Frost Week: February 20-23

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

Live Poets Society fosters interaction and engagement

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 theme promotes Pan African unity

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

Off Campus Housing

With the housing selection process for 2012-2013 rapidly approaching, students are hurrying to get their affairs in order as they decide where they want to live for the next school year. Opportunity to be granted off campus housing has always been a point of interest for upperclassmen students at Gustavus; seeing the enormity of the incoming first-year class this past fall, many students are hoping … Continue reading Off Campus Housing

Fifty things never heard at Gustavus

In honor of the Overheard at Gustavus and Gustavus Memes Facebook groups to the Gustavus student community, here are some quotes that have never, and will never be overheard while walking around campus. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you fifty quotes never to be spoken amongst these sacred halls. 1. I hate Jen Fox. 2. Alisa Rosenthal has to be the easiest prof at … Continue reading Fifty things never heard at Gustavus

Cynicism is sexy

Cynicism is, I believe, the default worldview of many Americans. It is also, the laziest and, quite frankly, the most dangerous way to observe humans and human nature. It’s easy to see the actions of a few and extrapolate them across the entirety of mankind. However it’s also remarkably unhelpful. Cynicism probably took off in this country in the mid-1970s as a result of the … Continue reading Cynicism is sexy