One way to improve campus-community relations

It appears to be Clean Your Neighbors’ Yards time at the University of St. Thomas.

Sounds like a good idea.

The Student Alumni Council kicked off spring Sunday with a community cleanup service event. Students from different clubs showed up to help and were organized into teams to clean the yards of houses in the surrounding neighborhoods.

A little something boost the old image? To smooth some ruffled feathers in the surrounding houses?

Get to work, Tommies.

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Alex Friedrich

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.