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Augustana volleyball ends season with 3-1 loss

The Augustana volleyball team watched its season come to an end at the hands of the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, falling 3-1 (20-25, 25-13, 24-26, 14-25) in the first round of the NSIC tournament. The Bulldogs were able to go on key runs to secure wins in sets three and

Why thrifting is the better fashion choice

The once $6 billion retailer Forever 21 announced it is filing for bankruptcy on Sunday, Sept. 29. The Los Angeles-based company has been in business since 1984, but in July 2019, its net worth dropped to $1.6 billion, according to Forbes. In recent years, Forever 21 has been meme-ified

ANGLES: Gross or Great: Are Gushers delicious?

Yes, they’re fun, nostalgic candies NOAH WICKS ntwicks17@ole.augie.edu They look like jewels. But take a bite and you’ll realize that they’re worth so much more than that. Fruit Gushers, the fruity candy snack invented in 1991, hearken back to the childhoods of millennials and

Costumer styles with fabric of kindness

Augustana costume shop supervisor Cindy Bakke has worn many hats throughout her life, all of which has been spent within 90 miles of her hometown of Mitchell, South Dakota. The most important hats, it would seem, are those of listener and friend. After she graduated from the University of South

Cross-country walk-on finds national success

Austin Miller came to Augustana as a freshman knowing that he would be leaving his life of soccer behind in high school. But the end of a career in soccer became a new journey in track. “I didn’t run cross country at all in high school,” Miller, who is

New test-optional applications prevent students from being ‘defined by one data point’

A new test-optional pilot program could change how students are admitted to Augustana by allowing them to forgo submitting an ACT or SAT test score. Beginning this year, Augustana admissions has added a test-optional application. Students still have to fill out the basic Augustana application and submit their high school

GIS course mapped out for spring semester

Starting next semester, students will be able to take a new geographic information systems (GIS) course that is being offered at an introductory level. GIS can be defined as “data analysis in a geospatial context,” associate mathematics professor Carl Olimb said. In the everyday lives of students, GIS products can