Month: September 2008
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 running against Junior Management Major Ashley Melville and Junior … Continue reading Battle for the Ballot
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 to-go boxes were used and thrown away by students … Continue reading Environmentally Conscious Changes on Campus
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 such as International Relations, Comparative Politics, Asian Politics, Environmental … Continue reading Professor Richard Leitch receives award
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 sauna, but the table was swarming with interested undergrads. By … Continue reading Sweating it out with The Sauna Society
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 not purchase them for the color, nor did … Continue reading Collegiate Tales from a Consumer Culture
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 see a woman once again in the running for … Continue reading Palin: the false face of feminism
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 Governor Sarah Palin for vice president. McCain’s controversial choice has … Continue reading A new feminism
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 person seems to possess. Before going further I should say … Continue reading Reshaping gender conceptions
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, which was a steel mill and coal mining … Continue reading Presidential initiative promotes change