Outside Stav Hall, we must be conscientious consumers of seafood to avoid supporting systems detrimental to precious biodiversity and aquatic life, like aquacultures....

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In the April 30 issue of the Manitou Messenger, our 2009-2010 executive and managing editors composed their last editorial as a satirical list of everything they do not believe in on St. Olaf's campus, from the fly fishing club to the parking office. In o...

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You may have noticed at some point or another that Facebook advertisements eerily pertain to your life at times....

I am writing as part of a Conservation Biology project to raise awareness on the differences between organic, local and all-natural foods....

I would like to present a different opinion on used books than generally expressed by Coats' article 'Bookstore attempts to appeal to online shoppers' loyalty and rdquo; in the April 16 edition of the Messenger....

Most people do not realize how ambiguous sexual assault and rape can be. In 47 percent of cases, men and women are reported drinking. Two-thirds of all rapes occur in a home with someone known to the victim, male or female....

By: This We Don’t Believe

On April 20, the Student Government Association Senate passed a resolution developed by its Transportation Committee urging the college to adopt more fair and more efficient parking policies. While some applauded the resolution as forward-thinking and pro...

I'm here with a couple of demands, you liberal arts weaklings. Thanks to this college and its continued besmirching of my royal name, ordinary children across the world will continue to associate St. Olaf with farm-loving, peaceful children of the world w...

We are LARPers and it has come to our attention that many of you do not take what we do seriously. and nbsp; You see us walking around campus wearing pop-can top chainmail, throwing spell pouches at each other behind Larson and beating each other up with ...

By: Ethan Hiedeman

Room draw is over, yet there are a lot of discontented students moping around campus....

Something strange has been going on at the Mess office. Over the course of the year, I've noticed articles about BORSC and Honor Council disappear from the Mess whiteboard with no explanation, almost as if someone were trying to keep something out of the ...

By: Alyssa Mueller

St Olaf's residence hall pet policy is severely limiting. At the moment, my choices for pets include fish and more fish. The main functions of a pet are companionship and protection; fish don't really fulfill either. I need a pet that is practical and unf...

Sex. Violence. Choir music. These are all subjects we are unafraid to talk about here at St. Olaf. Yet, there are other taboo subjects lurking in the underbelly of the St. Olaf campus....

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The nature of a liberal arts education requires us to think concretely about its application. Luckily, we can help you apply the college's current academic year theme of migration. While the official name for the theme year is 'Migration, Freedom, and Rel...

I started writing this article, but then I went on Facebook. Twice. It seems to be a common pattern: something important to do, check Facebook. Something important to do, I really should e-mail that professor back. Something important to do, OK just on...

By: Izzy Peris

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Online social media is always at our fingertips. It seems that everyone has tapped into these websites, given the amount of people already on Facebook and the rise of Twitter. But we're not the only ones on these sites: cele...

Graduation happens every year. For all the seniors, this is round two. In high school, we had to graduate and pick a college. Now, we have to graduate and pick a life. Maybe I'm being a little over-dramatic, but seriously, life is here....

What would you think if someone told you that one of America's foremost liberals was retiring from government? You might wonder which scandal had enveloped Joe Biden or whether Harry Reid's poll numbers in Nevada were looking so bad that he wanted to c...

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Two years ago, OleVillains.com ceased to exist. An experiment in satire founded in the fall of 2007, OleVillians sought to look at life at St. Olaf askance through its sardonic news, features, and blogs. Despite its founders' ambitions to 'dare to stray f...

I was humbled to experience the melancholic serenity that Hiroshima embodies last January. As I wandered in silence through an expanse of land that 55 years ago lay shattered in complete annihilation, I wondered: what would a nuclear-free world look li...