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Senior wins campus service award

Alan Thompson — Fri, 6 May 2011

Senior business administration and classics major Kayla Rockwell received the Covenant Award for...

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Sociology professor awarded faculty recognition award

Jenny Lockhart — Fri, 6 May 2011

By: Jenny Lockhart

Much like the covenant awards given to students every year, the faculty recognition a...

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Civitas program graduates first cohort

Kirstie Wollman — Fri, 6 May 2011

By: Kirstie Wollman

Civitas students will be able to apply the 'How then shall we live' philosophy to the...

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A MISGUIDED EFFORT?

Jenny Lockhart — Fri, 6 May 2011

Students taint results of alcohol, drug survey

Augustana administrators like to keep tabs on the student body, especial...

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CWS plans 43rd annual Dakota Conference

Jenny Lockhart — Fri, 22 Apr 2011

By: Jenny Lockhart

As Augustana organizes sesquicentennial celebrations, the Center for Western Studies (...

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Many ASA races uncontested

Megan Brandsrud — Fri, 22 Apr 2011

By: Megan Brandsrud

Established protocol for the spring Augustana Student Association (ASA) president and vice president elections includes a primary election held seven days prior to the general election. However, with junior Jake Bury and sophomore Thad Titze as the onl...

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English department releases Venture

Kirstie Wollman — Fri, 22 Apr 2011

By: Kirstie Wollman

This year's edition of Augustana's literary magazine, By: Kirstie Wollman

More than 300 years ago, a tract of land straddling the South Dakota and Iowa border was home to a bustling trade community of the Oneota people. Now that site is an area called Blood Run. Today, however, the site remains largely empty. 'You ge...

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College appoints Haar interim academic dean

Jenny Lockhart — Fri, 22 Apr 2011
By: Jenny Lockhart
After the March 10 announcement that Mark Braun would be leaving Augustana College, administrators needed to find a new academic dean. Murray Haar, chair of the religion department, has been named interim vice president for academic affairs and dea...
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Viking Days committee releases 2011 theme

Jeanette Rackl — Fri, 15 Apr 2011
By: Jeanette Rackl

Even before this academic year draws to a close, the Viking Da...
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Library Associates present award to Peterson

Kirstie Wollman — Fri, 15 Apr 2011
By: Kirstie Wollman

This year's Library Associates Research Award was presented to senior economics and i...
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AWARDS PRESENTED AT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Kirstie Wollman — Fri, 15 Apr 2011
Hurley wins covenant award for excellence
Exemplifying Augustana's standards of academic quality and integrity, senior Rachel Hurley received the Covenant Award for Excellence during the keynote address of the symposium on April 9. '[Hurley] is completely unpretentious in spite of her trem...
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ONE STEP AT A TIME

Fri, 8 Apr 2011
Senior raises funds for breast cancer
Clarissa McMaster wants your money. A senior Spanish and nursing major from Minnetonka, Minn., McMaster is raising money, along with her mother and grandmother, to participate in the Susan G. Komen Twin Cities 3-Day for the Cure event August 19-21....
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President Oliver challenges seniors

Joanna Halverson — Fri, 8 Apr 2011
By: Joanna Halverson
If 40 percent of the graduating seniors make a pledge to the Augustana Fund, Augustana President Rob Oliver and ASA President Joel Thompson will do a dance with the dance team at the Senior Party on Thursday, May 19. If 40 percent of the senior cla...
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Library presents annual book sale

Jeanette Rackl — Fri, 8 Apr 2011
By: Jeanette Rackl
It's that time again. It's time for the avid readers and the music connoisseurs across campus who are penny-pinching their way to the latest page-turner or rockin' album to breath a sigh of relief. Affordable satisfaction has returned. The Augustan...
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Anne Butler named Symposium keynote

Jenny Lockhart — Fri, 8 Apr 2011
By: Jenny Lockhart
Academic departments rotate the honor of choosing the Symposium keynote speaker each year. This year, the social sciences department chose Anne Butler, professor emerita at Utah State University. Butler holds a special connection with Augustana, pr...
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Professor, dog nominated for volunteer award

Kirstie Wollman — Sun, 3 Apr 2011

For the past nine years, English professor Debbie Hanson and dog Wylie have brought comfort and companionship to the patients at the Good Samaritan Society - Sioux Falls Village nursing home. As recognition for their work, Hanson and Wylie have bee...
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GALA SPARKS CELEBRATION

Sara Weinreis — Sun, 3 Apr 2011
Augustana celebrates the Sesquicentennial
'The Spark' and ndash; a party 150 years in the making and ndash; will commemorate the 150th anniversary of Augustana College. Set for April 16, 'The Spark' will be the first gala held by Augustana in honor of an anniversary event, making it an original ...
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Senior awarded French honors scholarship

Megan Brandsrud — Fri, 18 Mar 2011
Pi Delta Phi scholarship covers eight week study in Paris, France
Dani Doran, a senior government, French and English major from Rapid Cit...
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Study claims young adults having less sex

Andrew Sogn — Fri, 18 Mar 2011
By: Andrew Sogn

Earlier this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
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