Here’s another installment in the in-house marketing campaign at the libraries of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. It follows last year’s Halloween-style theme, which produced posters such as this one: (Those won us the team Honorable Mention for Outstanding Public Relations Efforts from the American Library Association.) Librarian Sarah Gewirtz told Read more →
I had to chuckle when I ran across this on Twitter. It sounds like the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University libraries have a series of these. I’ve got a call in for more details, and I’m curious why they’re doing this sort of in-house “marketing.” Clever stuff, in any case.
Now here’s a fun twist on the old campus-tour video: aerial footage taken by a drone. Saint John’s University has one up on YouTube, taken by Curtis Lahr using a Blade 350 QX “remote control quad copter,” according to the YouTube page. (You can see a shadow of the drone at the beginning of this Read more →
After students in St. Joseph were caught of guard by the passage of three drinking-related city ordinances, College of St. Benedict senior Jenny Kunkel of Roseville told MPR that students are ready to get involved in some city issues: “To even consider going to a council meeting … that would be talking about school levies Read more →
Fall football’s Tommie-Johnnie obnoxious T-shirt battle is underway, and apparently the standards of decency are once again under siege. St. Thomas’ VP for student affairs, Jane Canney, tells TommieMedia what follows the football game and parade of raunch: “What happens afterwards is we get calls; we get letters from people who are mortified that they Read more →
This just in from St. John’s University: May 25, 2011 Dear Members of the Saint John’s and Saint Benedict’s Communities, With the close of this academic year, I will have completed my second year as president of Saint John’s University and one additional year remains on my three-year appointment. After much reflection, I have decided Read more →
Check out this amazing living recreation of Raphael’s “School of Athens” painting by faculty at the College of Saint Benedict and St. John’s University. The Chronicle of Higher Education describes some of the challenges that Anthony Cunningham, chair of the philosophy department, faced in pulling it off: One challenge, of course, was costuming. Some folks Read more →
Ah, there’s something about football that brings out the meathead humor in students. Each year, the jokes are the same: Your team is lame, your women are loose and your manhood is questionable. Take the long rivalry between the University of St. Thomas and St. John’s University. Students there have a history of printing raunchy, Read more →
One of St. John’s medieval Spanish Bibles Scholars at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John’s University recently realized that the microfilm copies the library has of two early medieval Spanish Bibles are actually the only ones in existence. That’s big stuff, considering that the Bibles, Codex Complutensis I and Codex Complutensis II, were practically destroyed during the Spanish Civil War Read more →
Alex Friedrich