the augustana college • m i rror
sioux falls, south dakota
Thursday, November 4, 1965
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57102
Vol. 47, No. 7
Ron Hofstad checks the characteristics of a vacuum tube's
operations.
Curriculum offers
engineering degrees
By Bob Henry
Kathy Svarstad and John Kline admire their speech trophy.
The schoolyear of 1965
marks the first time Augus-tana
has offered an engineer-ing
program.
Through this program
degrees of • bachelor of
s c i e n c e in engineering
physics, bachelor of arts in
engineering physics, and
bachelor of arts in engi-neering
management are
made possible.
The engineering physics
programs are set up to pro-vide
the student with know-ledge
of the new develop-ments
and methods of the
modern engineering field.
It is also designed to
give the student basic back-grounds
for study toward
advanced degrees in physics
or one of the engineering
sciences such as electrical,
electronic, mechanical,
aeronautical, nuclear, or
astronautical engineering.
The Augustana program of
engineering management is
devised for those students
who have an interest in
business administration as
well as engineering. With
this degree, a graduate may
go directly into industry or
pursue an advanced degree
in either business or engi-neering.
The Augustana Admis-sions
department pamphlet
on "Physics and Pre-
Augustana's Kavaliers—one
of the groups who will per-form
Friday night.
engineering" states three
options for the student
interested in a cooperative
engineering program.
THE FIRST option: A
student obtains a four-year
degree in mathematics,
physics or chemistry at
Augustana. Then after gradu-ation,
he studies at an
engineering school for two
years and obtains a Master
of Science degree.
This option is desirable
for it allows the under-graduate
to finish his liberal
arts course work before
obtaining professicnal en-gineering
training.
Option two states that a
student complete three years
and a .summer session at
Augustana and then transfer
to an engineering school for
two years.
This combination provides
the engineering student with
a bachelor of arts degree in
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Musical groups
sponsor concert
Carrying out the theme of
"Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow", three musical
groups from Augustaria will
sponsor a benefit concert for
the Civic Fine Arts Center,
Friday, November 5 at 7:30
p.m. in the gym.
The Yesterday portion of
the concert will be presented
by Kristy and the Minstrels
in the form of folk music.
On the Today scene will be
the Kavaliers providing big
band and pop sounds.
Rounding off the sound of
the times will be the New-port
Jazz Quartet with the
progressive jazz sounds
characterizing their group.
All three groups per-formed
in Viking Varieties
this year.
Balcer to welcome
Augustana parents
Nearly 500 parents of
present and former students
at Augustana College are
expected to attend the third
annual Parents Day, Satur-day,
Nov. 6.
They will hear welcoming
remarks from President
Charles L. Balcer, a repre-sentative
of the Sioux Falls
Chamber of Commerce, and
Bob Manthe, secretary to
the Augustana Parents As-sociation.
Rev. Fred Dam-qaard,
Wausau, Wisc. , presi-dent
of the association, will
preside.
During the day the parents
will hear concerts by the
Augustana choir, the concert
band and a special piano
duet by Professors J. Earl
Lee and Gerald Kemner.
Prof. Arthur Olsen, of the
college religion department,
will deliver a lecture on
"The Church and Civil
Rights."
Announcement of the re-turns
for association officers
elected by a mail vote will
be made during a business
session.
Time has been allowed
for parents to visit with their
sons and daughters and to
attend open houses in col-lege
residence halls.
The group will have op-portunity
to attend the
Augustana Little Theatre
production of "There Shall
Be No Night" that evening
at 8:30.
Svarstad, Kline
win in speech
In a speech tournament
at the University of Omaha
Saturday two Augustana stu-dents
took honors.
Don Kline, a freshman
from Aberdeen, placed first
in men's extemporary speak-ing;
and Kathy Svarstad was
one of five finalists in the
original oratory division.
Both contestants entered
the finals on basis of straight
first place wins in the pre-liminary
rounds.
Besides -Kline and Svar-stad
four other students from
Augustana attended the tour-nament.
They were • Byron
Stefferud, Dawn Schroeder,
Joyce Estwick and Lois
Benda.
Augustana's debaters won
four matches and lost four.
Members of Augustana's
forensic team will compete
November 12 and 13, at the
USD Invitational. Augustana
will host the North Central
Conference tournament Nov-ember
19 and 20.
Tentative plans are being
made to attend the Dixie
Classic. December 9-11, at
Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, N. Carolina.
SINCE LINGUISTICS con-stitute
curriculum, it is ev-ident
that the administration
considers it academically
important. According to Dr.
Blegen, a foreign language
instructor at Augustana for
some 38 years, students
study language to increase
their perspective—not to be
short-sighted and unprepared
to understand the other
peoples of the world.
Professor Blegen also
contends that language and
understanding are keys to
peace.
In addition to Professor
Blegen's concept of ling-uistic
importance in the
realm of peace and under-standing,
he feels that un-less
one looks at his own
language from the outside,
he cannot understand it. A
great student of language
once said, "He who knows
no foreign language knows
nothing of his own."
For Augustana students
obtaining their bachelor or
master of arts degree, the
purpose of foreign language
may lie in the fact that the
courses are required. For the
students to complete their
education at grad school, a
basic knowledge of French
or German is required for
entrance. Pre-seminary stu-dents
must have at least a
reading knowledge of Greek.
Students seeking ling-uistic
knowledge find it
academically c h al -
lenging. Alien languages,
their grammar and morphol-ogical
application, stimulate
the growing mind. The col-legian
involved in a program
of language inadvertently
makes a definite transition
from his American idiom
and culture to that of another
lexico-logical descent.
The general desire of the
student, whether he be tak-ing
New Testament Greek or
modern Spanish, is that he
is using language to quench
his thirst for culture and
world-wide understanding.
THE LANGUAGE depart-ment
at Augustana has under-gone
many changes in order
to keep up with the fashion
of the day.
Professor Blegen feels
that it is evident that clas-sical
Greek and Latin will
again find their places in
importance along with the
modern languages, and that
"we are making a crazy mis-take
if we do not recognize
the value of classical lang-uage."
Our civilization and de-mocracy
could be better un-derstood
if we could trans-late
the classical languages
directly, because in them the
true origin of our government
and culture lies, according
to Mr. Blegen.
Prof. Ryman presents
lawyer conference
Professor Arthur Ryman,
Jr., of the Drake University
Law School will hold a con-ference-
discussion period
tomorrow, November 5 in the
Canton room from 10:45 a.m.
until noon.
Students who are inter-ested
and those who are
already definitely committed
to pre-law are urged to
attend this conference and
the one coming on Monday,
November 8 in the Canton
room from 8:00 a.m. until
Chapel. Dean John P. Linn
of the Denver University
Law School will speak at
this discussion. At the
present time a 1964 graduate
from Augustana, Lowell
Noteboom, is in his second
year at Denver University
Law School.
Foreign languages execute
varied roles of importance
By Dennis Ohrtman
What role does foreign language play on campus? Students
who enter French, Spanish, German, Norwegian and Greek
classes every day ask this question. For each there is a dif-ferent
answer to the question.