Gustavus Blogs

Year: 2023

  • Men’s hockey triumphs over Stevens Point

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    gkearney

    Teddy Kaste- This past weekend, Gustavus Men’s Hockey was tasked with playing two games against two formidable opponents. They played against #5 UW Stevens Point, and #11 UW Eau Claire. The Stevens Point matchup turned out to be an absolute classic, as Gustavus battled back from a 4-2 deficit with eight minutes left in the…

  • Swimmers participate in triple dual

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    gkearney

    Ellie Heyerdahl- This past Saturday our well-loved Gustie swimmers faced off in a triple dual against UW-Stevens Point and MSU Mankato. The women beat Stevens Point 185-133 yet lost against the Mavericks 240-78. The Men put up a great fight but ended up falling to Stevens Point 189-130. Coach Jon Carlson was pleased with what…

  • Football set to play MIAC championship

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    gkearney

    Teddy Kaste- Gustavus football triumphed over Carleton this past weekend in a comfortable 38-20 victory, securing their place in the MIAC championship where they will take on the Bethel Royals. Gustavus football has had quite the amazing run as they go into the MIAC championship riding a 5 game win streak, including thrillers over #7…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Ortmann

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    snowell

    Lisa Ortmann (Education) has published new research co-authored with Sydney Stumme-Berg ’22 in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL).

  • Faculty Spotlight: Doug Huff

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    snowell

    Doug Huff (Philosophy, retired) has had his play, Emil’s Enemies, published in a German. The German translation was done by the Dietrich Bonhoeffer scholar Bernd Wannenwetsch. For readers of German, the German title is, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Ein Lehrstuck vom Widerstand in zwei Akten.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Severine Bates

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    snowell

    Séverine Bates (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) presented her paper “The Elephant in the Room: Blackness and the Double Bind of Representation in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Le Mariage de plaisir,” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference in Portland, Oregon.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Larissa McConnell

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    snowell

    Larissa McConnell (Theatre and Dance) participated in the Second Annual Saint Peter Art Stroll on November 11-12.

  • MCS Senior Spotlight: Isaiah Subah

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  • National Native American Heritage Month

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    ahulsebe

    November is National Native American Heritage Month, a month to “celebrate the traditions, languages and stories of Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and affiliated Island communities and ensure their rich histories and contributions continue to thrive with each passing generation” (https://www.bia.gov). Gustavus itself was built on lands belonging to the Dakota people. The campus…

  • TLC Blog – This is How to Win

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    nhagberg

    I showed up at my first ever tennis tournament (other than the local Fiesta Days small town tournament where I grew up playing on asphalt courts and was perennial champion in our approximately three-person draw).  I was 14.  I had only been playing tennis for two year, but I was spending six hours a day…