas has no plans to outsource its e-mail, but is taking a look at the possibility.
Twenty solar panels will be installed on the edge of the Brady Hall roof while students are away for winter break.
A student group has been working for months to get the panels installed on the roof of a St. Thomas building. Contractors from Innovative Power Systems, who will install the panels, made the final decision to put the panels on Brady Hall.
Opus Construction will analyze Brady Hall and decide how to fix a structural “bulge” in the building’s exterior.
An orange fence now surrounds part of the building and metal beams were added to the east wall Wednesday afternoon for reinforcement.
While Student Alumni Council’s name suggests it may not apply to current students, one of SAC’s main goals is to link students with alumni through alumni-student mentoring programs.
“I think the trickiest part about that is that people hear [the name] and they think, ‘Oh I’m not alumni yet. This doesn’t pertain to me. It doesn’t really matter,’” said senior Sara Hamrick, Student Alumni Council president.
Registration runs through Dec. 4, and time slots are assigned based mainly on the number of credits a student holds, but there are other factors that also apply.
Sophomore quarterback Dakota Tracy threw for three touchdowns to help St. Thomas (8-1, 7-1 MIAC) top Bethel 19-10 Saturday afternoon in Arden Hills.
Students in Sherry Jordon’s theology class write out instant message conversations between themselves and famous Protestant reformers, create dialogues for a mock debate on Oprah and pretend to be bloggers in 16th-century Geneva.
“These kinds of writing assignments engage the students and make historical figures come alive,” Jordon said.
