May Day, or International Workers’ Day, happened on May 1, and it seems to me that we have never been more ready to celebrate it. Gustavus has been celebrating it through the MAYDAY! Peace Conference for thirty-six years. This year’s celebration occurred on May 27, and its theme was “Divestment & Reinvestment: Making Money Count.” Specifically, it was about the divestment from dirty energy such … Continue reading May Day’s Radical History
In Sept. 2014, standing outside a party talking with friends, a young man approached me and aggressively grabbed my crotch. Drunk and in shock, I said “No!” and stumbled back from him. He sneered at me and then slipped around the side of the house back into the night. Later, I learned that before he groped me, he had also stuck his hands down another … Continue reading Silence is Consent
Coping with death is never easy. At one point in our lives, everyone will experience losing someone close to them. A person who has lost a loved one will often feel sad and may face depression. This is inevitable. These past few years seem to have held a substantial amount of celebrity deaths. Many of these celebrities were people that you and I looked up … Continue reading Mourning Celebrities
From the beginning of their first day on campus, college first-years hear the mantra “get involved in student organizations.” They hear it from their greeters, professors, and even their friends who start getting into organizations to occupy their time. Yet at what point does a student become over-involved in both on and off-campus activities? What are the effects of this over-involvement on a student’s academic … Continue reading Student (Over)Involvement
Didn’t get the room assignment you wanted? Still on campus as a senior? Thank capitalism, not Charlie Potts. The price of higher education has skyrocketed and enrollment is down. The college degree we are chasing in our four years at this institution costs 500 percent more than our parents’ degrees from less than 30 years ago. We know this, but we also fail to realize … Continue reading Education or Exploitation?
The Gustavian Weekly aims to cover major events on campus. This spring, one of the biggest campus events is the upcoming Big Concert, featuring chart-topping artist Hunter Hayes. However, The Weekly will have absolutely no access to Hayes. As of April 20, 2016, a mere 3 days before the concert, The Weekly has been informed that we can neither photograph the concert nor Hayes, and … Continue reading Regarding the Weekly’s access to Hunter Hayes
The fight over the legalization of prostitution has been going on for years. The federal government believes that legalizing prostitution is not only immoral, it “contributes to the modern-day slave trade, and creates a higher demand for human trafficking victims.” However, not all states follow this line of reasoning. In Nevada, prostitution is legal in eight counties, and twenty-eight counties that have legal brothels. Being … Continue reading Legalize Sex Work
Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players ever, played his last game April 13th. His last game was quite “Kobe.” He took too many shots, but he made a lot of them. 60 points on 50 shots, one of the most absurd games by a single player in history. Despite a significant decline in talent this year, Kobe took all the shots. Many media … Continue reading Kobe and Me
A psychedelic drug is any drug that causes hallucinations or perceptual anomalies by flooding serotonin receptors in the brain. Fossils dating back 10,000 years show that early humans have used psychoactive drugs during religious rituals. Some Native Americans would also use psychedelic drugs. With the rise of the church came the prohibition of psychedelics. During the mid-1900s great minds were experimenting with psychedelics which at the … Continue reading Are You Experienced?
It started when we were children. Our parents walked us to the bus stop, supervised our playtime, and met with our teachers to make sure they weren’t being too hard on us. Conflict between kids was mediated by adults, and tattling on playmates was encouraged. Sports, once the domain of neighborhood kids everywhere, became organized and structured by adults, who rewarded our sweaty efforts with … Continue reading Growing Pains
