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Coping with COVID-19: Students grasp for routine without classes, athletics

Waking up at the same early time every day, junior Hailey Nold rolls out of bed in her parents’ Sioux Falls home and begins to arrange the blankets, sheets and pillows. “I have had to be super good about making my bed and keeping that mode of productivity,” Nold said.

Meier: I’m a VA for an almost vacant campus. Here’s what it’s like.

As I sit here typing this, I’m in my dorm room. But the building no longer feels like a dorm. COVID-19 has turned it into a ghost town. I’m a Viking Adviser, or VA, on the southside of campus, and both Bergsaker and Solberg usually have this specific

Augustana swim to graduate first-ever senior class

On April 20 of 2015, Augustana announced that it would be adding women’s swimming as a sponsored sport. It became the 19th varsity sport at Augustana and would begin competition in 2016-17. “As an institution, we feel this addition is a perfect fit for our community and regional footprint,

Augustana’s next top model: Religion professor doubles as shoe connoisseur

As the second week of online classes comes to a close, you may find yourself missing your professors and the impeccable styles they sport. Never fear, as The Augustana Mirror is back with part two of Augustana’s Next Top Model. This week’s fashion spotlight is Richard Bowman and

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