• The Scroll

    • Academic Ambience

      15 Nov 2011 by / No Comments

      Carol Bruess was surprised, and pleasantly so, on a recent fall-break Friday when she ran across two students buried in their studies in O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center. What she also saw also intrigued and inspired her: They were studying by candle. It turns out that’s against the rules, she writes today in The Scroll, but she still found their ingenuity “one more reason I adore the college campus – especially ours.”

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    • Challenge Yourself . . .

      11 Nov 2011 by / No Comments

      Martha McCarthy was psyched. The business alumna was attending the Fowler Business Challenge last month as an observer, having been a participant twice as a student, and was wowed by two of the teams pitching business proposals. They gave her a whole new sense of what is meant by the St. Thomas tagline, “Challenge Yourself, Change Our World,” she writes today in The Scroll.

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    • Scholarships More Important Than Ever

      08 Nov 2011 by / 1 Comment

      Dave Nimmer is glad he doesn’t have to pay for a college education these days. He knows it’s expensive, but he’s doing something to make a difference: He contributes to a scholarship fund as part of the Opening Doors capital campaign. You could, too, he writes today in The Scroll.

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    • Is It Time for You to Change?

      04 Nov 2011 by / 1 Comment

      Caitlin Herby asks the question today in The Scroll because there was a time in her life when she decided she needed to change. She went from a lifestyle of making friends as an undergraduate student “solely to survive,” she writes, to getting involved in campus and participating in leadership opportunities that helped her to discover “where I fit in.” Is it time for you to change?

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    • Every Day is the Last Day in The Grill

      28 Oct 2011 by / No Comments

      Gayle Lamb has worked as Dining Services cash operations manager for 26 years and spends a lot of time in The Grill. As she prepares to close its doors in less than three months and move to the new Anderson Student Center in January, she reflects today in The Scroll on the history of what she calls “a great community gathering space.”

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    • Tenure Talk Revisited

      25 Oct 2011 by / 1 Comment

      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.

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    • Thank Goodness for the Little Things

      21 Oct 2011 by / No Comments

      Lisa Weier is more convinced than ever that “it’s the little things that really make life pleasant,” whether it’s running around the track in the rain, thumb wrestling or winning an Oreo Twist-Off. She writes about those experiences today in The Scroll, and says she’s pretty anxious for Thanksgiving to roll around, too.

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    • Make It a Double

      18 Oct 2011 by / 4 Comments

      Carol Bruess professes to have her office in the O’Shaughnessy Educational Center but finds herself spending just as much (more?) time in a newly adopted office: Coffee Bené in O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center. It’s the hot – and cool – place to see and be seen, all the while trying out the latest latte or macchiato, she writes today in The Scroll.

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    • Grit, Gumption and Grace

      14 Oct 2011 by / 1 Comment

      When Dave Nimmer met Laura Lee, a high school senior, nine years ago at a ThreeSixty Journalism workshop at St. Thomas, he was impressed by her “smile, sweetness and sincerity.” He came to know her more by her “grit, gumption and grace,” he writes in The Scroll today, and it is with great pride that he reports the 2007 St. Thomas alumna is the new anchor of the 10 p.m. news on KAAL-TV in Austin.

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    • Volleyball Voyeur

      12 Oct 2011 by / No Comments

      Susan Alexander likes to watch volleyball at St. Thomas, whether it is played in the sandpit near Ireland Hall or on Steve Fritz Court in Schoenecker Arena. Today in The Scroll, she reports on Friday night’s action at both venues.

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    • The Color Purple

      05 Oct 2011 by / No Comments

      Martha McCarthy graduated from St. Thomas last May, but she still is attracted to what she calls “the power of purple.” The attraction proved irresistible on Saturday in O’Shaughnessy Stadium, when purple made her especially proud, she writes today in The Scroll.

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    • Chalk It Up

      30 Sep 2011 by / 1 Comment

      Carol Bruess likes this time of year, when there is the “palpable energy of people coming and going” through her neighborhood just east of campus. Her neighbors share that excitement, she writes today in The Scroll, even to the point where they chalk cheerful messages on the sidewalks.

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    • Meetings and Committee Work Can Build Community

      27 Sep 2011 by / 1 Comment

      Susan Alexander goes to a lot of committee meetings, and she is the first to acknowledge that they are a necessary evil. But she also finds they can be rewarding and valuable because of the community that they help to build, she writes today in The Scroll.

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    • Lessons from 20 Year Ago Guide Him Today

      23 Sep 2011 by / No Comments

      When Philip Connors was a freshman at St. Thomas 20 years ago, he read A Sand County Almanac as the “Common Text” in his English class, and in his own words today, “I didn’t get it at all.” He gets it now. The classic work by Aldo Leopold has inspired Connors both in his work as a fire lookout in New Mexico and as author of Fire Season. Dave Nimmer interviewed Connors for The Scroll.

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    • One Decidedly Thoughtful Dean

      20 Sep 2011 by / 1 Comment

      Carol Bruess still can’t get over the personal note that she received from Terry Langan over the summer. The interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences wrote her – and every other faculty member in the college – a note of thanks for her good work last academic year. Today it’s time for Carol to thank Terry in The Scroll.

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    • Majoring in People

      16 Sep 2011 by / 3 Comments

      Sophomore Lisa Weier’s official majors are Catholic studies and communications and journalism, but in reality she’s majoring in people. The more she’s around them on campus, the more she cares about them, she writes today in The Scroll.

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    • Dogs are Kicking Up a Fuss These Days

      13 Sep 2011 by / 6 Comments

      Susan Alexander is one busy woman at the beginning of this new school year. If serving as the president’s executive adviser and secretary to the Board of Trustees isn’t enough, the neighborhood dogs are up in arms (legs?) these days over a variety of slights – real or perceived. Will they march soon on 100 Aquinas Hall? She muses over the possibilities today in The Scroll.

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    • New Student Center Will Be More Than Just a Building

      09 Sep 2011 by / 2 Comments

      One word came to mind when Mike Orth recently walked on the new quadrangle to the Anderson Student Center for the first time: “Magical.” The St. Thomas junior and executive vice president of the Undergraduate Student Government reflects today in The Scroll about the beauty of the building, its benefactors and everyone else who helped transform a dream into reality.

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    • Lessons From a Journey Taken a Half-Century Ago

      07 Sep 2011 by / 1 Comment

      It has been 50 years since Dave Nimmer stepped onto the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but he still carries with him the wisdom imparted by professors and experiences – a wisdom that he hopes today’s freshmen at St. Thomas also will embrace.

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    • Saying Goodbye

      20 May 2011 by / 1 Comment

      Lisa Weier is feeling “little pangs of sadness,” she writes today in The Scroll, as she begins to say goodbye to friends in the St. Thomas community. She’s heading home to Nebraska for the summer, and she already is counting the days to when she’ll return for her sophomore year.

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    • A Tribute to Miles Trump

      17 May 2011 by / 5 Comments

      Dave Nimmer always develops special relationships with students, and when it is time for them to graduate and move on, he feels both pride and regret. He knows how much he will miss them. Next year, he’s going to really miss Miles Trump, and he pays tribute to the senior today in The Scroll.

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    • Dr. Seuss Was Right

      13 May 2011 by / No Comments

      Sarah Gallenberg graduates next weekend, and as she anticipates moving on to a new chapter in her life she remembers the wisdom of what Dr. Seuss had to say her in her favorite book, Oh! The Places You’ll Go! She offers some advice for her fellow grads today in The Scroll.

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    • Happiness and Memory

      10 May 2011 by / No Comments

      Susan Alexander used to worry about her forgetfulness and absent-mindedness. No more. She has learned – and researchers seemed to have proved – that happy people are more forgetful. And she is a pretty happy person right now, she writes today in The Scroll. Are you?

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    • The Best In All Of Us

      06 May 2011 by / 1 Comment

      When the news flashed across the television screen Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed, Doug Hennes immediately thought of John Rigo, a 1975 St. Thomas alumnus who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack. Hennes pays tribute to Rigo today in The Scroll.

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    • Lessons From the Royal Wedding

      03 May 2011 by / 3 Comments

      Cecilia Petschel got up early on Friday to watch the Royal Wedding, and she loved the pomp and circumstance. But she found the most meaning, she writes today in The Scroll, in the opening line of the bishop of London’s homily: “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”

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