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St. Olaf Higher
St. Olaf College seal.svg
Motto Fram! Fram! Kristmenn, Krossmenn (Nynorsk)

Motto in English

 Forward! Frontward! Men of Christ, Men of the Cross
Type Private liberal arts college
Established 1874; 148 years ago  (1874)

Religious affiliation

 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Academic affiliations
  • NAICU[1]
  • Oberlin Group
  • Annapolis Group
  • CLAC
  • ACM
  • Davis United World College Scholars Program[2]
Endowment $701.vii 1000000 (2021)[3]
Budget $210.iii million (2020)[iv]
President David R. Anderson
Undergraduates 3,048 (fall 2018)[5]
Location

Northfield, Minnesota

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U.S.


44°27′34″N 93°10′l″West  /  44.45944°N 93.18056°W  / 44.45944; -93.18056 Coordinates: 44°27′34″N 93°x′50″W  /  44.45944°N 93.18056°W  / 44.45944; -93.18056
Campus Rural 920 acres (370 ha)[half dozen]
Colors Black and gold
Nickname "Oles" OH-leez

Sporting affiliations

 NCAA Division Iii – MIAC
Mascot St. Olaf Lion, "Ole"
Website www.stolaf.edu
St. Olaf College logo.svg

St. Olaf College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. The schoolhouse was founded in 1874 by a grouping of Norwegian-American pastors and farmers led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named afterwards the King and the Patron Saint Olaf II of Norway and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church building in America. The college was visited by King Olav in 1987[7] and King Harald Five and Queen Sonja of Norway in 2011.[8] [9]

As of 2017, the college enrolled three,035 undergraduate students and 256 faculty.[x] The campus, including its 325-acre natural lands, lies 2 miles west of the city of Northfield, Minnesota; Northfield is also the habitation of its neighbour and friendly rival Carleton College. Between 1995 and 2020, 154 St. Olaf graduates were named Fulbright Scholars and 35 received Goldwater Scholarships.[11] [12] Of the nation's baccalaureate colleges, St. Olaf ranks 12th in the number of graduates who take gone on to earn doctorate degrees.[xiii]

History [edit]

Seal and motto [edit]

The seal of the St. Olaf College displays the Glaze of artillery of Norway, which includes the axe of St. Olaf.

The motto Fram! Fram! Kristmenn, Krossmenn, written in New Norwegian, is adapted from the One-time Norse battle cry of Male monarch Olaf. It ways "Forrard! Forrad! 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 establishment in the Lutheran tradition that offered classes in all subjects in both Norwegian and English. The catalyst for St. Olaf'south 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 establishment. The 3 received around $10,000 in pledges, formed a corporation and bought land and 4 buildings (old Northfield schoolhouses) for the school.[14] [15] Muus came under scrutiny after a divorce example revealed extensive acts of domestic abuse.[xvi] 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 viii, 1875, at its starting time site under the leadership of its first president, Thorbjorn N. Mohn, a graduate of Luther Higher. Herman Amberg Preus, president of the Norwegian Synod, laid the foundation rock 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 paper, now called the Olaf Messenger.[eighteen] 1887 was also the twelvemonth that the get-go 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 Us.[nineteen]

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

Fiscal crisis [edit]

In 1893, St. Olaf faced astringent economic difficulties. A national economical depression caused enrollment to drop from a high of 147 in 1892 to 129 in 1893.[20] Also in 1893 the Norwegian Synod voted to cut ties with the college, greatly reducing its income.[21] Past the Baronial 1893 board meeting, the college was $10,000 in debt.[22] On Baronial 2 the Lath of Trustees appointed professor H. T. Ytterboe to travel around the Midwest and collect funds for the higher. During this time President Mohn took over Ytterboe's responsibilities managing the college'due south finances. Over the side by side six years faculty and staff saw their salaries reduced, and the number of education faculty was reduced from eleven to seven.[23] Ytterboe spent six years traveling the Midwest and was highly effective at fundraising, averaging $half-dozen,500 per year, mostly in minor donations of a dollar or more from farmers and individual 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'south efforts as having saved the college from extinction.[24]

Ruby Fever Epidemic [edit]

Following students' return from Christmas vacation in 1903, an epidemic of scarlet fever broke out on the campus and quickly spread. 20-eight out of St. Olaf'due south approximately three hundred students came downwardly with the highly-infectious disease. With no local infirmary, the n wing on the 3rd floor of Ytterboe Hall, the boys dormitory, was used as a makeshift hospital and staffed with two nurses who worked tirelessly to incorporate the spread of the disease.[25]

1918 Spanish flu pandemic [edit]

At the beginning of the spread of the Castilian influenza to the United States, St. Olaf went into voluntary quarantine in hopes of avoiding the epidemic, allowing students to leave campus only for emergencies in one case they had obtained a pass. The start cases on St. Olaf's campus occurred on November 11, 1918, and soon thereafter the higher infirmary was filled to capacity. Ytterboe Hall was converted into a infirmary for the sick in one case the temporary beds in Hoyme Chapel had filled. St. Olaf officially airtight for the yr on December 7, due to a rapid ascent of influenza cases. 4 students died from flu complications.[26]

St. Olaf during the 2d Earth War [edit]

At the first of World War 2, St. Olaf was not directly involved with the conflict, with the extent of wartime activities including Red Cross drives and a "Bundles for United kingdom" project. Just past the autumn of 1942, over 400 undergraduates and alumni were serving overseas. The campus was too ordered to business firm 600 U.Due south. Naval recruits for flight training, leading to the conversion of Mohn and Ytterboe Halls from women'due south dormitories to housing for naval servicemen. Students living in Ytterboe and Mohn Halls were required to motion to Agnes Mellby Hall to accommodate the naval personnel.[27]

Presidents [edit]

St. Olaf has had 11 presidents since its founding:

  • Thorbjorn N. Mohn, 1874–99
  • John Northward. 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
  • Marking U. Edwards Jr., Ph.D., 1994–2000
  • Christopher M. Thomforde, D.Min., 2001–06
  • David R. Anderson, Ph.D., 2006 to Present[update] [a]

Church affiliations [edit]

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

  • 1874–87 Norwegian Synod
  • 1887–90 Anti-Missourian Brotherhood
  • 1890–1917 United Norwegian Lutheran Church building of America
  • 1917–threescore Evangelical Lutheran Church building
  • 1960–87 The American Lutheran Church
  • 1988–present Evangelical Lutheran Church building in America[29]

Campus [edit]

The states historic identify

Sometime Main, St. Olaf Higher

U.South. National Annals of Historic Places
OldMainStOlaf.jpg

Old Main
Location St. Olaf Higher campus, Northfield, Minnesota
Area Less than 1 acre
Built 1877
Architect Long & Haglin
Architectural fashion Gothic
NRHP referenceNo. 76001073[30]
Added to NRHP June iii, 1976

Known every bit "The Hill", St. Olaf College's picturesque 300-acre (120 ha) campus is home to 17 academic and administrative buildings, 29 educatee residences and x athletic facilities. St. Olaf is a residential college; 96% of St. Olaf students reside in ane of the 11 residence halls and 18 bookish and special interest group houses. Next 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-class wind turbine that supplies upwards to one-tertiary 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.[31] In 2011, Travel+Leisure named St. Olaf i of the most beautiful higher campuses in the United States.[32]

Edward Sövik, a liturgical builder and St. Olaf professor of art until his death in 2014, designed or assisted in the pattern of 20 campus buildings.[33]

Country acknowledgement statement [edit]

The drafting of a land acknowledgement statement began in response to the phone call from The Collective for Change on the Hill after the protests of 2017.[34] The argument reads equally follows:

Nosotros stand on the homelands of the Wahpekute Band of the Dakota Nation. Nosotros honour with gratitude the people who have stewarded the state throughout the generations and their ongoing contributions to this region. Nosotros acknowledge the ongoing injustices that we accept committed against the Dakota Nation, and nosotros wish to interrupt this legacy, beginning with acts of healing and honest storytelling about this place. [35]

The statement is included on the college website'south "History and Heritage" page as a form of recognition of the forced removal of the Wahpekute Band of the Dakota Peoples from the land on which St. Olaf sits.

Notable buildings [edit]

Center for Fine art and Trip the light fantastic toe [edit]

The Centre for Fine art and Trip the light fantastic toe is a collaborative project with offerings from the art, art history, and dance departments.[36] It houses the Flaten Art Museum and studio spaces dedicated to painting, cartoon, printmaking, ceramics, wood sculpture, digital media, photography, and a metal foundry, all named after alumni and educators who contributed to the evolution of each discipline.[37] 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 award Arnold Flaten, a by professor of art, and his family unit.[38] The museum has a collection of regional, national, and international works and exhibits these equally well as faculty and student work.

The building underwent pregnant remodeling in the early on 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 ascension Nazi regime until his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration campsite.[39] Later his immigration to the United States, Dittmann joined St. Olaf's faculty every bit a professor of fine art and Norwegian in 1947. In 1952 He and Ansgar Sovik co-founded the International Studies programme, now known as the Part of International and Off-Campus Studies.[36] 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 determination to rename the edifice was made in 2017, post-obit the design of campuses effectually the land questioning the names of buildings dedicated to notable alumni with contentious histories.[39]

Agnes Mellby Hall [edit]

Mellby Hall was synthetic in 1938 to meet the needs of the growing female person student population overflowing from Ladies' Hall, the get-go female dormitory competed in 1879, and Mohn Hall, completed in 1912.[xl] The edifice is dedicated to 1893 alumna Agnes Theodora Mellby, the showtime woman to graduate from St. Olaf.[41] Built-in in Christiania, Kingdom of 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.[42] Mellby taught English, German, geography, U. S. History, civics, and math, business firm in her resolve to see to the well-being of St. Olaf's female population regarding pedagogy and housing.[43] She held her position from 1893 until 1909, and connected to work with the higher subsequently retiring until her decease in 1918.[44]

Agnes Kittelsby Hall [edit]

In 1956, Agnes Kittelsby Hall was synthetic with rooms for 164 women every bit an adjacent wing to the Gertrude Hilleboe Hall.[45] It was an all-women's dormitory until St. Olaf residence halls became co-ed. The edifice is named after Agnes Kittelsby, St. Olaf class of 1900. Like many St. Olaf alumnae, Kittelsby taught various subjects at the college subsequently her graduation. In 1914, she moved to Prc and established American School Kikungshan, a school for the children of American missionaries.[46]

Thorson Hall [edit]

Thorson Hall was constructed every bit a men's dormitory in 1948. It was ane of four dormitories constructed in the 1940s and 1950s to address an increase in enrollment afterward Globe War II.[47] The edifice is named later on Harald Thorson (1841-1920), an early benefactor of the college. A businessman, Thorson owned farms, sold horses and mules, and established banks.[48] He was instrumental in establishing St. Olaf's School (equally it was first named), choosing the initial 30-acre plot of land and authorizing the first payment for it.[49] He afterwards served every bit a fellow member of the original Lath of Trustees. Thorson's will bequeathed most of his estate to St. Olaf nether the stipulation that the coin be used for the structure of a new edifice, Thorson Hall.[50]

Academics [edit]

Curriculum [edit]

Earlier graduating, St. Olaf students complete fifteen-18 required courses in general education credits, including courses in writing, a foreign language, gild, religion, ethics, mathematical reasoning, race, social scientific discipline, and natural science.[51] Many of the courses are interdisciplinary. St. Olaf offers 41 unlike majors for the bachelor of arts degree, five for the bachelor of music degree, and twenty areas of concentration, which are pursued independently of majors.[52]

As of the 2020–21 academic year, the student-to-faculty ratio is 12.two to one.[53]

The Paracollege lasted for 31 years, from 1969 to 2000, and was an individualized, interdisciplinary selection for obtaining the Bachelor of Arts degree. The Paracollege program emphasized pupil-centered education through workshops, colloquia, tutorials, seminars, and senior concentrations.[54] It was replaced by the Center for Integrative Studies, which allows students to pattern individual majors.[55]

Admissions [edit]

According to the St. Olaf College Mutual Dataset for the class of 2024,[56] St. Olaf received 5,229 applications, accustomed two,656 (50.8%), and enrolled 727. The heart fifty% range of Sat Blended scores for the grade of 2024 was 1160–1370, while the ACT Composite range was 25–32. Of the 37% of enrolled beginning-yr students who submitted loftier school class rank, 39% were in the tiptop 10th of their high school classes and 69% ranked in the top quarter. The average high school GPA was 3.68.

Rankings [edit]

Academic rankings
Liberal arts colleges
U.Southward. News & Earth Report [57] 62
Washington Monthly [58] 72
National
Forbes [59] 185
THE/WSJ [60] 176

The 2021 almanac ranking past U.S. News & World Report rates St. Olaf tied for 67th amidst 223 "National Liberal Arts Colleges", 26th among 102 "Best Value Schools", and tied at 43rd for "Best Undergraduate Teaching" among 63 ranked liberal arts colleges.[61]

Forbes in 2019 rated St. Olaf 116th overall in its America'south Top Colleges ranking of 650 armed forces academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges, and 50th amongst liberal arts colleges.[62]

Washington Monthly ranked St. Olaf 72nd in 2020 among 218 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, inquiry, and promoting public service.[63]

St. Olaf was ranked 47th for liberal arts colleges on Payscale.com'due south 2016-17 listing of highest-paid graduates.[64]

United States historic identify

Steensland Library--St. Olaf Higher

U.S. National Register of Historic Places
SteenslandHall.jpg

Steensland Hall in 2015
Location Off St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, Minnesota
Area less than ane acre
Built 1902
Architect Omeyer & Thori
Architectural style Classical Revival
MPS Rice County MRA
NRHP referenceNo. 82003020[30]
Added to NRHP April 6, 1982

The middle of St. Olaf's campus.

St. Olaf's utility-form current of air turbine directly supplies upwards to 20% of campus energy needs.

Senior art prove at Eye for Art and Dance, habitation of fine art galleries, classrooms, and studios.

Student life [edit]

Student organizations [edit]

More than than 250 educatee organizations are registered at St. Olaf, including bookish, athletic, awareness, multicultural, political, religious, service (Alpha Phi Omega) and other special interest groups. Social club sports include rowing, men'due south 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 equally the Manitou Messenger) is the student newspaper. The paper inverse its name in 2020 in response to concerns of the cribbing of the give-and-take "Manitou" from the language of the original inhabitants of the land the college is built on.[65] Other groups include an on-campus organic farm (STOGROW), an improv comedy troupe (Scared Scriptless), and an EMT (emergency medical technician) system that is the starting time responder for campus emergencies. St. Olaf students edit and publish several journals each yr, including The Reed, the globe's only international undergraduate journal for existential philosophy.

Educatee government [edit]

St. Olaf's Student Government Association (SGA) finances many educatee activities and organizations on campus. It operates through 10 branches, each managed by an elected executive: Diversity Celebrations Commission, Volunteer Network, Music Entertainment Committee, Student Activities Commission, Educatee Organizations Committee, Lath of Regents Student Committee, The Suspension, Afterwards Dark Committee, and Political Sensation Committee. Too 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 bug. SGA too maintains Oleville.com, a website containing information about pupil activities.[66]

Student protests [edit]

Ytterboe the Dog [edit]

Ytterboe, named after former professor H. T. Ytterboe, was a black domestic dog who became a facet of campus life at St. Olaf in 1942.[67] Fed and cared for past students, the dog became an unofficial mascot. In 1957, Ytterboe the Dog "allegedly" bit the son of a local law officer Peter Morris. In response, Morris sent two officers to St. Olaf'due south campus to capture the dog. After he evaded capture, police force shot Ytterboe on the library colina, 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 figure of the officeholder who shot Ytterboe was hung from a streetlight and burned. The Minnesota highway patrol was chosen in to control the protest every bit students continued demonstrating in Northfield. In response to the protests, the main of police said, "Nobody loves a dog more than I practice. We didn't mean to kill him".[68] St. Olaf President Clemens M. Granskou commented, "Equally far as I could see, this is one of these tempests in a teacup that usually have identify once in a while in the springtime on a college campus".[68]

Initially, the Northfield Police sent Ytterboe'southward body to a local landfill, simply students retrieved it. Subsequently, Ytterboe's head was sent to Minneapolis to be tested for rabies; it tested negative. His body was buried on a gradient of Manitou Heights the twenty-four hours subsequently he was shot as a crowd of two,000 students and members of the customs gathered to pay their respects.[69]

ROTC [edit]

Between fifty and 75 students from St. Olaf, accompanied by some Carleton students, occupied the St. Olaf administration building on Apr 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 render for the cessation of "obstructive sit-in".[70] The St. Olaf protests coincided with a similar occupation at Macalester College. [71]

Sexual misconduct [edit]

In 2016, students protested the school's policies on sexual harassment through a T-shirt campaign.[72] Students donned grayness shirts reading "Ask me how my college is protecting my rapist" to draw attention to the school's sexual misconduct policies.[73] Data about the campaign circulated through social media and was soon picked up by local news sources. In response, the Part of Civil Rights of the U.Due south. Teaching Department launched an investigation into the college's policies. Shortly after, the school officially announced an overhaul of its Title Ix policies.[74]

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 detest crimes.[75] As of May one, 2017, there had been 9 reported acts of hate speech during the school twelvemonth.[75] Past occupying campus buildings, blocking entrances to the cafeteria, and boycotting classes, demonstrators pushed the assistants to act on a number of demands.[76] While the protests prompted the administration to reevaluate its policies, an investigation revealed that i of the notes was forged. While the forgery undermined the movement for some, others saw information technology equally a rogue action that did not detract from the progress made.[77]

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 move inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.[78] [79] On September 20, hundreds of St. Olaf students walked out of class and marched into downtown Northfield, where they joined other Northfield citizens to enhance awareness of the growing threat of global climatic change.[eighty] The St. Olaf strike was organized past the college's Climate Justice Collective (CJC), a grouping dedicated to increasing campus awareness of climate issues and pushing St. Olaf to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies.[81]

Music programme [edit]

St. Olaf'south music program was founded past F. Melius Christiansen in 1903. Its band, choir and orchestra tour the continental Usa annually and accept fabricated many international tours, typically occurring triennially.[82] The St. Olaf Band, currently nether the direction of Timothy Mahr '78, was the commencement American college musical organization to deport a concert tour abroad when it traveled to Kingdom of norway in 1906.

The St. Olaf Orchestra is conducted by Steven Amundson. Nether Amundson'due south direction, the Orchestra has performed Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection),[83] Stravinsky's Petrouchka and Rite of Spring, Ravel'south La valse, and tone poems by Richard Strauss.

The St. Olaf Choir, conducted by Anton Armstrong '78, was founded past Christiansen in 1907 equally the St. John's Lutheran Church Choir in Northfield, a collegiate ensemble.[84] It has toured Europe several times, every bit well equally China, Korea, and Australia, performing earlier heads of land and producing more than a dozen recordings. The choir performs in the nationally broadcast almanac St. Olaf Christmas Festival, along with the St. Olaf Orchestra and 4 of the college'southward other choirs. In 2005 the choir was invited to perform at the White Business firm for President George Westward. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, and guests to commemorate the National Day of Prayer.

The St. Olaf Jazz I ensemble was awarded the DownBeat mag award for top undergraduate large ensemble in 2011.[85] Led past St. Olaf music faculty member Dave Hagedorn, the ensemble toured Cuba during March 20–25, 2016.[86]

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. At that place are too student-run music ensembles at St. Olaf: Valhalla Ring, Naknefeler Orchestra, and the men's and women'southward a cappella groups: The Limestones, Agnes, and Krossmen. In improver, the Gospel Choir of St. Olaf is ane of few Midwest college gospel choirs. These groups are not a function of the higher'due south music programme and operate independently.

In 2005 the St. Olaf Ring, St. Olaf Orchestra, and St. Olaf Choir toured Norway to celebrate its independence centennial.

Ensembles that were 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.[87]

Athletics [edit]

St. Olaf College is a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) in NCAA Division Three.

Twenty-seven varsity teams (14 for men and 13 for women) participate in NCAA Division 3 intercollegiate sports in baseball game, basketball, cross country, football, golf, hockey, skiing (both Nordic and Alpine), soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field (both indoor and outdoor), volleyball, and wrestling. Athletic colors are blackness and gilt, and the nickname for St. Olaf teams is the Oles. All varsity athletic teams compete in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Able-bodied Conference (MIAC) with the exception of wrestling and Tall and Nordic skiing.

St. Olaf competes in the following sports:

St. Olaf as well has many educatee-coached club and intramural teams that compete within the student torso and also inter-college. Notable are the St. Olaf Ultimate teams, The Berzerkers and Durga (team proper name changed to Vortex in 2015[88]), which make an annual trip to a national collegiate tournament (Spring Ultimax) in North Carolina. The women's Ultimate teams take 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.[89] In 2017, Vortex once once more qualified for the National tournament in Kentucky and placed 7th.[90] In 2018, Vortex won the DIII National championship in Rockford, Illinois.[91] After that success, Vortex placed 3rd at the DIII National tournament in Higher Station, Texas.[92] The St. Olaf Dance Squad supports St. Olaf able-bodied teams (football, men's/women'south soccer and basketball) with halftime performances and competes in intercollegiate events every yr. 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]

St. Olaf is a traditional athletic rival of its crosstown neighbour Carleton College. The almanac American football game between the Knights and the Oles was recently dubbed the "Cereal Basin" in honor of the Malt-O-Meal production facility in Northfield. The almanac winner receives the "Goat Trophy", which was created by Minneapolis dentist Ranthus B. Fouch in 1931.[93]

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 State of war Veterans' Memorial (in Span Foursquare) is turned to face the college that wins the annual match between the schools.[94]

These football teams are likewise meaning for having played the only NCAA-sanctioned "Liter Bowl" metric football game game in history, which St. Olaf won in 1977.[95]

Cross state [edit]

The Great Karhu Shoe Race is an annual rivalry betwixt the cantankerous country teams of Carleton and St. Olaf College. The race was founded in 1972 when Carleton Autobus Bill Huyck was in search of a new championship grade for the Midwest Conference Meet. St. Olaf coach Bill Thornton agreed to a competition betwixt the runners on each squad who were not on the varsity top 7. The varsity athletes were yet racing later in the flavor. The trophy for the 1972 race was a pair of Karhu Shoes worth $10. These shoes have remained the trophy to this day.[96]

Several traditions exist between the St. Olaf and Carleton runners at the race. As the race typically falls about Halloween, many of the runners volition frequently don costumes.[97] The runners for the St. Olaf men apply prophylactic pins to attach sticky bears to their shorts, which the Carleton runners attempt to rip off.[98]

Fight song [edit]

Based on a Norwegian folk tune, the college song, "Um! Yah! Yah!", is the only college fight vocal in the United States to be in 3/four (waltz) meter. It is as well one of the few higher songs to mention another college in its lyrics.

The lyrics to the St. Olaf song include the unofficial St. Olaf "Um! Yah! Yah!" battle weep. The most common version uses the name of traditional cross-town rival, Carleton College, but the current opposing institution's name is inserted when sung at athletic competitions.

We come from St. Olaf, we sure are the real stuff.
Our team is the cream of the colleges corking.
We fight fast and furious, our team is injurious.
Tonight Carleton College will sure meet its fate.


Um Yah Yah! Um Yah Yah!
Um Yah Yah! Um Yah Yah!
Um Yah Yah! Um Yah Yah!
Um Yah Yah YAH!


Um Yah Yah! Um Yah Yah!
Um Yah Yah! Um Yah Yah!
Um Yah Yah! Um Yah Yah!
Um Yah Yah YAH!

Kierkegaard Library [edit]

The Hong Kierkegaard Library was established with funds from St. Olaf College and Kierkegaard scholars Howard and Edna Hong. As curator, Howard Hong acquired books owned by Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard's complete works in many languages, and secondary bibliographies about Kierkegaard. A subsequent curator of the library was philosopher C. Stephen Evans.

Each year, the library hosts a summer fellowship program. Activities in the summer include Danish courses and a symposium every other year. Year-long Kierkegaard Fellowships run across scholars living in St. Olaf'due south Kierkegaard Firm.

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 Fine art Museum [edit]

St. Olaf is habitation to the Flaten Fine 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, just a few were purchased. The museum also displays senior studio majors' piece of work at the end of the year to give them experience in having artwork displayed in a professional setting.[99]

Poster drove [edit]

In 2015 St. Olaf accustomed a drove of 147 rare Globe War 2-era propaganda posters as part of a donation from the estate of Richard Northward. Tetlie. The posters were created past the Nazi regime and the Vichy French government for display across occupied Europe and were nerveless 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 past manipulating the fear, feet, 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 exist restored. They could then exist used in exhibits and as resources to teach about the dangers of propaganda and extremism.[100]

Notable alumni [edit]

Notable St. Olaf alumni include civil rights activist James Reeb '50, AIA Golden 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, every bit did the first female person major league baseball game charabanc, Justine Siegal. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and Norwegian.[101] Andrew Volstead 1881 introduced the National Prohibition Act to Congress in 1919.

Ernest Lawrence, recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics, studied for a year at St. Olaf.[102]

In popular civilisation [edit]

St. Olaf is mentioned in the works of Minnesota writer 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'due south radio programme A Prairie Home Companion, which circulate its bear witness from St. Olaf on November 17, 2001, and November 19, 2011.

The fictional Minnesota urban center of St. Olaf was the hometown of Rose Nylund in the TV show The Golden Girls. In the Television set prove 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'due south chapter of the theater honorary gild.

The St. Olaf Choir can be heard performing Mozart'southward Requiem with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Nike's "Jordan XXII-Takeover" commercial. The choir is also on the soundtrack of the 1972 moving-picture show The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid.[103]

In October 2008 the Coen Brothers shot scenes at St. Olaf for their film A Serious Human being.[104] [105] Afterwards a long search of many campuses, they chose St. Olaf'southward one-time Science Center considering information technology had the late 1960s look of the picture. St. Olaf has since built a new science center and remodeled the old facility into Tomson Hall.

See also [edit]

  • List of St. Olaf College people
  • List of colleges and universities in Minnesota
  • College education in Minnesota

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Anderson has announced his plans to retire in 2023.[28]

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