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‘Silent City’ history found south of Sioux Falls at Good Earth State Park

In 1650 A.D., the largest city in the United States existed only four miles south of Sioux Falls. Today, we call it Good Earth State Park. Nestled between cornfield upon cornfield and obscured by the absurdly large mansions popping up on the prairie like invasive species, Good Earth doesn’

‘My Red Identity’: High school student bridges cultural divide

DELILAH ROUSE Lincoln High School student I have survived it all. Inflictions of violence, neglect, abuse, trauma and genocide are part of the road I walked. The sweet abyss that I called home was a reservation filled with people who aren’t free. An endless sadness fills my nightmares with

Financial education: a missing ingredient in Augustana plan

Augustana University is an institution that prides itself on providing students a liberal arts education to craft them into well-rounded members of the world community. The SOPHIA program was implemented to further this goal. However, there is one area of study that Augustana University, as well as most schools in

Global Perspective: US should ally new Brazilian president, despite bigoted, discriminatory character

Last month, Brazil elected right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro to serve as president with 55 percent of the vote. Bolsonaro holds hateful views towards women, homosexuals, people of color, immigrants, people in poverty and even democracy itself. Some of his most condemned comments include suggesting that if a child shows signs

North America’s favorite poet: A Muslim man born 800 years ago

While teaching a world literature course a few years ago, former professor Sandra Looney held a translated poetry collection of Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi—more commonly known as “Rumi”— to her heart and sighed in her signature way. She described Rumi’s writing as “a salve for the soul.” We

ANGLES: Deadlock: Should South Dakota revise its stance on the death penalty?

REBEKAH TUCHSCHERER rjtuchscherer16@ole.augie.edu At 7:37 p.m. on Oct. 29, Rodney Berget became the 19th person in South Dakota history to be executed by the state.In 2011, Berget was sentenced to death for killing correctional officer Ron “R.J.” Johnson during a failed prison escape

Plastic in the pudding: Tips to living an eco-friendly life in college

REBEKAH TUCHSCHERER rjtuchscherer16@ole.augie.edu After shredding the cereal boxes, recycling the soup cans and using leftover biology notecards for bonfire kindling, many college students are still left with one eco-disaster cluttering their kitchens and dorm rooms: plastic. Over 100 years after Leo Baekeland introduced the world to plastic,