Category: Top Stories
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Kicking up dust: Professional bull riding comes to Sioux Falls
Eight seconds. That’s all. That’s how long a bull rider, with one hand tightly clenched around a rope and the other stretched towards the sky, needs to stay on the animal. But for the rider, those eight seconds are wild. At any moment, the muscular beast weighing 1,500 pounds or more could buck hard enough…
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Dozens gather to remember New Zealand victims
During Friday prayer on March 15, a white supremacist attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing at least 50 and wounding 50 others. Najma Siyad, president of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at Augustana, talked about her own reaction when she heard of the attack during spring break. “I was really shocked,” Siyad said.…
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Sink or Swim: Students clash in the deep end
Video shot and created by Gage Hoffman “Get out of the middle!” “Block the water!” “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” Spectators line the balcony of the Elmen Center swimming pool, shouting tips and encouragement as junior Justin Kooiman and sophomore Josh Schumaker slosh water from white five-gallon pails into the…
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Major reform needed for education system
It is clear that our education system is more unfair and harmful than promising and advantageous. From a young age we are forced to learn in a specific way according to what the government thinks children should know. We are pushed to study many different subjects, and we have no idea why. I used to…
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Letter to the editor: ASA Senator endorses Amayo and Cope
To the Editor, During this ASA presidential election one pair of candidates stands out above the rest—Luca Amayo and Audrey Cope. Luca and Audrey come from different cultures, religious backgrounds, and political ideologies; however, these two candidates share an unsurpassed passion for Augustana. As a fellow senator on the Augustana Student Association, I witness this…
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ANGLES: Constitutional Conundrum: Should national motto mandate stand?
KELSEY SPROUT klsprout16@ole.augie.edu On March 18, Governor Kristi Noem signed Senate Bill 55, requiring all public schools to display the national motto, “In God We Trust, ” in a prominent location by the 2019-2020 school year. The bill passed 47-19 in the House and 19-13 in the Senate after many rounds of amendments. The Senate…
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Compromise, leadership necessary for Brexit
It’s hard enough to keep up with our own political news in the U.S. This makes it seem impossible to pay attention to news happening abroad. For many of you, this whole Brexit ordeal keeps cropping up in your newsfeed, but you may not have any idea what’s actually going on. Brexit is one of…
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‘Room in the heart for more’: Dr. Harris reunites with birth mother after 50 years
Photo by Carrie Arrington. On Mar. 8, Jason Harris stepped off a plane into a small North Carolina airport and locked eyes with Sandi Gunning Arrington. The mother and son smiled at each other for the first time. Harris, an Augustana business law professor, met his birth mother Arrington for the first time in March…
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New group on campus seeks to help low-income kids
Many of us may overlook having access to the most basic of amenities. The stuff we may take for granted, like school supplies or medicine, are the very things some families cannot afford. If parents cannot afford to provide a healthy life through medicine and solid education with the supplies needed to succeed for…
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The other half to Luca Amayo: poet and writer
In Nairobi, Kenya, Luca Amayo stood beside a stage ready to share his poetry in SLAM style next to the psychedelic orange, red, blue and yellow decorating in the Alchemist, a gathering place for creative Kenyan youth. Amayo said he thought to himself, “Is this really a good idea? Why are you stirring the pot?”…