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CRITICAL<br />
THINKING<br />
A LONG WALK TO<br />
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WORLD-CLASS<br />
JAZZ<br />
A LEAGUE OF<br />
HER OWN<br />
ON THE COVER:<br />
Pumla Maswanganyi '16 and<br />
Renato Barraza '16 conversing<br />
at the end of the day in<br />
Regents Hall of Natural and<br />
Mathematical Sciences.<br />
PHOTO BY TOM ROSTER<br />
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ST. OLAF MAGAZINE<br />
Spring 2015 · Volume 62 · No. 2<br />
EDITOR:CaroleLeighEngblom<br />
ARTDIRECTOR:DonBratland'87|HolmesDesign<br />
COPYEDITOR:LauraHamiltonWaxman<br />
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:<br />
Sophie Breen '17, Kassandra DiPietro '15, Suzy Frisch,<br />
Joel Hoekstra '92, Marla Hill Holt '88, Erin Peterson,<br />
Jeff Sauve, Andrew Wilder '15<br />
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS:<br />
Bill Kelley, Nancy Pastor, Tom Roster<br />
Readers may send name/address changes and corrections to:<br<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=1"> S PSRPIRNIGN G2 021051 5 ST.OLAF E N I Z A G A M</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=2"> ON THE COVER: Pumla Maswanganyi '16 and Renato Ba</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=3"> 10 32 ST.OLAF MAGAZINE SPRING 2015 CON</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=4"> FROM THE DESK OF PRESIDEN</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=5"> TAIKO DRUMMING CLUB T he </a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=7"> SPRING 2015 5</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=8"> Moving On St. Olaf honors its 2015 faculty retire</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=9"> S ix St. Olaf faculty members are re</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=10"> Wendell Arneson Art and Art History I n 197</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=11"> Bruce Nordstrom-Loeb Sociology and Anthropology O</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=12"> St. Olaf promises to teach its students how to th</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=14"> “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to bel</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=15"> T THE PATH TO CRITICAL THINKING </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=16"> “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to le</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=20"> “At times, history and fate meet at a single time</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=21"> Reeb graduated cum laude with a history m</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=25"> H UNDREDS OF AFRICA</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=26"> THE QUIET RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DURING THE SUMMER OF 19</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=27"> David Kjerland '66 a lot of discussion (rig</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=28"> DAVE HAGEDORN HAS PROPELLED THE ST. OLAF JAZZ PRO</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=29"> Hagedorn performing on the vibraphone with the </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=30"> there' St. Olaf's sawarmvibeinthebandroomatarece</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=31"> “That award is a really, really, really b</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=32"> “JAZZ MUSIC IS IMMENSELY RELEVANT TO LIF</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=33"> Hagedorn is as much a performer as he is </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=34"> BASEBALL PIONEER JUSTINE SIEGAL ’98 IS CREA</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=35"> SPRING 2015 33</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=36"> W ITH SPRING COMES BASEBALL — </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=37"> The change in Little League Softball and </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=38"> “Once it was considered ‘wrong’ for women </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=39"> Siegal was profiled in a Boston Sunday Herald feat</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=41"> A FTER PLACING SECOND at the NCA</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=42"> ALUMNI NEWS Alumni Ac</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2015Spring page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d462226?page=43"> launch Ole Law. This networking event has become </a>
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