The University of St. Thomas introduced three new majors, one re-designed pre-existing major and 14 new minors for the 2024 fall semester.
A few of the new majors are nutrition, special education, along with a co-major in film studies and media production. The new minors also have a large range that can spike many interests. The new minors include but aren’t limited to law and compliance, irish studies, and marketing.
Israeli troops battled Hezbollah militants inside Lebanon on Wednesday after launching what they say are limited ground operations there. The region meanwhile braced for further escalation as Israel vowed to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack the day before.
In Gaza, Israeli ground and air operations in a hard-hit city killed at least 51 people including women and children according to Palestine medical officials.
Israel has continued to strike what it says are militant targets across Gaza nearly a year after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack ignited the war.
The vice presidential debate was on Tuesday where Tim Walz and JD Vance went after each other’s running mates and sought to shore up their campaigns’ vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane Helene.
Walz, the democratic governor of Minnesota and Vance a republican senator from Ohio focused many of their criticisms on the top of the ticket, as is traditional for vice presidential debates. They each voted to the crises of the day as reasons to choose Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump.
Livy Dunlap can be reached at dunl3109@stthomas.edu