Senior Staffers are going to feel pretty naked…
May 10, 2013
…without The Gustavian next year! From left to right: Copy Editor: Aaron Albani; Editor-in-Chief: Kate Plager; Managing Editor: Ben Miller; Arts & Entertainment Editor: Beth Schmidt Not Pictured: Business Manager: Anna Pinske; Advertisement Manager: Kyle Theleman; Web Editor: Nick Hamberg
Nobody says goodbye
May 10, 2013
“I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They’d banish us; you know! How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell one’s name the livelong day To an ...
TTFN — Ta Ta for Now
May 10, 2013
That’s all, folks. Our last issue of The Weekly is here and in a couple of weeks (please don’t make me look at the countdown again) our time at Gustavus will be over. We’ll miss all of you (okay, most ...
You are what you eat
May 10, 2013
Here is where I want to say something profound. Some- thing that will make you re-read my words and tell your friends. I have thought about my chance to write in the opinion section all year and after contemplating the ...
Who’s the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?
May 10, 2013
My friends of the campus: I am, with a grave and heavy heart, about to embark on my final article for The GusTavian Weekly. As is custom, I am encouraged to release my best wisdom to all ya’ll Gustie folk. ...
Food for thought
May 3, 2013
Where to next? It is the end of the school year once again and the warm-winded, sunny weather of the ideal Minnesota summer day has broken through this overlong winter just in time to accompany the final torrents of this ...
The write to think
May 3, 2013
A traveler on the road Hello again, fellow Gusties! I hope you all are enjoying yourselves as of late. And when I say that I hope you are enjoying yourselves, I am not just saying this as a polite way ...
For the sake of argument
May 3, 2013
Scientific reasoning can (and should) determine moral values Imagine that I catch you stealing something from me and arrange for your hands to be cut off as punishment. Is this a healthy response to the crime? If your answer is ...
Cloudy with a chance of musing
May 3, 2013
Leaning in Change the world—it might sound cheesy, but honestly it is something that most people want to do. Some people will work towards gay rights or feminism, towards the promotion of corporate freedom or smaller government; there are people ...
Food for thought
April 26, 2013
Awkward I write to you today to bring an apparently harmless, social quirk to light. I want to look at the word “awkward” and all the meanings and uses it has come to bear amongst Americans in my generation. I do ...