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Facilities

Quick Stats

Service & Maintenance Staff 94
Campus Size 300 acres
Student Centers Buntrock Commons
Campus Library? Yes
Main Libraries
  • Glasoe Science Library
  • Halvorson Music Library
  • Rolvaag Memorial Library
Popular Places to Chill
  • The Cage
  • Fireside Lounge
  • The library
  • Outside
  • The Pause
Bar on Campus No. St. Olaf is a dry campus.
Bowling on Campus No
Coffeehouse on Campus The Cage
Movie Theater on Campus Viking Theater

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

St. Olaf’s two most recent building projects, Tostrud Athletic Center and Buntrock Commons, are truly the gems of the campus. Buntrock is the epicenter of student activity. It contains student organization offices, everyone’s post office boxes, the Caf, the Cage, the Pause, Viking Theater, the bookstore, the student radio station (KSTO), several conference rooms, and dining halls. Besides your dorm and maybe the library, Buntrock is the place where you will be spending most of your time. The building is truly beautiful inside and out, but it can get a little bit crowded between afternoon classes when everyone heads to lunch.

None of the buildings on campus are ridiculously old. St. Olaf has a tendency to demolish or totally revamp its more ancient facilities—except for Old Main, which was the first building erected on campus. Buntrock stands where Old Ytterboe, a former residence hall, once did. The speech-theater building was formerly a gymnasium, the Dittmann art building used to be the student center, and Steensland, the brick building next to Old Main, has served just about every purpose a building on a college campus possibly could. Incoming first-years can look forward to the completion of Olaf’s next big building project, a new science center.

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Facilities at St. Olaf College

chindamoua

'15

Registered Nursing (RN)

4.6
A

Athletic Center

The athletic center at St. Olaf is fairly big and a very nice and welcoming place. I like how there is an upstairs and downstairs to the gym.

Jan 16, 2012

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Facilities at St. Olaf College

rod28

'15

Kinesiology and Exercise Science

4.6
A

Really Freaking Awesome!

The facilities are some of the best in the country.

Dec 15, 2011

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Facilities at St. Olaf College

mtwam

'13

Environmental Studies

5.0
A+

Hogwarts

The dorms are normal college dorms, nothing fancy. However our student center, science building, and languages buildings are all relatively new. The gym facilities are very nice, with ample space. Our campus has been said to be the equivalent of Hogwarts. It is very gorgeous during all seasons.

Nov 29, 2011

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Favorite Things To Do

Climb the rock wall in Tostrud, play Frisbee golf, play campus golf, hang out in the Pause, or go sledding

Students can exercise at Tostrud, watch a movie in Viking Theater, get a pizza and see a concert in the Pause, loll about in Fireside Lounge, play foursquare (if you’re a theater kid), get coffee or ice cream at the Cage, watch a foreign film in the library, play campus golf, go for a swim at the Skoglund pool or a schvitz in the sauna, peruse the art in Dittmann, play Frisbee golf, or just sit outside when it’s not totally freezing.

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