First-year Chloe Radcliffe: the champ with no sense of timing
She is the most decorated forensics speaker in the state of Minnesota. She practices ten hours a week. She qualified for Nationals in all six of her events this April, helping the Gustavus Forensics Team achieve 18th place in the country.
But First-year Chloe Marie Radcliffe harbors a dark secret: “I can’t read analog clocks,” she ...
Jazz Lab Band excels in Eau Claire competition
Gustavus’ jazz bands have traditionally been groups that the college can brag about, but according to Gustavus Jazz Lab Band Director Steve Wright, this year’s group has been one of, if not the best, he has directed during his 19 years at Gustavus.
On April 3, the Gustavus Jazz Lab Band got the chance to demonstrate ...
The Lost Art of the Mix
We all have them—buried in car consoles, stacked in dusty spindles on desktops, forgotten in the trays of worn-out Discmen—mixed CDs are a part of our generation’s collective memory. Practically every one of us has received or compiled at least one in our lifetime. But do they really mean anything? Is making mixed CDs an ...
Wonders of Social Media
What is “social media?” Put simply, it is a new wave of organic, influential and rapidly developing communication tools that connect us to people, brands and other niches of our lives that are important to us. They allow us to share photos, videos, random thoughts, interests and just about anything else. (Someone on Twitter asked ...
Where will we hide when the robots take over?
I spend Sunday afternoons in the library in an attempt to get a head start on what I have to do for the week. My tasks are extremely simple—usually finish my online Spanish homework, do a few readings and write my article for the WEEKLY. Yet I find that I take hours to finish what ...