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Q&A: Meet your 2019 Nobel Peace Scholars

Juniors Ryan Solberg and Chofian (JuJu) Abobakr will spend seven weeks this summer studying conflict, war and peace in Oslo, Norway, as Augustana’s 2019 Peace Scholars. Solberg, a government major from Mitchell, South Dakota, said he is interested in studying different perspectives on current political issues, as well as

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse delivers new take on old formula

The superhero genre has grown and been burned into our culture over the last 11 years with both The Avengers and The Dark Knight trilogy. One of the more well-known characters is Spider-Man, whose story has been told countless times over six different films and three different timelines. Recently, the

Destiny’s Oscar predictions: memes, disappointment, drama

Every year, the same things happen at the Oscars. Did you even watch all the films nominated? I’ll be honest — I didn’t even know that Willem Dafoe played Vincent Van Gogh in an artsy fartsy movie about the painter’s life that came out in September. Of the

Alumnus continues to ‘fight the world’s fight’ as Rhode Scholar

Kofi Gunu is not your average Augustana alumnus. Since graduating summa cum laude in 2017, Gunu has gone on to obtain a master’s degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing where he was a Schwarzman Scholar. If that is not enough, Gunu was recently named the 2019 Rhodes Scholar for

Beth Boyens, the caroling English professor

It’s early Saturday morning in the cozy, four-bedroom cabin and Laura Tjaden, a founding member of the Christmas vocal group, “Anjelic,” awakens to a dark blue haze over a peaceful, snow-covered lake, anxious to begin work on harmonies and lyrics. Beth Boyens, an Augustana English professor, dressed like 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

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 was written