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Rain sucks. Let’s drink. MEREDITH PALMER 5yearssober@dundermifflin.com What’s yellow, coconutty, alcoholic and Puerto Rican all over? The piña colada. What’s wet, dark, cold and depressing? (Hint: not the snow Sioux Falls has been getting.) Think spring. Rain—correct! In case you’re clueless, the piña

ALLIE HAMILTON ifyoureabird@365letters.com Rupert Holmes blessed the world with the 1979 banger “Escape,” also known as “The Piña Colada Song.” You all know how it goes… dude sees an ad for a personal column that says: “If you like piña coladas, and getting caught in the rain, If

CHER HOROWITZ virginwhocantdrive@asif.com Instagram. Twitter. Snapchat. Facebook.  These four social media apps lived in harmony, then everything changed when Snapchat came out with the new update. Snapchat changed its original format since its release in November 2012 and many users were outraged to find their apps had updated.

JUSTIN KAUTZ jkautz14@ole.augie.edu In a world riddled with war, famine, corporate greed, theocracy, school shootings, opioids, Facebook data breaches, tariffs on Chinese electronics, underpaid teachers in Oklahoma, child labor in Eastern Europe, Tide Pod lunches, teenage rappers with “Lil” in their name and people who honestly enjoy

The following is an abridged version of a longer interview with Colin Irvine, Augustana’s new academic dean. Irvine was previously the academic dean for Carroll College in Helena, Mont. The interview took place Mar. 19. What drew you to higher education? I was actually drawn in by one of

HOLLY WILSON hjwilson15@ole.augie.edu A new book club partially funded by the Civitas program will start meeting later this month to discuss books through deep literary analysis and thought. Sophomore nursing major, Jessica Marsland, said she was inspired by Civitas classes to create the club. “What I love