You may find the math department newsletter across from my office in Old Music Hall. Each legitimate submission is worth one third of a homework assignment. You may attend a mathematics colloquium and write a short report on it. Colloquia are given nearly every Thursday and are announced in the Math Mess. The report need not be a description of the talk, rather I would like you to discuss your reaction to the talk, the subject, and to the speaker.
Papers are due within one week of the talk.
Each such paper will be worth one third of a homework assignment. The Math Clinic does not have tutors for Abstract Algebra. You should talk to each other and friends in the other section, but your best resource for help is myself. You can come to my office hours , or drop by just about any reasonable time of the day. There is an honor system by which all St. Olaf students must abide.