Emma Kelsey – Staff Writer This Saturday, Oct. 15, the Student Creative Suite ‘22 will be opening in the Schaefer Art Gallery, featuring work of students and faculty alike. The show will consist of three different exhibits. The first will be Salon des Refuses, the work of Betsy Byers’ Good Art Bad Art First Term Seminar students. This assignment was meant to challenge students to … Continue reading Art party: activate your imagination
Leah Thompson – Staff Writer Indigenous Peoples Day is a national holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October in the US. This holiday aims to honor Indigenous communities, contributions, culture, and histories. This year’s Indigenous Peoples Day landed on Monday, Oct. 10, and was commemorated on the Gustavus campus through two main events sponsored by the President’s Council on Indigenous Relations (PCIR). The first … Continue reading Elder Joe graces GAC for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Colin Maiwurm – Staff Writer On Wednesday, Oct. 5, the college celebrated the ten-year anniversary of adding an African Studies minor. With this ten-year celebration came changes to the African Studies program. The minor is now called African/African Diaspora, an effort made in order to switch the focus. Before, the minor only talked about the history of Africa, but now the courses have expanded to … Continue reading Africa Studies grows by including diaspora
Matthew Olson – Staff Writer One week after the Gustavus women’s tennis team hosted the 2022 ITA Division III Midwest Regional Championship, the men’s team hosted their own branch of the tournament. The men’s team was just as successful, with five out of the eight quarter finalists in the singles draw and three of the four pairs in the doubles semifinal being Gusties. With a … Continue reading Men’s tennis turns up at tournament
Nyden Hill – Staff Writer This past weekend the Gustavus men’s golf team traveled to Edina to host the Twin Cities Classic. The tournament took place at the Elk River Country Club, Links at Northfork, and Edina Country Club, and featured teams from the MIAC and beyond. This included St. John’s, Bethel, Augsburg, Luther, Carleton, St. Olaf, and Macalester. Going into the tournament, the Gusties … Continue reading Men’s golf preps for MIAC championships
Parker Burman – Staff Writer This weekend the Gustavus Volleyball team hosted the Gustavus Triangular Saturday, welcoming Bethel and Dubuque for a series of matches. Ranked the 20th team in the country heading into the weekend, the Gusties were looking to continue building on a strong season. Having won their last four matches, including a match Friday against Carleton, the Gusties were able to build … Continue reading Gustie volleyball keeps rolling
Will Sorg – Entertainment Columnist David Robert Mitchell’s low budget, indie horror film It Follows is a perfect example of a cult classic. With a 1 million dollar budget and a modest marketing campaign, the film was able to drum up enough hype to gross over 20 million dollars at the box office. Even now the film is lauded in horror circles as a poster … Continue reading Movies from the Library: It Follows
David Eide – Opinions Columnist Just recently, I found myself in the back section of the Book Mark, where all the textbooks are kept and which was briefly open for public view and perusal during the Nobel Conference. Befitting a liberal arts college, I noticed a lot of classical texts: Plato’s Republic, the Aeneid, the Odyssey, you know, the stuff you would expect to see … Continue reading Time, literature’s greatest enemy
Clare Greeman Kevin Smith’s 1994 slacker comedy Clerks was an immediate cult favorite. The film, which was shot in 21 days and was made for just under $28,000, perfectly encapsulates the ennui and disillusionment of being an aimless 20-year-old stuck in a dead end job. At the time of first watching it, I was years away from both my aimless 20-year-old status and from my … Continue reading Kevin Smith: time to silence Bob
Jonas Doerr – Opinions Columnist Are you sadder because of the apps on your phone? The easy answer would be no. Otherwise, why would we keep them? They help us stay connected with each other, they keep us in the loop, and they entertain us. Even one of my professors is often talking about how he loves certain cute goat videos on Tik Tok. Even … Continue reading Does social media make us sad?
