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Administration expands S/U grading policy in response to online courses

Last week, the Augustana administration announced a change to the S/U grading policy for this semester that will give students more options as they navigate their newly online courses. Last week in an email to students, Provost and Executive Vice President Colin Irvine said the Curriculum Council had approved

PBR: Animal Crossing lets you make friends when quarantine doesn’t

If you’ve finished watching Netflix’s “Tiger King” but you still want to play with animals, I have the activity for you. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the perfect way to kill time in quarantine. Essentially, the premise of the game is that you do whatever you want in

Explainer: What’s included in the 52% rebate?

Students that utilized Augustana’s housing, dining and parking over interim and the spring semester will be issued a 52% rebate or refund, Augustana administrators said in an email last Thursday. The rebate is a response to the university’s decision to transition to online classes amid COVID-19 concerns, meaning

Out of work: Students with off-campus jobs struggle as storefronts close, cut hours

Lindsey Shultz spent March 18 as her last day, at least for a while, at Old Navy folding sweaters. Few customers walked the gray cement floors perusing new outfits. With coronavirus precautions spreading through the Empire Mall, store owners eventually decided to close up shop, leaving their employees without work

Away from home: international students struggle with uncertainty amidst pandemic

When sophomore Yifan Yuan went to Hy-Vee with his girlfriend two weeks ago, they were wearing face masks for protection when a fellow shopper approached them and sneered “this is ridiculous, get out of the country.” Yuan, who is from Beijing, China, then realized that the newfound racism against Chinese

ASA approves senate seats for systemically non-dominant student organizations

The Augustana Student Association (ASA) recently passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing systemically non-dominant student organizations a seat in the senate. The amendment, which was introduced by Senator Giselle Mawadri, gives four student organizations a designated seat in the Senate. The organizations include the African Students Union, Asian Student Organization, Black

Grace Notes: This week I started social distancing

Yoohoo! Greetings from Quarantine! If you’re receiving this — or some form of cheesy quarantine pun — as the subject line of every email from every single professor … we’re in this together. So s— has hit the fan. Alas, Grace Notes must go on! And what a perfect platform to