OleVillains

About the Olevillains

So you want to know a little bit about the OleVillains, do you? How nice. Did you ever consider the possibility that we don't want to tell you anything about ourselves? That maybe we like a little privacy once in a while, and don't appreciate your tone?

No? You didn't consider that?

Well, good. Because honestly- why would we include an About/Contact page if we were just going to turn around and be dicks about it? That's not like us at all.

In all actuality, the OleVillains are very friendly, and represent a diverse group of students from St. Olaf. Some of us are writers from the English department, some of us are web developers and computer geeks from the Computer Science department. Some of us are artistic, and some of us are theatrical, and a few of us are just enamored with sarcasm and mooching off the talents of those who built the site. Some Olevillains are JC's, some are SGA members. And yeah, we even have a handful of recent alums involved.

The bigger question may be: why? Why are we here and what is our purpose? To be perfectly honest, we haven't entirely figured that out ourselves. A few of the beginning OleVillains were feeling disenfranchised or disillusioned, and wanted to find a way to reconnect with the campus that has given them so many good times and so many things to enjoy and smile at. Others were just looking for a venue for satiric writing and general web creativity. About 3 or 4 contributing OleVillains joined at the last minute because they were really sick of Oleville advertising.

Some of us have catchy pen-names and are constructing bios for ourselves: Red Fox, Dominique, Gertie Bookwell, Ex Patria...the list goes on and will continue growing as more of our authors get off their tushies and get a-writin'! And maybe, if you feel bit by the OleVillain spirit, your "name" will be added as well.

Remember, though: if you like what we're doing or what we stand for, or if you are tired of people taking themselves too seriously and forgetting to laugh at their own short-comings, you don't need to submit an article or keep a blog to be an OleVillain. You can send in an idea or a post-secret, or draw our attention to someone or something that is in need of being put in its place by the merciless O.V. quill. You can read our blog and try to participate in the fun we promote. Heck- you can even just set your Facebook website to our URL to really show your pride in those that dare to stray from the status quo.

Whatever you choose to do, feel free to be in contact: olevillains@gmail.com. (If you're wondering why we don't put physical links to our e-mail, it's so we don't get spammed. When we build a capchka thingermabobber, that will change.) We're checking our e-mails often, and we are sincerely interested in getting new contributors and participants. And, because we've got a handful of aspiring web-smiths, we're even accepting requests for websites, with priority given to student orgs.

Thanks for reading,

The Olevillains.