As graduation nears, seniors anticipate future plans away from the Hill. For many, these plans include jobs or graduate school programs that could last anywhere from months to years. But for Ann Raiho '11 and Natalie Warren '11, the future beyond St. O...

SIFE is a national organization that offers college students the opportunity to solve real-world problems with business, marketing and finance tools they learn in the classroom here at Olaf. ...

Many retirees go on exotic vacations or buy expensive cars to celebrate their newfound freedom. Pastor Bruce Benson has chosen a slightly different way to mark this milestone: parting with the beard that has embraced his chin for the last 43 years. ...

David Anderson '74 President of the College Of the many things that I worry about, managing this tension isn't really very high on the list, because I think we are managing it very well. [St. Olaf] has always had a very strong identity, but it ha...

Ordinarily, everything on the St. Olaf campus operates according to plan. We are lucky to live, work and play in a secure and relatively crime-free environment. ...

Most of us are familiar with Matt Riviera from the Cage and his ukulele, Bon App and eacute;tit's board manager Randy Clay and whichever custodian is in charge of our particular floor. But have you ever actually met the people cooking your food? Do you kno...

Imagine you have to make lunch for yourself: you walk over to the refrigerator, grab a couple of slices of bread, some turkey, maybe some cheese, and throw together a sandwich. Simple, right? Now imagine you have to make lunch for more than 3,000 peopl...

For three and a half weeks this January, Hanson set out with his 'Historical Geography and the Bible in the Holy Land' class for St. Olaf's first interim abroad in Israel in over 11 years. Throughout the month, the class explored the interaction of pol...

Minnesota's environmentally-sensitive fish: continued studies of their ecology, behavior and use as biological indicators of healthy waters Have you ever admired the fish swimming freely in the rivers and lakes? Have you ever sat on a stream bank t...

Britta Anderson '12 Criminalistics Imagine living the life of a character on 'CSI: Miami.' You investigate the city in the dark, analyze clues to find criminals and help bring justice to society. For Britta Anderson '12, this vision might someday...

If you are familiar with the scope of the St. Olaf musical tradition, it should come as no surprise that the college has an in-house recording service: St. Olaf Records. The label has produced recordings of the college's orchestra, band and various cho...

The transition to college can be tough. Finding new friends, navigating campus, unloading endless heavy boxes from home into a 12 foot by 12 foot dorm room and figuring out a major (or two) become sources of stress for incoming students. Now add a lang...

By Stephanie Jones Features Editor The St. Olaf campus has little in common with the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, Calif., where Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Bob Rosen began his training. 'It was just 10 ...

Eating in Stav Hall is an integral part of many St. Olaf students' days. One can read the paper over breakfast, review for a test with classmates over lunch and enjoy dinner with friends....

Lucky residents of Northfield, Minn. are blessed with the Malt-O-Meal manufacturing plant and have enjoyed the wafting aromas of cereal production for almost a century. But what if you could bottle your favorite hometown fragrances for anytime enjoyment?...

The History In the fall of 1986, a young man transferred to St. Olaf from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Like any good Ole, he hit the books hard, but always took a healthy study break when needed. While at Swarthmore, this young man, Paul Roback and l...

A look at a variety of camps offered at St. Olaf over the summer....

After living in the dorms, constantly surrounded by your noisy, smelly and distracting peers, you may want to start looking into alternative residential arrangements. However, living off campus means replacing these neighbors with other neighbors, a tr...

For many students the summer provides a time to work and earn money for the upcoming school year, but others work for free or even shell out thousands of dollars for the sake of experience....

Fencing If you are a club sport seeker of the adventurous, swashbuckling variety, fencing may be your weapon of choice. The club, with roughly 10 members, meets every Sunday to fence on the lower track of Skoglund. They use all three types of fen...