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  • Library at Gustavus (Part 8 of 10)

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    jjenson

    READING HALL (1942-1948) In 1942, the former President’s House was remodeled to contain a leisure reading room, offices, and the college post office.  The reading room was intended primarily for freshmen and sophomores, though juniors and seniors could also use the space.  The Almen-Vickner collection was contained in the Reading Hall. Please send us your…

  • Burning Mouth Syndrome – An Unrelenting Condition

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    lhecht

    written by Xander DuMoulin, Justyn Hermel, Claudia Lampi, and Tate Littlefield   Hungry, growing impatient for pizza to cool down – you’ve been there. You take a bite and the scalding hot cheese sticks to the roof of your mouth, burning you. The ensuing pain is incredibly irritating, lasting a few hours to several days…

  • Aromatherapy: How Safe Is This Organic “Treatment?”

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    lhecht

    written by Abegeya T., Allison D., CJ Herrick, and Jessa W.    Living with young children can be hectic and trying to keep them calm while running to appointments can be challenging. Would you be interested in a simple solution to help your children’s stress, low moods, insomnia, muscle tension, and even common infections without…

  • A Sixth Sense?!

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    lhecht

    Written by Stephanie Anderson, Kaylyn Leonard, Ronald Romero, and Jada Zevenbergen   Sight, touch, smell, taste, hearing … and spatial orientation? If you were asked, “how many senses do you have?”, most likely you would answer five: sight (vision), touch (somatosensation), smell (olfaction), taste (gustation), and hearing (audition); but did you know that we actually…

  • A List of, Objectively, the 13 Best Films of 2021

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    Gustavian Weekly

    Will Sorg 13. Spiral: From The Book of Saw: The best decision that could have possibly been made for the Saw franchise was to get rid of Jigsaw and have the main character be an out-of-place Chris Rock making the tone as inconsistent as possible. This movie also gets bonus points for Samuel L. Jackson’s…

  • Movies From Swank: Kill Bill: Volumes One and Two

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    Gustavian Weekly

    Will Sorg Kill Bill is a duology made as an ode to film. They are love letters to East Asian 1970s action films, to American westerns, to cinema itself. But for a pair of films so filled with love, they are, ironically, a tale of violence, betrayal and revenge. The Bride, played by Uma Thurman,…

  • Movies from Swank: Pixels

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    Gustavian Weekly

    Will Sorg Before Sony Pictures studio decided to make Pixels into an underwhelming, soulless, comedy about Adam Sandler shooting aliens that look like 80’s video game mascots, there was actually a very interesting origin story to the film. In 2010, Patrick Jean made a 3 minute short film entitled Pixels. It was very simplistic: a…

  • Dept. of Religion Hosts Regional Religion Conferences

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    SJ Kessler

    The Department of Religion played host this past weekend (April 1-2) to the annual joint conferences of the Upper Midwest Region’s Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) and American Academy of Religion (AAR). Hosted for the first time in the region’s history at Gustavus Adolphus College, the joint meeting was attended in-person and online by over…

  • Men’s Tennis Falls to No. 2 Chicago 8-1

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    sabrego

    WEST BEND, Wis. – After taking big wins against MIAC opponents on Saturday, the Gusties fell to a regional competitor on Sunday afternoon. The Gustavus men’s tennis team suffered an 8-1 loss to No. 2 Chicago after putting up a solid battle with three singles matches going into tie breakers.

  • Library at Gustavus (Part 7 of 10)

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    jjenson

    ANNEX IN UHLER HALL (1931-1948) A storage room in the basement of Uhler Hall was used as extra storage for the library. This area was known as the Library Annex. Please send us your library memories: https://gustavus.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eP4PoCsANFwEPTo