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  • Baseball shows off in home opener

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    Parker Burman – Staff Writer Entering this past weekend the Gustavus baseball team was sitting at a record of 1-2 after a road trip to Topeka, Kansas. Facing off against Luther College in a double header, the Gusties dropped both high scoring games while picking up a 14-10 victory in a game against Simpson College. Hoping…

  • Women’s hockey continues historic season

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    Brady Boie – Staff  Writer After securing the MIAC championship less than a week ago, the Gustavus Golden Gusties continued their postseason run as a participant in the NCAA Women’s Hockey Tournament. Their path to the Frozen Four and National Championship game began with a home match against the Eau Claire Blugolds. Much like the MIAC…

  • Campus Safety Report (3/11/22)

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    Thursday, March 3, 2022 Campus Safety gave a medical escort for a student, per Health Services’ request, to Urgent Care Friday, March 4, 2022 Campus Safety responded to a fire in a dumpster in the Rundstrom parking lot. Campus Safety extinguished the dumpster fire. Sunday, March 6, 2022 Campus Safety responded to a maintenance issue…

  • Gustavus updates masking rules

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    Mel Pardock and Kendra Smaby – Staff Writers Masking has been an almost omnipresent feature of our lives for the last two years. As vaccines became available, restrictions lightened up over Summer 2021 and we were given a taste of what a post COVID-19 world could look like, but with the onset of the Delta variant we…

  • GUSTIE of the WEEK: Carter Learned

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    Emma Kelsey – Staff Writer Carter Learned (‘24), Gustie of the Week, is a passionate and highly motivated Gustavus student Majoring in Theater with Honors with a focus on Lighting Design. In addition to the wide array of work he does in the theater department, he also holds the position of Chair for the Inclusive Excellence Committee…

  • “Unapologetically Black”: Africa night 2022

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    Leah Thompson – Staff Writer Africa Night is an annual event sponsored by the Pan-Afrikan Student Organization (PASO) and will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11 in Alumni Hall followed by the Africa Night Dive later that evening from 10:30-1:00 a.m. Both events are open to students, faculty, and off-campus visitors. PASO is…

  • Dance the night away: PASO’s kizomba workshop

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    Emma Esteb – Staff Writer The Pan-African Student Organization (PASO) sponsored Africa Night 2022 ‘Unapologetically Black.’ To start off the week, the organization hosted a Kizomba Dance workshop in the Aerobics room of Lund from 6:00-7:30 pm. This event was high-energy, engaging, and a fun event to kick off Africa Week. The goal of this event…

  • Mask Mandate Update

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    Thanks to our high vacination rates and low Covid numbers as of March, 8, Gustavus Campus moved to level one of their Covid criteria. Students and staff can now unmask in all building unless otherwise posted. Professors can independantly decide whether or not they will require masks in their classrooms but campus is no longer…

  • New congressional maps in Minnesota

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    David Eide – Opinion Columnist The last couple of months have seen one of the most important dramas in American politics play out across the country. I am speaking of the redrawing of congressional districts that occurs once every ten years in order to ensure that districts have equal population. This is an incredibly important event…

  • When #girlbossing goes wrong

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    Clare Greeman – Girl Boss Feminism has been turned into a meme, and a funny one at that. If you, dear reader, have ever been called a girlboss without a trace of irony, you might be entitled to financial compensation. It is not a compliment, rather it denotes a woman who co-opts feminist langauge to turn…