President George W. Bush will remain in office for another four years after Democratic Party nominee Sen. John Kerry conceded Wednesday and Bush was declared the winner of the 2004 Election. more...
Five days before the election, the Political Awareness Committee (PAC) hosted a debate between the editors of two nationally-known political magazines.
David Corn, editor of The Nation, and Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, battled in Boe Chapel on Thursday evening, and took questions from the audience of students, faculty and guests. The debate dealt primarily with issues relevant for the election, such as the war in Iraq, health care and abortion.
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Over the past few weeks the Student Government Association (SGA) has been trying to decide how to allocate the $100,000 budget surplus. KSTO 93.1 FM, St. Olaf's student-run radio station, has approached SGA for funding from the budget surplus.
The current exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), The Art of Democracy: Tools of Persuasion, is indicative of most current political art. When I first stepped into MIAs gallery, the barrage of slogans and epithets almost exclusively demanding I vote democratic on Nov. 2 overwhelmed me. It seems like this kind of blatant, anti-Bush commentary is everywhere; in my opinion, it just isnt making for original and provocative political art any longer.
While I certainly appreciate the rediscovered (and probably very transient) political fervor of my fellow citizens, I am becoming terribly bored by the whole thing. Ive heard the exact same canned speeches and catch phrases over and over again from politicians, journalists and even from artists. Am I turning into another young cynical non-voter? Of course not but this intractable din of left-wing/right-wing diatribes is really starting to wear me down.
For this reason, I congratulate the current Voice Your Vote exhibit showing in the Dittmann Student Gallery; the show is a contemplative breath of fresh air in the midst of a suffocating, political artistic discourse.more...
Anticipation and anxieties ran high last week as the St. Olaf mens cross country team headed into the MIAC championships. The Oct. 30 race was an opportunity for the Oles to accomplish something they had not done in 28 years win a conference title. The fact that longtime rival Carleton was the other main title contender only added to the tension and suspense.more...
