The slogan is emblazoned on signage off the highways leading into Northfield: “City of Cows, Colleges, and Contentment.” Within 20 years of the city’s own founding, two colleges — then...
Since returning to campus in early September, students have noticed a substantial decrease in food variety and staffing in Stav Hall. A number of factors including a staff shortage and difficulties with...
St. Olaf returned to a heightened yellow alert level following an increase of positive COVID-19 cases. As of Thursday, March 25, 76 students are in quarantine and 34 are in isolation alongside a 2.23%...
In Jan. 1922, an unnamed St. Olaf student writing for the Olaf Messenger — then the Manitou Messenger — decided that “now that the prudish conventions which previously limited women to the home...
By Anna Mulhern & Claire Strother
Uniformed Public Safety officers at St. Olaf College began the universal use of body cameras at the start of the 2021 spring semester. Since 2008, Public Safety...
Around 200 St. Olaf students gathered on Buntrock Plaza at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 5 to participate in a “Die-In” organized by St. Olaf’s Climate Justice Collective (CJC). The Die-In protested the...
A group of St. Olaf College students and Northfield community members spent their extended winter break in northern Minnesota protesting the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline. As part...
The St. Olaf Board of Regents convened over Zoom for their second tri-annual meeting of the school year on Feb. 4. The meeting focused on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at St. Olaf as well as the...
Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Bruce King, will leave his position on Feb. 28, drawing to a close his career at the College which spanned over a decade and which saw King assume a leadership...
By Hannah Summers, Managing Editor & Jacob Maranda, Executive Editor
Research and Instruction Librarian for Music and the Fine Arts, Ellen Ogihara, resigned from St. Olaf on Friday, Jan. 29. In...
Since leaving the Hill, I’ve spent my career in national security. I love my work and enjoy the rush I get when reading the new defense bill or digging into complex artificial intelligence code.
I’m...
Fifteen miles south of Minneapolis, just off of I-35, is the Burnsville Mall. As unassuming as the city it serves, the mall is a collection of retail stores, restaurants, and entertainment. Resting in...
