Author: btaylor

  • Conrad Oddoye ’20

    “A last-minute collegiate track career, a musical score to finish, and then there was COVID.” Basketball got him to Gustavus from Alberta, Canada. But always there was music, which Oddoye had been playing since he was seven and composing since he was ten. “I was producing music in my room in Co-Ed,” he says, and…

  • Ty Moore ’12

    “My mom said, ‘You’re going back. We worked too hard to get here.’” In the weeks after George Floyd was murdered, I spent a lot of time out in Minneapolis. I grew up on the north side. This is my city. I helped a friend clean up broken glass after his store was looted. I…

  • Allison Laux ’24

    “When I enter an education class, I immediately feel like I belong with my peers and that my professor is there to help me learn to the best of my potential.” Allison was drawn to the Education Department due to the opportunities to “make a positive difference in the lives of children” and provide “a…