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Vox Lucia vocal festival comes to GAC

Colleen Coleman- On March 15th, the music department will host the Vox Lucia Vocal Festival for Leadership & Singing as a part of the Bjorling Music Festival series, an all-day experience for high school soprano and alto students to hone their musical talents and leadership skills through work with nationally renowned composer Jocelyn Hagen and […]

Columnist’s thoughts on Deadpool 3

Sophia White- In my top 5 movies are both Deadpool films, with Deadpool 2 in second place and Deadpool in 4th. Ryan Reynolds has always been one of my favorite actors and I am sure that statement is the same for many people. Even if he plays very similar characters in his films, with all […]

The remake and its consequences

Houston McLaury- In February, a new series was released on Netflix that I’ve had no interest in seeing. It holds all the promises of a show from my childhood; a show my sibling and I would gather around the TV after elementary school to watch the newest episode or even a rerun from the past. […]

The thirteenth public holiday

Jonas Doerr- The collective population of the United States of America just lost one hour of sleep. That, by the most recent count, comes out to 331.9 million hours. While that is about 0.1 million hours less than the amount of sleep Gusties lose studying for finals, it is still significant. But is there any […]

The 2024 Academy Awards

Will Sorg- On Sunday, Cord Jefferson, a first-time film director, won Best Adapted Screenplay for his film American Fiction. Jefferson’s win was accompanied by a fantastic speech where he passionately argued for movie executives to take chances on newer filmmakers and smaller-scale movies. He outlined his struggle to get his award-winning film made and said […]

Faculty Spotlight: Kris Lowe

Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) has a chapter dedicated to her artwork in the book, The Essential Dear Dara, Writings on Local Characters and Memorable Places, published this year by the Minnesota Historical Society. The Chapter is entitled “Primeval Connection.”

Reflecting On Pandemic-Era Gustavus

Four years ago this week, Gustavus (and the world) started shutting down. A current senior recalls the surreal circumstances of starting college amid the crisis. When I and the class of 2024 first arrived at Gustavus in August, 2020, we went through something more complicated than the classically intimidating transition from high school. Being a […]

Gustie Students Lobby Lawmakers for Higher Ed Funding

On March 12, almost 30 Gustavus students went to St. Paul for the annual Day at the Capitol event, sponsored by the Minnesota Private College Council (MPCC). As with every DATC gathering, students fan out across the Capitol complex, meeting with state legislators from their hometown districts (whenever possible), sharing their Gustavus stories, and educating […]

Lifelong Learning and Connection: Alumni Collaborate at MMEA

The 2024 MMEA Midwinter Clinic featured the collaboration of two Gustavus Alumni from the class of 2007, Justin Schramm and Katherine Johns Bergman. Justin is now the band director at Prior Lake High School and Katherine is a successful freelance composer with her pieces being performed across the country. At this year’s MMEA Midwinter Clinic, […]

Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) and her colleagues at the University of Minnesota published a paper titled, “Psychological responses during latter rehabilitation and return to sport following ACL reconstruction surgery,” in the Journal of Athletic Training.