Category: Opinion

Jonas Doerr – Opinion Columnist I had some strict rules at my high school, long ago as it seemed. Believe it or not, we had to wear pants with belts every day to school. Once in a while, we would have a special event – Sweatpants Thursday! Of course, this luxury wasn’t free. We had to…

Clare Greeman – Robert Pattinson Hater/Expert Despite not being that big of a Batman fan, I know far too much than I wish to about the character, its adaptation history, and the new 2022 Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson, making me qualified to air my grievances. My problem lies threefold: in the casting of Robert Pattinson,…

David Eide – Opinion Columnist Personally, I think there’s something magical about receiving letters. Now I don’t mean bills or the other kinds of automated mail that so clutter mailboxes these days. I mean a letter that was handwritten, sealed, stamped, and traveled potentially hundreds of miles and passed through who knows how many hands in order…

Jonas Doerr – Opinion Columnist The new beards sprung themselves on us rather suddenly. With the help of some social upheaval, the new type of beards became cheaply and readily available. Even children could have beards! People soon came up with a name for the new beards: masks. These “masks” had a lot of the same…

Hailley Brune – Opinion Columnist Water is an interesting thing. In 2019, I was a First-year in Gen Chem. I had to take a chemistry class for my first J-term. During that J-term we had a large focus on water. We each were put into groups to research water contamination. Following that, each group put…

David Eide – Opinion Columnist By the time this article is published, Russia may have launched an invasion of Ukraine, an act which would spark the largest war in Europe since World War II and throw the international order into absolute chaos. While I may not be able to do anything about this potential crime against…

Jonas Doerr – Opinion Columnist This weekend the Peer Assistants are sponsoring their annual “100 Hour Challenge.” No, it’s not a challenge to stay up 100 hours in a row, that would obviously just be a normal weekend for college students. What it actually involves is people abstaining from binge drinking or from drinking alcohol at…

David Eide – Opinion Columnist Over break I found myself being swept up in the popular online word game, Wordle. I rarely get invested in this kind of ephemeral internet activity but something about Wordle spoke to me. I think exploring why would be an interesting exercise and hopefully others to give it a shot. Firstly,…

Hailley Brune – Opinion Columnist Most of us are aware that the hours for the cafeteria are a little off this year. The Caf closes at 8:30pm this semester when it used to close around 10:30pm or later. A problem arises around this as a lot of STEM labs and music rehearsals lasting until 8pm or…

Cadence Paramore – Co-Editor-in-Chief Has anyone else read the anonymous words of Gustavus’s very own pandemic Chronicalist? The artist who produced this zine? I missed their first volume, and for that I am incredibly devastated. If you missed it, too, make sure you don’t miss this one– I noticed it’s arrival (just a handful of copies)…