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The following is an abridged version of a longer interview with Colin Irvine, Augustana’s new academic dean. Irvine was previously the academic dean for Carroll College in Helena, Mont. The interview took place Mar. 19. What drew you to higher education? I was actually drawn in by one of

HOLLY WILSON hjwilson15@ole.augie.edu A new book club partially funded by the Civitas program will start meeting later this month to discuss books through deep literary analysis and thought. Sophomore nursing major, Jessica Marsland, said she was inspired by Civitas classes to create the club. “What I love

MCKENNA BAUER mmbauer16@ole.augie.edu The Augustana Student Association Senate members approved a revised election code last month before the upcoming ASA presidential election. Last year, the Personnel and Development Committee, which manages ASA elections, noticed parts of the election code were no longer relevant to today’s elections.

KAATJE WEILAND kpweiland16@ole.augie.edu It has been almost nine years since the minimum wage was last raised in 2009, when it rose from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour, the last step of an increase approved by Congress in 2007. Before 2007, the minimum wage was stuck

REBEKAH TUCHSCHERER rjtuchscherer16@ole.augie.edu In 1785, Antoine Lavoisier discovered the Law of Conservation of Mass, stating that matter can be neither created nor destroyed. All matter maintains a constant mass within a closed system, regardless of how it’s used, altered or consumed. This matter takes form in

JACOB KNUTSON jaknutson15@ole.augie.edu Sioux Falls is a ripe city for trash haulers, and that’s not good. There’s a lot of cash in trash, and the city has a generally laissez-faire attitude toward waste collection. If you have a set of wheels and meet the