Category: Top Stories
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Women’s golf takes sixth place at spring fling
The Augustana women’s golf team secured a sixth-place finish after spending spring break playing in the Augustana University Spring Fling in Palm Desert, C.A. Head coach Peggy Kirby said that she is looking forward to drier and warmer weather that will allow the team to get outside and practice. “It’s been a long winter indoors…
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Rising in the ranks: Baseball alumni advance to professional play
After the baseball team’s championship win last season, pitchers Jacob Blank and Tyler Mitzel were able to leave their college baseball careers with one of the highest achievements that can be earned. But they didn’t have to leave their baseball careers altogether. Blank and Mitzel were able to move up to playing baseball professionally, something…
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Four AU students arrested in drug bust
Police arrested four Augustana students Tuesday night after discovering 485 grams of marijuana and other paraphernalia at the students’ house on South Covell Avenue, according to a briefing from the Sioux Falls Police Department. Officer Sam Clemens said that containers, scales and bongs found in the home indicated marijuana was possibly being packaged and sold…
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Alumna donates more than $70K to Prairie Sage Endowment
An endowment that provides scholarships to Native American students with a desire to tell the stories of their people has received a donation that has more than doubled its size. The Prairie Sage Endowment in February accepted a gift of over $70,000 in honor of alumna Delpha Mattison. “Delpha had a place in her heart…
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‘Truth is our guide’: Watergate reporters bring good, bad news about the future of reporting, country
In one sentence, legendary journalist Carl Bernstein summed up how many feel in the era of the 24-hour news cycle and constant “breaking news” alerts. “I’m on the damn internet half the day, and I will tell you that it does not bring me comfort,” Bernstein said. Bernstein and former colleague and fellow Pulitzer Prize…
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Cauble coordinates LTS program with 8 years experience
Brita Cauble ‘18 became Augustana Recreational Services’ youngest Learn to Swim (LTS) program coordinator in May of her sophomore year. Now the gig is her full time job. Mark Hecht, director of Rec Services, said that her experience with the program made her a great fit. Cauble went through the LTS program as a child,…
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Augie Alumnus writes and directs movie, “love letter to South Dakota”
While experiencing cabin fever during a Chicago snowstorm, alumnus Andrew Kightlinger ‘08 encountered a strange vision. He imagined two people walking alone together through the wide open South Dakota plains. On the left, an “ogre of a man” held a beer bottle, and on the right, a woman in a yellow bikini walkedg a dog.…
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Patrick Hicks nominated for South Dakota Poet Laureate, host of SDPB’s “Poetry From Studio 47”
On a cloudy Saturday in January, Augustana English professor Patrick Hicks sat waiting to be interviewed in Chamberlain, South Dakota. The interview would determine if he would join elite writers who have made their mark in state history. Hicks is one of three finalists nominated to become the next South Dakota Poet Laureate along with South…
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Gallery Review: NYC-based artist blurs the line between fairy tale and reality
The Texas stars dotting the sky glimmered down on young Jessica Boehman in the observatory near her house, sparking her love of nature. The pull of Boehman’s personal connection to the earth from her life in New York underlies her autobiographical collection currently showing in the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery. Stories I Tell Myself, a series of…
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Hight find her balance as yoga instructor
The students in the half-lit multipurpose room are quiet as they focus their mind and body, listening to the instructor and taking in the folksy-alternative music in the background. Only a few times will people giggle at themselves when a pose is too hard to replicate—either not attempting at all or toppling to the matted…