Weedstock was still 'brought to you by your NORML friends,' but the St. Olaf chapter of the National organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) will no longer share sponsorship with the Music Entertainment Committee (MEC). MEC withdrew its s...

U.S. Representative Keith Ellison of the 5th District of Minnesota delivered a speech called 'Vision for America: An Ever-Expanding Embrace' at St. Olaf College on Tuesday, April 19. Ellison, the first Muslim elected to serve in the United States Congr...

On Friday, April 15, the St. Olaf campus bustled with an unusually high number of people dressed in business clothes for St. Olaf's 2011 Economic Summit. It wasn't a day for idle water-cooler gossip, but a day that brought together business leaders and...

On Saturday, April 9, the flag outside of the St. Olaf Queer Support and Outreach House was stolen for the second time this year. People in the house heard shouting in the streets and loud laughing outside that night, but ignored the noise as normal Sa...

Palestine Awareness Week at St. Olaf aims to combat the lack of knowledge Oles may have of the Israel/Palestine conflict. ...

Hundreds of Oles snubbed Parking Coordinator Donna Hunter's promised parking reforms this past Saturday and stormed Tomson Hall in sheer outrage. A stunned President Anderson and other faculty members watched as students calle...

St. Olaf College ranked third in the nation in a recent article by the New York Times for 'Best Colleges for Crime Sprees.' ...

Dillon Davis '14 recently found himself in a terrible predicament. 'My friends were talking about some issue,' Davis explained. 'I don't really know that much about it and I felt that I should be informed about it before I formed an opinion.' ...

Public Safety received a surprise last Friday when they discovered a student asleep in Fireside at 4:30 a.m. ...

The Caf mystery of the multiplying leaky cups has been solved. Stav Hall Board Manager Randy Clay was apprehended in the act of puncturing cup bottoms at 11:15 p.m. on March 30. He is being held by Public Safety i...

In a stunning turn of events this Tuesday, director of Public Safety Fred C. Behr held a press conference to announce the security force's first solved case in over seven years. ...

Manitou Messenger news co-editors Paula Skaggs '12 and Ben Taylor '13 remain unapologetic for their violent acts toward fellow students. ...

American walks on moon, Soviets left in dark In a shocking turn of events last week, America won the 'Race to Space' against the Soviets when U.S. citizen Neil Armstrong became the first man to ever walk on the moon. Experts believe that it is only...

By March 15, young and volatile high school seniors across the globe received mail that confirmed their future as St. Olaf students. With the class of 2014 being the largest St. Olaf has ever admitted, necessary adjustments were made this year to creat...

On Tuesday Nov. 16, roughly 200 St. Olaf students and members of the Northfield community gathered in Boe Chapel to hear Nate Silver and ndash; one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2009 and ndash; explain the Republican Party's ...

With the passing of English Professor Rich DuRocher this past Tuesday, St. Olaf lost one of its brightest teaching stars. DuRocher, who endured many difficult months of fighting cancer, was known for his encyclopedic knowledge...

While the Italian Reniassance may have taken place only in the 14th century, its legacy continues even today. Whoever said that Leonardo DaVinci or Leon Alberti were the greatest men unfortunately didn't live to meet St.Olaf's own Presiden...

This past Saturday, Nov. 13, on a snowy afternoon, St. Olaf and Carleton students came together to celebrate the Hmong New Year in Carleton's Great Hall, enjoying displays of skill, dancing and delicious food. ...

Some say that two heads are better than one, but not as far as the majority of the Student Government Association's student senators are concerned. On March 1, SGA voted to keep a student election rule, which bans two students from r...

Great, Science, Asian and American Conservation: so many choices; so many courses. But are the conversation programs really worth it? ...