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“How To Read and Not To Read Poetry”
Dr. Travis Cooper
Tutor
Thomas Aquinas College, California

College students often approach graduation with trepidation about confronting “real world” financial concerns — such as bills, insurance, and investments — perhaps for the first time.

Charity and the Intellectual Life

Dr. James Berquist
Tutor
Thomas Aquinas College, California

Last Friday evening, four charter buses carrying just under 300 students left Thomas Aquinas College, California, bound for the 19th Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco — the first since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June. The students joined thousands of people from all backgrounds to celebrate life and advocate for mothers and unborn children throughout the U.S. and the world.

With the advent of the new semester, the Senior Seminar turns its attention to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, marking the return of a popular campus tradition: the Senior Russian Tea Party.

Reading: Gunnar’s Daughter by Sigrid Undset

One Friday evening night each semester, groups of about 20 Thomas Aquinas College students from all classes — seniors and freshmen, sophomores and juniors — gather in classrooms across both campuses for the semi-annual All-College Seminar. Although separate, these groups engage in a single, common activity, namely, reading, analyzing, and discussing the same text, one that is not part of the College’s ordinary curriculum.

On July 31, 2022, Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J. —