Category: Top Stories
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Swimming finds success at NSIC Regional
After a grueling four days, Augustana’s swimming team managed to walk away with a strong fourth-place showing at the NSIC championship for the second year in a row. Despite having only three years of experience under its belt, Head Coach Lindsie Micko’s swim team continues to rise to the occasion in both the individual and…
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Women’s basketball fights for No. 2 seed
A lot rides on this weekend for Augustana Women’s Basketball. Augustana (20-9, 12-8 NSIC) ends its regular season with a pair of home bouts in the Elmen Center, one against neighborhood rival University of Sioux Falls (19-7, 14-6 NSIC) at 5:30 p.m. tonight and another against Southwest Minnesota State University (12-13, 9-11 NSIC) at 3:30…
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AU Board of Trustees approves 2030 vision
Tom Davis, chair of the Augustana Board of Trustees, announced the board’s approval of a list of aspirational goals the university hopes to achieve by 2030 through an email to Augustana students, staff and faculty on Thursday, Dec. 19. As listed in the email, these six goals are to: Change the academic structure of the…
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Beth Boyens, the caroling English professor
It’s early Saturday morning in the cozy, four-bedroom cabin and Laura Tjaden, a founding member of the Christmas vocal group, “Anjelic,” awakens to a dark blue haze over a peaceful, snow-covered lake, anxious to begin work on harmonies and lyrics. Beth Boyens, an Augustana English professor, dressed like the rest of the group (in what…
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Silent Voices speak out at Lincoln High
The largest mass execution in U.S. history did not take place in the Confederate South, nor in Salem, Massachusetts. It was only a few hours away in Mankato, Minnesota where, on Dec. 26, 1862, the U.S. military hung 38 Dakota men before a crowd of nearly 4,000 spectators. The little-known tragedy is called the “Dakota…
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Modern feminism reflected in suffragette plays
Earlier this month, Augustana’s Deeds Not Words: Plays of the Suffragettes—a set of four century-old, one-act plays—explored what it meant to fight for women’s suffrage while also reflecting on the challenges women still face in 2018. “It’s interesting to hear a show that was written a 100 years ago and still hear the same language…
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Smoke in the wind: Augustana students take to the gun range
Augustana students braved the biting South Dakota wind and frigid temperatures at the Crooks gun range on November 9 while trap shooting with the Augustana Outdoor Program. The temperature was 19 degrees with 18 mph winds, when 10 students along with David Schulz, the AOP director, and Jason Nelson, the outreach coordinator for the Outdoor…
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A league of their own
Proposed conference could increase participation in tribal high school football Several South Dakota tribal schools could be moving from their current South Dakota High School Activities Association positions into the All Nations Football Conference next year. The conference—proposed by Lower Brule at the Oct. 31 SDHSAA board meeting—is an effort to increase participation rates and…
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Augustana needs native culture to respect diversity on campus
Augustana promises a campus of diversity to its students, but I don’t think the campus understands what promoting diversity truly entails. I believe that to truly understand a person, one needs to know their culture. However, I think Augustana forgets a population and history that exists right under its nose—Native American students. The population of…
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‘My Red Identity’: High school student bridges cultural divide
DELILAH ROUSE Lincoln High School student I have survived it all. Inflictions of violence, neglect, abuse, trauma and genocide are part of the road I walked. The sweet abyss that I called home was a reservation filled with people who aren’t free. An endless sadness fills my nightmares with loneliness, the loneliness I loved. It…