Each week we feature an Ole athlete to get to know them better on and off of the playing field. This week: Jacob Marotz....

Playing without one of their top hitters, the St. Olaf volleyball team proved to be resilient. When she returned to the lineup, the Oles were dominant....

It has been five years since the St. Olaf men’s and women’s soccer teams qualified for the MIAC playoffs in the same season. For the Ole women, it was the last time they qualified at all. Both squads took significant steps towards changing tha...

Walking through Buntrock Commons Monday, I was taken aback by two things. One, there is some big thing called “Christmas Fest” coming up. Two … I had mail! A handful of letters addressed to Guru Slack (a little on the nose I admit, but ...

One year ago, the St. Olaf men’s cross country team was celebrating a MIAC championship in a wide-open field at the conference meet. A week from Saturday at Como Park Golf Course in St. Paul, the team hopes history will repeat itself in what appears...

Considering the electric power encased in this highly evolved piece of pleasure, it is perplexing that so many of us find ourselves completely dumbfounded by the confrontation of the clit. Indeed, some may even think of it as “Nature’s Rubik&r...

Based on hymns both familiar and unfamiliar to the St. Olaf community, along with scripture readings and reflections, this program encompassed many of the ideals and worship practices that students have come to associate with the group....

The music department’s lyric theater season  kicks off with the “Marriage of Figaro,” the famous Mozart opera....

Natalie Davis ’12 has been working the pageant circuit for about five years. This past year, her hard work was recognized as she gained entry into the Miss Minnesota Pageant, narrowly missing a trip to the national Miss America competition....

The Hold Steady is one of those rare bands. As a band that formed as nothing more than an idea to pay tribute to the great classic rock bar bands, the Hold Steady has found its way and now plays in more than just bars, including at festivals in the United...

Our society is fixated on sex and everything having to do with sex. It’s constantly on our minds. We think about, talk about, laugh about, complain about and fantasize about sex. Society and our sex drives tell us to do all these things. But society...

Yet with the increasing accessibility and demand of musical technology, such as iPods and Pandora online radio, the question of KSTO’s future, as well as radio in general, has arisen. Is KSTO still alive beyond those who run it and DJ for it? Does r...

Strangers in a strange land, we arrived as first years into the unknown. Some good advice was what we needed, relevant to all of us, yet specific to each individual. My fellow scholars and I received such counsel when President Anderson visited Kildahl in...

We had the opportunity to interview Badgley via a midday conference call. Other call participants included Popstar.com, the San Francisco Star and newspapers from universities across the nation, ranging from Pace University to the University of Pennsylvan...

 Frequently, organizations around the country release reports on the sustainability efforts of colleges and universities. One of these, the College Sustainability Report Card for 2010 was released, giving St. Olaf College a C. ...

Dr. Chris Vaughn, director of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest’s Costa Rica Field Research Program, came to St. Olaf to share his experiences in Costa Rica and give students more information about the program. ...

Karl Rove, former Deputy Chief of Staff with the Bush administration, spoke with Manitou Messenger reporter Izzy Peris and executive editor Eric Anderson before delivering a speech in Skoglund on Oct. 1 as the fall Political Action Committee speaker. ...

  In the United States,  at least 500,000 people are believed to suffer from Parkinson’s disease, and about 50,000 new cases are reported annually. Dopamine is one of the common treatments for Parkinson’s, and for St. Olaf ...

Picture this: some friends of yours are planning a movie night. Because they can’t decide for themselves, they come up to you in Fireside, asking for your opinion about which movie to watch. One friend, fully convinced that “The Matrix” ...

Beyond-capacity crowds and deafening cheers at First Avenue are usually reserved for local staples like Atmosphere or The Hold Steady. Last Tuesday, however, the French rock band Phoenix filled the legendary Minneapolis venue with their brand of fuzzed-ou...