Author: Matt Thomas ’00

The Fall 2011 issue of Firethorne – the student literary and graphic arts journal at Gustavus Adolphus College – will be released at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 at a release party at the Courtyard Café.

Sophomore Jennifer Werness of Burnsville, Minn., was crowned St. Lucia on Thursday morning in Christ Chapel at Gustavus Adolphus College’s 71st annual Festival of St. Lucia.

Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to announce that it will begin live streaming a number of campus events through a partnership with Stretch Internet.

The Gustavus Wind Orchestra will be featured on a Wednesday, Dec. 7 Twin Cities Public Television broadcast about Minneapolis’ Foshay Tower. The Orchestra’s performance of John Philip Sousa’s Foshay Tower Washington Memorial march, written for the dedication of the tower, will be be part of the broadcast.

Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to announce four strategic initiatives of its Environmental Studies Program thanks to a generous grant from The Margaret A. Cargill Foundation.

Have you wondered how the annual holiday service comes together? Gustavus senior Kyia Knutson produced the following video, which sheds some light on what went into this year’s service, “Julljus: Light from the Old World, Light to the New.”

Gustavus Adolphus College will celebrate the creation of the Leadholm Interfaith Room from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6. The new Interfaith space is located on the lower level of the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center adjacent to the Diversity Center and the Office of Residential Life.