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  • Parking Permits

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    achanson

    Vehicles on campus may park in any red or green permit space until August 31, when we ask all employees and returning students to park according to permit color.  Ticketing in the red and green permit areas then begins at 7am on the first day of classes in the Fall, Tuesday, September 8th. Visitor parking…

  • S.3 E.4: “Very Charged Particles”

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    Gustavus physicist Chuck Niederitter describes the research he and some of his students are conducting into muons (a kind of particle), high altitude research ballooning, the challenges and progress of green energy initiatives on campus, the many doors opened by majoring in physics, and Gustavus’s trip to the moon and back. Season 3, Episode 4:…

  • Not the First Time Without Gustie Athletics

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    siewert

    Today, we combat a global pandemic. During the 1940s, there were less than a dozen Gustie teams participating in intercollegiate competition. Today, the cancellation and postponement of sports affects all but six of Gustavus’s 23 varsity teams.

  • Not the First Time Without Gustie Athletics

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    by CJ Siewert ’11, Director of Sports Information In July, the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference made the difficult decision to postpone this year’s fall sports until spring, except for golf and tennis (which are considered low-risk and will play conference-only schedules). A fall with few conference sports is not exactly unprecedented, though. There was also…

  • S.3 E.3: “Impossible Is Nothing: China’s Theater of Consumerism”

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    Learning for Life @ Gustavus host Greg Kaster interviews Gustavus artist and art professor Priscilla Briggs.

  • S.3 E.2: “Trying to Do Right by Whales”

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    Marine biologist, professor of biology, and Gustavus graduate Nadine Lysiak ’03 on majoring in biology and history at Gustavus, researching North Atlantic right whales both in the lab and up close at sea, the Shoals Marine Laboratory in Maine, and the rewards of teaching. Season 3, Episode 2: “Trying to Do Right by Whales” Greg…

  • Summer Reading and Escapes: Dr. Blake Couey

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    SJ Kessler

    The start of the fall term is less than two weeks away! And while plans for our return to campus remain in flux, the excitement around new classes and new ideas is clearly in the air. Autumn, thankfully, hasn’t quite come yet to Minnesota, but it’s definitely on the horizon. But we shouldn’t give up…

  • S.3 E.1: “Poetry Is about Reimagining the World”

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    Gustavus English professor and poet Philip Bryant, Class of ’73, on his path from Chicago’s Southside to Gustavus, the impact of his undergraduate mentor, his experience as a black student on a virtually all-white small campus at the tail end of the long 1960s, the police killing of Mr. George Floyd, and poetry, including three…

  • Summer Reading and Escapes: Dr. Samuel Kessler

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    SJ Kessler

    We’ve left the second week of August and entered the third. And my, things on campus just keep on changing! But reading and learning stay the same, and trying to think deeply about remains ever challenging. That’s true regardless of if one sits in a college library or in one’s own living room. Today it’s…

  • S.2 E.8: Young People’s Climate Change Lawsuit

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    Gustavus student Nathan Baring ’22 discusses Julianna v. United States, a groundbreaking lawsuit in which he and 20 other young people are suing the federal government for its climate-damaging policies in disregard of scientific evidence. Season 2, Episode 8: Young People’s Climate Change Lawsuit Transcript: Greg Kaster: Learning for Life at Gustavus is produced by…