See what St. Thomas faculty, staff and students are up to this week.

The weekly series features a professor from a different department each week giving a brief talk on his or her discipline, what attracted them to that discipline and why the UST community should care.

Colleges Against Cancer invites the campus community to support the cause and the volleyball team.

Advice is offered on a walk-in, first-come, first-served basis.

A formal invitation will be sent via campus mail to all faculty and staff.

The University of St. Thomas Law Journal is the School of Law’s flagship law review.

Tommie Outreach participants will spend a morning helping kids with their homework or playing games in the gym – a fun way to earn service hours. Sign-up deadline is tomorrow.

Midterm break is Friday.

Trail of Terror is the largest Halloween event in the Midwest.

Students who are receiving federal aid and considering withdrawing from school are encouraged to meet with a financial aid counselor to consider the financial aid implications.

This weekend may be a good time to catch up on research and explore the library’s many resources.

High school seniors who are interested in learning about the program are invited to hang out with current UST students in Catholic Studies and other high school overnighters.

Susan Alexander hears more and more talk questioning the need for tenure in faculty positions, and she understands the concerns to a certain extent. Ultimately, she finds in tenure a partnership that commits “not only the employer to the worker but the worker to the employer,” and that is healthy, she writes today in The Scroll.

The classes run Nov. 1 through Dec. 8 and are free and open to St. Thomas faculty and staff.

In 2010-11, 51 St. Thomas volunteers taught 70 financial literacy classes, reaching more than 1,750 students with 10,500 hours of programming.

The Kairos Retreat will be held Friday to Sunday, Nov 11-13, at the Daniel C. Gainey Conference Center in Owatonna.

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Today’s Health Fair will be held in Room 304, Murray-Herrick Campus Center, on the St. Paul campus

So, you’ve heard that Cretin Hall is haunted? Tomorrow it’s true: The South Campus Hall Council announces its 22nd annual Haunted Cretin.

Bhala’s presentation will focus on agricultural tariffs and subsidies.

Faculty are invited to a talk by Dr. Tom Hickson, Geology, on “The Knowledge Survey as an Assessment Tool in the Classroom.” Held in St. Paul, the presentation will be simulcast to the Minneapolis campus.

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Wilkerson, who wrote the widely acclaimed The Warmth of Other Suns, will speak at St. Thomas Nov. 10 and 11.

Since 2005, St. Thomas shows a drop of 9.5 percent for ‘traditional’ or nonforeclosed home prices while the S&P Case-Shiller Index shows an overall median price drop of 28.4 percent.

The lecture is one of series presented by the Murphy Institute on what it means for humans to possess dignity.