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Lagerquist appointed St. Olaf Lilly Scholar
FEBRUARY 28, 2005 — St. Olaf Professor of Religion DeAne Lagerquist will serve as the 2005-06 Lilly Vocational Scholar as part of the St. Olaf Program for Lives of Worth and Service.

Award-winning Brass Band to perform at St. Olaf
FEBRUARY 27, 2005 — The Sheldon Theatre Brass Band will perform at St. Olaf College on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 3:30 p.m., in Christiansen Hall of Music, Urness Recital Hall. Members of the group are professionals and serious amateurs from southeastern Minnesota. The award-winning group from Red Wing performs annually at the North American Brass Band Association Championships. The performance is free and open to the public.

Try some Winter Will Power!
FEBRUARY 26, 2005 — St. Olaf will host an undergraduate Shakespeare Colloquium, the fourth annual Winter Will Power! today and tomorrow, Feb. 26-27. The conference, which costs $5, celebrates Shakespeare's legacy through presentations by faculty and students from St. Olaf as well as Carleton, Gustavus Adolphus and Augsburg colleges and the University of Minnesota. For more information, click here.

Fourth annual undergraduate Shakespeare Colloquium to be held at St. Olaf
FEBRUARY 26, 2005 — Winter Will Power! the undergraduate Shakespeare Colloquium will be held Feb. 26-27 on the St. Olaf College campus. The event invites students and faculty to celebrate Shakespeare's works on the stage and paper. Student essays, panel presentations, workshops, a luncheon with guest speaker, masterclass in preformance and a one-hour production of "As You Like It," will take place on Feb. 26. Conference participants may also reserve a ticket to the Feb. 27, 1 p.m. performance of "Pericles" at the Minneapolis Guthrie Lab, directed by Joel Sass. Deadline for ticket reservations is February 11.

St. Olaf students to hold tsunami relief benefit concert
FEBRUARY 25, 2005 — The St. Olaf Tsunami Relief Committee, a student-run organization at St. Olaf College, is offering a tsunami relief benefit concert tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Northfield Middle School auditorium. The committee has raised over $2,000 to date for tsunami relief through various campus activities. Its goal is to raise $10,000. For more information about the event, e-mail MacWilliams-Brooks at macwilli@stolaf.edu.

Center for Integrative Studies welcomes new director
Titus
FEBRUARY 25, 2005 — The St. Olaf Center for Integrative Studies, which encourages innovative approaches to education by empowering students to create their own individualized majors, has announced that it will be welcoming Professor of English Mary Titus as the new Director of CIS come Fall 2005.

Norwegian choir to perform at St. Olaf as part of Norway's centennial celebration
FEBRUARY 25, 2005 — A choral performance of contemporary Norwegian choral music was part of the centennial commemoration of the peaceful dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway. With support for the choir from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, the occasion also marked 100 years of Norwegian participation in the international community.

St. Olaf junior Lily Moua urges high schoolers to find their way to college
FEBRUARY 24, 2005 — More Minnesota high schoolers than ever are going on to college, said a recent article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. St. Olaf junior Lily Moua, who found her way to St. Olaf through the program Admission Possible, said students must balance their academic and social lives to reach their goals.

Professor Barjasteh to present "Deceit, Desire and the Diary: Eugenie de Guerin's 'Journal'"
Barjasteh
FEBRUARY 22, 2005 — As a specialist in French literature of the Romantic period, Jolene Barjasteh is drawn to works in which the reader finds a heightened awareness of the self. She will speak about the diaries of Eugenie de Guerin in a public lecture this Thursday, 7 p.m.

St. Olaf wind turbine project back on track
Sandberg
FEBRUARY 22, 2005 — A surprise glitch in the grant approval process has delayed construction of the proposed St. Olaf wind turbine, according to Peter Sandberg, director of facilities at the college. But with the process back on track, the college expects to begin benefiting from wind power early next year.

Guest artists Lora Deahl and Kirsten Yon to give recital
FEBRUARY 21, 2005 — Guest artists Lora Deahl, pianist, and Kirsten Yon, violinist, will present a recital at 8:15 p.m., in Urness Recital Hall in Christiansen Hall of Music. Deahl, professor of music at Texas Tech University was named the 1995 Outstanding Collegiate Teacher of the Year by the Texas Music Teachers Association. Yon was a founding member of the Champlin Trio, the Athena Quartet, and the Archiano Ensemble, and has given concerts and masterclasses throughout the United States. Their recital is free and open to the public.

Best-selling book Nickeled and Dimed takes a dramatic turn on Ole stage
FEBRUARY 20, 2005 — The St. Olaf Theatre production of Nickeled and Dimed helped students experience firsthand the plight of the working poor.

The radio program, Sing for Joy, celebrates 50 years with hymn festival
FEBRUARY 20, 2005 — A hymn festival celebrating 50 years of the radio program, Sing for Joy, will take place on Sunday, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m., at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis (333 S. 12th Street). The Festival will feature congregational hymn singing, a massed choir, conducted by Anton Armstrong, the St. Olaf Cantorei, John Ferguson as organist, the program host Bruce Benson, scripture readings and a new commissioned work by Libby Larsen. The event is free and open to the public.

Globalization conference to examine social, economic effects of a global society
Offenheiser
FEBRUARY 18, 2005 — Tsunami-relief expert Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of OXFAM America and a leader in the field of international development and philanthropy, was the keynote speaker at the fourth annual Globalization and Social Responsiblity Conference.

Sing For Joy celebrates 50 years with Hymn Fest
FEBRUARY 18, 2005 — Pastor Bruce Benson hosted Sing For Joy as it celebrated 50 years of broadcasting with a Hymn Festival at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. The St. Olaf Cantorei also performed a newly commissioned work by composer Libby Larsen.

Globalization and Social Responsibility conference to be held at St. Olaf College
FEBRUARY 17, 2005 — This year's theme "Consequences of the New Economy" features lectures, breakout sessions, student research and perspective poster display, a theatrical production of "Nickel and Dimed," and an art exhibit of quilts and poetry by Lila Teresa Church. The events are free and open to the public.

Minnesota Orchestra to play Beethoven at St. Olaf tonight
Vanska
FEBRUARY 17, 2005 — The Minnesota Orchestra, under award-winning conductor Osmo Vanska, will perform Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Symphonies in Skoglund Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. General admission tickets are available at the door.

St. Olaf colloquium Winter Will Power!, Feb. 26-27, celebrates Shakespeare's legacy
FEBRUARY 17, 2005 — St. Olaf College will host an undergraduate Shakespeare Colloquium, the fourth annual "Winter Will Power!," on Feb. 26-27. The conference of undergraduate writing and performance will celebrate Shakespeare's legacy through presentations by faculty and students from five schools.

St. Olaf will host Minnesota Orchestra during five-city tour
FEBRUARY 17, 2005 — St. Olaf College will be the first stop on the Minnesota Orchestra's five-day tour of southern Minnesota, February 17-25. The concert on campus, featuring Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, will be held Thursday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Skoglund Center Auditorium.

St. Olaf students to hold tsunami relief benefit concert
FEBRUARY 16, 2005 — The St. Olaf Tsunami Relief Committee, a student-run organization at St. Olaf College, is offering a tsunami relief benefit concert tonight in the Northfield Middle School auditorium. The committee has already raised more than $2,000 for tsunami relief.

St. Olaf receives $60,000 grant for interdisciplinary research
FEBRUARY 15, 2005 — St. Olaf College has received a $60,000, 3-year grant from the Merck Company Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science through the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program. The funding will support four undergraduate researchers each summer on topics in environmental chemistry, bioanalytical chemistry, genomics and proteomics.

Taliaferro authors two new philosophy titles
FEBRUARY 15, 2005 — St. Olaf Professor of Philosophy Charles Taliaferro is the author of two new books: Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion Since the Seventeenth Century and Cambridge Platonist Spirituality.

Grenberg publishes book on Kant
FEBRUARY 15, 2005 — St. Olaf Associate Professor of Philosophy Jeanine Grenberg recently published Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption and Virtue, a new book from Cambridge University Press. Within the book, Grenberg explores the concept of humility within the Kantian virtue theory. According to Allen Wood of Stanford University, "This book is a significant contribution not only to Kant scholarship, but also to critical reflection on an important moral virtue that in our culture is long overdue for re-examination and re-interpretation."

Church music and academics will be enhanced thanks to WCAL proceeds
FEBRUARY 14, 2005 — The $10.5 million in proceeds from the sale of public-radio service WCAL to Minnesota Public Radio will be used to undergird the college's academic and church-music programs, President Christopher Thomforde has announced.

Raymond Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America to visit St. Olaf Collge
FEBRUARY 14, 2005 — Oxfam America President Raymond C. Offenheiser is the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow on the St. Olaf campus during the week of Feb. 14. Offenheiser is recognized in the United States as a leader in the field of international development and philanthropy and is a frequent commentator in the media on such subjects as foreign aid, international debt, human rights and hunger. The Globalization Conference scheduled at St. Olaf for Feb. 18-19, will also feature Offenheiser as a speaker and participant.

KARE 11 to feature segment tonight filmed at St. Olaf College
FEBRUARY 14, 2005 — Tune in to KARE-11 TV this evening during the 10 o'clock news to see St. Olaf faculty, staff and students taking a special "Minnesota Drivers" test. Recently a film crew from KARE 11 videotaped members of the St. Olaf community taking a test of 26 questions custom-made by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Tonight's newscast will tell us how they did.

St. Olaf political scientist predicts 'chaotic' election season in 2006
FEBRUARY 13, 2005 — It won't be a presidential election year, but 2006 still is shaping up as a "tumultuous" election year in Minnesota races, says St. Olaf Associate Professor of Political Science and frequent media commentator Dan Hofrenning. He was quoted recently in the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune.

St. Olaf Choir to present "home" concert
FEBRUARY 13, 2005 — The St. Olaf Choir will perform a "home" concert at 3 p.m., in Boe Memorial Chapel. The 75-member mixed voices a cappella choir, conducted by Anton Armstrong, will give 18 concerts during this winter tour from southern Minnesota to the East Coast. At mid-point in the tour, the choir will fly to Los Angeles, Calif., to perform at the ACDA National Convention. The "home" concert is free and open to the public.

Polar explorers to talk about upcoming Arctic expedition
Larsen
FEBRUARY 11, 2005 — Polar explorers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen '93 of Grand Marais, Minn., will talk about their upcoming One World Expedition of the Arctic Ocean in downtown Northfield on Feb. 12. The event will help raise funds for their expedition, which, Larson claims, "could be the last great 'first' in polar exploration."

Singer and songwriter Carrie Newcomer to participate in Friday chapel service at St. Olaf College
FEBRUARY 11, 2005 — Carrie Newcomer, award-winning singer and song writer from Blooomington, Indiana, will offer music for reflection during the Friday 10:10 chapel service in Boe Memorial Chapel. Newcomer will be a special guest speaker to students, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Christiansen Hall of Music. Students are to call the Center for Experiential Learning to pre-register for her speech, "Living your calling through music."

New York Times praises St. Olaf Choir performance
FEBRUARY 10, 2005 — The St. Olaf Choir's "remarkable balance and mellow tone" drew the attention of the New York Times in a concert review published Feb. 10. Calling choir conductor Anton Armstrong "gifted" and "a teacher to the core," reviewer Anne Midgette saw the ensemble at Carnegie Hall during its Winter 2005 East Coast tour.

Physicist, professor Bob Jacobel noted for research on glaciers
FEBRUARY 10, 2005 — Professor of Physics Bob Jacobel "is changing the way researchers think about glaciers and how they melt," according to an article in the Star Tribune. Reporter Tom Meersman profiled Jacobel and his researcher after the physicist's work appeared on the cover of a February 2005 issue of Nature magazine.

St. Olaf Regent Martin E. Marty lectured at Yale University
FEBRUARY 10, 2005 — St. Olaf College senior regent Dr. Martin E. Marty delivered the Ralph Gregory Elliot Lecture at Yale University on Jan. 31. His lecture was titled "The First Amendment -- Religion: Subordinate, Not Subservient."

Art apprentice exhibit "Milk Tooth Gone" features work of four artisits
FEBRUARY 9, 2005 — "Milk Tooth Gone, the first of two exhibits by the St. Olaf art apprentices, will run through Feb. 9. Jane Becker, Aaron Reiners, Mary Schmidt and Peter B. Nelson were each awarded a St. Olaf Art Department fifth-year apprenticeship grant after they graduated last spring. As apprentices, they receive studio space, faculty feedback and access to other necessary resources while developing artwork during the 2004-05 academic year. The public is invited to the exhibit of sculptures, photos, prints, drawings and an interactive slide show, in the Flaten Art Museum in Dittmann Center.

Jacobel lands cover story in Nature
FEBRUARY 9, 2005 — "This work provides an entirely new perspective on the storage and routing of water in glaciers," states the Feb. 10 issue of the international weekly magazine Nature about St. Olaf faculty member Bob Jacobel's cover story. St. Olaf students helped with the research in Sweden and on campus.

St. Olaf remains state and national leader for Peace Corps volunteers
FEBRUARY 8, 2005 — When it comes to Peace Corps volunteers, St. Olaf is one of three Minnesota colleges to make the Peace Corps' 2005 "Top Producing Colleges and Universities" list. Since its founding in 1961, the Peace Corps has attracted more than 421 St. Olaf alumni to serve.

St. Olaf Band to perform free home concert, a finale to their winter tour
FEBRUARY 8, 2005 — The St. Olaf Band, the oldest musical organization at St. Olaf College, will perform Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m., in Skoglund Center, bringing to a close their winter tour. The 90-member ensemble, conducted by Timothy Mahr, performed in nine-cities from Iowa to Texas. The concert is free and open to the public.

The program will premier two works: "Burlesca" from "Variations for Orchestra" by Dominick Argento and "From the Banks to Blue Ridge," by St. Olaf senior Carl Holmquist.

Singer, songwriter Carrie Newcomer to speak at St. Olaf
FEBRUARY 8, 2005 — Carrie Newcomer, award-winning singer and songwriter from Bloomington, Indiana, will be the special guest speaker on Friday, Feb. 11 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Christiansen Hall of Music, room 105. Her speech, "Living your calling through music," sponsored by the Lilly Endowment Program, is free and open to the public. In addition, music for reflection will be offered by Newcomer during the Feb. 11, 10:10 a.m. chapel service.

St. Olaf remains a state, national leader for 2005 Peace Corps volunteers
FEBRUARY 1, 2005 — When it comes to Peace Corps volunteers, St. Olaf is one of three Minnesota colleges to make the Peace Corps' 2005 "Top Producing Colleges and Universities" list. Since its founding in 1961, the Peace Corps has attracted more than 421 St. Olaf alumni to serve.

World Wide Service Fair offers domestic, international service opportunities
FEBRUARY 1, 2005 — Oles who pursue lives of service seem born with an inordinate amount of patience and a sense of adventure, an ability to adapt to new places, new people, and new ways of living. The annual World Wide Service Fair on Feb. 18 offers current students a chance to learn more about 20 different international and domestic organizations that would allow them to serve their community, country and the world.