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  • College track star arrested after knives, tactical vest, empty ammo boxes discovered in dorm room

    04/12/2023 8:51:38 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 33 replies
    theblaze.com ^ | April 11, 2023 | CORTNEY WEIL
    A college student in Minnesota has been arrested after prosecutors say they found evidence that he was "planning a mass casualty event." On April 5, custodians at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, discovered empty boxes which once contained ammunition and high-capacity magazines in a garbage can outside one of the dorms. The custodians alerted authorities, who reportedly traced the packages to a dorm resident, 20-year-old sophomore Waylon Kurts, a member of the St. Olaf track team. In Kurts' dorm room, investigators allegedly discovered a trove of weapons and tactical gear, including knives, a protective vest, propane, fireworks, information about...
  • Chomsky Claims GOP, Christianity Trying to 'Destroy the World'

    05/09/2018 6:07:35 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 57 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | 5/8/18 | Kyle Hooten
    * Prominent liberal academic Noam Chomsky delivered a speech Friday at St. Olaf College, where he declared that Republicans and Christians are intent on "destroying organized human life."*Chomsky equated support for fossil fuels to saying "let's quickly destroy ourselves, asserted that North Korea is "extending an olive branch" to the US, and insisted that Christians, but not Muslims, want to "destroy the world."Noam Chomsky told students at St. Olaf College on Friday that the Republican Party is engaged in a “unique insanity which is dedicated to destroying organized human life.” This comment and more came in the context of Dr....
  • St. Olaf President Says Racist Note Was 'Fabricated'

    05/10/2017 6:52:51 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 33 replies
    KSTP.com ^ | 5/10/17 | KSTP Staff
    The President at St. Olaf College has informed members of the campus community that a racist note an African-American woman found on her car April 29 was fabricated . President David R. Anderson wrote in an an email that the note was "apparently a strategy to draw attention to concerns about the campus climate." The school confirmed the email was sent, as well as an earlier email from Anderson informing the campus community the school had confirmed the note was not a genuine threat. Students said the woman discovered a typed note that read, in part, "I am so glad...
  • St. Olaf professor confesses to stealing McCain signs (MN)

    11/02/2008 3:35:33 PM PST · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 37 replies · 1,142+ views
    StarTribune ^ | 11/1/08 | Laurie Blake
    Stealing through the dark to yank three John McCain yard signs from yards along rural Hwy. 19 in Northfield was wrong but also thrilling and satisfying, a visiting instructor at St. Olaf College recently told readers of a national website. Philip Busse, who teaches a class in media studies at the Northfield school, said he intended the posting to point out the foolish things people do in a highly charged political season. But neither the McCain nor Obama presidential campaign was amused by his exploits, St. Olaf has condemned the prank and the Rice County sheriff is investigating. In his...
  • Confessions of a Lawn Sign Stealer

    10/31/2008 5:22:25 AM PDT · by Bill Dupray · 38 replies · 969+ views
    The Patriot Room ^ | October 31, 2008 | Bill Dupray
    Okay. It's time to play a little pile-on-the-jackass. This smug sonofabitch is a professor who admits to stealing lawn signs. His name is PHIL BUSSE. Self-described Thief and Tresspasser, PHIL BUSSE Highway 19 is a busy six-mile stretch of meandering road that links to main interstate artery in southeast Minnesota. More interestingly, the road connects rural, and often conservative, Minnesota to the liberal college town of Northfield. Rolling through pumpkin patches and apple orchids, the highway is postcard beautiful. This summer and autumn it was speckled with McCain signs, their cobalt blue squarely set against the gold and red of...
  • Gnostic Anglican "Priestess", Supporter of Homosexual Unions to Lead Prayer at Minneapolis RC Chuch

    07/14/2008 5:39:34 AM PDT · by NYer · 231 replies · 244+ views
    Faithfulrebel ^ | July 13, 2008
    Thanks to a reader for the tip. As you may recall, some months ago in Minneapolis, St. Paul Archdiocese, A Faithful Rebel exposed the proposed lecture of Carol Curoe, an active lesbian who was scheduled to speak at a Catholic parish in Minneapolis. Now, as if the radicals hadn't learned the lesson then, when the Archdiocese had to very wisely intervene and suggest that the venue be moved, now they are aiming at stirring up a little more scandal. They have invited a female Anglican "priestess" and supporter of homosexual unions to lead Catholics in "Centering prayer and inner awakening",...
  • Hindu to lead St. Olaf [Lutheran College] religion department

    06/21/2007 7:44:12 PM PDT · by Zender500 · 89 replies · 2,273+ views
    Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | June 01, 2007 | Pamela Miller
    A Hindu professor of religion has become the first non-Christian to head St. Olaf College's Religion Department in the college's 133-year history. "It's a great honor," Anantanand Rambachan said of the three-year appointment. "St. Olaf has one of the finest undergraduate religion departments in the country." Rambachan, 55, has taught religion, philosophy and Asian studies at the college in Northfield, Minn., since 1985. He also has been a leading figure in Minnesota's Hindu cultural circles. He grew up on the West Indies island of Trinidad in a devout Hindu family -- both of his grandfathers were Hindu priests. As a...
  • Nick Coleman: In the Coultergeist's wake, a teachable moment. A rip on Ann Coulter

    04/27/2005 1:04:59 PM PDT · by abork · 28 replies · 1,477+ views
    Star Tribune ^ | April 27, 2005 | Nick Coleman
    Ann Coulter is gone, but now we're having fun. Because listening to her is like hitting your head with a hammer: It's fun when she stops. The conservative pundit on spiked heels came to town last week, and they are still picking up the pieces at two citadels of saintly scholarship in Minnesota -- St. Olaf College in Northfield and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. I have already written about the miniskirted screechfest at St. Thomas, and I'd be glad to never mention it again. Except for the fact that left behind her, amid the wreckage of...
  • In the Coultergeist's wake, a teachable moment

    04/27/2005 12:48:29 PM PDT · by jdege · 30 replies · 1,281+ views
    Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | April 27, 2005 | Nick Coleman
    Nick Coleman: In the Coultergeist's wake, a teachable moment Ann Coulter is gone, but now we're having fun. Because listening to her is like hitting your head with a hammer: It's fun when she stops. [...] What have we learned, class, about free speech after listening to Coulter call Democrats traitors to the country, threaten to give a Muslim student's name to homeland security and toss insults faster than a kid with a Dixie cup full of fish parts can toss herrings at a seal exhibit? Her herrings are all red. [...] At St. Olaf, Coulter's ugliest comments were returned...
  • Univ. President Calls Ann Coulter Speech 'Hateful'

    04/26/2005 5:52:33 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 67 replies · 2,722+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 4/26/05 | Carl Limbacher
    Ann Coulter spoke at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, and, in terms that should have surprised no one, she flung barbs at liberal icons, calling Sen. Ted Kennedy "a human dirigible" and Sen. Barbara Boxer "learning disabled." Climbing aboard the anti-free speech express, St. Thomas University president Rev. Dennis Dease wrote in the Bulletin, a university newsletter, that "although [Ann Coulter's] presentation may have been meant as an 'act' or a 'shtick' to entertain by provoking those who disagree, such behavior unfortunately contributes to the growing dark side of our culture - a disrespect for persons and their...
  • University President Denounces Ann Coulter's Speech as Hateful

    04/26/2005 1:23:16 PM PDT · by wallcrawlr · 104 replies · 3,992+ views
    Star Tribune ^ | April 26, 2005 | Matt McKinney
    The president of the University of St. Thomas on Monday condemned a speech at the Catholic school last week by conservative author Ann Coulter, saying "such hateful speech vulgarizes our culture and goes against everything the University of St. Thomas stands for." The Rev. Dennis Dease wrote in Bulletin Today, a university newsletter, that "although her presentation may have been meant as an 'act' or a 'shtick' to entertain by provoking those who disagree, such behavior unfortunately contributes to the growing dark side of our culture -- a disrespect for persons and their sincerely held beliefs." Coulter spoke at the...