the augustana college • mirror sioux falls, south dakota
Thursday, March 31, 1966 Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57102 Vol. 47, No. 21
Holly Elkins reveals plans
for Lake Shetek workshop
Students to take tour
over Easter vacation
"Is Augustana Really
Living in a Bubble?" is the
theme of this year's Leader-ship
Workshop. The workshop
will be April 29, 30 and
May 1, at Lake Shetek.
Chairman Holly Elkins
says that 240 invitations have
been sent to students from
all classes. The upperclass-men
were chosen on the basis
of leadership and contributions
to Augustana. The freshmen
were selected on their coun-selors'
recommendations.
The purpose of the work-shop
is to discuss problems
and situations pertinent to
campus life.
THIS YEAR'S workshop is
expanded over past ones.
The invitation list is doubled,
more faculty members will
attend, the number of topics
has been increased and per-sonal
contact by committee
members to all invited persons
will help to inform the stu-dents
about the weekend.
Those attending will leave
Augustana by car at 4 p.m.
Friday, April 29. The opening
address Friday evening will
be given by Dr. Balcer. Fol-
AAHPER holds
national meet
A group of students an d
faculty members from Augus-tana's
physical education
department attended a
national meeting in Chicago
last week.
The five-day meeting was
of the National American
Association of Health,
Physical Education and
Recreation. Attending from
Augustana were faculty
members: Miss Ann Douglas,
Miss Karleen Kirchner and
Miss Ruth Sparhawk; and
students Barb Harberts,
Judy Ekeland, Jan Humphrey,
Judy Pitkin and Karen
Matthaidess.
The convention was held
at the Conrad Hilton hotel
with over 7500 AAHPER
members present from all
over the United States.
Among the speakers for
the programs were Kathrine
Allan, past president - elect
of AAHPER Leona Holbruck,
the new president and
Charles Bucher.
Chairman Holly Elkins hopes
spring leadership workshop.
lowing this, Kathy Svarstad
will lead a discussion of the
address.
Saturday's schedule in-cludes
discussions in eight
small groups, a discussion of
the Honor System by the ASA
officers, and a presentation
of the Union Board of Gover-nors
by the Union Board
committee. The last two will
involve the whole group.
St. Olaf students will pos-sibly
be there to discuss fur-ther
details of the Honor System.
Saturday evening, Dr. Oyos
will speak at the banquet. A
worship service and a final
session will be held Sunday.
The workshop will close with
the Sunday noon meal.
Gary Howerton is as
chairman. Other chairman
Pete Rogness reports that
700 students responded to the
questionnaire last week on
library policies and facilities.
The largest percentages
were stacked in the categories
regarding hours and telephone.
Ninety-two per cent felt that
the library should remain open
open until 11 p.m. Sunday
through Thursday and that it
should open at 2 p.m. on Sun-days.
Eighty-eight per cent of
the students replying agreed
that an on-campus telephone
for a successful and effective
are Beth Fuller and Ellen
Hokenstad — banquet; Darrell
Kopplin — transportation; War-ren
Larson — K P; Eileen
Grosz and Don Erdman — re-creation.
THE COST will be $8 per
student. This includes meals,
lodging, transportation and
travel insurance. The money
should be paid by April 14
to committee members who
will be in the Commons Con-course
April 12-14.
Holly commented, "Be-cause
this workshop involves
more students, faculty and
discussion topics, I hope that
the effects of the workshop
will extend beyond the week-end
in order to help shape
Augie's present and future
policies."
should be made available in
the booth in the main lobby.
On the question of dress
in the library 79% were in
agreement that slacks should
be permissible for girls at all
times.
Regarding the other three
areas on the questionnaire,
a smaller majority felt that
adjustment is needed.
Sixty per cent did think
that the reserve book check-out
period need be extended
from one hour to two hours.
Five Augustana students
an d William Hink, assistant
professor of Political Science,
will go to Washington, D.C.
and New York over Easter
break.
Mr. Hink says the five-day
seminar begins on Sunday,
April 3 at Washington, D.C.
and continues at the United
Nations Bui lding in New York
on Wednesday, April 6 and 7.
The five students attending
the seminar are David Olson,
Robert Simons, Tom Vander
Heiden, Sue Tastad and
Carol Buehner.
Mr. Hink says the annual
seminar is sponsored by the
National Lutheran Council,
but he said that the seminar
is not exclusive to Lutheran
students.
STUDENTS WILL meet
with government officials,
attend sessions of the Senate
and House of Representatives,
and attend addresses by
State Department officials at
the Washington seminar. The
group will also meet with con-gressional
members, and be
given a sight seeing tour of
Washington.
Rock Island's
Augustana band
presents concert
The Augustana Concert
Band, Rock Island, Ill., will
present two concerts on its
tour that takes it through Sioux
Falls. The band will present
its first concert at Lincoln
High School auditorium April
20 at 7:30 p.m. The second
concert will be held in the
Augie gym April 21 during the
regular chapel time.
George Opheim conducts
the 72 member band.
Arrangements are being
made by Sioux Falls' Augus-tana
Concert Band which will
present a concert next year
at Rock Island on its tour
East.
LIGHTING in the library
needs to be adjusted accord-ing
to 69% of those respond-ing.
The matter regarding noise
reduction was split almost in
half since 59% felt that car-peting
is necessary.
The results of the ques-tionnaire
were the basis for a
proposal submitted to the ad-ministration
for action in those
areas that were indicated by
student opinion as needing
changes.
At New York the students
will tour the United Nations
Building and attend special
committee meetings on
principles of international
law. The Au gustana group
will also attend other meetings
and sessions at the Wash-ington-
United Nations seminar.
Mr. Hink says he expects
several hundred students from
the Midwest and the eastern
part of the United States to
attend the seminar.
Three societies
accept members
in open rush
Open rush was held during
the week of March 14-19 for
three societies. The Philo-mations,
Betas and Omegas
participated.
Marlene Fronning was
accepted into the Beta
Society.
The Omegas took in three
new members: Ray Christian-son,
Barry Jessen and Dave
Repestad.
The Philos accepted no
new members.
Church historian
to lecture here
Peter Meinhold, professor
and dean of Kiel University
in Germany, will be on cam-pus
April 13. At an extended
convocation, he will speak on
the topic "The Church-State
Relationship in E u r op e
Today."
An internationally re-knowned
church historian,
Professor Meinhold is author
of numerous books and was an
exchange professor in the
United States in 1951.. Pro-fessor
Meinhold was a chap-lain
in the German army
during World War II. After
the war, he was director of a
refugee camp in Denmark.
Before going to Kiel Univer-sity
he taught at the Univer-sity
of Berlin and the Uni-versity
of Heidelberg.
Professor Meinh old, a
recent observer of the Vatican
Council, spoke on the same
Church-State topic at a recent
lecture at Augsburg College,
Minneapolis. His lecture made
headlines both in the Min-neapolis
Tribune and Christian
Century.
Results of library poll
Large percentage of students
want longer library hours