I was born on a farm in central Minnesota. My parents, neither of whom attended college, moved to the Twin Cities in search of something better for their children. Minnesota had invested in education,...
We’re now officially at that point in the semester. Assignments and inboxes are accumulating faster than I can blink — but my Google Calendar is already etched into the backs of my eyelids. As demanding...
I think the biggest advantage one could have when it comes to midterms is feeling like you are prepared, and that — no matter the outcome — you did your best. But there are many incredible campus resources...
Julia Thomas, Contributing Writer
• March 13, 2025
This past academic year, I’ve had over 40 required books for my classes. Through the St. Olaf Bookstore, this would’ve cost me hundreds of dollars. But instead of purchasing or renting my books, I...
As a sophomore who witnessed the terrors of last year’s housing process, the idea of informal housing is really cool to me. It makes me happy to know that there is a way for people to not have to be...
Hannah Goldner Niederman
Contributing Writer
Existing on a college campus can be a difficult experience for so many reasons, and Covid has only made it more difficult. Being on Olaf’s campus during...
I know the vaccine is not a guarantee against the coronavirus, but with two shots in my arm I am feeling a kind of hope I have not experienced in a very long time.
I am, above all else, a people...
The flag in front of Buntrock has been at half-staff for the majority of our semester. It feels like our country and our world experience tragedy after tragedy at an increasing speed. Some horrific...
Just last week I was sitting at my computer finishing the last of my Sunday homework grind. All of a sudden, I received an email from a friend, with a link to a vaccination clinic sign-up...
– Music students reflect on departure of Ellen Ogihara
St. Olaf loves to market itself as an institution committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, but beneath the optics and empty rhetoric the College...
There is an intrusive canard in American politics that conservatives value free speech above all else, while liberals and leftists seek to compromise on free speech to suppress reactionary elements. In...
Last week, I critiqued the anti-racism training put on by St. Olaf. My biggest grievance with the training is that it did not provide concrete examples of how to be anti-racist, instead opting for abstracted...
