Battle for the Ballot
With a new year comes a new student government. Student Senate elections will be held next Monday, Sept. 22, outside the Evelyn Young Family Dining Room from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Two pairs of students are seeking the Student Senate Presidential Office. Senior Dance Major Shawn Grygo and Senior Communication Studies Major Luke Garrison are ...
Environmentally Conscious Changes on Campus
Reusable to-go containers, high-efficiency washing machines and florescent light bulbs are a few of the many changes the Gustavus campus has undergone as a way to convert to new energy-efficient and pro-green policies.
Dining Services is phasing out paper to-go boxes and has introduced reusable containers, or “GustieWare.” Dining Services Director Steve Kjellgren estimates 250,000 cardboard ...
Professor Richard Leitch receives award
It is not often that a college can find a professor who perfectly matches the institution, but Gustavus has found this in Richard Leitch, this issue’s Gustie of the Week.
As an Associate Professor of Political Science, Leitch has become a visible fixture in the campus community. An educator at Gustavus since 1996, Leitch teaches courses ...
Sweating it out with The Sauna Society
If you were at the Student Involvement Fair last week, you may have noticed a single table with a large, plain banner lying across it. The banner read, “Join the Gustavus Sauna Society.” It might have been the simplicity of the display, or the energetic board members standing behind it, or just the mention of ...
Collegiate Tales from a Consumer Culture
Fetishism comes in all shapes and sizes
I love my Crocs. I wear them several times a week. They are bright orange and so flamboyantly colored that they rarely match other people’s aesthetic criteria for any item of clothing. I have conveniently adopted the philosophy that because they go with nothing, they go with everything.
I did ...
Palin: the false face of feminism
Welcome to “From the Margins,” a new column devoted to a wide variety of social justice issues. For our first column, we chose to go with the hottest topic right now: Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee. Let’s be clear: as feminists it is of course good to ...
A new feminism
Feminism is a very tricky term to discuss because it incorporates such a wide range of ideas, concepts and movements. Even among feminists there is disagreement as to what feminism is or should be. This discussion and debate of feminism has rarely been more prominent than in the past couple weeks with the nomination of ...
Reshaping gender conceptions
The world is full of strange and unusual things, from things like lantern fish, to aardvarks, to pelicans and to yet unknown creatures that may only be described as bearing a striking resemblance to Ann Coulter in the morning. However, none of these things are as strange as the idea of gender that the average ...
Presidential initiative promotes change
Gustavus’ new man in charge has an affinity for sports and comes in with a host of fresh ideas to improve athletics upon the hill
Growing up in a town of about 30,000 people, President Jack R. Ohle is no stranger to small-town football.
“I started playing football in the second grade, grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, ...
Gusties impressive early in tough MIAC
After best start since 1984, the Gusties hope to continue their strong play
Fall is just around the corner, and that means another volleyball season is already under way. The Gusties, already in the thick of their season, own an 11-1 record as of Wednesday.
The team finished last season with an 18-8 overall and disappointing 6-5 ...