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 a...

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...

By: Jackie Scott

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 e...

They helped us move in and survive Week One, they splash the drab walls and doors of residence halls with creativity and they're always available to help when life happens. They're our Junior Counselors (JCs) and Resident Assistants (RAs) and ndash; the ...

Say you're a student whose two biggest interests are physics and English. Or maybe you're interested in medieval women mystics. Although this situation isn't a huge stretch of the imagination at St. Olaf, many attribute the school's ability to accommodate...

Each year, dozens of students, along with St Olaf faculty, traipse across the world in search of adventure and fulfillment of travel fantasies. Constantly on the move, students pick up a little piece of everywhere they go. When they come back, reunions, s...

By: Monica Southworth

The first amendment of the Bill of Rights protects the rights of citizens of the United States to practice religion, assemble and petition the government, as well as the freedom of press and speech. Early this school year, at Butler University in Indianap...

By: Michelle Frank

It is generally conceded that St. Olaf simply cannot offer every class that a student might wish to take. If you have ever had a burning desire to study advanced turtle genetics or post-post modern aesthetics, you are pretty much out of luck in terms of c...

By: Paula Skaggs

Like most other Oles, I'd seen the costumed, painted and excited LARPers running around campus every Saturday. And, also like most other Oles, I really had no idea what they were doing. and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; But...

We have all heard, time and time again, 'you are what you eat. and rdquo; Whether this clich and eacute; is true or not, Bon App and eacute;tit isn't taking any chances - they don't want St. Olaf students turning into candy bars or foods full of trans fat...

Some might call Greg Kneser the Dean of Ghosts. While keeping tabs on campus life, the Dean of Students is also checking on the wandering spirits of St. Olaf. After 20 years of documenting, he shares the stories with any curious ear, both spooking and exc...