Sign in Subscribe

augiemirror

ANGLES: Division divide: Should Augustana go Division I?

Yes, Division I athletics would attract students and attention When the university announced its AU: Vision 2030 plan, many students spoke out against the move from Division II to Division I athletics. I think most of the initial backlash came from the nature of the announcement. The notification gave less

The orchestrated reality of the dark tourism industry

Why do people visit the Catacombs of Paris? Or Vladimir Lenin’s preserved body in a glass case like a bald and mustached Sleeping Beauty in Moscow? Or the DMZ, a hostile war zone between North and South Korea? Mainly, because you can. This industry is dubbed “dark tourism” — tourism

Q&A: Meet your 2019 Nobel Peace Scholars

Juniors Ryan Solberg and Chofian (JuJu) Abobakr will spend seven weeks this summer studying conflict, war and peace in Oslo, Norway, as Augustana’s 2019 Peace Scholars. Solberg, a government major from Mitchell, South Dakota, said he is interested in studying different perspectives on current political issues, as well as

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse delivers new take on old formula

The superhero genre has grown and been burned into our culture over the last 11 years with both The Avengers and The Dark Knight trilogy. One of the more well-known characters is Spider-Man, whose story has been told countless times over six different films and three different timelines. Recently, the

Destiny’s Oscar predictions: memes, disappointment, drama

Every year, the same things happen at the Oscars. Did you even watch all the films nominated? I’ll be honest — I didn’t even know that Willem Dafoe played Vincent Van Gogh in an artsy fartsy movie about the painter’s life that came out in September. Of the

Alumnus continues to ‘fight the world’s fight’ as Rhode Scholar

Kofi Gunu is not your average Augustana alumnus. Since graduating summa cum laude in 2017, Gunu has gone on to obtain a master’s degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing where he was a Schwarzman Scholar. If that is not enough, Gunu was recently named the 2019 Rhodes Scholar for

Men’s basketball dominates in double overtime

The Augustana men’s basketball team and its four true freshmen starters shocked the Minnesota State Mankato Mavericks Friday night in Mankato, Minnesota at the Taylor Center. Equipped for a monumental comeback against Minnesota State, the Vikings overcame a 15-point halftime deficit to beat the Mavericks on their own court