Archive for 2022Page 2

Women’s basketball dominates Macalester

Nyden Hill – Staff Writer  This past Saturday, the Gustavus women’s basketball team took on the Macalester Scots at home in St. Peter.  Going into the matchup, the Gusties looked to bounce back as they were coming off of their only loss of the season to Concordia on Nov 26. “Obviously it was a tough […]

Women’s hockey still top dog

Parker Burman – Staff Writer This past weekend the Gustavus women’s hockey team traveled to Winona to face off with conference rival Saint Mary’s. Over the past four years the Gusties and the Cardinals have tied in every matchup and this year’s team looked to break that streak. They did just that in a dominating […]

Movies from Swank: A Love Song

Will Sorg – Entertainment Columnist Gustavus’ streaming service Swank has a genuinely impressive library of 2022 movies. There’s a ton of big releases on there right now, from Jurassic World to Nope, but equally impressive is its selection of smaller films from this year. A Love Song premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year […]

My struggle with My Struggle

Clare Greeman – Opinions Columnist As the semester shudders to an end, I have been attempting to finish my months-long mission of completing Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle book sextet. In Norwegian, its original language, it sounds much like Hitler’s genocide manual, but to English readers it is simply that: the struggle of a man. […]

Winter, friend or foe?

David Eide – Opinions Columnist As I’ve previously stated in this column, fall is and remains my favorite season.  However, I also have an appreciation for the other seasons, particularly winter.  Unlike with fall, my relationship with the coldest of the seasons is a bit more complicated than pure affection, as I also have to […]

Demystifying the overinvolved Gustie

Gabrielle Lavan – Opinions Columnist We’ve all heard of it, the myth of the “Over-Involved Gustie”. We’ve heard it from professors, from peers, and from faculty. Maybe some of us have even heard it from our therapists in the Counseling Center. No matter where you’ve first heard the term, the mystical Over-Involved Gustie is not […]

It’s free. So why aren’t we using it?

Jonas Doerr – Opinions Columnist On the few occasions I’ve eaten fondue, I sometimes wonder what it would be like to stick my head in the fountain and have that warm, gooey chocolate flowing directly into my mouth. But then I realize I’d get chocolate all over my face, choke, and generally look like a […]

Chef’s Corner

Leah Thompson – Staff Writer The Kitchen Cabinet is an organization on campus that is composed of students and employees. This group seeks to informally advise the Dining Service Director on how the Dining Service can continue to deeply serve the educational mission of Gustavus. The Kitchen Cabinet meets monthly to address the questions, concerns, […]

Gustie of the Week: Gabriela Passmore

Emma Kelsey – Staff Writer Gabriela Passmore graduated from Gustavus in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in English with a writing emphasis. She was involved in cross country and track and field, the track and field choir, and was a lead copy editor for the Gustavian Weekly. Even though her time as a student on […]

Junk Drawers: Odds and Ends

Michaela Woodward – Staff Writer Next week, while students are hard at work studying for finals in the library, they can take a break to admire work by the senior art majors. As of reading day, pieces from the senior exhibition “Junk Drawers: Odds and Ends,” will be displayed all over the library for visitors […]