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Bake sale shows support for natural disaster victims

Bake sale shows support for natural disaster victims

Students and staff came together to raise $770 for survivors of the recent earthquakes in Syria and Turkey with a bake sale hosted by the Augustana International Club on March 1. The sale included goods both baked and donated by students and staff, and it sought to raise both awareness

Time stands still in Fryxell Building

Time stands still in Fryxell Building

The clocks in the Fryxell building seem to have minds of their own and never hold the correct time for long. Back in fall 2022, art professor Scott Parsons came up with a clever way to cover up the incorrect times and put the space to good use. “There were

Rendezvous shares Nigerian culture with students

Rendezvous shares Nigerian culture with students

The bass of a Nigerian pop song thumped while a student strung flags around the perimeter of the Back Alley. In a few minutes, three students would crowd around a podium on the stage and introduce an audience to the culture of their home country, which a neon-colored map depicted

Students learn how to ice fish at Outdoor Campus event

Students learn how to ice fish at Outdoor Campus event

Ice fishing for the Augustana Outdoor Program included a lot more ice than fish this winter. The AOP took students to the outdoor campus pond Feb. 11 to learn about ice fishing and general ice safety. While Augustana students did not catch any fish, attendees said the experience was still

New anthropology professor kicks off archeology seminar series

New anthropology professor kicks off archeology seminar series

In fourth grade, Phyllis Johnson was already dreaming about becoming an archeologist. She grew up in Ohio where the social studies curriculum included an archeology unit. At one time, there were an estimated ten thousand Native American burial mounds in the state, and her fourth grade class visited some of

Students share stories from J-term study abroad

Students share stories from J-term study abroad

In one part of the world, Augustana students and faculty exit an airport past midnight to find a dusting of snow before them. They walk, as snowflakes fall, through the quiet streets of Oslo, Norway. In another part of the world, students weave between stones on the rocky shores of

Club hosts deaf superhero film

Club hosts deaf superhero film

Augustana’s Deaf Awareness organization hosted a showing of “Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes,” an action movie directed by Emilio Insolera about deaf superheroes, in Hamre Hall on Feb. 9 for more than 50 people, including many students, faculty and members of the local Deaf community. While the film