The year 2004 has not gone particularly well for the global community in terms of nuclear security. But before one explores this past year, one must examine previous years of how this issue has dominated world affairs.
To Moodle, or not to Moodle. That is precisely the question many St. Olaf students and faculty have pondered in recent weeks. Last summer, the techies at Informational and Instructional Technologies (IIT) added a new course management system called Moodle to St. Olafs website.
Every election year, a multitude of issues vie for center stage in each candidates political podium. Some issues such as abortion, unemployment and the economy come back year after year.
However, each election year has its special issues as well this year there has been a lot of talk about what should be done about the situation in Iraq and the war against terrorism.
Living in rural Minnesota and attending a small liberal arts school can certainly make it difficult to keep up with the events of the outside world. After my freshman year, I went home and started watching TV again.
Decisions, decisions it is easy to dread them, and often very hard to change them after we finally make up our minds.
President Thomforde and the Board of Regents are very busy people with a lot on their minds. One thing they decided to do was to sell WCAL earlier this summer.
While the arguments voiced in the Save WCAL opinion piece that ran in your last issue should suffice to convince the Board of Regents and the president of our college to reconsider their decision to pawn off WCAL, I have another, very deep concern about the negative effect the sale would have on the St. Olaf community.
Despite across-the-board budget cuts and a $2,500 tuition increase, the Student Government Association (SGA) is still in a state of financial uncertainty, but not the kind you would think. SGA recently announced that there is a budget surplus of nearly $100,000.
