Welcome to The Gustavian Weekly’s new website! I hope that you enjoy the new design and will visit our site often. This site offers exciting possibilities for The Weekly to offer new content to our readers. In the coming months, The Weekly staff and myself will be adding new, interactive content as well as our regular articles, columns and features. You will also be able … Continue reading Welcome to The Weekly’s new website!
The Gustavian Weekly is looking for new staff writers and staff photographers. We are excited for the new year, and need new people to help keep the Weekly full of content. Staff writers and staff photographers are compensated for their work. If you are interested in this opportunity or know someone who is, please e-mail weekly@gustavus.edu, or come visit our office this weekend during the … Continue reading Want to write or photograph for the Weekly this year?
On behalf of the Weekly staff, I would like to welcome you to the new Gustavian Weekly website. We worked this summer to improve the layout. We plan to add additional content this year. Some of things we are working on include: A new front page design We changed the way content is displayed on the front page, dividing the page into sections; in an … Continue reading Welcome to the new Weekly website!
As cases of the Swine Flu (H1N1) started to appear in Minnesota, Gustavus decided it would not take any chances. “A campus team, including senior staff, faculty and health personnel, is meeting regularly to assess the evolving situation and to determine appropriate College responses,” said President Jack Ohle in an e-mail to the Gustavus community. Continue reading Campus reacts to swine flu pandemic
If the next time you are making your way to the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library, you happen across a few students hurling their bodies over the concrete wall that runs from the sidewalk to the front doors, do not be alarmed. They are most likely members of the Gustavus Parkour Society, practicing the death-defying, acrobatic art form that started in France in the ‘90s and … Continue reading Leaps and bounds: Gustavus Parkour Society
The next time you are in the basement of the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library, check out the computer by the first printer to your left. This is the favorite study spot of Senior History and Music Honors Major Hannah Wunsch. “I think I’ve written nearly every academic paper for the last four years at that computer,” the Omaha, NE native said. “And when you’re a … Continue reading Hannah Wunsch: Ending on a high note
As trumpets blare and cymbals crash, the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra will end another year of performances with its Season Finale on Saturday, May 30. The event, held every year during Senior Week as a way of sending off the graduating class, will include an eclectic variety of works from Johannes Brahms to John Williams and will feature the winners of this year’s concerto and aria … Continue reading Symphony Orchestra to perform during Senior Week
I am collecting beautiful things. Mix CDs, photographs. Catalpa pods and campfire smoke. Spontaneous sing-alongs and potentially embarrassing dance-scapades. Late nights with deep mugs of coffee, sunsets on Physical Plant Mountain and dirt under my fingernails. And wind. It’s about time I pack ‘em all up. I know a good number of students who made the decision to come to Gustavus simply because of a … Continue reading This I believe
During an interview last week with television personality Charles Grodin, Fox News’ Sean Hannity agreed to be water-boarded for charity. A bold pledge no one is sure to hold him to, but it is an interesting one to think about. Perhaps after he is water-boarded, Hannity will learn the golden rule the rest of us learned as four-year-olds back in preschool: treat others as you … Continue reading Closing thoughts
