That’s all, folks. Our last issue of The Weekly is here and in a couple of weeks (please don’t make me look at the countdown again) our time at Gustavus will be over. We’ll miss all of you (okay, most of you), but like the thou- sands before us, our time has come, and we need to accept that. Our time at Gustavus may be … Continue reading TTFN — Ta Ta for Now

Here is where I want to say something profound. Some- thing that will make you re-read my words and tell your friends. I have thought about my chance to write in the opinion section all year and after contemplating the ideas, I give you, the ever so cliché wisdom from a senior. My time at Gustavus has been a full meal. Like every well-thought-out-P-ball-style- sit-down-dinner, … Continue reading You are what you eat

My friends of the campus: I am, with a grave and heavy heart, about to embark on my final article for The GusTavian Weekly. As is custom, I am encouraged to release my best wisdom to all ya’ll Gustie folk. Well, I’m a ditz. Any wisdom I could ever impart onto my community of roughly six loyal readers has likely been mentioned in the other … Continue reading Who’s the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?

Where to next? It is the end of the school year once again and the warm-winded, sunny weather of the ideal Minnesota summer day has broken through this overlong winter just in time to accompany the final torrents of this semester’s schoolwork. Despite the inviting shouts of joy that have started to echo over long-neglected fields, it is not yet time to join in. For … Continue reading Food for thought

A traveler on the road Hello again, fellow Gusties! I hope you all are enjoying yourselves as of late. And when I say that I hope you are enjoying yourselves, I am not just saying this as a polite way of starting an article, although it works for that purpose as well. I truly hope that you are enjoying the present to the fullest extent … Continue reading The write to think

Scientific reasoning can (and should) determine moral values Imagine that I catch you stealing something from me and arrange for your hands to be cut off as punishment. Is this a healthy response to the crime? If your answer is no, then you too realize that there are better solutions. The practice of cutting off hands as punishment for stealing, with a few variations, is … Continue reading For the sake of argument

Leaning in Change the world—it might sound cheesy, but honestly it is something that most people want to do. Some people will work towards gay rights or feminism, towards the promotion of corporate freedom or smaller government; there are people fighting to end racism, to end poverty, and to promote education. We all have a battle to fight, questions to answer, a wrong to right. … Continue reading Cloudy with a chance of musing

Awkward I write to you today to bring an apparently harmless, social quirk to light. I want to look at the word “awkward” and all the meanings and uses it has come to bear amongst Americans in my generation. I do this because, in spite of this word’s apparent harmlessness, a closer examination of its use reveals a disconcerting habit we are all developing in how … Continue reading Food for thought

Mother Nature caught with possession of illegal substances Sources confirmed Tuesday that a number of illicit narcotics were, in fact, administered to Mother Nature and that she will be answering for her more than questionable behavior in recent weeks. While it has not yet been released to the general public exactly what substances Mother Nature has been ingesting, locals have their suspicions. “If you ask … Continue reading The Bunion