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Gathering around the cards: Students launch new Magic club

Gathering around the cards: Students launch new Magic club

Vivien Parker began playing Magic: The Gathering when she was 12 years old. Fox Forrest began playing the hit card game when he was only five. Although the two had never met each other, they both came to Augustana this year with a shared goal in mind: creating a Magic:

Whitaker leads two new ensembles

Whitaker leads two new ensembles

In Augustana’s two newest music ensembles, rehearsals look less like a traditional class and more like an open studio session. Singers, pianists, drummers and bassists trade grooves and test out original student compositions guided by Grammy-winning Artist-in-Residence Matthew Whitaker. Whitaker proposed the two new groups — a

Out to Eat in Sioux Falls: USF Dining Hall

Out to Eat in Sioux Falls: USF Dining Hall

I have always admired the great undercover journalists. Nellie Bly got herself committed to an insane asylum to report on it from the inside. Upton Sinclair went undercover in Chicago’s stockyards to expose the meat industry. Less than a week after Augustana beat the University of Sioux Falls (USF)

Fashion club debuts with runway event

Fashion club debuts with runway event

Muhammadnur Kozimkhonov already dresses like every day is a fashion show. On Oct. 16, he got to walk the runway for real in the Back Alley and walked away with third place. Kozimkhonov was one of 23 students who walked in the Fashion Society of Augustana’s (FSA) first ever

Student author publishes rodeo romance

Student author publishes rodeo romance

Some writers build fictional worlds from scratch. Sophomore Alexi Cole started with one she already knew well. Growing up in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Cole spent much of her time on her uncle’s farm and attending rodeos. Her experiences eventually found their way into her debut novel “Not Yours to

Taylor's Encore

Taylor's Encore

When Taylor Swift released her 12th studio album “The Life of a Showgirl” last October, I listened to it in disappointed disbelief, wondering just where my beloved tortured poet had gone. “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore” is somehow more derivative and soulless than the critically maligned original. If