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Another record-setting freshmen class could be around the corner
Applications, admissions trend upward for 2021 class
KAYLYN DEITER
kkdeiter13@ole.augie.edu
Augustana may once again be looking at a record-setting freshmen class for the 2017-2018 academic year. Thanks in part to new financial aid and scholarship deadlines, admissions for the class of 2021 are up 150 percent, with
Search for Rob Oliver’s successor underway
Presidential search committee, plan come into focus
MATTHEW SCHILLING
maschilling13@ole.augie.edu
The search for Rob Oliver’s successor is underway and is scheduled to conclude in March of 2017.
The Augustana Presidential Search Committee had its first meeting Oct. 19. During the session, it approved a timeline for
AU Democrats choose a side while Republicans stand divided
AU Republicans, Democrats differ in campaign strategy
JACOB KNUTSON
jknutson15@ole.augie.edu
Augustana Democrats have campaigned for races up and down the ballot this election season while Augustana Republicans, divided by presidential candidate Donald Trump, have shifted much of their focus away from the presidential election.
Faced with campaigning
Students take a stand
BLM march sparks conversation, conflict
JACOB BELGUM
jbbelgum13@ole.augie.edu
Before the Viking Days Parade on Oct. 15, they knew what their group would do, but they had no idea how people would react.
On that day, senior Rahiwa Mussa and sophomore Luca Amayo, along with roughly 50 demonstrators,
Soapbox: Latinos want their piece of the American dream
I was born in Latin America, a place where, from birth, Latinos are told that they are not and never will be as great as their counterparts in the United States.
Latinos have been used, robbed of their resources and our identities, looked down upon, called derogatory names and told
Courts deny referendum, Venezuelans stage protests
Donning white t-shirts, which represented their pacifism, and waving national flags, tens of thousands of enraged Venezuelans flooded the streets of their capital, Caracas, to protest Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government throughout last week.
After courts struck down a referendum to remove Maduro from office, protesters took to the streets,