Category: Archives
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Letter from the editor: Journalism needs you
JACOB KNUTSON jaknutson15@ole.augie.edu Dear readers new and old, welcome to—or welcome back to—your student newspaper, The Augustana Mirror. I am Jacob Knutson, your editor-in-chief for the academic year. It is perhaps obvious to say that the past few years have been turbulent for journalism. According to Gallup polls, the percentage of Americans who said they…
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ASA grants College Republicans $3,000 with stipulations to help invite Shapiro
STEPHANIE SANCHEZ sasanchez15@ole.augie.edu JACOB KNUTSON jaknutson15@ole.augie.edu SHAUNA PAULI sdpauli16@ole.augie.edu Over a tense hour and a half on Wednesday night in the Froiland Science Complex, the Augustana Student Association allocated $3,000, the largest sum every approved, to the Augustana College Republicans to invite the controversial conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro to speak on campus, falling $2,000…
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Meet the mayoral candidates: Jolene Loetscher
Jolene Loetscher sports Augustana connections JACOB KNUTSON jaknutson15@ole.augie.edu The following is a transcript of a phone interview with Sioux Falls mayoral candidate Jolene Loetscher. The interview occurred on April 16. What does Augustana mean to you?: Augustana is my adopted college. I did not go to Augie, but it is the school my husband and…
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Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Paul TenHaken
Paul TenHaken proposes internship search engine JACOB KNUTSON jaknutson15@ole.augie.edu The following is a transcript of a phone interview with Sioux Falls mayoral candidate Paul TanHaken. The interview occurred on April 13. What does Augustana mean to you?: Augustana, to me, means one of the biggest workforce development tools for our city, and one of…
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Bringing the Addams Family to life
STEPHANIE SANCHEZ sasanchez15@ole.augie.edu Opening night is approaching fast, and a troupe readies itself for the performance of a lifetime. Most of them linger backstage, hidden from the public’s eye—some sewing, some building, some controlling lights and music. These unseen figures, alongside the actors, work for months to bring a world into existence, if only for…
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Stop the snow day blues, shop spring
ELIZABETH PETERSEN eapetersen16@ole.augie.edu The perfect solution to the snow day blues is retail therapy (please send help to my wallet or stop the snow—I cannot carry on like this). On my last stop for this year’s Viking Vogue, I popped into Lot 2029 to see what their take on the most popular spring and summer…
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Hollywood to home
HOSEA KOST hykost16@ole.augie.edu Although she was only in the spotlight for a few seconds, Maddie Todd ‘17 can say something very few can: she made it to Hollywood on American Idol. “My time on Idol was a paradox—it’s something that I’d never do again, but I simultaneously don’t regret it,” Todd said. In August,…
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Study break: group builds Bachelor Fantasy Leagues
MCKENNA BAUER mmbauer16@ole.augie.edu “Tonnnnight,” the host Chris Harrison says, stretching the word out before he shouts, “on The Bachelor.” The students’ attention shifts from textbooks to television. The Granskou basement Bachelor crew are 13 of the eight million viewers who tune in each week to watch 29 women compete for the love of a single…
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ANGLES: Campus tobacco-free policy: overstepping boundaries or a step towards health?
Tobacco policy promotes environmental and personal health SHAUNA PAULI sdpauli16@ole.augie.edu I think Augie made the right choice when they decided to implement the tobacco-free policy last August. The statement on the Augie website says that this decision was made “in order to minimize the harmful effects and discomfort that smoking produces and because the University…
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ANGLES: Campus tobacco-free policy: overstepping boundaries or a step towards health?
Policy changes made a mountain out of a molehill STEPHANIE SANCHEZ sasanchez15@ole.augie.edu By the end of this semester, Augustana will complete its first academic year as a tobacco-free campus. According to a 2016 interview with Eric Vander Lee, the ASA senator who first proposed sanctions for tobacco use on campus, his concern over public health…