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Friday, January 15, 1960
THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR
VOL. 40, No. 13
* Williams Is Prexy
Graduate Records Exam
To Be Given Here Sat.
SMILING as she gets set to take that first step into a
brand new ASA office, is newly-elected student body presi-dent,
Joane Williams, a Kadoka, South Dakota, junior, who
won by a landslide of votes in last week's election.
* * * * *
Gets Solid 65% of Total
The Graduate Records Ex-am
will be given on the Au-gustana
campus for the first
time this year, according to
the office of the Registrar.
The exam will be given all
day Saturday, January 16,
in room A-9.
The GRE is given to those
college seniors who intend to
enter graduate schools
throughout the country the
following year. It is designed
to measure the applicant's
ability in broad areas such as
expression and general know-ledge
as well as to measure
the individual's ability in his
major field, or that field in
which he intends to do gradu-ate
study.
Joane Williams, junior
history major from Kadoka,
South Dakota, steps into the
presidency of the Augustana
Student Association as a re-sult
of the election held Fri-day,
January 8, in which
over 800 students registered
a vote.
The election climaxed an in-tensive
week-long campaign
which advanced the persons
and platforms of Joane and
her opponent, Doug Hoken-stad,
history major from Fair-bury,
Neb. Out-going presi-dent
Dave Nelson announced
the election returns at a gath-ering
in the Commons Build-ing
after Friday night's game.
According to an announce-ment
made at the same time,
Ron Hybertson will serve as
vice president in the Williams
administration. His opponent
was Dave Dahl. As a result of
her win over Bruce Floor and
Keith Odney, Sandy Haugen,
junior from Sioux City, will
wield the money bags of the
ASA.
A secretarial race between
Betty Diebold, Jan Henden
and Joan Wylie failed to give
a majority vote to any one
candidate, but in Tuesday's
run-off election Jan Henden
was chosen secretary over
Joan Wylie.
Augustana social control
moves into the hands of Kathy
Naiman, sophomore from Rap-id
City, who posted a win over
Mary Gamill for the office of
social board chairman.
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Votes
Viking Days of 1960 will
sail forth next year under the
captainship of Artie Montgom-ery,
sophomore from Brook-lyn,
New York. Vying with
him for this position was Glen
Wika.
A run-off election was need-ed
for final decision in the
race for the chairmanship of
All Nations. Friday's vote did
not give a majority to Ron
Halvorson, Curt Waite or
Kent Rolfing. but Kent Rol-fing
will head preparations
for the Christmas event as a
result of his Tuesday win over
Ron Halvorson.
The speeches are over. the
signs are down; and Augu-stana
moves forth toward a
new year in government.
The general aptitude test
will be held from 9 a.m. to
11:45 a.m., and the afternoon
session, which lasts from 2
p.m. to 5:15 p.m. will be
given over to advanced
tests. Candidates should re-port
to Room A-9, 15 min-utes
before each session is
scheduled to begin.
Approximately 25 Augu-stana
seniors will take the
tests. Their scores, when tabu-lated,
will be sent to gradu-ate
schools they have selected.
An applicant who attains a
very high score on the test, of
course, is in a more favorable
position to receive financial
help from the graduate school
to which he is applying.
For disgruntled students who have voiced
rather loudly a question as to when the Com-mons
Building will be in complete use, Com-mons
manager Don Johnson has this week
stated that "The Commons will be function-ing
on a complete basis in the near future.
There are several difficulties presenting
themselves at the present time which need
to be taken care of before this can be done,
however".
What specific difficulties? The biggest
problem at the present time seems to be one
of adequate student workers. The extended
hours planned for the building, plus the ad-ditional
areas of activity it brings into focus,
call for a student working force twice to
three times the size of the one previously
employed on campus.
At the present time Johnson and the
Placement Office are accepting applications
for work in the building, and are attempting
to set up the workers' shifts to coincide with
the many functions the building will have.
The lounge is expected to be used fully
after the wall-to-wall carpeting arrives the
first week in March. Student government of-fices
in the building which include the ASA,
Edda, and MIRROR facilities are at present
without the complete set of furniture ordered
for them, but this is expected to arrive within
the week.
Students Soon to Enjoy Full Use of
Recently Completed Commons Building
The proposed hours as set up by the joint
committee of five faculty and five student
members, the Commons Building Board, are
these:
• Friday and Saturday nights: Facilities
open until 12:00 p.m.
• All other nights of the week: Huddle
facilities will be open until 10:30 p.m.; the
building itself will be open until 11:00 p.m.,
so meetings may be held after 10:30 in the
building.
• The Huddle will eventually be open
Saturday afternoons as well as Saturday
nights, as the schedule indicates.
• For Sunday meals, the Huddle will be
open for breakfast; the cafeteria will serve
Sunday dinner at the usual hours; the LSA
will serve its Sunday night suppers through
the facilities of the Huddle.
If you have suggestions concerning the
use of the building, you may be heard either
by addressing a member of the student coun-cil
about the subject, or by making your de-sires
known to the student members of the
Commons Board, who are: Joane Williams,
Doug Hokenstad, Kent Rolfing, Kathy Nai-man
and Dick Schamber. You may contact
them personally or through campus mail.
Pittsburg Artists Plan To Present
Varied Musical Program For Augies
Look Out, Michigan Avenue !
"A" Choir Will Tour Via Chicago;
Tonight, at 8:15 the Artist Begins Two-Week Jaunt January 22
and Lecture presents the Pitts-burgh
New Friends of Music
which consists of concert ar-tists
of Pittsburgh.
The aim of concert artists
is to help build the faith
of the American people in
American musicians, both
performers and composers.
Those performing are Roger
Drinkall, cellist; Richard Os-lier,
pianist; James Wilson,
clarinetist; and James Lum-
'berger, counter-tour.
On the program are the fol-lowing
selections: "Toccata
and Fugue in C Minor" by
Bach; three pieces for clari-net
by Stravinsky; music for
violin-cello and piano by An-thony
Strolke; two songs by
Clifford Taylor, two songs,
Op. 91 by Brahms; and two in
A minor, Op. 114 by Brahms.
This is the fourth season
for these men and they have
performed over 150 times in
American music centers.
Each player plays many and
varied works in this field.
The programs presented by
the Concert Artists are of un-compromising
quality combin-ing
great literature of the past
with important contemporary
works.
There is to be a piano work-shop
Saturday morning at 10
a.m. for all those who are in-terested.
ed in the itinerary: St. Olaf
College, Northfield, Minne-sota;
Wartburg College,
Waverly, Iowa; Augustana
College, Rock Island, Illi-nois;
Valpariso University,
Valpariso, Indiana, and the
Duluth Branch of the Uni-versity
of Minnesota.
The home concert will be
presented on February 21, at
3 p.m. in the Washington High
School auditorium, to wind
up the mid-winter season.
In April, the choir will be
present, along with all the
other a cappella choirs of the
merging churches, at the Con-stitutional
Convention of the
Lutheran Church in Minneap-olis.
Shorter weekend trips are
scheduled in the spring to
points nearby.
The climax of the year
will be the European tour
the choir will take during
the months of June and
July where it will sing be-fore
the King of Norway,
and will sing a concert in
the east zone of Germany.
The tour manager for this
year is a choir alumnus, Dar-rel
Lundby, of the Public Re-lations
Department.
The sixty-four member Au-gustana
College concert choir,
under the direction of Dr. Ar-nold
Running, will leave on
its 39th annual mid-winter
tour on Friday, January 22.
The tour this year will extend
through February with con-certs
in Chicago and other
major cities as highlights. Six
states will be traversed in the
twenty-five concert tour: Wis-consin,
Iowa, Minnesota, Illi-nois,
South Dakota and Indi-ana.
Several college and uni-versities
have been includ-