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I got this email from a local resident:

Karl Rove posterI think it would be interesting to post something about St. Olaf’s decision to bring in Karl Rove on October 1st to speak.  I am actually quite appalled that our hometown Lutheran college would do such a thing.  Ann Coulter was one thing- she’s an over the top media freak who makes money by being just so.  Karl Rove, kindly known as "Bush’s Brain" is a criminal with little regard for the law or the betterment of our society.  Frankly, I think he’s evil and should be in jail!

The slightly defaced poster on the wall of the GBM (my photo above) has more to say, as well as the blog post on Oleville, by the Political Awareness Committee (PAC) of the St. Olaf Student Government Association (SGA) . (continued)

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Last Thursday, MPR aired a story titled Minnesota monarch butterfly population falls. Minnesota’s monarch butterfly population is 38 percent below average this summer, according to preliminary statistics from University of…

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  I stopped by Carleton’s West Gym this morning for the Ninth Annual "Lighten-Up" Garage Sale is today and tomorrow. Nobody goes there no more; it’s too crowded. See Jessica…

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shop class soulcraft coverSunday’s NY Times Magazine had an article titled The Case for Working With Your Hands which is adapted from the new book, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Mathew Crawford (available in downtown Northfield at Monkey See Monkey Read). I started getting interested in this topic back in March after reading the comments to my blog post, Whither the clocks of the Middle School Industrial Technology classes?  It was brought home to me last week when a guy in my motorcycle trials club, Jim ‘Bubba’ Blount, diagnosed my carburetion problems just by listening to my bike. (continued)

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A bit of performance art on the Bald Spot last night. Details on Northfield.org: Carleton to Stage Rare Performance of Controversial “Piano Burning.” Click the thumbnails to scroll through the…

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