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Limited hours, limited choices: It's time to reconsider certain COVID restrictions

Limited hours, limited choices: It’s time to reconsider certain COVID restrictions

Manitou Messenger January 14, 2022

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...

Illustration by Anna Weimholt

Vaccines give the Hill some zest

Grace Peacore May 13, 2021

  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...

Illustration by Aimi Dickel

We are becoming desensitized to violence in the news and media

Caroline Peacore May 6, 2021

  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...

Illustration by Anna Weimholt

Oles, it’s your turn to take the vaccine

Claire Boldt April 15, 2021

    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...

Photo by Pete Sieger

The kind of staff we lose

Hannah Summers March 25, 2021

– 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...

Illustration by Kenzie Todd '22

The free speech debate is about power, not principle

Lila Graham March 25, 2021

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...

Illustration by Sadie Favour

A starter guide to unraveling a white supremascist world

Blue Nawa March 11, 2021

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...

Illustration by Aimi Dickel

Who has the power in the classroom?

Maddy Bayzaee March 4, 2021

The immense authority of a professor in the classroom is no secret. They hold the power to influence the way students write, the way students think and the wellbeing of an individual. A single professor’s...

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