After 28 years in hibernation, the old Gustavus tradition, ‘Frost Week’ is back. CAB is sponsoring this week-long theme of events. Events include competitions such as window painting, family feud, cupcake decorating, variety show and even beard-growing. If the fun of participating isn’t enough, all of these competitions offer prizes for the top performing teams. Groups need to sign up to participate in the competitions … Continue reading Frost Week: February 20-23

The Live Poets Society, a new organization on campus, had its first meeting this past Tuesday, Feb. 14. The idea for the group was the brainchild of Dorothy Lutz ’51, who taught at Gustavus in the late ‘50s, after she took Joyce Sutphen’s Writing Poetry class last semester. “In Writing Poetry, Joyce suggested that we form groups and keep writing poetry,” Lutz said, “There was … Continue reading Live Poets Society fosters interaction and engagement

Africa Night 2012 gets personal. Focused on a more holistic representation of what it means to be African, students of the Pan African Student Organization (PASO), who organize the annual celebration, have focused the evening around countries that more accurately represent the vast array of cultural backgrounds within their own organization. Calling their concept “expanding borders,” students who led the campaign hope that Africa Night … Continue reading Africa Night theme promotes Pan African unity

With a cast and crew approaching 50 people, Assassins aims to tell the story of both the assassins and their targets, giving the audience a look at both perspectives. Henry MacCarthy, assistant professor Theatre and Dance and Latin American, Latino, and Carribean Studies (LALACS), is the director of this spring’s musical. Over this past January Interim Experience, the cast and crew worked the entire month, … Continue reading Musical, Assassins — their targets, their stories