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ST. OLAF MAGAZINE<br />
Spring 2016 · Volume 63 · No.2<br />
EDITOR:CaroleLeighEngblom<br />
ARTDIRECTOR:DonBratland'87<br />
COPY EDITOR: Laura Hamilton Waxman<br />
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:<br />
Sophie Breen '17, Sarah Gruidl '17, Joel<br />
Hoekstra '92, Erin Peterson, Jeff Sauve,<br />
Alice Stevens '16<br />
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS:<br />
Bill Kelley, Fernando Sevilla, Tom Roster<br />
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<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=13"> If there were ways Calderón felt like an </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=14"> Norbert Abayisenga '17 (left) and Cameron Judge-B</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=15"> entire campus has a chance to gather together mul</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=16"> “I can’t imagine what my St. Olaf experience woul</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=20"> The best communities help students understand who</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=21"> and community where I had some time during the da</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=22"> A Place Where Personal Connections Matter I </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=23"> SPOTLIGHT Amanda Bauer ’16 </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=24"> SPOTLIGHT Manitou Maple A S W I N T E R E N D </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=25"> A tree that is tapped according to time-honored m</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=26"> BUILDING ......on...... ITION TRAD FI E LE </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=27"> Professor Emeritus of Art Mac Gim</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=28"> A good liberal arts educat</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=29"> Such queries, of course, were intended to</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=30"> “THE STUDENTS DID A GREAT JOB OF FOLLOWING</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=31"> What did they learn from the exercise? “I</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=32"> “THE STUDENTS SPENT HUNDREDS OF HO</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=33"> His colleagues sometimes remark that Goug</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=34"> “IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO HOLD</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=35"> As part of the St. Olaf Interim course, N</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=38"> An invitation from the Cuban Ministry of Culture </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=39"> S P R I N G 2 0 1 6 3 7</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=40"> “The day we went to the Escuela Profesional de Ar</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=41"> “This trip was a true cultural exchange, in every</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=42"> “Although we’ve grown up immersed in very diffe</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2016Spring page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ac5cd839?page=44"> ALUMNI NEWS Remembering President Emeritus Mel</a>
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