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  • Gusties tennis takes MIAC crown

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    Parker Burman – Staff Writer This past weekend, the Gustavus Men’s Tennis team secured their 12th consecutive MIAC Playoff Championship with a 5-0 win against conference rival Carelton. The championship was the Gusties’ 15th overall in program history and will now advance for the 35th time to the NCAA Tournament. “This past weekend was a…

  • Gustie track runs hot

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    Kieran Ripken – Staff Writer The Gustavus Women’s Track & Field team sent a few of its members to the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa this past week to compete against some of the country’s best track athletes. With teams across Divisions I, II, and III present, the Gustie women rose to the occasion…

  • Gustie Cup returns with rule changes

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    Emma Esteb – Staff Writer Every year, the Gustie Entrepreneurship Cup showcases our brightest entrepreneurs for a chance to present to a panel of mentors with the opportunity to win a share of up to $15,000 in seed funding for their startup endeavors. The event will be held on May 13 in Beck Academic Hall.…

  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie: plumbers and monkeys and turtles, oh my!

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    Will Sorg – Movies Guy Even before I owned a Nintendo Wii, I was a Mario fan. I remember asking to play Mario games on other people’s Nintendo DS’s when I rode the bus in elementary school, and playing online browser games just to get a chance to play something even half-related to the series.…

  • Shining Starbursts – the best and the worst

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    Houston McLaury – Opinion Columnist With another month coming to a close, students across campus will have emptied the Caf of any foods they can take back to their dorms. Cereals, Pop-Tarts, chips, sodas, coffee, tea, anything we can get our hands on that we can savor and bring back to our dorms. And one…

  • A tribute to the library

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    David Eide – Opinion Columnist As my time at Gustavus winds down, I’ve been thinking a lot about the various buildings I’ve spent time in and which one could be considered my favorite. There’s a lot of competition: I did spend much of my time in my sophomore year studying at Beck and New Nobel…

  • The evils of these five letter words

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    Jonas Doerr – Opinions Columnist Wordle is bad. I’m not just saying that because I failed the Wordle today. In fact, I solved it in two guesses. Of course, it helped that I looked at the first two guesses of one of my classmates. Although this might seem only to prove that Wordle has corrupted…

  • Healing through the arts workshop

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    Emma Kelsey – Staff Writer Last week a very unique and special workshop was held here on campus: Healing through the Arts hosted by Junior Cristina Sirbu. Sirbu has Philosophy and Russian Eastern European studies double majors with a minor in music and is involved in many ways on campus. Senior Sage Kiefer talks about…

  • Gustie of the Week: Triston Clark

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    Katie Doolittle – Staff Writer Junior Triston Clark, a Communication Studies major and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies minor from Dassel, Minnesota, embodies the socially conscious and empowered Gustavus student.    Clark is drawn to Gustavus’ commitment to making academia powerful and meaningful for its young adult students. “Gustavus is special because of the people…

  • Senior studio art exhibition: Golden Hour

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    Michaela Woodward – Staff Writer Golden Hour, the exhibition for the senior studio art majors opens May 6, Honors Day, at the Hillstrom Museum of Art. The reception is from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. this Saturday. The exhibition is the culminating show for eight Senior Studio Art majors to display the work and artistic…