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Students Rename UST Newspaper: The Summa
9/2/2008
 The University of St. Thomas community will find a new student newspaper in stands on Sept. 5, but the new publication bears a different banner, The Summa.
Michelle Gautreau, a junior history major, has taken the helm as the newspaper’s editor. Gautreau and a staff of 26 fellow students are eager to get to work to provide an additional University publication with a student voice.
Following the establishment of the Student Publications Committee, the former student newspaper, The Cauldron, elected to disband. Gautreau and her staff opted to change name to give the publication a fresh start.
“I know the subject is sensitive to a lot of people here on campus, but I just think people need to keep in mind that no matter what, this is about students trying to do something good for the University,” she said. “I think at the heart of it, that’s what The Cauldron was trying to do. We’ll continue that, but do it in a different way.”
She went on to say, “There was so much talk that the paper is going to be censored and that the administration is running the paper. All of that was completely and totally inaccurate. I served as student representative on the publications committee, so I came in knowing exactly what was going on.”
The Summa is the name of the UST’s former yearbook, but Gautreau said she selected the name because of its Latin meaning: whole, all, total or complete.
“My idea in choosing the name was that this is all the news; this is everything that we have to report to you. At the same time, the University’s namesake, St. Thomas Aquinas, wrote Summa Theologica. It represents what I want the staff to do, and it fits in with our community.”
Jeremy Heallen, faculty advisor to The Summa, said he supports the staff’s decision to change the newspaper’s name.
“I think Michelle’s desire was to create something fresh that the students and the University of St. Thomas community will be interested in and can be proud of,” Heallen said.
“We expect The Summa to be an exemplar of 21st century journalism whose editors and staff gain actual-world experience in bringing to press a high-quality newspaper, responsive to the needs of the UST community and also to the wider Houston community, of which it is an integral part,” said Dr. Dominic Aquila, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.
The Summa will be distributed on the first Friday of every month on the UST campus, at St. Mary’s Seminary, at local businesses, and at the establishments of advertisers.
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