Gustavus Blogs

Year: 2024

  • Senior Night success for Gustavus Hockey

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    gkearney

    Teddy Kaste- Gustavus’ Men’s Hockey team took on St. Olaf in a home and home this weekend, with Senior night on Friday night at the Don Robert’s ice arena. Four Gustavus Seniors –Goalie Jackson Hellje, Center Micha Gernander, and Defensemen Thomas Patterer and Porter Haney–, stepped onto the ice at the Don Roberts arena for…

  • Hobbies for the idle mind

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    gkearney

    Houston McLaury- Something that I’ve often taken for granted in these twenty-one years of life is how wonde rful hobbies can truly be. With our hands, we can do just about anything. Climb to tall peaks we never thought we could climb to, make sweet sounds we could never make with our voice, and write…

  • O Gustieware, where art thou?

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    gkearney

    Jonas Doerr- Is it in the Caf? Is it in Beck Hall? Is it true you don’t know where your Gustieware is at all? Is it in the Lib? Is it in the trash? Is it possible you’re really wasting your own cash? Bad poetry aside, your Gustieware may have escaped even further than you…

  • Normalize sleeping with baby blankets

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    gkearney

    Raquel Vaughn- Imagine this: I’m sitting there, on my hardwood bedroom floor, and looking at the mess that was formed while packing for college. I’m thinking to myself, “I’m going to have to bring pretty much everything with me to school.” And then my baby blanket, not great in size but in everything else, catches…

  • Major moves: Gustavus introduces Athletic Training Master’s Degree

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    gkearney

    Katie Samek- Gustavus Adolphus College announced the unveiling of its first-ever master’s program, an Athletic Training master’s degree, on campus at the GAC Athletics Open House on Monday, Feb. 19. Hopes are high among several other departments that other master’s degree programs of a similar nature will follow. Monday’s meeting was headed by Dr. Mary…

  • Competition for a cause: Mr. Gustavus 2024

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    gkearney

    Grace LaTourelle- Mr. Gustavus is an annual tradition hosted by the Theta Xi Gamma sorority to raise money for their philanthropy, the Pinky Swear Foundation. The pageant will take place on Friday, April 5, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria. “As a sorority, our Pinky Swear philanthropy partnership is at the core of all…

  • Student Senate elections on the horizon

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    gkearney

    Elliot Steeves- The Gustavus Student Senate will run an election for their new co-presidents next year on Feb. 26th. The election will run all day from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. This year’s election will only consist of one ticket for co-president, consisting of sitting senators Robby Swenson and Chance Korpela, per Associate Dean of…

  • Movies from Swank: Moneyball

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    gkearney

    Will Sorg- Moneyball, if you can believe it, is about baseball and economics. Your dad probably loves this movie – and for good reason. It has the king of the actors your dad likes: Brad Pitt. On top of that, it’s written primarily by Aaron Sorkin, writer of The West Wing, A Few Good Men,…

  • MCS Senior Spotlight: Charles Ella

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  • Anya Menk 22’ Returns to Gustavus for Jazz Performance with Gustavus Faculty and Friends

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    rileyerb

    Anya Menk 22’ will return to Gustavus on February 23 19 at 7 p.m. for a jazz performance featuring original songs, tunes with lyrics written by Anya, and jazz standards. Alongside Anya will be Ryan Rader on drums, Eric Zimmerman on bass, adjunct guitar professor Johnathan Moeller on guitar, and Evan Bierer on the saxophone.…