To: Parents of Senior Gustavus Students Re: Senior Congratulation Notices: Deadline Extended The Gustavian Weekly is offering parents of Gustavus seniors the opportunity to recognize their graduate with a Congratulation Notice. Appearing in the last issue of The Weekly, notices include a submitted picture, message, and title designed to recognize each graduate individually. To place a Congratulation Notice, use our easy web submission tool, or … Continue reading Senior Congratulation Notices: Deadline Extended

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released its annual report on faculty salaries recently. The data is interesting because it places faculty compensation in relation to other colleges and universities from across the country. So where does Gustavus place? According to the AAUP’s ranking system, it seems that Gustavus ranks in the top 40% of institutions in most categories. However, looking at the raw … Continue reading AAUP publishes annual survey of faculty salaries

Dear Parents of Gustavus Seniors: The Gustavian Weekly would like to offer you, as the parent of a graduating senior, the chance to congratulate your child in a very special way. The final issue of The Gustavian Weekly will publish Congratulation Notices for graduating seniors. The Gustavian Weekly prints 1,600 copies each Friday, making it a fantastic way to recognize your graduate publicly. These notices … Continue reading Congratulation Notices: A great way to recognize your senior!

In recent weeks, I have heard several people attribute a quote to me that The Weekly is a “tabloid” and “not a real source for campus news.” I would like to say that I have never said this or anything of the sort; nor would I ever say this. Anyone who attributes such a quote to me is either misconstruing my words or is misinformed. … Continue reading Clarifying “tabloid”

I thought I would share an interesting article that relates to Gustavus’s most recent Nobel Conference on water. In a report released yesterday, the United Nations said that polluted water kills more people than war. According to the report, 1.8 million children younger than five die annually of water-related illness. Story on CNN UN press release Continue reading Dirty water kills millions

Building Bridges is coming up this week, and there are a number of events leading up to the weekend conference, which is on immigration this year. One of the events was a homily by Rebekah Schulz, co-chair of the conference. Rebekah, a friend of mine, sent me the text of the homily (see below). It was a wonderful homily, and I wanted to share it. … Continue reading Building Bridges homily

I wanted to clarify a few things that may have confused some of our readers about our story on the sexual assaults reported to campus authorities a few weeks ago, specifically some things brought up in Angelica Matthes’ Letter to the Editor. First, I want to clarify Dean of Students Jeff Stocco’s role in the article. Stocco refused, as was appropriate, to give me any … Continue reading Response to the Letter to the Editor from Angelica Matthes

This week’s issue of The Weekly includes coverage of Black History Month and the upcoming month of environmental competitions. Also, our favorite shady character is hilarious this week! Continue reading This Week in The Gustavian Weekly Feb. 12, 2010

The precinct caucuses will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2. At locations across the state, Minnesotans will be given a chance to voice their opinions on who will be their party’s candidates for local and state races, including a non-binding straw poll for governor. For students in St. Peter, the caucus location is the St. Peter High School. For students away from … Continue reading Caucuses on Tuesday

In this week’s shortened January Term issue, we have some of the fun Winter activities Gusties can take part in, as well our Gustie of the Week, Rebekah Schulz. Continue reading This week in The Weekly