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  • Scholarship Day welcomes prospective students

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    Lauren Ruth – Staff Writer Gustavus is hosting its annual Scholarship Day on Saturday, Nov. 13 and 20, 2021. This year the organizers decided to split it into two separate days to create a more socially distanced event. The option for students to attend virtually is also available. Scholarship Day is an event in which admitted…

  • Humanize My Hoodie

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    Korri Wojack – Staff Writer The Center for Inclusive Excellences’ goal here at Gustavus is to connect students with educational programming, campus events/activities, and resources that will help students dig deeper into the terms: culture, diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, identity, and intersectionality. One way they do this is through hosting events on campus and partnering…

  • GUSTIE of the WEEK: Courtney Leonard

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    Michaela Woodward – Staff Writer For this Gustie of the Week, many of the decisions she has made during her time at Gustavus have been the ones that felt “right.” Originally from Forest Lake, MN, senior Courtney Leonard found campus “homey” when she came to visit her older sister here when she was a student. “Having…

  • Taking the stage once again

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    Emma Esteb – Staff Writer The Misanthrope is being performed by the Gustavus Theatre Department in the second week of November. It’s a 17th century rom-com in verse that emphasizes and compares our pop culture to French society in 1666. The show was written by Molière and has been translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur.…

  • History of the Collegiate Fellow Program

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  • The tragedy of the trash chutes

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    Jonas Doerr – Opinion Columnist Back in the day they really let things slide at Gustavus. Or, at least, they let garbage slide down the trash chutes. In many buildings, including Uhler, Complex, and Co-Ed, there still remain chutes that people once could toss their trash bags down. Now, however, those chutes are closed and boarded…

  • Binge-Watching makes bad TV

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    David Eide – Opinion Columnist Streaming has become the most common way that our generation consumes television, whether it be Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime. For the most part, the switch to streaming has been good, people are now able to view the backlog of a show without having to wait for reruns or spend money…

  • Ranking of GAC bathrooms

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    Michaela Woodward – Staff Writer Nothing beats the vibes of a good bathroom, and when a bathroom has good vibes, you know it. That little alcove of necessity becomes the place where you can experience all five stages of grief in five minutes, embrace carpe diem, or simply have a moment during a stressful day to…

  • Minimum wage isn’t very progressive

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    Hailey Brune – Opinion Columnist We present ourselves as a progressive campus, but are we actually? There are probably a few things that come to mind when you catch a whiff of this suggestion at Gustavus. One thing that’s always stuck out to me is the wages. We get paid $10.08 for most campus and work…

  • Movies from the Library: A Clockwork Orange

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    By: Will Sorg When adapting Anthony Burgess’ dystopian science fiction novel A Clockwork Orange, universally acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick chose to take one thing out of the story: goodness. Although the book itself has very little in the realm of positivity, Kubrick’s 1971 film has none at all. It is a grim, nihilistic, film with…