Year: 2022

  • Dance the night away: PASO’s kizomba workshop

    Emma Esteb – Staff Writer The Pan-African Student Organization (PASO) sponsored Africa Night 2022 ‘Unapologetically Black.’ To start off the week, the organization hosted a Kizomba Dance workshop in the Aerobics room of Lund from 6:00-7:30 pm. This event was high-energy, engaging, and a fun event to kick off Africa Week. The goal of this event…

  • Mask Mandate Update

    Thanks to our high vacination rates and low Covid numbers as of March, 8, Gustavus Campus moved to level one of their Covid criteria. Students and staff can now unmask in all building unless otherwise posted. Professors can independantly decide whether or not they will require masks in their classrooms but campus is no longer…

  • New congressional maps in Minnesota

    David Eide – Opinion Columnist The last couple of months have seen one of the most important dramas in American politics play out across the country. I am speaking of the redrawing of congressional districts that occurs once every ten years in order to ensure that districts have equal population. This is an incredibly important event…

  • When #girlbossing goes wrong

    Clare Greeman – Girl Boss Feminism has been turned into a meme, and a funny one at that. If you, dear reader, have ever been called a girlboss without a trace of irony, you might be entitled to financial compensation. It is not a compliment, rather it denotes a woman who co-opts feminist langauge to turn…

  • Dragging through

    Hailley Brune – Opinion Columnist Spring semester always feels like you’re dragging yourself through the finish line. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m pretty sure most of you know what I mean. You tell yourself that you’re ready once you finish finals. That the next semester will be a little calmer and that you’re ready for…

  • Forever gonna give you up

    Jonas Doerr – Opinion Columnist College schedules are often overwhelming. Classes assign boatloads of homework that slowly accumulates as midterms loom. Activities and clubs often stack up one after another, day after day, eating up weeknights and weekends. Work sucks up more time as students struggle to pay for tuition. And all this doesn’t stop friends…

  • Movies from the Swank: Pixels

    Will Sorg Before Sony Pictures studio decided to make Pixels into an underwhelming, soulless, comedy about Adam Sandler shooting aliens that look like 80’s video game mascots, there was actually a very interesting origin story to the film. In 2010, Patrick Jean made a 3 minute short film entitled Pixels. It was very simplistic: a…

  • Women’s hockey continues dominance

    Parker Burman – Staff Writer The Golden Gusties Women’s Hockey team entered a packed Don Roberts Arena Saturday afternoon for a showdown against Hamline to determine the MIAC Champion. As with many games this season, Gustavus was able to light the lamp early and often as they skated their way towards victory. Gustavus entered the game…

  • Gymnastics takes the floor in Whitewater

    Allison Fajt – Staff Writer This weekend the Gustavus gymnastics team tumbled their way into 7th place at the WIAC/NCGA West Regional. The team competed in five different events earning a score of 184.8. “We actually had our highest team score of the season at this meet but I mean it didn’t necessarily show compared to…

  • Mark Hanson retires after 32 seasons

    Alli Joerger – Staff Writer The Gustavus Men’s Basketball loss to St. Olaf College in the MIAC playoffs marked not only the end of the season for the team, but also the end of the career of Head Coach Mark Hanson. While the team would have wished for a few more games in the season, the…