By: Sara Hughes

Cumulative. Final. Exams. The very thought of it makes every student shudder. To put it frankly, cumulative exams suck. All students hate them, and their feelings are understandable: they must study all the material they learned and mdash;or were suppos...

By: Joy Lussenden

When you are about to go to college for the first time, you think that means you are all grown up. You quickly learn that this is not the case. Leaving home for perhaps the first time, one discovers what it is like to have a ''family'' of people your ow...

By: Erin Mangen

Another one just showed up in my news feed. ''No-name'' is in a ''complicated relationship'' with ''loser.'' I cringe and wonder why people feel the need to broadcast their relationship problems on Facebook. If you are not an avid Facebook user, this edi...

By: Ashley White

In just two weeks and one day, I will be an Augustana graduate. An alum. And I even have the e-mails asking me to donate money to my alma mater to prove it. No, thank you, I say politely. Let me find a job first and start paying off the trillion-dollar s...

By: Ethelle Bean

Hello, my name is Ethelle, and I am a biblioholic: a compulsive collector of books. I am a librarian by trade, and I love to read. I always carry a book with me wherever I go, and whenever I have a few minutes to wait, I usually pull out my book and read...

By: Megan Wendt

Hours before I stepped out of my parents' giant gray Astro Van to begin my freshman year at Augustana, I could feel the butterflies swarming in my stomach. It took days for their giddy wings to cease their flapping through the commotion of moving, meeting...

It's early on a Wednesday morning, and to both my right and left there are scores of uninterested Augustana students staring blankly at an adjunct instructor stumbling through his lecture. They and mdash;we and mdash;are awake, but not alert. We are pres...

The opportunity to be a server can be very rewarding. On a daily basis you have the chance to meet great people and hear amazing stories. Unfortunately, servers also put up with a lot of rude and intrusive guests. And there's always a few in the bunch: t...

By: Nicholle Sogn

Last week I got an e-mail from Campus Safety reporting theme house garages had been broken into. Two unattached garages had locked doors kicked open by the criminal(s), and although nothing was stolen, the property still received door and frame damages. ...

Repeal By Hal Thompson Perhaps I'm jumping the gun here, but after the health care reform bill was passed about a month ago, Washington appears to be waking up. I'm referring to Obama's recent promise to repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) law in ...

By: Megan Hasche

Friday night is finally here. Two large pepperoni pizzas: check. Refrigerator stocked with beverage of choice: check. Four to six friends ready for a board game night: check. Board games: oh crap! For a truly successful game night, you've got to have...

By: Megan Brandsrud

It's that time of year again. I am staring at my computer and my old friend, the cursed blinking cursor of my Word document, is out to play, and all I can do is daydream about any adventure that does not involve the constant use of my laptop. The coming...

Lively By Andrew Sogn The Masters have recently finished up (Phil Mickelson got the win, for all you folks who missed it), and my older (but not necessarily wiser) sister and I have been visiting about the idea of watching golf on television. The fact i...

By: Elizabeth Day

I have spent most of my life in South Dakota, and I have yet to visit the capital. But recent legislative events might make the trip to Pierre worthwhile, if only to shout at them through a bullhorn. The first set of mischief is the changes to the South...

By: Ashley White

Though I've never driven while intoxicated, I am guilty of something nearly as dangerous: driving while intexticated. These days, nearly everyone owns a cell phone, and texting has become a nationwide and ndash; if not international and ndash; phenomen...

By: Angela Shubert

When I was seven years old, I walked door-to-door with my mom and dropped off political literature for a candidate from our congressional district. When I was 17 years old, I wrote an op-ed in our hometown newspaper about why it was important for my peers...

Pro-3-D By Megan Wendt After buying a ticket at the movie theater, many people find jumping in line for some buttered popcorn and an ice cold soda to be the finishing touches needed to enjoy their night at the movies. One may even question if there is...

By: Megan Hasche

Hey, you. Yeah and mdash;you. I saw you drop that Snickers wrapper on the ground as you walked to class. I saw you toss your empty Mountain Dew bottle out the window as you sped down the highway. I saw you look the other way while Fido did his business...

By: Rob Green and Sara Hughes

Short showers By Rob Green Good Lord, woman. What could you possibly be doing in there? What fantastic Herbal Essence-orgasmic hair treatment is really happening in there right now? I've got to be to work in 20 minutes, and I would have thought that you...

By: Jenny Lockhart

The concept of weather-appropriate footwear means nothing to me. I wear unsuitable shoes for every season, in spite of snow and slush. And when my choice footwear inevitably fails, my soaked socks and I have reason to stay home and watch reruns of Scrubs....