St. Olaf College
News and updates from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
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Alumni couple donates collection to Flaten Art Museum
Eugene '52 and Margaret Froiland Skibbe '53 are donating their collection of 180 prints by Japanese artist Yoshida Hodaka to St. Olaf's Flaten Art Museum. "St. Olaf has . . . become an excellent repository for the fine arts," says Eugene Skibbe. "We hope that Hodaka will enhance that." A show that will include donated items opens February 17.
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St. Olaf to welcome back 1968-72 men's basketball teams
St. Olaf will welcome back members of the 1968–72 men's basketball teams, which reached three national tournaments in four seasons, when the current team hosts Saint John's University Saturday.
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But can you use it in a sentence?
What started out as a brainstorming session to come up with library gimmicks resulted in a Rolvaag Library tradition that is celebrated this week with the release of the 100th edition of the popular "Word of the Week" buttons.
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Shows celebrates with Shostakovich
Instructor in Music Ray Shows (violin and viola) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his ensemble, the Artaria String Quartet. "We're just taking care of chamber music to pass it on to the next generation," Shows told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Annalee Wolf '89 also plays in the quartet.
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Theater students 'light up' during Interim
While many St. Olaf students went to their Interim class expecting to take notes, Kate Fridley '14 showed up to her Interim class each day without a notebook, ready to put up stage lights and play her clarinet. She was one of 17 students in the advanced Producing Theater Interim course that merged musical and theatrical projects into an academic setting.
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'Neverending Myth' class culminates in neverending reading
Christopher Brunelle and his students recently performed Ovid's epic Metamorphoses in a marathon public reading. The 15 hours it took the group to complete the 12,000 lines of text were punctuated by a variety of styles, including rap.
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St. Olaf earns top Peace Corps ranking
With 24 alumni currently serving abroad in the U.S. Peace Corps, St. Olaf's No. 3 ranking among small colleges and universities earns the college a "Top 25" ranking from the service organization for the number of volunteers it produces.
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Chris Raschka '81 wins second Caldecott
Chris Raschka '81 has won the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal for A Ball for Daisy, a wordless story of a dog’s busy day with a red ball. Raschka previously won the medal in 2006 for The Hello, Goodbye Window and he earned a Caldecott Honor in 1994 for Yo! Yes?
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Marino reflects on Paterno legacy in the Chronicle
"The ancient Greeks had an expression, 'Call no man happy until he is dead,'" writes Professor of Philosophy and former assistant football coach Gordon Marino in "The Integrity and Ignominy of Joe Paterno" in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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From panic to praise: Learning the value of networking
In the first weeks of last year’s Career Network for Oles, Caleb Harrison '12 feared the worst — that no one would respond to his profile highlighting interests in development, international law, and serving abroad. "I was panicking. My peers were receiving responses from parents and alumni and I had yet to hear a thing," Harrison says.
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