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ASA to audit 4 constitutionally-funded organizations, starting with UBG

KEELEY MEIER SHAUNA PAULI kmmeier16@ole.augie.edu sdpauli16@ole.augie.edu JESSICA RUF KATIE WRIGHT jnruf15@ole.augie.edu kjwright16@ole.augie.edu The Augustana Student Association (ASA) is implementing a four-year rotating audit for the four student organizations that receive constitutional funds each year, such as the

Silent Voices speak out at Lincoln High

The largest mass execution in U.S. history did not take place in the Confederate South, nor in Salem, Massachusetts. It was only a few hours away in Mankato, Minnesota where, on Dec. 26, 1862, the U.S. military hung 38 Dakota men before a crowd of nearly 4,000

Native professionals needed to lower healthcare disparities

KARLA ABBOTT Assistant Professor of Nursing, Augustana University As an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, I was a consumer of the federal government health care system, or Indian Health Service (IHS), that provides care to American Indians living on or off the

Modern feminism reflected in suffragette plays

Earlier this month, Augustana’s Deeds Not Words: Plays of the Suffragettes—a set of four century-old, one-act plays—explored what it meant to fight for women’s suffrage while also reflecting on the challenges women still face in 2018. “It’s interesting to hear a show that

Circle of Courage: AU’s Native pedagogy empowers

The Circle of Courage has been the foundation of the Augustana education department since 1991. It guides students on how to teach and serves as a model for how professors are to conduct their classrooms. Senior communications disorder major Stacie Soderstrom has most of her classes within the education department.

Pine Ridge artist remembers time at Augustana

Kevin Poor Bear never graduated from Augustana, but the time he spent on campus helped shape his life. Poor Bear grew up in the Sioux Falls area, spending his young life at the local McCrossan Boys Ranch. After graduating from Washington High School in 1986, he journeyed westward to Colorado

Smoke in the wind: Augustana students take to the gun range

Augustana students braved the biting South Dakota wind and frigid temperatures at the Crooks gun range on November 9 while trap shooting with the Augustana Outdoor Program. The temperature was 19 degrees with 18 mph winds, when 10 students along with David Schulz, the AOP director, and Jason Nelson, the