Archive Posts
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Tommie Spirit
Cecilia Petschel is still feeling that Tommie spirit on campus following last Saturday's stunning 27-26 overtime win over St. John's in football. "It is," she writes today in The Scroll, "a great victory to savor."
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Ban Smoking on Campus?
Dave Nimmer used to love to smoke cigarettes, but he finally kicked the habit after 25 years. His experiences – and those of his college roommate – convince him that it's time for St. Thomas to ban smoking on campus. He explains why today in The Scroll. -
Understanding and Appreciating a Vision ... Four Years Later
Brady Narloch didn't pay much attention four years ago when Dean Christopher Puto spoke at a student government meeting about accreditation for the Opus College of Business. After all, Brady was a political science major. Four years later, he's a finance major, and he writes today in The Scroll about the importance of accreditation for St. Thomas' future. -
Understanding the Rankings
The recent U.S. News & World Report rankings got people talking again, and that's good, says Dr. Michael Cogan, director of institutional research and analysis. But as he writes today in The Scroll, we need to be careful not to let rankings drive our decision-making process and we should stick to the way we approach teaching and facilitate learning at St. Thomas. Our model works. -
In Like Flynn
Susan Alexander has some tongue-in-cheek advice for Flynn Hall residents concerned with mice: Get an illegal cat. As Susan writes today in The Scroll, her neighbor's cat, Sophie, does a good job of keeping away both the mice and her dreams about 200-pound dancing rodents. Have a mouse story? Share it with us! -
Acts of Kindness
Cecilia Petschel was getting frustrated in her "Acts of Kindness" conversations around the family dinner table, and then she realized she had to model those deeds herself and share them with her children. "What about you?" she asks today in The Scroll. Have you shared your acts of kindness? -
Leadership in Action
Sarah Gallenberg finds herself living out a definition of leadership that a professor recently shared with her: "Leadership is continuous ... Internally derived and outwardly manifested." She derives great satisfaction, she writes today in her first blog for The Scroll, in working with students who begin to live up to that definition in carrying out St. Thomas' mission. -
You Can't Replicate a Liberal Arts Education on an iPhone
As classes move into their third week and students lug their backpacks across The Quad, I can’t help but think of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s remarks on “The Daily Show” earlier this summer about higher education, its cost and the alternatives. -
Grand Gladness With the new and the old
Carol Bruess loves new stuff, and she certainly finds a lot of it with the dawning of another school year. But as she writes today in The Scroll, there's something to be said for the old, too, and how the two are so inextricably linked.