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A Final Journey With Cardinal Laghi
Any beginning student of the Italian language would have difficulty with the name Cardinal Pio Laghi. It is, after all, a singular Christian name, Pio (Pius), appearing to describe a plural noun, Laghi (lakes). No such confusion lay in the mind and heart of the man Pio Laghi, however. He was a man with a…
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A Jolt of Pride, Satisfaction and Gratitude
Do you ever have those stretches of time when you are moving so fast – running to meetings, keeping up with email and voice-mail, handling the latest emergency – that you don’t sit down long enough to think about how good this university truly is? I seem to have a lot of those stretches! And… -
January Term not so Quiet After all, and That's OK
Quiet . . . a cold January morning, 20 degrees below zero. Trudging through the snow to campus, everything seems different. It’s quiet, there are very few students milling around and I can finally find a close parking spot! My “to do” lists keep getting longer and longer as I have all this time (the… -
Purple Pride and Being No. 1
Editor's note: Doug Hennes, vice president for university and government relations, submitted a guest column to The Scroll. For weeks, as the St. Thomas men’s basketball team’s undefeated record grew, I blabbered rather incessantly to anybody who would listen that if we kept winning, it would be just a matter of time before the d3hoops.com… -
He's Proud of his Heritage . . . Again
Watching the inauguration of President Barack Obama Tuesday in Scooter’s – packed with students, staff and faculty – I couldn’t help recalling my experience 48 years ago in Madison, Wis., when John F. Kennedy swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, so help him God. The moment was more poignant and powerful today,… -
She's Obsessed With "Streamlining"
Streamlining: “To construct or design in a form that offers the least resistance; to improve the efficiency of; to organize; to simplify; to improve something by removing the parts that are least useful or profitable” (www.thefreedictionary.com). I have been obsessed with this word for the past week since my 3rd grader returned home, frozen hair… -
Prayers and Vigilance Necessary in Wake of Penn State Tragedy
The stunning and tragic events of the past two weeks at Penn State University have reminded all of us of the need for constant vigilance. They have prompted parents to question whether they are doing enough to ensure the safety of their children and those of us in organizational leadership positions to ask: “Could it…