What if, when you set foot in the Market Place this afternoon or opened your fridge, there wasn’t any food to be found? What would that feel like? What does hunger feel like? According to Kids Against Hunger, a nonprofit organization with a mission to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the U.S. and to feed starving children throughout the world, 17,000 children … Continue reading Gustavus Greeks work to fight global hunger
For Gustavus Director of Safety and Security Ray Thrower, the college environment has been a part of life ever since he was a boy growing up in North Carolina, visiting his grandfather, the chief of police at Davison University. Now in his 30th year of working with law enforcement, Thrower has spent all but two of those years at liberal arts colleges. Thrower was the … Continue reading Ray Thrower serves through thick & thin
A year-and-a-half ago, the International and Domestic Programs Committee (IDPC) assembled with one goal: to find a way to interweave awareness of various global issues across all the departments at Gustavus. Soon the Gustavus Global Insight program was conceived. This program encourages students, faculty, staff and community members to increase their focus on global issues. The Global Insight program is currently administered under a four-year … Continue reading Global Gusties… First Stop: China
Heather lives in a little house with a big apple tree in the front yard and lots of tall grass in the backyard. Heather’s favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands and two feet. Heather also has two mommies. Mama Jane and Mama Kate.” The above quote is from the well-known and groundbreaking children’s book, Heather … Continue reading Tolerant toddlers: tolerant teens
I’ve said before that I am someone who looks for and seeks out change in the world. I think I ought to talk about that a bit. You know, the whole “change” bit. As strange as it might seem, it’s actually the timeliest concept I can think of right now. Change, as I imagine it, should be a habit. There are a lot of people … Continue reading Complacency
Gusties to finish season with five of final six games against MIAC opponents With two big wins now behind them, the Gustavus Women’s Soccer team aims to hit its goals for the remainder of the season. The season started out with a win over the University of Minnesota-Morris and then a loss to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Beating Morris 3-0, they then fell 3-1 … Continue reading Gustavus sees improvement as MIAC postseason push continues
Gustavus is known nationwide as the first institution in the United States to have the official authorization of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, to hold an educational conference each year. Its aim, according to the Gustavus website, is to “link a general audience with the world’s foremost scholars and researchers in conversations centered on contemporary issues related to the natural and social sciences.” The … Continue reading Origin of Man: Nobel Conference 2008
Each fall, the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps’ (ROTC) Maverick Battalion, which includes Gustavus, Minnesota State University Mankato and Bethany Lutheran College, takes its cadets and prospective cadets north to Camp Ripley for the fall Field Training Exercises, or FTX. This series of outdoor exercises is designed to give cadets a taste of some of what the Army does, as well as to instruct the … Continue reading ROTC at Camp Ripley: Gusties head north
In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest natural disasters to ever hit America, struck the Gulf coast states. Sophomore Communications Studies Major Wes Jones and his family were among the people present in New Orleans during the disaster. Jones, like thousands of others, was instantly forced to evacuate and take cover. “I lived in the dead center of [New Orleans] in Algiers … Continue reading Gustie of the Week: Wes Jones makes the military a way of life
