Month: March 2010

The Choir of Christ Chapel of Gustavus Adolphus College will travel southwest to Arizona when it embarks on its annual tour April 15-18. The upcoming tour includes concert dates in Sun City West, Phoenix, and Tucson.

The Gustavus Adolphus College women’s hockey team topped St. Catherine 5-1 on Saturday afternoon at Don Roberts Ice Rink to win its seventh consecutive Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Playoff championship. With the win, the team will earn the automatic bid from the MIAC to the NCAA Tournament, which begins next weekend.

A group of approximately 70 Gustavus Adolphus College students and staff, including President Jack R. Ohle, took a bus to St. Paul on Thursday, March 4 to advocate for need-based student financial aid through the Minnesota State Grant Program.

The Gustavus Jazz Lab Band from Gustavus Adolphus College will embark on a six-day concert tour to various locations in Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia March 26-31.

The Gustavus Adolphus College Alumni Board of Directors has announced that Mark Anderson ’66, the College’s Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid, will receive the Greater Gustavus Award.

Drucilla Barker, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, will speak at this year’s Moe Lecture in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Gustavus Adolphus College Assistant Professor of Geography Anna Versluis is currently in Haiti conducting research on the extent and impact of familial and neighborly aid following the earthquake that devastated the small island country on Jan. 12.

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, a nationally recognized teacher, writer, public speaker, and activist committed to nonviolent social change, will deliver the keynote address at the 30th annual MAYDAY! Peace Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College. This year’s conference will take place Wednesday, April 28 and is themed “Imagining Peace.”

The Gustavus Adolphus College and Augsburg College men’s hockey teams took regulation and four overtimes to settle an MIAC Playoff semifinal game at Don Roberts Ice Rink on Saturday night. When it was all said and done, the Gusties prevailed 6-5 and several records were broken.