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Environmental Coalition brings hope to campus

By Kristina Boyer '05
March 31, 2005

Making the St. Olaf campus more hopeful, not just "greener," is a new mission for the student-run Environmental Coalition. A four-part Hope Lecture Series: Considering Hope as a Vehicle for Change, will address how the Coalition can bring hopeful messages to the St. Olaf and Northfield communities.

Living in today's world, we are confronted with doomsday prophecies, terror, war, injustice and environmental degradation. Yet people remain hopeful. The Hope Lecture Series will feature the combined voices of St. Olaf faculty, students and alumni who actively and consciously choose to live lives of hope.

"The purpose of the lecture series is to provide a vision of a hopeful future that we can work towards," says senior Chris Mueller, an organizer of the event. "It is important to have a hopeful goal, and these lectures will help define that goal."

Lectures are scheduled for:

April 6, 7:30 p.m., Viking Theater with Liv Karin Sulerud '01 and St. Olaf Professor/Librarian Elizabeth Hutchins.

April 13, 7:30 p.m., Viking Theater with Elise Braaten '04 and Professor of History, American Studies Jim Farrell.

April 20, 7:30 p.m., Viking Theater with Melina Klimek '05 and Instructor in Political Science Sherri Breen.

Contact Carole Leigh Engblom at 507-786-3271 or leigh@stolaf.edu.