I am colorblind. This usually shocks people, for some reason. Amazingly, even after so many years of social and medical advancements, colorblindness is still rather unheard of and shocking to hear for most people. I grew up with it. One of my least favorite things is that when I tell people I’m colorblind, they immediately point to the nearest object and tell me to identify the … Continue reading Colorblindness: IT’S REAL

Gustavus Love Confessions is our ultimate guilty pleasure. For many students, there is a love hate relationship with it, but it has arguably been the Facebook page which elicits the most chuckles and sighs of affection among our College’s student body. While it may not have as many people following it as Overheard at Gustavus, the latter having roughly three thousand members to Love Confessions’ … Continue reading The love and lies of GAC Love Confessions

The relatively small town of Devils Lake, ND has been recently put into the spotlight over quite the controversial issue, especially in the rural and sporadically populated state. A new policy in Devil’s Lake School District specifically targets the female demographic in schools, singling them out as the group most likely to violate this new policy. Specifically, the policy states that girls of a certain … Continue reading Bordello, Brothel, or Bull***t?

On December 15, 1791 the First Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, including the rest of the Bill of Rights. This Amendment was to become one of the most valued and well known pieces of our ruling document. The exact wording of the First Amendment is “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or … Continue reading Freedom of Speech: There’s an App For That

Reality check: you will not be on this campus forever. When you drive up that hill as a wide-eyed first-year taking in the sight of the Gustie jungle and feeling the electric energy of everyone who is so excited to see you, your countdown begins to the day when all you’ve done here compresses itself into a 5” x 8” document that validates your status … Continue reading Your Time Here

If you’re a member of a student organization and tell anyone trying to join the organization they have to do anything, you run the risk of hazing them. At least this is what it seems like at a first glance of Gustavus Adolphus College’s hazing policy. Gustavus defines hazing as “any action taken or situation created, intentionally or unintentionally whether on or off campus premises, … Continue reading On Hazing

What is Christianity? Is it a doctrine of morals and ideals that we are to live by in order to live as good people and treat others fairly? Or is it a strict set of rules we must follow in order to obtain everlasting life, even at the cost of casting out “undesirables” whom we perceive to be sinners disobeying a code of laws supposedly … Continue reading Rejecting (Fundamental) Christianity

Procrastination is such a wonderful and terrible thing, all at the same time. On one hand, it can prevent you from doing homework and getting good grades. On the other hand, you get to watch Netflix, play video games, eat food, sleep, eat food, and watch more Netflix. Either way, procrastination can seem pretty great and allow you to have fun; which, don’t get me … Continue reading Quit Reading This Article and Get Back to Work

In the springtime, people walk outside and say that love, life, or some other abstract concept is floating around in the air. You can take a giant sniff and notice it; it permeates the air we breath like a fragrance, or a pheromone. So it logically follows that in the autumn, the thing you smell floating around is something—at its core—fundamentally the opposite of love, … Continue reading Death is in the Air