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Addressing the dish drought

If you are wondering why your food has been on a white plate that you have only before seen at Christmas Festival, you are not the only one. The cafeteria has been short on plates and cups since the beginning of the semester. Full story

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Doodle on a desk as a kid? Be glad you didn’t get arrested

Doodling seems like a fairly harmless activity. Granted, damaging school property can become a big problem, so a fine would not have seemed far out of line. However, Gonzalez was handcuffed in front of her class, and then escorted to the police precinct. Full story

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Men, women run, jump and throw way to wins at Qualifier

The St. Olaf men's and women's track and field teams claimed several top finishes at Friday's Qualifier, their final regular season indoor meet ahead of this weekend's MIAC Championships. Full story

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Concert rocks the cause and Pause

Dancing under a shower of balloons and confetti, the attendees of the After School Special charity ball simultaneously experienced a return to the joys of childhood and supported Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, an organization that matches underprivileged kids with mentors. Full story

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New prof rating system

In an unanimous vote by the Student Senate on Tuesday, the Student Government Association officially proposed that St. Olaf have its own way of rating professors and courses called the Course and Teaching Evaluation (CATE). This idea is generating a copious amount of attention from St. Olaf students and faculty.

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Engineers without own program

Last April, a team of St. Olaf students won the National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, where students compete to build a machine that does a simple task in a complicated way. St. Olaf was the only school in the competition without an engineering program and the only non-engineering college to ever bring home the title.

Lofty expectations spur mounting workloads

Year-round workouts make “offseason” a misnomer

As spring approaches, it is time to roll out the red carpet for spring sports. But it is also time for fall and winter sports to continue practice. It’s no secret that during the season, sports are time-consuming. But does the madness continue year-round?

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Illegal downloading elicits disconnection from Internet

In an era shortly following the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth, there lived a people who either purchased or rented movies from places they called “video stores.” Many movie renters and buyers from this ancient time watched – and found to be rather hilarious – a cymbal-crashing preview sponsored by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.

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Is that a violin?

At first glance it looks like a violin. Now take a closer look. Where a simple black fingerboard usually lays is a glittering, pearl-incrusted piece of art...This instrument is clearly not a violin, but a piece of art: a Hardanger fiddle. It is what the eight lucky members of St. Olaf’s Hardanger fiddle group, the Lars Skjervheim Spelemannslag, have the privilege of playing.

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