Minnesota’s climate is about as far as you can get from the Caribbean’s. However, on Sept. 20, Gustavus’s windy campus will welcome a Caribbean native and Nobel Prize-winning author, Derek Walcott. Walcott will participate in a three week residency program at the school, with the intention of connecting students to a person of great stature in the academic world. Gustavus’s Rydell Distinguised Professor program was … Continue reading Nobel Laureate to begin three week residency

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On Monday, Sept. 13, 2010, the Hillstrom Museum of Art had an opening reception for its three new exhibitions: Voices: Contemporary Ceramic Art from Sweden, ENNESBO (multi-media installation by artist Sandra Binion), and FOCUS IN/ON: Henry Varnum Poor’s Autumn Still Life. For those of you who don’t know, the Hillstrom Museum can be found in the Jackson Campus Center (down the hall from the Book … Continue reading Hillstrom Museum opening three new exhibitions

Residence halls at Gustavus underwent construction and renovations over the summer, the majority of which were aimed at Sorenson, North, and Gibbs Halls (Complex) and Norelius Hall. One of the most noticeable changes is the redesign of the windows through the three residence halls of Complex, but summer projects in both Complex and Norelius also included work on elevators, flooring, furniture replacement and bathroom renovations. … Continue reading Residence halls: Cozier and greener

Jamie Ford, who wrote this year’s Reading in Common book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, will give a talk for the Gustavus community next week. Ford will be on campus Tuesday, Sept. 14 for a speech in Alumni Hall at 7:00 p.m. and a question and answer session and book signing to follow. Ford is a short-story writer who grew up in … Continue reading Reading in Common: Jamie Ford to visit campus

Gustavus’s marketing mission, according to their website, is “to advance Gustavus Adolphus College as a leading national, church-affiliated, liberal arts college.” A daunting task, made even more so by a crowded, disorganized space the department had been dealing with in the Edgar M. Carlson Administration Building. In addition to the marketing department, this building housed the Administrative Information Systems, Alumni Relations, Finance Office, Institutional Advancement, … Continue reading Renovating the Lundgren house

First-year orientation is always a blur, with an activity-packed schedule and days full of countless new faces. The Gustie Welcome Celebration is the culmination of all of this organized chaos, and it is something even upperclassmen look forward to. Continue reading Food, flight and fun: Welcome to Gustavus

Homesickness. Roommate issues. Sexuality. Responsible decisions. These are just some of the topics that the Peer Assistants (PAs) cover in The Inside Scoop, a series of skits geared toward first-year students. There will be three sessions that Greeter Groups will be attending on Saturday, September 4, at 12:30, 1:20 and 2:10 p.m. “We talk in a humorous way about a lot of the uncomfortable situations … Continue reading College myths busted at The Inside Scoop

As the school year comes to a close and spring weather heads toward summer, Minnesota hobby gardeners are out preparing their plots for summer crops. A few students at Gustavus, though, have much larger ambitions. For the second consecutive year, a select group of students will don their straw hats and overalls and get to work at Big Hill Farm, Gustavus’ own organic farm. Started … Continue reading Big Hill Farm ready to turn up the soil