With elections today, candidates for Student Government Association (SGA) executive positions are putting up their last signs, addressing the student body at informational forums and hoping for the votes to swing their way. The student body, however, seems to be less aware of and less enthusiastic about the upcoming SGA election than they were in past years.more...
St. Olaf College's endowment has grown from $152.5 million in 2003 to $231.8 million in 2005, ranking it the 199th largest in the nation, according to a recent survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). The 52 percent growth of St. Olafs endowment over the past three years has made it the largest of the 28 ELCA colleges and universities in America. more...
Last week, St. Olaf College saw the annual celebration of all things woman: V-Week. Focused around the schools fourth production of Eve Enslers "The Vagina Monologues," V-Week was a campus-wide celebration and awareness campaign that sought to raise campus consciousness on many topics, focused on ending violence against women.
Poking around the St. Olaf homepage while wasting time on the Internet the other day, I discovered a hotlink that read, Presidential search updates. Ooh! I thought. Maybe there will be a list of candidates. But when I clicked on the link, all I saw was the old advertisement for applicants to the presidency. more...
The yearly St. Olaf production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues made its return last week, but this year, in addition to Ensler's play, several St. Olaf students penned their own monologues for a spin-off dubbed The St. Olaf Monologues.more...
Armed with familiar (but dreaded) red Jeep Grand Cherokees that whiz around campus performing unknown tasks, sharp-looking uniforms, and a handful of radios producing mostly white noise and whispered instructions, one may say St. Olaf's Public Safety (PS) team is somewhat of a faceless-but-nonetheless-fear-conjuring-entity on campus.
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