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St. Olaf College

St. Olaf College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American pastors and farmers led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after the King and the Patron Saint Olaf II of Norway and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It was visited by King Olav in 1987[7] and King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway in 2011.[8][9] Queen Sonja of Norway visited the college's campus a second time in 2022 as part of a tour to celebrate the connections between Norway and Minnesota's Norwegian-American community. She participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Special Collections vault at Rølvaag Memorial Library.[10]

St. Olaf College
Former names
St. Olaf’s School (1874–1889)
MottoFram! Fram! Kristmenn, Krossmenn (Nynorsk)
Motto in English
Forward! Forward! Men of Christ, Men of the Cross
TypePrivate liberal arts college
EstablishedNovember 6, 1874; 149 years ago (1874-11-06)
Religious affiliation
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Academic affiliations
Endowment$666.02 million (2022)[3]
Budget$210.3 million (2020)[4]
PresidentSusan Rundell Singer
Undergraduates3,048 (fall 2018)[5]
Location,
U.S.

44°27′34″N 93°10′50″W / 44.45944°N 93.18056°W / 44.45944; -93.18056
CampusRural 920 acres (370 ha)[6]
Colors    Black and gold
Nickname"Oles" /ˈlz/ OH-leez
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division IIIMIAC
MascotSt. Olaf Lion, "Ole"
Websitewww.stolaf.edu

As of 2017, the college enrolled 3,035 undergraduate students and 256 faculty.[11] The campus, including its 325-acre (132 ha) natural lands, lies 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the city of Northfield, Minnesota; Northfield is also the home of its neighbor and friendly rival Carleton College. Between 1995 and 2020, 154 St. Olaf graduates were named Fulbright Scholars and 35 received Goldwater Scholarships.[12][13]

History edit

 
Herman Amberg Preus, (1825–1894), a key figure in organizing the Norwegian Synod.

Seal and motto edit

The seal of the St. Olaf College displays the Coat of arms of Norway, which includes the axe of St. Olaf.

The motto Fram! Fram! Kristmenn, Krossmenn, written in New Norwegian, is adapted from the Old Norse battle cry of King Olaf. It means "Forward! Forward! Men of Christ, Men of the Cross".

Founding edit

Many Norwegian immigrants arrived in Rice County, Minnesota, and the surrounding area in the late 19th century. Nearly all were Lutheran Christians, and desired a non-secular post-secondary institution in the Lutheran tradition that offered classes in all subjects in both Norwegian and English. The catalyst for St. Olaf's founding was the Reverend Bernt Julius Muus; he sought out the help of the Revs. N. A. Quammen and H. Thorson. Together they petitioned their parishes and others to raise money to buy a plot of land on which to build the new institution. The three received around $10,000 in pledges, formed a corporation and bought land and four buildings (old Northfield schoolhouses) for the school.[14][15] Muus came under scrutiny after a divorce case revealed extensive acts of domestic abuse.[16] He fell out of favor with many of his predecessors, but the school did not officially denounce his abuses.[17]

St. Olaf's School opened on January 8, 1875, at its first site under the leadership of its first president, Thorbjorn N. Mohn, a graduate of Luther College. Herman Amberg Preus, president of the Norwegian Synod, laid the foundation stone of the St. Olaf School on July 4, 1877. In 1887 the Manitou Messenger was founded as a campus magazine and has since evolved into the college's student newspaper, now called the Olaf Messenger.[18] 1887 was also the year that the first female St. Olaf graduate, Agnes Mellby, joined the college. Mellby graduated in 1893. She was the first woman to graduate from a Norwegian Lutheran college in the United States.[19] On June 20, 1889, the school's board of trustees renamed the school St. Olaf College.[20]

In 1932, Red Wing Lutheran Seminary was merged into St. Olaf and its Red Wing campus was closed. The Seminary was an independent academic institution from 1879 to 1932.

Financial crisis edit

In 1893, St. Olaf faced severe economic difficulties. A national economic depression caused enrollment to drop from a high of 147 in 1892 to 129 in 1893.[21] Also in 1893 the Norwegian Synod voted to cut ties with the college, greatly reducing its income.[22] By the August 1893 board meeting, the college was $10,000 in debt.[21] On August 2 the Board of Trustees appointed professor H. T. Ytterboe to travel around the Midwest and collect funds for the college. During this time President Mohn took over Ytterboe's responsibilities managing the college's finances. Over the next six years faculty and staff saw their salaries reduced, and the number of teaching faculty was reduced from eleven to seven.[23] Ytterboe spent six years traveling the Midwest and was highly effective at fundraising, averaging $6,500 per year, mostly in small donations of a dollar or more from farmers and private individuals. By 1897, when the synod reinstated the college, the debt was reduced to less than $4,000. Historians of the college widely regard Ytterboe's and Mohn's efforts as having saved the college from extinction.[24]

Scarlet fever epidemic edit

Following students' return from Christmas vacation in 1903, an epidemic of scarlet fever broke out on the campus and quickly spread. Twenty-eight out of St. Olaf's approximately three hundred students came down with the highly infectious disease. With no local hospital, the north wing on the third floor of Ytterboe Hall, the boys dormitory, was used as a makeshift hospital and staffed with two nurses who worked tirelessly to contain the spread of the disease.[25]

1918 Spanish flu pandemic edit

At the beginning of the spread of the Spanish flu to the United States, St. Olaf went into voluntary quarantine in hopes of avoiding the epidemic, allowing students to leave campus only for emergencies once they had obtained a pass. The first cases on St. Olaf's campus occurred on November 11, 1918, and shortly thereafter the college hospital was filled to capacity. Ytterboe Hall was converted into a hospital for the sick once the temporary beds in Hoyme Chapel had filled. St. Olaf officially closed for the year on December 7, due to a rapid rise of influenza cases. Four students died from flu complications.[26]

St. Olaf during the Second World War edit

At the beginning of World War II, St. Olaf was not directly involved with the conflict, with the extent of wartime activities including Red Cross drives and a “Bundles for Britain” project. But by the fall of 1942, over 400 undergraduates and alumni were serving overseas. The campus was also ordered to house 600 U.S. Naval recruits for flight training, leading to the conversion of Mohn and Ytterboe Halls from women's dormitories to housing for naval servicemen. Students living in Ytterboe and Mohn Halls were required to move to Agnes Mellby Hall to accommodate the naval personnel.[27]

Presidents edit

St. Olaf has had 12 presidents since its founding:

  • Thorbjorn N. Mohn, 1874–99
  • John N. Kildahl, 1899–1914
  • Lauritz A. Vigness, 1914–18
  • Lars W. Boe, 1918–42
  • Clemens M. Granskou, 1943–63
  • Sidney A. Rand, 1963–80
  • Harlan F. Foss, Ph.D., 1980–85
  • Melvin D. George, Ph.D., 1985–94
  • Mark U. Edwards Jr., Ph.D., 1994–2000
  • Christopher M. Thomforde, D.Min., 2001–06
  • David R. Anderson, Ph.D., 2006-23
  • Susan Rundell Singer, Ph.D., since 2023

Church affiliations edit

 
1912 stained glass window honoring St. Olaf in the college chapel

Campus edit

Old Main, St. Olaf College
 
Old Main
LocationSt. Olaf College campus, Northfield, Minnesota
AreaLess than 1-acre (0.40 ha)
Built1877
ArchitectLong & Haglin
Architectural styleGothic
NRHP reference No.76001073[29]
Added to NRHPJune 3, 1976

Known as “The Hill”, St. Olaf College's picturesque 300-acre (120 ha) campus is home to 17 academic and administrative buildings, 29 student residences and 10 athletic facilities. St. Olaf is a residential college; 96% of St. Olaf students reside in one of the 11 residence halls and 18 academic and special interest group houses. Adjacent to campus are 325 acres (132 ha) of restored wetlands, woodlands, and native tall grass prairie owned and maintained by St. Olaf, and a utility-grade wind turbine that supplies up to one-third of the college's electrical needs.

Two buildings on the campus are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Old Main, designed by Long and Haglin; and Steensland Library, designed by Omeyer and Thori.[30] In 2011, Travel+Leisure named St. Olaf one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.[31]

Edward Sövik, a liturgical architect and St. Olaf professor of art until his death in 2014, designed or assisted in the design of 20 campus buildings.[32]

Notable buildings edit

Center for Art and Dance edit

The Center for Art and Dance is a collaborative project with offerings from the art, art history, and dance departments.[33] It houses the Flaten Art Museum and studio spaces dedicated to painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, wood sculpture, digital media, photography, and a metal foundry, all named after alumni and educators who contributed to the development of each discipline.[34] The Flaten Art Museum was founded as the Steensland Art Gallery in 1976. In 2002, it was moved to the Center for Art and Dance and renamed to honor Arnold Flaten, a past professor of art, and his family.[35] The museum has a collection of regional, national, and international works and exhibits these as well as faculty and student work.

The building underwent significant remodeling in the early 2000s and was initially dedicated as the Dittmann Complex, honoring Reidar Dittmann. Dittmann was born in Norway in 1922, and spent the better part of his youth working with the Norwegian resistance against the rising Nazi regime until his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp.[36] After his immigration to the United States, Dittmann joined St. Olaf's faculty as a professor of art and Norwegian in 1947. In 1952 He and Ansgar Sovik co-founded the International Studies program, now known as the Office of International and Off-Campus Studies.[33] After his death in 2010, serious sexual assault allegations from St. Olaf alumni surfaced under the revisions of Title IX Policy concerning Dittmann and other faculty members. The decision to rename the building was made in 2017, following the pattern of campuses around the country questioning the names of buildings dedicated to notable alumni with contentious histories.[36]

Agnes Mellby Hall edit

Mellby Hall was constructed in 1938 to meet the needs of the growing female student population overflowing from Ladies' Hall, the first female dormitory competed in 1879, and Mohn Hall, completed in 1912.[37] The building is dedicated to 1893 alumna Agnes Theodora Mellby, the first woman to graduate from St. Olaf.[38] Born in Christiania, Norway in 1870, Mellby immigrated with her family to the U.S. in 1871 and settled in New Richland, Minnesota. After finishing her Academy (1891) and College (1893) studies at St. Olaf, she returned as the Dean of Women and an educator that fall, affectionately known as the Preceptress by those she worked with.[39] Mellby taught English, German, geography, U. S. History, civics, and math, firm in her resolve to see to the well-being of St. Olaf's female population regarding education and housing.[40] She held her position from 1893 until 1909, and continued to work with the college after retiring until her death in 1918.

Agnes Kittelsby Hall edit

In 1956, Agnes Kittelsby Hall was constructed with rooms for 164 women as an adjacent wing to the Gertrude Hilleboe Hall.[41] It was an all-women's dormitory until St. Olaf residence halls became co-ed. The building is named after Agnes Kittelsby, St. Olaf class of 1900. Like many St. Olaf alumnae, Kittelsby taught various subjects at the college after her graduation. In 1914, she moved to China and established American School Kikungshan, a school for the children of American missionaries.[42]

Thorson Hall edit

Thorson Hall was constructed as a men's dormitory in 1948. It was one of four dormitories constructed in the 1940s and 1950s to address an increase in enrollment after World War II.[43] The building is named after Harald Thorson (1841-1920), an early benefactor of the college. A businessman, Thorson owned farms, sold horses and mules, and established banks.[44] He was instrumental in establishing St. Olaf's School (as it was first named), choosing the initial 30-acre (12 ha) plot of land and authorizing the first payment for it.[45] He later served as a member of the original Board of Trustees. Thorson's will bequeathed most of his estate to St. Olaf under the stipulation that the money be used for the construction of a new building, Thorson Hall.[46]

Academics edit

Curriculum edit

Before graduating, St. Olaf students complete 15-18 required courses in general education credits, including courses in writing, a foreign language, society, religion, ethics, mathematical reasoning, race, social science, and natural science.[47] Many of the courses are interdisciplinary. St. Olaf offers 41 different majors for the bachelor of arts degree, five for the bachelor of music degree, and 20 areas of concentration, which are pursued independently of majors.[48] Its most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:[49]

  • Biology/Biological Sciences (83)
  • Economics (64)
  • Research and Experimental Psychology (57)
  • Mathematics (34)
  • English Language and Literature (33)
  • Political Science and Government (33)

As of the 2020–21 academic year, the student-to-faculty ratio is 12.2 to 1.[50]

The Paracollege lasted for 31 years, from 1969 to 2000, and was an individualized, interdisciplinary option for obtaining the Bachelor of Arts degree. The Paracollege program emphasized student-centered education through workshops, colloquia, tutorials, seminars, and senior concentrations.[51] It was replaced by the Center for Integrative Studies, which allows students to design individual majors.[52]

Admissions edit

According to the St. Olaf College Common Dataset for the class of 2024,[53] St. Olaf received 5,229 applications, accepted 2,656 (50.8%), and enrolled 727. The middle 50% range of SAT Composite scores for the class of 2024 was 1160–1370, while the ACT Composite range was 25–32. Of the 37% of enrolled first-year students who submitted high school class rank, 39% were in the top tenth of their high school classes and 69% ranked in the top quarter. The average high school GPA was 3.68.

Rankings edit

The 2024 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report rates St. Olaf 51st among 223 "National Liberal Arts Colleges", 29th among 100 "Best Value Schools", and tied at 27th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching" among 75 ranked liberal arts colleges.[58]

Forbes in 2019 rated St. Olaf 116th overall in its America's Top Colleges ranking of 650 military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges, and 50th among liberal arts colleges.[59]

Washington Monthly ranked St. Olaf 28th in 2022 among 203 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.[60]

St. Olaf was ranked 47th for liberal arts colleges on Payscale.com's 2016-17 list of highest-paid graduates.[61]

Steensland Library--St. Olaf College
 
Steensland Hall in 2015
LocationOff St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, Minnesota
Arealess than 1-acre (0.40 ha)
Built1902
ArchitectOmeyer & Thori
Architectural styleClassical Revival
MPSRice County MRA
NRHP reference No.82003020[29]
Added to NRHPApril 6, 1982
 
The center of St. Olaf's campus.
 
St. Olaf's utility-grade wind turbine directly supplies up to 20% of campus energy needs.
 
Senior art show at Center for Art and Dance, home of art galleries, classrooms, and studios.

Student life edit

Student organizations edit

More than 250 student organizations are registered at St. Olaf, including academic, athletic, awareness, multicultural, political, religious, service (Alpha Phi Omega) and other special interest groups. Club sports include rowing, men's and women's Ultimate Frisbee, men's and women's rugby, men's and women's lacrosse, badminton, cycling, judo, and fencing. KSTO 93.1 FM is the student-operated radio station and the Olaf Messenger (formerly known as the Manitou Messenger) is the student newspaper. The paper changed its name in 2020 in response to concerns of the appropriation of the word "Manitou" from the language of the original inhabitants of the land the college is built on.[62] Other groups include an on-campus organic farm (STOGROW), an improv comedy troupe (Scared Scriptless), and an EMT (emergency medical technician) organization that is the first responder for campus emergencies. St. Olaf students edit and publish several journals each year, including The Reed, the world's only international undergraduate journal for existential philosophy.

Student government edit

St. Olaf's Student Government Association (SGA) finances many student activities and organizations on campus. It operates through 10 branches, each managed by an elected executive: Diversity Celebrations Committee, Volunteer Network, Music Entertainment Committee, Student Activities Committee, Student Organizations Committee, Board of Regents Student Committee, The Pause, After Dark Committee, and Political Awareness Committee. Besides these committees, students can serve in the Student Senate to vote on issues such as constitutional bylaws changes and dorm capital improvement funds and communicate with college administrators about campus issues. SGA also maintains Oleville.com, a website containing information about student activities.[63]

Student protests edit

Ytterboe the Dog edit

Ytterboe, named after former professor H. T. Ytterboe, was a black dog who became a facet of campus life at St. Olaf in 1942.[64] Fed and cared for by students, the dog became an unofficial mascot. In 1957, Ytterboe the Dog "allegedly" bit the son of a local police officer Peter Morris. In response, Morris sent two officers to St. Olaf's campus to capture the dog. After he evaded capture, police shot Ytterboe on the library hill, in front of students who were studying for finals. In response, St. Olaf and Carleton students protested, gaining local and national coverage. At the protests, an effigy of the officer who shot Ytterboe was hung from a streetlight and burned. The Minnesota highway patrol was called in to control the protest as students continued demonstrating in Northfield. In response to the protests, the chief of police said, "Nobody loves a dog more than I do. We didn't mean to kill him".[65] St. Olaf President Clemens M. Granskou commented, "As far as I could see, this is one of these tempests in a teacup that usually take place once in a while in the springtime on a college campus".[65]

Initially, the Northfield Police sent Ytterboe's body to a local landfill, but students retrieved it. Afterward, Ytterboe's head was sent to Minneapolis to be tested for rabies; it tested negative. His body was buried on a slope of Manitou Heights the day after he was shot as a crowd of 2,000 students and members of the community gathered to pay their respects.[66]

ROTC edit

Between 50 and 75 students from St. Olaf, accompanied by some Carleton students, occupied the St. Olaf administration building on April 16, 1970, demanding that the school cut ties with the ROTC. Students occupied the building until Friday afternoon, ending their occupation when President Sidney Rand came to an agreement with the leaders of the protest. The school moved forward on votes within the administration and the board of regents in return for the cessation of "obstructive demonstration".[67] The St. Olaf protests coincided with a similar occupation at Macalester College. [68]

Sexual misconduct edit

In 2016, students protested the school's policies on sexual harassment through a T-shirt campaign.[69] Students donned grey shirts reading "Ask me how my college is protecting my rapist" to draw attention to the school's sexual misconduct policies.[70] Information about the campaign circulated through social media and was soon picked up by local news sources. In response, the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Education Department launched an investigation into the college's policies. Soon after, the school officially announced an overhaul of its Title IX policies.[71]

Racism edit

In 2017, a series of notes containing threats and racial slurs appeared. In response, students protested for systemic changes within the school on issues like diversity and inclusion, cultural sensitivity, and hate crimes.[72] As of May 1, 2017, there had been 9 reported acts of hate speech during the school year.[72] By occupying campus buildings, blocking entrances to the cafeteria, and boycotting classes, demonstrators pushed the administration to act on a number of demands.[73] While the protests prompted the administration to reevaluate its policies, an investigation revealed that one of the notes was forged. While the forgery undermined the movement for some, others saw it as a rogue action that did not detract from the progress made.[74]

Climate edit

In 2019, St. Olaf students joined over four million people worldwide who participated in the September 2019 climate strikes, a continuation of the school strike for climate movement inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.[75][76] On September 20, hundreds of St. Olaf students walked out of class and marched into downtown Northfield, where they joined other Northfield citizens to raise awareness of the growing threat of global climate change.[77] The St. Olaf strike was organized by the college's Climate Justice Collective (CJC), a group dedicated to increasing campus awareness of climate issues and pushing St. Olaf to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies.[78]

Music program edit

St. Olaf's music program was founded by F. Melius Christiansen in 1903. Its band, choir and orchestra tour the continental United States annually and have made many international tours, typically occurring triennially.[79] The St. Olaf Band was the first American college musical organization to conduct a concert tour abroad when it traveled to Norway in 1906. It was awarded The American Prize in Band/Wind Ensemble Performance, 2021, in the college/university (smaller program) division.[80]

The St. Olaf Choir was founded in 1907 as the St. John's Lutheran Church Choir in Northfield, a collegiate ensemble.[81] It has toured Europe several times, as well as China, Korea, and Australia, performing before heads of state and producing more than a dozen recordings. The choir performs in the nationally broadcast annual St. Olaf Christmas Festival, along with the St. Olaf Orchestra and four of the college's other choirs.

Other student musical ensembles include The St. Olaf Handbell Choir, Chapel Choir, Cantorei, Manitou Singers, Viking Chorus, Collegiate Chorale, Philharmonia, Norseman Band, and many smaller vocal and instrumental ensembles. There are also student-run music ensembles at St. Olaf: Valhalla Band, Naknefeler Orchestra, and the men's and women's a cappella groups: The Limestones, Agnes, and Krossmen. In addition, the Gospel Choir of St. Olaf is one of few Midwest college gospel choirs. These groups are not a part of the college's music program and operate independently.

Ensembles founded at St. Olaf include the Minnesota Symphonic Winds, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Copper Street Brass and the a cappella choral groups Cantus, Inpulse, and Magnum Chorum. St. Olaf is also the location of the sacred choral music radio show Sing for Joy.[82]

Athletics edit

St. Olaf's athletic teams are called the Oles. Their colors are black and gold. The college is a member of the NCAA Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) in most sports since the 1974–75 academic year (of which it was also a member from 1920–21 to 1949–50), while its Alpine and Nordic skiing teams compete as Independents. The Oles competed in the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference (MCAC, known as the Midwest Conference since 1994–95) from 1952–53 to 1973–74.

St. Olaf competes in 26 intercollegiate varsity sports (13 for men and 13 for women). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, hockey, skiing (Nordic and Alpine), soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, and track & field (indoor and outdoor); women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, skiing (Nordic and Alpine), soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor), and volleyball. Former sports included men's wrestling.

St. Olaf also has many student-coached club and intramural teams that compete within the student body and also inter-college. Notable are the St. Olaf Ultimate teams, The Berzerkers and Durga (team name changed to Vortex in 2015[83]), which make an annual trip to a national collegiate tournament (Spring Ultimax) in North Carolina. The women's Ultimate teams have been successful at the national level for many years. In 2011, Durga played at the Division III Nationals tournament in Buffalo, New York, finishing in seventh place. The team also played in the DIII Nationals tournament in 2014.[84] In 2017, Vortex again qualified for the national tournament in Kentucky and placed seventh.[85] In 2018, Vortex won the DIII national championship in Rockford, Illinois.[86] After that success, Vortex placed third at the DIII National tournament in College Station, Texas.[87] The St. Olaf Dance Team supports St. Olaf athletic teams (football, men's/women's soccer and basketball) with halftime performances and competes in intercollegiate events every year. It has performed in the Minnesota Swarm lacrosse team's halftime show and placed third in its division at the 2011 St. Thomas Invitational.

Rivalry with Carleton College edit

Football edit

 
Football at St. Olaf in 2009.

St. Olaf is a traditional athletic rival of its crosstown neighbor Carleton College. The annual American football game between the Knights and the Oles was recently dubbed the "Cereal Bowl" in honor of the Malt-O-Meal production facility in Northfield. The annual winner receives the "Goat Trophy", which was created by Minneapolis dentist Ranthus B. Fouch in 1931.[88]

The rivalry between St. Olaf and Carleton began with a Carleton victory over St. Olaf in 1919. A statue of an eagle in Northfield's Civil War Veterans' Memorial (in Bridge Square) is turned to face the college that wins the annual match between the schools.[89]

These football teams are also significant for having played the only NCAA-sanctioned "Liter Bowl" metric football game in history, which St. Olaf won in 1977.[90]

Cross country edit

The Great Karhu Shoe Race is an annual rivalry between the cross country teams of Carleton and St. Olaf College. The race was founded in 1972 when Carleton Coach Bill Huyck was in search of a new championship course for the Midwest Conference Meet. St. Olaf coach Bill Thornton agreed to a competition between the runners on each team who were not on the varsity top 7. The varsity athletes were still racing later in the season. The trophy for the 1972 race was a pair of Karhu Shoes worth $10. These shoes have remained the trophy to this day.[91]

Several traditions exist between the St. Olaf and Carleton runners at the race. As the race typically falls near Halloween, many of the runners will often don costumes.[92] The runners for the St. Olaf men use safety pins to attach gummy bears to their shorts, which the Carleton runners attempt to rip off.[93]

Kierkegaard Library edit

The Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library is a research collection dedicated to the work of the 19th-century Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), housed at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Along with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, it is one of two internationally significant research facilities devoted to the study of Kierkegaard. The collection began as the private library of Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, assembled during their complete translation of Kierkegaard's writings into English, the first volume of which received the National Book Award.[94] Subsequent curators of the library were philosophers C. Stephen Evans and, from 1995 to 2022, Gordon D. Marino.

The Hongs donated the collection to St. Olaf College in 1976 with the understanding that it be made available as a center for research and publication. The library's current holdings include over 11,000 volumes, 3,500 periodical articles and a partial replication of Kierkegaard's personal library as well as titles Kierkegaard might have had access to during his lifetime. It hosts visiting researchers throughout the year (including an active summer fellows program) and periodic conferences and research seminars. Activities in the summer include Danish courses and an International Conference every fourth year. Yearlong Kierkegaard Fellowships see scholars living in St. Olaf's Kierkegaard House. The library's director is St. Olaf College philosophy faculty member Anna Louise Strelis Söderquist.

St. Olaf students edit and publish The Reed, an undergraduate journal of existential philosophy, from the library. The Reed began in 1998, and since then has published articles from undergraduates across the globe every year.

Flaten Art Museum edit

St. Olaf is home to the Flaten Art Museum, in the Center for Art and Dance. The museum holds over 4,000 works on rotating display to the public. The vast majority of the works were received through donations, but a few were purchased. The museum also displays senior studio majors' work at the end of the year to give them experience in having artwork displayed in a professional setting.[95]

Poster collection edit

In 2015 St. Olaf accepted a collection of 147 rare World War II-era propaganda posters as part of a donation from the estate of Richard N. Tetlie. The posters were created by the Nazi regime and the Vichy French government for display across occupied Europe and were collected by Major Duncan Emrich, historian for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, during the liberation of Europe. The collection provides insight into how the Nazis and their allies attempted to foster racial ideology, encourage distrust of the Allies, and rally support for their cause by manipulating the fear, anxiety, traditions, and political circumstances of the people in the occupied territories. The museum contacted the Midwest Art Conservation Center for a full assessment of the collection in hopes that the posters can be restored. They could then be used in exhibits and as resources to teach about the dangers of propaganda and extremism.[96]

Notable alumni edit

Notable St. Olaf alumni include civil rights activist James Reeb '50, AIA Gold Award-winning architect Edward Sövik '39, Minnesota Governor Al Quie '50, Oscar-winning screenwriter Barry Morrow '70, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gretchen Morgenson '76, and writers Ole Rolvaag 1905, Siri Hustvedt '77 (winner of the Princess of Asturias Award in Letters), ornithologist Margaret Sordahl, and Traci Lambrecht '89 (of P.J. Tracy). Game designer Jonathan Tweet studied at the college, as did the first female major league baseball coach, Justine Siegal. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and Norwegian.[97] Andrew Volstead 1881 introduced the National Prohibition Act to Congress in 1919. Cheryl Willman is an American cancer researcher and the executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs.

Ernest Lawrence, recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics, studied for a year at St. Olaf.[98]

In popular culture edit

St. Olaf is mentioned in the works of Minnesota author F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose character Jay Gatsby of The Great Gatsby attended the college briefly and worked as a janitor. The college is also frequently mentioned in Garrison Keillor's radio program A Prairie Home Companion, which broadcast its show from St. Olaf on November 17, 2001, and November 19, 2011.

The fictional Minnesota city of St. Olaf was the hometown of Rose Nylund in the TV show The Golden Girls. In the TV show the fictional city's sister city was St. Gustav, Minnesota, a nod to Gustavus Adolphus College, in nearby St. Peter, Minnesota. Betty White, the actress who played Rose, visited St. Olaf and was given an honorary membership in St. Olaf's chapter of the theater honorary society.

The St. Olaf Choir can be heard performing Mozart's Requiem with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Nike's "Jordan XXII-Takeover" commercial. The choir is also on the soundtrack of the 1972 film The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid.[99]

In October 2008 the Coen Brothers shot scenes at St. Olaf for their film A Serious Man.[100][101] After a long search of many campuses, they chose St. Olaf's old Science Center because it had the late 1960s look of the movie. St. Olaf has since built a new science center and remodeled the old facility into Tomson Hall.

See also edit

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St Olaf College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield Minnesota It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian American pastors and farmers led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus The college is named after the King and the Patron Saint Olaf II of Norway and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America It was visited by King Olav in 1987 7 and King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway in 2011 8 9 Queen Sonja of Norway visited the college s campus a second time in 2022 as part of a tour to celebrate the connections between Norway and Minnesota s Norwegian American community She participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Special Collections vault at Rolvaag Memorial Library 10 St Olaf CollegeFormer namesSt Olaf s School 1874 1889 MottoFram Fram Kristmenn Krossmenn Nynorsk Motto in EnglishForward Forward Men of Christ Men of the CrossTypePrivate liberal arts collegeEstablishedNovember 6 1874 149 years ago 1874 11 06 Religious affiliationEvangelical Lutheran Church in AmericaAcademic affiliationsNAICU 1 Oberlin GroupAnnapolis GroupCLACACMDavis United World College Scholars Program 2 Endowment 666 02 million 2022 3 Budget 210 3 million 2020 4 PresidentSusan Rundell SingerUndergraduates3 048 fall 2018 5 LocationNorthfield Minnesota U S 44 27 34 N 93 10 50 W 44 45944 N 93 18056 W 44 45944 93 18056CampusRural 920 acres 370 ha 6 Colors Black and goldNickname Oles ˈ oʊ l iː z OH leezSporting affiliationsNCAA Division III MIACMascotSt Olaf Lion Ole Websitewww wbr stolaf wbr eduAs of 2017 the college enrolled 3 035 undergraduate students and 256 faculty 11 The campus including its 325 acre 132 ha natural lands lies 2 miles 3 2 km west of the city of Northfield Minnesota Northfield is also the home of its neighbor and friendly rival Carleton College Between 1995 and 2020 154 St Olaf graduates were named Fulbright Scholars and 35 received Goldwater Scholarships 12 13 Contents 1 History 1 1 Seal and motto 1 2 Founding 1 3 Financial crisis 1 4 Scarlet fever epidemic 1 5 1918 Spanish flu pandemic 1 6 St Olaf during the Second World War 1 7 Presidents 1 8 Church affiliations 2 Campus 2 1 Notable buildings 2 1 1 Center for Art and Dance 2 1 2 Agnes Mellby Hall 2 1 3 Agnes Kittelsby Hall 2 1 4 Thorson Hall 3 Academics 3 1 Curriculum 3 2 Admissions 3 3 Rankings 4 Student life 4 1 Student organizations 4 2 Student government 4 3 Student protests 4 3 1 Ytterboe the Dog 4 3 2 ROTC 4 3 3 Sexual misconduct 4 3 4 Racism 4 3 5 Climate 5 Music program 6 Athletics 6 1 Rivalry with Carleton College 6 1 1 Football 6 1 2 Cross country 7 Kierkegaard Library 8 Flaten Art Museum 8 1 Poster collection 9 Notable alumni 10 In popular culture 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 External linksHistory edit nbsp Herman Amberg Preus 1825 1894 a key figure in organizing the Norwegian Synod Seal and motto edit The seal of the St Olaf College displays the Coat of arms of Norway which includes the axe of St Olaf The motto Fram Fram Kristmenn Krossmenn written in New Norwegian is adapted from the Old Norse battle cry of King Olaf It means Forward Forward Men of Christ Men of the Cross Founding edit Many Norwegian immigrants arrived in Rice County Minnesota and the surrounding area in the late 19th century Nearly all were Lutheran Christians and desired a non secular post secondary institution in the Lutheran tradition that offered classes in all subjects in both Norwegian and English The catalyst for St Olaf s founding was the Reverend Bernt Julius Muus he sought out the help of the Revs N A Quammen and H Thorson Together they petitioned their parishes and others to raise money to buy a plot of land on which to build the new institution The three received around 10 000 in pledges formed a corporation and bought land and four buildings old Northfield schoolhouses for the school 14 15 Muus came under scrutiny after a divorce case revealed extensive acts of domestic abuse 16 He fell out of favor with many of his predecessors but the school did not officially denounce his abuses 17 St Olaf s School opened on January 8 1875 at its first site under the leadership of its first president Thorbjorn N Mohn a graduate of Luther College Herman Amberg Preus president of the Norwegian Synod laid the foundation stone of the St Olaf School on July 4 1877 In 1887 the Manitou Messenger was founded as a campus magazine and has since evolved into the college s student newspaper now called the Olaf Messenger 18 1887 was also the year that the first female St Olaf graduate Agnes Mellby joined the college Mellby graduated in 1893 She was the first woman to graduate from a Norwegian Lutheran college in the United States 19 On June 20 1889 the school s board of trustees renamed the school St Olaf College 20 In 1932 Red Wing Lutheran Seminary was merged into St Olaf and its Red Wing campus was closed The Seminary was an independent academic institution from 1879 to 1932 Financial crisis edit In 1893 St Olaf faced severe economic difficulties A national economic depression caused enrollment to drop from a high of 147 in 1892 to 129 in 1893 21 Also in 1893 the Norwegian Synod voted to cut ties with the college greatly reducing its income 22 By the August 1893 board meeting the college was 10 000 in debt 21 On August 2 the Board of Trustees appointed professor H T Ytterboe to travel around the Midwest and collect funds for the college During this time President Mohn took over Ytterboe s responsibilities managing the college s finances Over the next six years faculty and staff saw their salaries reduced and the number of teaching faculty was reduced from eleven to seven 23 Ytterboe spent six years traveling the Midwest and was highly effective at fundraising averaging 6 500 per year mostly in small donations of a dollar or more from farmers and private individuals By 1897 when the synod reinstated the college the debt was reduced to less than 4 000 Historians of the college widely regard Ytterboe s and Mohn s efforts as having saved the college from extinction 24 Scarlet fever epidemic edit Following students return from Christmas vacation in 1903 an epidemic of scarlet fever broke out on the campus and quickly spread Twenty eight out of St Olaf s approximately three hundred students came down with the highly infectious disease With no local hospital the north wing on the third floor of Ytterboe Hall the boys dormitory was used as a makeshift hospital and staffed with two nurses who worked tirelessly to contain the spread of the disease 25 1918 Spanish flu pandemic edit At the beginning of the spread of the Spanish flu to the United States St Olaf went into voluntary quarantine in hopes of avoiding the epidemic allowing students to leave campus only for emergencies once they had obtained a pass The first cases on St Olaf s campus occurred on November 11 1918 and shortly thereafter the college hospital was filled to capacity Ytterboe Hall was converted into a hospital for the sick once the temporary beds in Hoyme Chapel had filled St Olaf officially closed for the year on December 7 due to a rapid rise of influenza cases Four students died from flu complications 26 St Olaf during the Second World War edit At the beginning of World War II St Olaf was not directly involved with the conflict with the extent of wartime activities including Red Cross drives and a Bundles for Britain project But by the fall of 1942 over 400 undergraduates and alumni were serving overseas The campus was also ordered to house 600 U S Naval recruits for flight training leading to the conversion of Mohn and Ytterboe Halls from women s dormitories to housing for naval servicemen Students living in Ytterboe and Mohn Halls were required to move to Agnes Mellby Hall to accommodate the naval personnel 27 Presidents edit St Olaf has had 12 presidents since its founding Thorbjorn N Mohn 1874 99 John N Kildahl 1899 1914 Lauritz A Vigness 1914 18 Lars W Boe 1918 42 Clemens M Granskou 1943 63 Sidney A Rand 1963 80 Harlan F Foss Ph D 1980 85 Melvin D George Ph D 1985 94 Mark U Edwards Jr Ph D 1994 2000 Christopher M Thomforde D Min 2001 06 David R Anderson Ph D 2006 23 Susan Rundell Singer Ph D since 2023Church affiliations edit nbsp 1912 stained glass window honoring St Olaf in the college chapel1874 87 Norwegian Synod 1887 90 Anti Missourian Brotherhood 1890 1917 United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America 1917 60 Evangelical Lutheran Church 1960 87 The American Lutheran Church 1988 present Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 28 Campus editOld Main St Olaf CollegeU S National Register of Historic Places nbsp Old MainLocationSt Olaf College campus Northfield MinnesotaAreaLess than 1 acre 0 40 ha Built1877ArchitectLong amp HaglinArchitectural styleGothicNRHP reference No 76001073 29 Added to NRHPJune 3 1976Known as The Hill St Olaf College s picturesque 300 acre 120 ha campus is home to 17 academic and administrative buildings 29 student residences and 10 athletic facilities St Olaf is a residential college 96 of St Olaf students reside in one of the 11 residence halls and 18 academic and special interest group houses Adjacent to campus are 325 acres 132 ha of restored wetlands woodlands and native tall grass prairie owned and maintained by St Olaf and a utility grade wind turbine that supplies up to one third of the college s electrical needs Two buildings on the campus are listed on the National Register of Historic Places Old Main designed by Long and Haglin and Steensland Library designed by Omeyer and Thori 30 In 2011 Travel Leisure named St Olaf one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States 31 Edward Sovik a liturgical architect and St Olaf professor of art until his death in 2014 designed or assisted in the design of 20 campus buildings 32 Notable buildings edit Center for Art and Dance edit The Center for Art and Dance is a collaborative project with offerings from the art art history and dance departments 33 It houses the Flaten Art Museum and studio spaces dedicated to painting drawing printmaking ceramics wood sculpture digital media photography and a metal foundry all named after alumni and educators who contributed to the development of each discipline 34 The Flaten Art Museum was founded as the Steensland Art Gallery in 1976 In 2002 it was moved to the Center for Art and Dance and renamed to honor Arnold Flaten a past professor of art and his family 35 The museum has a collection of regional national and international works and exhibits these as well as faculty and student work The building underwent significant remodeling in the early 2000s and was initially dedicated as the Dittmann Complex honoring Reidar Dittmann Dittmann was born in Norway in 1922 and spent the better part of his youth working with the Norwegian resistance against the rising Nazi regime until his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp 36 After his immigration to the United States Dittmann joined St Olaf s faculty as a professor of art and Norwegian in 1947 In 1952 He and Ansgar Sovik co founded the International Studies program now known as the Office of International and Off Campus Studies 33 After his death in 2010 serious sexual assault allegations from St Olaf alumni surfaced under the revisions of Title IX Policy concerning Dittmann and other faculty members The decision to rename the building was made in 2017 following the pattern of campuses around the country questioning the names of buildings dedicated to notable alumni with contentious histories 36 Agnes Mellby Hall edit Mellby Hall was constructed in 1938 to meet the needs of the growing female student population overflowing from Ladies Hall the first female dormitory competed in 1879 and Mohn Hall completed in 1912 37 The building is dedicated to 1893 alumna Agnes Theodora Mellby the first woman to graduate from St Olaf 38 Born in Christiania Norway in 1870 Mellby immigrated with her family to the U S in 1871 and settled in New Richland Minnesota After finishing her Academy 1891 and College 1893 studies at St Olaf she returned as the Dean of Women and an educator that fall affectionately known as the Preceptress by those she worked with 39 Mellby taught English German geography U S History civics and math firm in her resolve to see to the well being of St Olaf s female population regarding education and housing 40 She held her position from 1893 until 1909 and continued to work with the college after retiring until her death in 1918 Agnes Kittelsby Hall edit In 1956 Agnes Kittelsby Hall was constructed with rooms for 164 women as an adjacent wing to the Gertrude Hilleboe Hall 41 It was an all women s dormitory until St Olaf residence halls became co ed The building is named after Agnes Kittelsby St Olaf class of 1900 Like many St Olaf alumnae Kittelsby taught various subjects at the college after her graduation In 1914 she moved to China and established American School Kikungshan a school for the children of American missionaries 42 Thorson Hall edit Thorson Hall was constructed as a men s dormitory in 1948 It was one of four dormitories constructed in the 1940s and 1950s to address an increase in enrollment after World War II 43 The building is named after Harald Thorson 1841 1920 an early benefactor of the college A businessman Thorson owned farms sold horses and mules and established banks 44 He was instrumental in establishing St Olaf s School as it was first named choosing the initial 30 acre 12 ha plot of land and authorizing the first payment for it 45 He later served as a member of the original Board of Trustees Thorson s will bequeathed most of his estate to St Olaf under the stipulation that the money be used for the construction of a new building Thorson Hall 46 Academics editCurriculum edit Before graduating St Olaf students complete 15 18 required courses in general education credits including courses in writing a foreign language society religion ethics mathematical reasoning race social science and natural science 47 Many of the courses are interdisciplinary St Olaf offers 41 different majors for the bachelor of arts degree five for the bachelor of music degree and 20 areas of concentration which are pursued independently of majors 48 Its most popular majors based on 2021 graduates were 49 Biology Biological Sciences 83 Economics 64 Research and Experimental Psychology 57 Mathematics 34 English Language and Literature 33 Political Science and Government 33 As of the 2020 21 academic year the student to faculty ratio is 12 2 to 1 50 The Paracollege lasted for 31 years from 1969 to 2000 and was an individualized interdisciplinary option for obtaining the Bachelor of Arts degree The Paracollege program emphasized student centered education through workshops colloquia tutorials seminars and senior concentrations 51 It was replaced by the Center for Integrative Studies which allows students to design individual majors 52 Admissions edit According to the St Olaf College Common Dataset for the class of 2024 53 St Olaf received 5 229 applications accepted 2 656 50 8 and enrolled 727 The middle 50 range of SAT Composite scores for the class of 2024 was 1160 1370 while the ACT Composite range was 25 32 Of the 37 of enrolled first year students who submitted high school class rank 39 were in the top tenth of their high school classes and 69 ranked in the top quarter The average high school GPA was 3 68 Rankings edit Academic rankingsLiberal arts collegesU S News amp World Report 54 51Washington Monthly 55 28NationalForbes 56 185THE WSJ 57 176The 2024 annual ranking by U S News amp World Report rates St Olaf 51st among 223 National Liberal Arts Colleges 29th among 100 Best Value Schools and tied at 27th for Best Undergraduate Teaching among 75 ranked liberal arts colleges 58 Forbes in 2019 rated St Olaf 116th overall in its America s Top Colleges ranking of 650 military academies national universities and liberal arts colleges and 50th among liberal arts colleges 59 Washington Monthly ranked St Olaf 28th in 2022 among 203 liberal arts colleges in the U S based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility research and promoting public service 60 St Olaf was ranked 47th for liberal arts colleges on Payscale com s 2016 17 list of highest paid graduates 61 Steensland Library St Olaf CollegeU S National Register of Historic Places nbsp Steensland Hall in 2015LocationOff St Olaf Ave Northfield MinnesotaArealess than 1 acre 0 40 ha Built1902ArchitectOmeyer amp ThoriArchitectural styleClassical RevivalMPSRice County MRANRHP reference No 82003020 29 Added to NRHPApril 6 1982 nbsp The center of St Olaf s campus nbsp St Olaf s utility grade wind turbine directly supplies up to 20 of campus energy needs nbsp Senior art show at Center for Art and Dance home of art galleries classrooms and studios Student life editStudent organizations edit More than 250 student organizations are registered at St Olaf including academic athletic awareness multicultural political religious service Alpha Phi Omega and other special interest groups Club sports include rowing men s and women s Ultimate Frisbee men s and women s rugby men s and women s lacrosse badminton cycling judo and fencing KSTO 93 1 FM is the student operated radio station and the Olaf Messenger formerly known as the Manitou Messenger is the student newspaper The paper changed its name in 2020 in response to concerns of the appropriation of the word Manitou from the language of the original inhabitants of the land the college is built on 62 Other groups include an on campus organic farm STOGROW an improv comedy troupe Scared Scriptless and an EMT emergency medical technician organization that is the first responder for campus emergencies St Olaf students edit and publish several journals each year including The Reed the world s only international undergraduate journal for existential philosophy Student government edit St Olaf s Student Government Association SGA finances many student activities and organizations on campus It operates through 10 branches each managed by an elected executive Diversity Celebrations Committee Volunteer Network Music Entertainment Committee Student Activities Committee Student Organizations Committee Board of Regents Student Committee The Pause After Dark Committee and Political Awareness Committee Besides these committees students can serve in the Student Senate to vote on issues such as constitutional bylaws changes and dorm capital improvement funds and communicate with college administrators about campus issues SGA also maintains Oleville com a website containing information about student activities 63 Student protests edit Ytterboe the Dog edit Ytterboe named after former professor H T Ytterboe was a black dog who became a facet of campus life at St Olaf in 1942 64 Fed and cared for by students the dog became an unofficial mascot In 1957 Ytterboe the Dog allegedly bit the son of a local police officer Peter Morris In response Morris sent two officers to St Olaf s campus to capture the dog After he evaded capture police shot Ytterboe on the library hill in front of students who were studying for finals In response St Olaf and Carleton students protested gaining local and national coverage At the protests an effigy of the officer who shot Ytterboe was hung from a streetlight and burned The Minnesota highway patrol was called in to control the protest as students continued demonstrating in Northfield In response to the protests the chief of police said Nobody loves a dog more than I do We didn t mean to kill him 65 St Olaf President Clemens M Granskou commented As far as I could see this is one of these tempests in a teacup that usually take place once in a while in the springtime on a college campus 65 Initially the Northfield Police sent Ytterboe s body to a local landfill but students retrieved it Afterward Ytterboe s head was sent to Minneapolis to be tested for rabies it tested negative His body was buried on a slope of Manitou Heights the day after he was shot as a crowd of 2 000 students and members of the community gathered to pay their respects 66 ROTC edit Between 50 and 75 students from St Olaf accompanied by some Carleton students occupied the St Olaf administration building on April 16 1970 demanding that the school cut ties with the ROTC Students occupied the building until Friday afternoon ending their occupation when President Sidney Rand came to an agreement with the leaders of the protest The school moved forward on votes within the administration and the board of regents in return for the cessation of obstructive demonstration 67 The St Olaf protests coincided with a similar occupation at Macalester College 68 Sexual misconduct edit In 2016 students protested the school s policies on sexual harassment through a T shirt campaign 69 Students donned grey shirts reading Ask me how my college is protecting my rapist to draw attention to the school s sexual misconduct policies 70 Information about the campaign circulated through social media and was soon picked up by local news sources In response the Office of Civil Rights of the U S Education Department launched an investigation into the college s policies Soon after the school officially announced an overhaul of its Title IX policies 71 Racism edit In 2017 a series of notes containing threats and racial slurs appeared In response students protested for systemic changes within the school on issues like diversity and inclusion cultural sensitivity and hate crimes 72 As of May 1 2017 there had been 9 reported acts of hate speech during the school year 72 By occupying campus buildings blocking entrances to the cafeteria and boycotting classes demonstrators pushed the administration to act on a number of demands 73 While the protests prompted the administration to reevaluate its policies an investigation revealed that one of the notes was forged While the forgery undermined the movement for some others saw it as a rogue action that did not detract from the progress made 74 Climate edit In 2019 St Olaf students joined over four million people worldwide who participated in the September 2019 climate strikes a continuation of the school strike for climate movement inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg 75 76 On September 20 hundreds of St Olaf students walked out of class and marched into downtown Northfield where they joined other Northfield citizens to raise awareness of the growing threat of global climate change 77 The St Olaf strike was organized by the college s Climate Justice Collective CJC a group dedicated to increasing campus awareness of climate issues and pushing St Olaf to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies 78 Music program editSt Olaf s music program was founded by F Melius Christiansen in 1903 Its band choir and orchestra tour the continental United States annually and have made many international tours typically occurring triennially 79 The St Olaf Band was the first American college musical organization to conduct a concert tour abroad when it traveled to Norway in 1906 It was awarded The American Prize in Band Wind Ensemble Performance 2021 in the college university smaller program division 80 The St Olaf Choir was founded in 1907 as the St John s Lutheran Church Choir in Northfield a collegiate ensemble 81 It has toured Europe several times as well as China Korea and Australia performing before heads of state and producing more than a dozen recordings The choir performs in the nationally broadcast annual St Olaf Christmas Festival along with the St Olaf Orchestra and four of the college s other choirs Other student musical ensembles include The St Olaf Handbell Choir Chapel Choir Cantorei Manitou Singers Viking Chorus Collegiate Chorale Philharmonia Norseman Band and many smaller vocal and instrumental ensembles There are also student run music ensembles at St Olaf Valhalla Band Naknefeler Orchestra and the men s and women s a cappella groups The Limestones Agnes and Krossmen In addition the Gospel Choir of St Olaf is one of few Midwest college gospel choirs These groups are not a part of the college s music program and operate independently Ensembles founded at St Olaf include the Minnesota Symphonic Winds the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra the Copper Street Brass and the a cappella choral groups Cantus Inpulse and Magnum Chorum St Olaf is also the location of the sacred choral music radio show Sing for Joy 82 Athletics editSt Olaf s athletic teams are called the Oles Their colors are black and gold The college is a member of the NCAA Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA primarily competing in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference MIAC in most sports since the 1974 75 academic year of which it was also a member from 1920 21 to 1949 50 while its Alpine and Nordic skiing teams compete as Independents The Oles competed in the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference MCAC known as the Midwest Conference since 1994 95 from 1952 53 to 1973 74 St Olaf competes in 26 intercollegiate varsity sports 13 for men and 13 for women Men s sports include baseball basketball cross country football golf hockey skiing Nordic and Alpine soccer swimming amp diving tennis and track amp field indoor and outdoor women s sports include basketball cross country golf ice hockey skiing Nordic and Alpine soccer softball swimming amp diving tennis track amp field indoor and outdoor and volleyball Former sports included men s wrestling St Olaf also has many student coached club and intramural teams that compete within the student body and also inter college Notable are the St Olaf Ultimate teams The Berzerkers and Durga team name changed to Vortex in 2015 83 which make an annual trip to a national collegiate tournament Spring Ultimax in North Carolina The women s Ultimate teams have been successful at the national level for many years In 2011 Durga played at the Division III Nationals tournament in Buffalo New York finishing in seventh place The team also played in the DIII Nationals tournament in 2014 84 In 2017 Vortex again qualified for the national tournament in Kentucky and placed seventh 85 In 2018 Vortex won the DIII national championship in Rockford Illinois 86 After that success Vortex placed third at the DIII National tournament in College Station Texas 87 The St Olaf Dance Team supports St Olaf athletic teams football men s women s soccer and basketball with halftime performances and competes in intercollegiate events every year It has performed in the Minnesota Swarm lacrosse team s halftime show and placed third in its division at the 2011 St Thomas Invitational Rivalry with Carleton College edit Football edit nbsp Football at St Olaf in 2009 St Olaf is a traditional athletic rival of its crosstown neighbor Carleton College The annual American football game between the Knights and the Oles was recently dubbed the Cereal Bowl in honor of the Malt O Meal production facility in Northfield The annual winner receives the Goat Trophy which was created by Minneapolis dentist Ranthus B Fouch in 1931 88 The rivalry between St Olaf and Carleton began with a Carleton victory over St Olaf in 1919 A statue of an eagle in Northfield s Civil War Veterans Memorial in Bridge Square is turned to face the college that wins the annual match between the schools 89 These football teams are also significant for having played the only NCAA sanctioned Liter Bowl metric football game in history which St Olaf won in 1977 90 Cross country edit The Great Karhu Shoe Race is an annual rivalry between the cross country teams of Carleton and St Olaf College The race was founded in 1972 when Carleton Coach Bill Huyck was in search of a new championship course for the Midwest Conference Meet St Olaf coach Bill Thornton agreed to a competition between the runners on each team who were not on the varsity top 7 The varsity athletes were still racing later in the season The trophy for the 1972 race was a pair of Karhu Shoes worth 10 These shoes have remained the trophy to this day 91 Several traditions exist between the St Olaf and Carleton runners at the race As the race typically falls near Halloween many of the runners will often don costumes 92 The runners for the St Olaf men use safety pins to attach gummy bears to their shorts which the Carleton runners attempt to rip off 93 Kierkegaard Library editThe Howard V and Edna H Hong Kierkegaard Library is a research collection dedicated to the work of the 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard 1813 1855 housed at St Olaf College Northfield Minnesota Along with the Soren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen Denmark it is one of two internationally significant research facilities devoted to the study of Kierkegaard The collection began as the private library of Howard V Hong and Edna H Hong assembled during their complete translation of Kierkegaard s writings into English the first volume of which received the National Book Award 94 Subsequent curators of the library were philosophers C Stephen Evans and from 1995 to 2022 Gordon D Marino The Hongs donated the collection to St Olaf College in 1976 with the understanding that it be made available as a center for research and publication The library s current holdings include over 11 000 volumes 3 500 periodical articles and a partial replication of Kierkegaard s personal library as well as titles Kierkegaard might have had access to during his lifetime It hosts visiting researchers throughout the year including an active summer fellows program and periodic conferences and research seminars Activities in the summer include Danish courses and an International Conference every fourth year Yearlong Kierkegaard Fellowships see scholars living in St Olaf s Kierkegaard House The library s director is St Olaf College philosophy faculty member Anna Louise Strelis Soderquist St Olaf students edit and publish The Reed an undergraduate journal of existential philosophy from the library The Reed began in 1998 and since then has published articles from undergraduates across the globe every year Flaten Art Museum editSt Olaf is home to the Flaten Art Museum in the Center for Art and Dance The museum holds over 4 000 works on rotating display to the public The vast majority of the works were received through donations but a few were purchased The museum also displays senior studio majors work at the end of the year to give them experience in having artwork displayed in a professional setting 95 Poster collection edit In 2015 St Olaf accepted a collection of 147 rare World War II era propaganda posters as part of a donation from the estate of Richard N Tetlie The posters were created by the Nazi regime and the Vichy French government for display across occupied Europe and were collected by Major Duncan Emrich historian for General Dwight D Eisenhower during the liberation of Europe The collection provides insight into how the Nazis and their allies attempted to foster racial ideology encourage distrust of the Allies and rally support for their cause by manipulating the fear anxiety traditions and political circumstances of the people in the occupied territories The museum contacted the Midwest Art Conservation Center for a full assessment of the collection in hopes that the posters can be restored They could then be used in exhibits and as resources to teach about the dangers of propaganda and extremism 96 Notable alumni editMain article List of St Olaf College people Notable St Olaf alumni include civil rights activist James Reeb 50 AIA Gold Award winning architect Edward Sovik 39 Minnesota Governor Al Quie 50 Oscar winning screenwriter Barry Morrow 70 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gretchen Morgenson 76 and writers Ole Rolvaag 1905 Siri Hustvedt 77 winner of the Princess of Asturias Award in Letters ornithologist Margaret Sordahl and Traci Lambrecht 89 of P J Tracy Game designer Jonathan Tweet studied at the college as did the first female major league baseball coach Justine Siegal Raffi Freedman Gurspan graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and Norwegian 97 Andrew Volstead 1881 introduced the National Prohibition Act to Congress in 1919 Cheryl Willman is an American cancer researcher and the executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs Ernest Lawrence recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics studied for a year at St Olaf 98 In popular culture editSt Olaf is mentioned in the works of Minnesota author F Scott Fitzgerald whose character Jay Gatsby of The Great Gatsby attended the college briefly and worked as a janitor The college is also frequently mentioned in Garrison Keillor s radio program A Prairie Home Companion which broadcast its show from St Olaf on November 17 2001 and November 19 2011 The fictional Minnesota city of St Olaf was the hometown of Rose Nylund in the TV show The Golden Girls In the TV show the fictional city s sister city was St Gustav Minnesota a nod to Gustavus Adolphus College in nearby St Peter Minnesota Betty White the actress who played Rose visited St Olaf and was given an honorary membership in St Olaf s chapter of the theater honorary society The St Olaf Choir can be heard performing Mozart s Requiem with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra in Nike s Jordan XXII Takeover commercial The choir is also on the soundtrack of the 1972 film The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 99 In October 2008 the Coen Brothers shot scenes at St Olaf for their film A Serious Man 100 101 After a long search of many campuses they chose St Olaf s old Science Center because it had the late 1960s look of the movie St Olaf has since built a new science center and remodeled the old facility into Tomson Hall See also editList of St Olaf College people List of colleges and universities in Minnesota Higher education in MinnesotaPortal nbsp United StatesNotes editReferences edit NAICU Member Directory Archived 2015 11 09 at the Wayback Machine Partner Institutions Davis UWC Scholars www davisuwcscholars org Archived from the original on July 25 2020 As of March 7 2022 U S and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2021 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY20 to FY21 Report National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA 2022 Retrieved June 5 2023 Kennedy Patrick Minnesota Nonprofit 100 StarTribune News Minneapolis StarTribune Retrieved 12 September 2021 St Olaf College Common Data Set 2018 2019 PDF St Olaf College Retrieved 2019 08 10 St Olaf College Northfield Minnesota USA Stolaf edu Archived from the original on 2013 10 13 Retrieved 2013 07 16 King Olav s Minnesota Thanksgiving The Washington Post Retrieved 15 November 2019 The Visit of Their Majesties King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway Streaming from St Olaf College Retrieved 2019 11 15 USA 2011 www royalcourt no Retrieved 2019 11 15 Queen Sonja of Norway visits campus wp stolaf edu Retrieved December 15 2022 St Olaf Profile 2017 PDF St Olaf College Retrieved 27 November 2019 Fellowship and Scholarship Recipients St Olaf College Retrieved 14 July 2020 Two St Olaf students awarded Goldwater Scholarships St Olaf College 11 June 2019 Retrieved 14 July 2020 Thorbjorn N Mohn First President of St Olaf College St Olaf College 2006 ISBN 096400206X Dear Old Hill St Olaf College January 1992 Retrieved 2013 06 02 Kathryn Ericson JEOPARDY The Muus vs Muus Case in Three Forums PDF MN History Retrieved 2019 11 24 The Reverend Bernt Muus St Olaf College Retrieved 2019 11 24 David T Nelson Luther College 1861 1961 Decorah Iowa Luther College Press 1961 Ytterboe Elise 2009 Ole Voices No 1 Reminiscences Northfield MN St Olaf College St Olaf College A Selected Chronology 1874 1904 wp stolaf edu St Olaf College Retrieved 23 November 2023 a b Shaw Joseph 1974 History of St Olaf 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Hall A century of service St Olaf College 2008 Archived from the original on 2007 03 18 Retrieved 2008 07 04 America s most beautiful college campuses Travel Leisure September 2011 Retired art professor campus architect Edward Sovik dies St Olaf College May 6 2014 Retrieved December 18 2014 a b Gonnerman David Renaissance Man Reidar Dittmann 47 dies https www stolaf edu news index cfm fuseaction NewsDetails amp id 5011 Facilities Art and Art History History of the Museum St Olaf College Retrieved March 21 2015 a b Flaherty Colleen Confronting Light and Dark https www insidehighered com news 2017 03 15 how st olaf scrubbed building name revered professor accused sexual misconduct Shaw Joseph M 1992 Dear Old Hill The Story of Manitou Heights the Campus of St Olaf College St Olaf College Press pp 113 156 40 85 Ytterboe Elise Ole Voices No 1 Chapter 13 Remembering Agnes Mellby from the St Olaf Shaw Olson Archive Chapter 13 Remembering Agnes Mellby Shaw Olson Center for College History The Old Main Chapter 18 Agnes Mellby from the St Olaf Shaw Olson Archive CHAPTER 18 Agnes Mellby Shaw Olson Center for College History Shaw Joseph M 1992 Dear Old Hill The Story of Manitou Heights the Campus of St Olaf College St Olaf College Press p 151 Shaw Joseph M 1992 Dear Old Hill The Story of Manitou Heights the Campus of St Olaf College St Olaf College Press p 156 Shaw Joseph M 1992 Dear Old Hill The Story of Manitou Heights the Campus of St Olaf College St Olaf College Press p 160 Shaw Joseph M 1992 Dear Old Hill The Story of Manitou Heights the Campus of St Olaf College St Olaf College Press p 102 Harald Thorson An Inventory of His Banking Files at the Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society Retrieved October 8 2020 Shaw Joseph M 1992 Dear Old Hill The Story of Manitou Heights the Campus of St Olaf College St Olaf College Press p 17 Shaw Joseph M Dear Old Hill The Story of Manitou Heights the Campus of St Olaf College St Olaf College Press p 154 OLE Core Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree PDF St Olaf College St Olaf College Registrar s Office Retrieved June 16 2021 Majors Concentrations Areas of Emphasis and Teaching Certifications St Olaf College Academic Catalog St Olaf College Retrieved June 16 2021 St Olaf College nces ed gov U S Dept of Education Retrieved February 18 2023 Common Data Set 2020 2021 Instructional Faculty and Class Size PDF St Olaf College St Olaf College Retrieved June 16 2021 St Olaf College Paracollege St Olaf College Registrar s Office Retrieved 8 October 2020 Studies Center for Integrative Center for Integrative Studies St Olaf College St Olaf College Retrieved 8 October 2020 Common Data Set 2020 2021 PDF St Olaf College Retrieved June 16 2021 Best Colleges 2024 National Liberal Arts Colleges U S News amp World Report Retrieved September 20 2023 2023 Liberal Arts Rankings Washington Monthly Retrieved September 25 2023 Forbes America s Top Colleges List 2023 Forbes Retrieved September 22 2023 2024 Best Colleges in the U S The Wall Street Journal Times Higher Education Retrieved January 27 2024 St Olaf College Rankings U S News amp World Report Retrieved September 7 2022 America s Top Colleges Forbes August 15 2019 2022 Liberal Arts Colleges Ranking Washington Monthly Retrieved September 7 2022 Best Liberal Arts Colleges PayScale www payscale com Retrieved 2017 08 02 Maranda Jacob Strother Claire October 1 2020 Messenger changes name denounces racist history The Olaf Messenger Retrieved October 8 2020 Oleville Oleville Retrieved 2013 07 16 Manitou Messenger November 16 2017 The stories they don t tell you on your admissions tour Manitou Messenger Retrieved December 1 2019 a b Shooting Ytterboe the Dog Shaw Olson Center for College History Retrieved December 1 2019 Catherine Roberts April 18 2008 Ytterboe Star of screen and St Olaf Northfield News Retrieved December 1 2019 50 Students End Anti ROTC Occupation of St Olaf Building The Star Tribune 18 April 1970 Retrieved 2 December 2019 Protestors at Two Colleges Gain Ground The Minneapolis Star 18 April 1970 Retrieved 2 December 2019 St Olaf student protests sexual misconduct policy with T shirt Star Tribune 7 April 2016 Retrieved 2 December 2019 Amy Mihelich April 9 2016 Survivor Speaks Out Manitou Messenger Retrieved December 1 2019 Dylan Walker April 30 2016 Sexual misconduct policies under revision Manitou Messenger Retrieved December 1 2019 a b Lindsey Bever May 1 2017 Protests erupt classes canceled after racist notes enrage a Minnesota college Wall Street Journal Retrieved December 1 2019 Doualy Xaykaothao May 1 2017 With classes canceled St Olaf addresses race concerns Minnesota Public Radio Retrieved December 1 2019 Jennifer Brooks and Paul Walsh May 11 2017 St Olaf Report of racist note on black student s windshield was fabricated Star Tribune Retrieved December 1 2019 Barclay Eliza 2019 09 20 How big was the global climate strike 4 million people activists estimate Vox Retrieved 2020 10 08 MTV News Staff Inside The Youth Led Plan To Pull Off The Biggest Climate Strike So Far MTV News Retrieved 2020 10 08 Minnesota students striking for climate change share hopes fears for future MPR News Retrieved 2020 10 08 Mar Jacob a 2019 09 26 Oles strike for the climate Olaf Messenger Retrieved 2020 10 08 The St Olaf Choir A Narrative St Olaf College 1997 ISBN 0964002019 College St Olaf 2021 10 12 The St Olaf Band awarded The American Prize St Olaf College Retrieved 2023 09 18 About the St Olaf Choir www stolaf edu Archived from the original on February 7 2007 Sing For Joy from St Olaf College Sing For Joy from St Olaf College Neuner Cassidy 2016 02 26 Frisbee controversy Olaf Messenger Retrieved 2020 10 08 Who We ve Been VORTEX ULTIMATE Retrieved 2020 10 08 2017 D III Championships Women s Day One Recap College Championships 2017 05 21 Retrieved 2020 10 08 St Olaf Wins 2018 Women s D III Championships College Championships 2018 05 21 Retrieved 2020 10 08 Oberlin Wins the Women s 2019 D III College Championships College Championships 2019 05 20 Retrieved 2020 10 08 Historic Goat Up for Grabs on Saturday Northfield Patch 2012 10 18 Retrieved 2014 11 27 See also Local Colleges Seek Custody of New Goat Oct 16 1931 Northfield News and Historic Happenings by Susan Hvistendahl Northfield Entertainment Guide November and December 2009 Oles spin the eagle towards St Olaf for a 9th consecutive time KARE TV 21 September 2019 Retrieved 14 July 2020 Metric Game a Rout The New York Times 1977 09 18 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 11 15 Stephen Nolan November 15 2013 Cross country upholds tradition Carls and Oles clash at annual Great Karhu Shoe Race Manitou Messenger Retrieved November 21 2019 SARAH FORZLEY AND CHRIS MARSHALL November 15 2008 XC competes in Karhu Shoe Race Carletonian Retrieved November 21 2019 CHAS KARCH November 11 2011 Men warm up against St Olaf in a comical costumed race Carletonian Retrieved November 21 2019 National Book Awards 1968 National Book Foundation Retrieved 2013 06 03 About St Olaf College Retrieved October 8 2020 World War II Propaganda Posters St Olaf College Retrieved October 8 2020 St Olaf alum becomes first transgender woman hired by White House The Column 19 August 2015 Youth and Early Life American Institute of Physics February 2015 Archived from the original on 2013 10 14 The St Olaf s College Choir IMDb Henke David 2008 08 19 Coen brothers will use St Olaf for movie Northfield News Gonnerman David 2008 10 09 St Olaf gets Serious St Olaf College News Archived from the original on 2010 08 08 External links editOfficial website Official athletics website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title St Olaf College amp oldid 1193381311, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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