Amidst a failed attempt at online voting and multiple regulation infractions, last weeks Student Government Association (SGA) executive elections drew a record student voter turnout.more...
When Pause Financial Managers Nicholas Grey '04 and Ryan Shiek '04 met on Leap Year weekend to look over the Pause's finances for January and February, they made an unexpected discovery: a large amount of money had been withdrawn through online bill pay.
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In an age of million-dollar sports contracts and billion-dollar corporate buyouts, a new position is starting to garner wages exceeding a million dollars. The position of college president is becoming increasingly lucrative, to a point at which some are beginning to ask, "How much is too much?"
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It was a long journey for Linda Chavez to the podium in Boe Chapel on Wednesday night, both figuratively and literally. Chavez, who addressed the St. Olaf audience on the subject of affirmative action, opened by explaining her adventurous trip, which started on Monday. Her plane out of Washington, D.C. experienced technical problems and was forced to circle the city in the air, for over an hour. By Tuesday, Chavez had picked up the flu, at a Board of Directors meeting she was attending in San Francisco; the sickness, however, did not stop Chavez from keeping her engagement at St. Olaf.
The annual SGA Elections at St. Olaf pass by every year with little more than a second thought by most students. Candidates surface from the small contingency of students involved in SGA, put up a few posters and halfheartedly hope that the majority of the student body will voice its opinion by filling out a ballot.more...
"Pussies unite!"
"[My vagina is] pissed off!"
These were the sounds of the cast of the 2004 St. Olaf production of the Vagina Monologues" warming up in the Pause for their Saturday performance. Decked out in black, red and pink, the all-female cast formed a semi-circle in the darkened theater, each woman shouting a line from the monologues, a motivating tidbit, or something related to their vaginas. Anything about vaginas.more...
The St. Olaf swimming and diving team capped off another great season as they placed second in both the men's and women's section at the MIAC Championships. Gustavus nipped the men 909.5-858, and the women finished 160 points behind the Gusties. more...
With the presidential election coming up in November, and the country engaged in a war, things are more political than usual at St. Olaf. This, along with recent controversy has added to the heated debate over the presence of political bias in college classrooms. A movement to incorporate "intellectual diversity, " which is related to political diversity, in the classroom has begun on college campuses around the nation -- including St. Olaf. What is intellectual diversity? Is St. Olaf intellectually diverse?more...
