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Professor returns to campus following dropped charges JACOB KNUTSON jaknutson15@ole.augie.edu Following his arrest and brief leave of absence from Augustana, economics professor Reynold Nesiba has returned to campus and resumed teaching courses. Further investigations into the sexual contact charges against Nesiba, originating from an incident Sept. 26,

Mr. Huether goes to Augustana JACOB BELGUM jbbelgum13@ole.augie.edu In January, Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether led his monthly “Listening and Learning Session” at Sunnycrest Retirement Village. He will perform the same ritual 3 p.m. Wednesday at Augustana in the Edith Mortenson Center Theatre. Huether tries to

Campus ministry opens arms The deep, melodious music of the Adhan, the Islamic call to worship, reverberated through the Chapel of Reconciliation and resounded off the fourteen panel reredos depicting different stories from the Bible and the 600-pound Jesus hanging in the back. The powerful image set the scene for

Governmental ineptitude found in our own backyard With haphazard federal orders and political blunders swallowing up media coverage, it can be difficult to allot attention to operations at the state level. But, on multiple occasions, South Dakota lawmakers have struggled to rise above the low, swampy watermark set by the

In 1846, in protest of slavery and the Mexican-American War, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes. For this, he was jailed while the war continued unabated. In 1893, Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells staged boycotts of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago to protest the lack

For every John Brown, there’s a Mahatma Gandhi. For every Malcolm X, there’s a Martin Luther King Jr. But the path to effective resistance can’t be argued entirely through historical figureheads. All four of those historical figures resisted in ways that made them icons and gave them