Alex FriedrichWhen I visited St. Olaf College last week, I wanted to find out what the expression “Um! Yah! Yah!” meant. No luck. The folks I spoke to really didn’t know. Then I found the 2005 St. Olaf magazine article above on the Web. Its explanation: The rouser, it turns out, is actually based upon the Read more →
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Nah, this isn’t official St. Olaf gear. Found one of these after talking to some students at St. Olaf College last week. They said some Ole student started selling them a while back, and that campus administration really frowned on them. (I’ve got a call in to officials there.) They also said Carleton has its Read more →
Looks like St. Olaf’s Hi Mom Webcam is partially obscured by the Christmas trees.
Lots of students at liberal arts colleges talk about the quality of the teaching, and the close relationships that classes form with their professors. At St. Olaf, they’ve put it down in writing. On a tour of the campus, I stumbled upon a temporary shrine of sorts to professors in the skyway between Buntrock Commons Read more →
Students kept telling me yesterday how many clubs St. Olaf has — to the point where some get overwhelmed with juggling their academic and extracurricular lives. Below are just a few that I don’t remember seeing when I was in college — and neither did Carolina Astrain, our newsroom coordinator, who is a 2010 graduate Read more →
You’ve gotta love liberal arts colleges for some of the quirky classes they offer. The title of this St. Olaf course sounds like it’ll make history sexy: History 140 / Pirates of the Caribbean. Yesterday during my visit to the college, I dropped in on the class, taught by Steve Hahn, a professor specializing in Read more →
This is it. After hearing how gross it is for the past seven years, I’m about to try lutefisk. I’m at St. Olaf College’s grand meal, the one it serves in Stav Dining Hall for its annual Christmas Festival. The place is packed and noisy, as is Buntrock Commons, the building in which it’s located. Read more →
If you doubt the whole Norwegian/Skandinavian stereotype of St. Olaf, just check out its bookstore: I walked in to check out the hoodies and sweatshirts when I was confronted with a veritable Skandimart: textiles, flags, trinkets, books, jams, candies, cookies, and lots of ot
This is what I was talking about in my post on music here at the college. I’m not normally a wind chime guy, but I find this one enchanting. MPR did a piece on it a while back, and you can read the transcript here, so I won’t waste your time here. But it’s to Read more →
It seems I’m surrounded by music here at St. Olaf. Walking across campus, passersby are practicing their choral singing. When things get quiet, I can hear the soothing, almost eerie wind chimes from the center of the main yard. And walk around enough throughout the week, chances are you’ll run into some performance or recital. Read more →