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
Ever wonder where your food comes from? Saturday, May 9 will see the inauguration of Big Hill Farm. Gustavus students will work on this one and half acre plot of land in an endeavor to organically harvest crops that will be consumed by the Gustavus community. In an age when the idea of living a little more organically and environmentally friendly has become of great concern, Big Hill Farm is a student organization that has pledged to aid Gustavus in this process. Continue reading Big Hill Farm: Students work to reap what they sow
The Gustavus faculty received an e-mail from Provost Mary Morton Tuesday, May 5 regarding the resignation of both of the College’s academic deans, Mariangela Maguire and Eric Eliason.
According to the e-mail Maguire and Eliason “have resigned their positions as Academic Deans and will return to their faculty positions for the Fall semester 2009.” Eliason will return to the Department of English, and Maguire will return to the Department of Communication Studies after a sabbatical leave during Fall Semester. Continue reading Academic Deans resign
Pack up your wide-brimmed hats and your elephant rifles: we’re going on a safari. Over the course of our trip, we will encounter just about every animal you have seen in The Lion King and on the Discovery Channel, climb an active volcano and interact with a culture that has never seen cell phones. Sound like fun … or are you still apprehensive about making it back alive? Continue reading Professor Cindy Johnson-Groh receives Fulbright grant
Dan Deacon is absurd. Consider the following: a grown man wearing a sparkly purple hat, oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a Flintstones T-shirt that looks a size too small approaches you on the street and invites you to watch him and his band play. Would you follow him into a small, dark performance space attached to a seedy bar? What if he asked you to play a game resembling leap frog and London Bridge with a room full of strangers that leads out into the streets of Minneapolis? Deacon and countless fans found the answers to these questions and many more at his May 2 concert at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis. Continue reading Dan Deacon breaks away from the ordinary performance
