Ally stays involved on campus as a member of the Sigmas, the track team and her passion for working with people Junior Ally Voss has been, and continues to be, a very important part of the Gustavus community. She is a double major in sociology/anthropology and Spanish, and as proud a Gustie as they come. “Ally has one of the most positive attitudes toward Gustavus,” … Continue reading Gustie of the Week: Ally Voss
Elling’s latest album, The Gate, is his 11th Grammy nomination When the annual Grammy Awards are held on Sunday, February 12, Gustavus Alumnus Kurt Elling ’89 will be among the nominees for Best Jazz Vocal Album for his latest jazz album entitled The Gate. For Elling, this is his eleventh Grammy nomination. Elling received his first nomination in 1995 in the Best Jazz Vocal Performance … Continue reading Gustavus graduate Kurt Elling up for another Grammy
With a cast and crew approaching 50 people, Assassins aims to tell the story of both the assassins and their targets, giving the audience a look at both perspectives. Henry MacCarthy, assistant professor Theatre and Dance and Latin American, Latino, and Carribean Studies (LALACS), is the director of this spring’s musical. Over this past January Interim Experience, the cast and crew worked the entire month, … Continue reading Musical, Assassins — their targets, their stories
Coming Friday, March 9, 2012 at 7:00p.m. to our very own cafeteria is the one and only GAC Idol. Sponsored by Building Bridges, GAC Idol is a talent contest open to anyone with any kind of talent imaginable. This year’s GAC Idol is being put on to create excitement for the Building Bridges Conference, “Unresolved Conflict: Remembering Our Forgotten History.” The focus of this student-lead … Continue reading Calling all talent, GAC Idol wants you
2011 was a year of weddings. Will and Kate’s royal wedding, Kris and Kim’s commercial wedding and … Bella and Edward’s fairytale wedding? Whether you’re Team Edward or Team Jacob, this fourth installment of the Twilight Saga is sure to define TwiHards from the rest of us. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past four years, the Twilight Saga is pretty … Continue reading Breaking Dawn Part 1 sparkles in Wallenburg
Istanbul By Drew Ajer This past J-Term, 15 students, led by Turkish Political Science Asli Ilgit and Communication studies professor Leila Brammer had the opportunity to travel to Istanbul, Turkey. Turkey’s daunting overhaul to modern western customs, such as clothing, speaking, and dining has put Turkey at a crossroads between eastern and western cultures, and north and south economic spheres. During the trip, we were … Continue reading Tales From Studies Abroad
We’ve all heard the mantra, “Make the rich pay their fair share!” President Obama and Democrats have picked up on this popular opinion, saying that they want the rich to foot most of the bill for government programs and paying off the debt. However, not everybody agrees with this sentiment, and as an observer it can be hard to tell who is right as neither … Continue reading Do the rich pay their fair share?
Across the United States, thousands, if not millions, of people suffer from a sociopathic behavioral pattern know as the Hipster Complex. Said complex persuades the believer into thinking they are not a hipster when in reality they are. The Hipster Complex is self-perpetuating. One denies one’s hipster-ness, which forces the hipster further down through the rabbit hole into a wonderland complete with Myspace profiles and … Continue reading The hipster complex
Fifty years ago this August, in quiet, cool, Cambridge, Mass., a Mr. L.C.R. Licklider of MIT put pen to paper and, in a memo, recorded a dream. The contents of this memo would one day become computer scientist Licklider’s legacy, and this legacy; our way of life. The little dream that Lick recorded on that night was of an “Intergalactic Computer Network”, a global network … Continue reading The galactic network
