Category: Top Stories
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Snow brings more campus cancellations and higher costs than previous years
Since December, South Dakota has witnessed a series of major winter storms that have dumped feet of snow across the state. Sioux Falls has received more than 44 inches of snow so far, making for costly campus maintenance and cleanup. “The dollars spent this year to date are about double what we have in our…
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Time stands still in Fryxell Building
The clocks in the Fryxell building seem to have minds of their own and never hold the correct time for long. Back in fall 2022, art professor Scott Parsons came up with a clever way to cover up the incorrect times and put the space to good use. “There were so many days where I…
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Bake sale shows support for natural disaster victims
Students and staff came together to raise $770 for survivors of the recent earthquakes in Syria and Turkey with a bake sale hosted by the Augustana International Club on March 1. The sale included goods both baked and donated by students and staff, and it sought to raise both awareness as well as money. “We, as…
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Biology professor shares her love of storytelling
Open the door and look around. Let your eyes fall on any of the objects in her small, windowless office: a coyote skull on the shelves to your left, a fossilized chunk of crinoids — a type of aquatic plant — straight ahead, student drawings and paintings of birds lining the walls among numerous other…
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Interfaith panel fosters peace
On March 2, Better Together hosted an interfaith panel, bringing together students to consider different paths to peacemaking. Irfan Omar, an Indian-born professor at Marquette University, and Léocadie Lushombo, a professor at Santa Clara University from the Democratic Republic of Congo, both hosted presentations on the topic. Omar presented “Prophetic Peacemaking: Stories from the Margins,”…
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Augustana launches fintech program
Starting in fall 2023, the undergraduate catalog will include a new major: financial technology. Nicknamed fintech, the major will incorporate a number of different courses that pair with new technologies, like data analytics, computer science, business and accounting. Glen Herrick, chief financial officer at Pathward, the new program’s donor company, presented financial technology to Augustana.…
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Retention pond name vetoed
The name “Aug Bog” won a student poll for the naming of Augustana’s retention pond on the southeast side of campus. However, administrators have vetoed this name and are pursuing other methods for naming the pond. According to President Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, low voting participation by the campus community and perceived negative connotations behind the…
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Enrollment projection drops
As of March 3, 2023, only 261 students were enrolled to attend Augustana University next fall as incoming freshmen, down from the same time last year when over 300 students were enrolled. While final enrollment numbers for the 2023-2024 academic year are still months away, 553 students was this year’s total, registrar Joni Krueger said…
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Baseball Dives Into NSIC Conference Season
The Vikings baseball team will begin its NSIC season against Southwest Minnesota State on March 18, going in with an overall record of 11-9 from its non-conference season. The non-conference season had a slow start with a 1-4 record against the University of Hawaii at Hilo on Feb. 1 through Feb. 4. According to head coach…
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Head coach Lindsie Micko Resigns from swimming and diving
Swimming and diving head coach Lindsie Micko is resigning after seven seasons at Augustana. Micko created both of Augustana’s swimming and diving programs, launching the women’s program during the 2016-2017 school year and the men’s in 2021-2022. “I’m so proud of our teams,” Micko said. “Starting from nothing is hard, and they have handled it like…