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Smirror: Snapchat update breaks hearts and streaks

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.

Smirror: The Augie Doggie must die

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

Mirror Exclusive Q&A with newly appointed Academic Dean Colin Irvine

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

Civitas honors program cracking open book club

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

ASA approves new election code for 2018 campaign

MCKENNA BAUER mmbauer16@ole.augie.edu The Augustana Student Association Senate members approved a revised election code last month before the upcoming ASA presidential election. Last year, the Personnel and Development Committee, which manages ASA elections, noticed parts of the election code were no longer relevant to today’s elections.

ANGLES: National minimum wage, needed or detrimental for economy?

JOSHUA MORIN-BAXTER jmorinbaxter17@ole.augie.edu The institution of a national minimum wage is a gross overreach of federal power that ultimately harms the American worker by ignoring the myriad economic conditions in disparate areas of the country. It does not differentiate between large and small businesses, even though size

ANGLES: National minimum wage, needed or detrimental to economy?

KAATJE WEILAND kpweiland16@ole.augie.edu It has been almost nine years since the minimum wage was last raised in 2009, when it rose from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour, the last step of an increase approved by Congress in 2007. Before 2007, the minimum wage was stuck