Gustavus Blogs

Year: 2023

  • Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer

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    snowell

    Elizabeth Baer (English, retired) was invited to present a talk at the Pacific Lutheran University Powell-Heller Conference in October. The theme of the conference was “Africa and the Holocaust,” and Baer presented new research on the links between sexual violence in the Herero genocide and in the Nazi Holocaust.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lauren Hecht

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    snowell

    Lauren Hecht (Psychological Science) presented a poster “‘On Your Left’: Bicyclists’ Commands Impact Receivers’ Responses,” co-authored by Jacob Christenson ’21, at the Association of Applied Sport Psychology Conference in Orlando, FL.

  • Fall 2023 MCS Advising Day

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    anienow2

  • Volleyball claims MIAC championship

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    gkearney

    Teddy Kaste & Julia Klein- Gustavus Women’s Volleyball team played their second-to-last regular season game on Oct. 28th, winning 57-43 against Bethel. This win has once again earned them the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) title. This is the third year in a row that they have won it, and Saturday’s match was also their…

  • Gustie football wins thriller

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    gkearney

    Parker Burman- This past weekend, the Gustavus Football team traveled to St. Paul to square off with conference rival St. Olaf in a huge late-season matchup for playoff positioning. In a thrilling 41-40 overtime win the Gusties pulled to 5-3 on the season with a nonconference record of 4-2, positioning themselves well in the race…

  • Men’s and Women’s hockey start strong

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    gkearney

    Teddy Kaste- The temperature is dropping, late October snow is softly brushing the southern Minnesota landscape and winter is coming. With winter in Minnesota comes hockey season for Gustavus’ Men’s and Women’s Hockey teams. The women started their season with a 5-1 beatdown of Augsburg. The men started with back-to-back home games against Dubuque on…

  • Killers of the Flower Moon

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    gkearney

    Will Sorg- Far too often in movies, Indigenous stories are made that use the Indigenous characters as set dressing for a story about white people. It has happened for almost as long as film has been a medium and carries with it a history of settler colonialism, oppression, and genocide. Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Killers…

  • If Gustavus sports were in The Hunger Games

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    gkearney

    Raquel Vaughn- Dystopian is making a comeback! With the new Hunger Games movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, hitting theaters on Nov. 17th, the dystopian genre is resurging. We’re taking it back to middle school where we spent a religious amount of time defining our personalities based on which district we were from, what…

  • The importance of daydreaming

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    gkearney

    Sophia White- Never let go of your ability to imagine and create worlds. That is something I was told by many adults as a child. But, I don’t think I ever took that advice seriously. I remember being able to daydream up worlds and writing new stories every day in a little mustache journal. I…

  • The best holiday: Halloween

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    gkearney

    Houston McLaury- With the chill set deep into the air, the leaves all but changed to wonderful shades of yellow, orange and red, sweater weather is in full effect as we march onward to inevitable snows of November and December. But, before we hit such a cold and dark time of the year, we are…