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ON THE COVER:
St. Olaf senior Christine
Barringer. PHOTO BY
TOM ROSTER
S T. O L A F M A G A Z I N E
FALL 2012
Volume 59 · No. 3
Carole Leigh Engblom
EDITOR
Don Bratland '87,
Holmes Design
ART DIRECTOR
Laura Hamilton Waxman
COPY EDITOR
Nancy Crotti, Suzy Frisch, Marla
Hill Holt '88, Susan Hvistendahl
'68, J. Trout Lowen, Kyle Schut '13,
Kari VanDerVeen, Bradley West '13
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Karin Brown, Beth Rooney,
Tom Roster, Mike Ludwig '01,
David Gonnerman '90
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
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ON THE COVER: St. Olaf senior Christine Barringer
6 st.olaf features 6 The Cost of a College Educ
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on the hill Ole Athletics Spring 2012 Highlights
on the hill A Summer of Hands-on Learning Throug
on the hill Mayo Innovation Program Casey Keyes
The Cost of a COLLEGE EduCation ST.OLAF'SRESPON
On the first of September, 865 first
Physics major Trevor Knapp '13 uses a high precis
whether MOOCs (massively open online courses) of
collected all of its revenue and paid all of its
S OLID FOU NDATIONS Updating aging residence hal
WHERE YOU LIVE MATTERS N inety-six percen
Living on Manitou Heights S t. Olaf C
by the women who lived there. The interior was wa
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Buried treasure Historian steve HaHn’s investigat
tained by the movie, Hahn was inspired to learn m
1700s, the region had become a dynamic center of
F in search of stories or his first fo
Because it contains detailed information about th
World THE 29TH ANNUAL GIMSE
vieWs AND OFF-CAMPUS STUDIES
Afternoon in the Mosque of Ahmed Ib
Bicycle · Florence, Italy · Vicki Anton '14 · Art
The Last Supper · Goldwell Open Air Museum, Rhyol
Gateway of the Renaissance · Piazza S. Martino, L
Hands of an Angel · The Louvre Museum, Paris · Ta
Two Worlds – Dos Mundos · Carolina Park, Quito, E
portrait Building Relationships Kathryn M. Lohre
religious faiths. In addition to Global Semester,
portrait doctor of divinity degree from the Grad
alumni achievement E ACH YEAR, ST.
Mark Brown on the Lutheran World Federation campu
alumni achievement available to young people in
alumni achievement The Rule of Law Distinguished
sense of compassion for and duty to others. He ha
Steven Miles in the garden of his Minneapolis
alumni achievement A Voice of Conscience Alumni
alumni achievement Miles made his presenc
alumni news Fulbright Honors N
advancingthemission Student Leaders for Social C
stolaf.edu/giving The Kloeck-Jenson Endow
class notes 1933 In May, Bernice Hofengen Haaken
stolaf.edu/alumni/classifieds been director of a
on the shelf NEW BOOKS BY ST. OLAF ALUMNI AN
stolaf.edu/alumni/classifieds 1994 Sarah Ford, w
class notes leadership, numerous accomplishments
reunionweekend2012
milestones future oles Erik Lindberg '88 and Lia
*Ronald Henriksen '50, Milwaukee, Wis., April 2,
almanac
theSt.OlafOrchestra Steven AmundSon · ConduCt
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