U.S. Ambassador to Norway Benson Whitney and Norwegian Ambassador to the United States Knut Vollebaek spoke with students, members of the administration and the media Wednesday afternoon as part of their joint tour to promote study abroad opportunities.more...
Recently, Star Tribune reporter Mary Jane Smetanka had the opportunity to sit in on the St. Olaf admissions proceedings, which she wrote about in the Feb. 22 issue of the newspaper.
I distinctly remember the first time I learned the word scrotum. Mr. Smith and Mr. OToole, two gravelly-voiced ex-marines, were teaching my fifth-grade sexual education class, and to lighten the mood, Mr. Smith was cracking genitalia jokes. What do you call twelve naked men sitting on each others shoulders? he asked.more...
Dance artist-in-residence Ellen Keane has begun choreographing an interpretation of changes spanning thousands of years in southern Minnesotas natural history using St. Olaf tap dancers and Taiko drummers. more...
The St. Olaf women's hockey team fell to St. Thomas 6-2 last Friday in MIAC playoff semi-final action. The loss brings the Oles' overall record to 15-10-1 on the season.more...
Who the hell knew that you had to register in advance for a rock-paper-scissors tournament? I mean, doesn't that contradict the entire backyard ethos of rock-paper-scissors, the most spontaneous and entertaining of all our decision-making games? My associates and I arrived at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Friday afternoon (the tournament was before the Timberwolves game; the final was during halftime) looking to prove our mettle: Would we survive in a post-apocalyptic world where rocks, paper and scissors were the only weapons? As our ignorance of the registration rules proved, we had a lot to learn about competitive RPS.more...
