Junior Marguerite Maginot used to be embarrassed to attend home football games.
“The team was terrible my freshman year,” she said. “We wouldn’t even stay to watch the whole game.”
But a turnaround from a 2-8 record in 2007 to now hosting a second round NCAA playoff game has changed fans like Maginot’s opinion of the team.
[slidepress gallery=’nin-11.24.09′] This is News in :90 for Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009.
Thousands of walkers are expected at the Mall of America on Thanksgiving morning for the second annual Walk to End Hunger.
The goal is to raise awareness and donations to end hunger in the nine-county Twin Cities metro region.
[slidepress gallery=’nin112309′] This is News in :90 for Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
Students who are in need of legal advice can access a free resource in the Commuter Center.
The university’s law firm – Moore, Costello and Hart – has been offering free legal advice since the late 1980s. But the service dates back even further than that.
With the current state of the economy, the federal government and the armed forces has become a safe job choice for an increasing number of college graduates.
Up ’til Dawn will receive $5,109 through USG’s special event funding for its spring fundraising effort to benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
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.
This is News in :90 for Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[slidepress gallery=’nin-11.19.09′] This is News in :90 for Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
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.
