Gustavus Blogs

Category: Opinion

  • Ghostly Gusties: Real ghost sightings on campus

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    Maia Honl – Opinion Columnist Do you believe ghosts are real? It might seem like a stupid question, but it’s one that people use as an icebreaker. With this question, you’re able to tell many things about a person. By saying yes you show that you are open to the unknown, but if you say that…

  • Making the Community Stronger

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    Lexi Louis – Opinion Columnist Gustavus Habitat for Humanity is a great organization in my opinion. It works to build affordable homes for families in need, it advocates to lessen poverty and homelessness and it provides practice with cooperation. Their service is done at a local and national level. This is an important organization, and…

  • An Overview of the Gustavus Finance Club

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    The Gustavus Finance Club The Gustavus Finance Club promotes financial wellbeing on campus and assists Gustavus students in achieving their financial goals. The Club is advised by Professor and Chair of the Department Economics and Management, Sheng Yang, and consists of student members within the Economics and Management Department. One of the club’s goals is…

  • We need to take the “art” out of liberal arts

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    Tori Smith – Former Art Major There are few things in life that ruffle my feathers. People chewing too loudly, talking too loudly or breathing too loudly are just a few that I can think of off the top of my head. After the art installation fiasco here on campus, however, the art department just shot…

  • Only thing to fear is sphere itself

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    Lexi Louis – President of FES This may seem shocking to some physicists, but I strongly believe the earth is flat. Physicists have missed the point of view we see from our eyes and what technology cannot reveal. The earth appears as a sphere from a camera in space, but to us we only see the…

  • Robots: The New Face of Crustavus

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    Amia Honl – Writer Bot One of the most important missions here at Crustavus is our green movement. With compost bins everywhere, a Crustavus student is able to be a little more green in their daily lives. One thing we can’t be green with is our body’s gas output. Once we start sweating, a human being…

  • White people: Why are they afraid to talk about race?

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    Cadence Paramore – Opinion Columnist For many white students–and that is a large majority of our campus’s population–conversations about race look a lot like fear: fear of saying or doing the wrong thing and offending someone. And, yes, it’s good to be conscious of how our words and actions can have a negative impact on our…

  • College students deserve a Spring Break

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    Emily Seppelt – Opinion Columnist As we are in the midst of our third COVID semester, the mid-semester onslaught has arrived right along with the rainy spring weather. Many of us may be having flashbacks to last March when we were all sent home and “enjoyed” a two-week spring break. Last March, spring break was extended…

  • Require traveling abroad for Liberal Arts

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    Lexi Louis – Opinion Columnist Traveling should be a requirement for a liberal arts education. Experiencing different customs, learning to be open minded and seeing other places in the world is beneficial for becoming more knowledgeable about effective communication. It makes traveling easier and lessens culture shock and cultural barriers. Cultural shock is the experience someone…

  • Our two college towns

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    Grace Worwa – Opinion Columnist St. Peter is a small college town. That’s how I always describe it to my relatives after I tell them I go to school in St. Peter and they give me a blank stare. Yes, it has that single main road lined with old-looking shops and restaurants, that community where everyone seems…