Friday, Oct. 14, 2005
Sioux Falls, S.D.
Volume 94,
Issue 5
Augustana receives substantial donations
Endowment Chair established, new scholarship opportunities
BY MORGAN HURLEY & EMILY VADNER
MIRROR STAFF WRITER & EDITOR -IN CHIEF
Two families, the Gubbrud
Kapplingers and the Floyds, both with
ties to Augustana, have recently given
to the college more than $1 million to
be used for scholarships and
faculty/student advancement.
"Augustana can only exist because
of donors like the Kapplingers and the
Floyds," Augustana President Bruce
Halverson said.
On Monday, Oct. 10, President
Halverson announced the establish-ment
of the Gubbrud/Kapplinger
Endowment Academic Chair. The
establishment of this chair is made
possible through the million-dollar gift
given by George and Gay Gubbrud
Kapplinger, along with their children
Jason and Amy.
Gay attended Augustana for two
years before graduating from Drake
University.
George graduated from Augustana in
1965 with a degree in business adminis-tration.
He went on to become president
of J.C. Penney International.
The endowed chair, a secured gift
that will only be available after a paid
life insurance policy matures, will be
awarded to an outstanding faculty
member and will provide salary, ben-efits
and resources for students and
the professor to work together.
Halverson cannot specify when the
chair will be made available but says
there will be an announcement when
the time comes.
Another donation of $250,000 was
made by Joseph and Flaine Floyd ear-lier
this year to add to their contribu-tion
for the Floyd Opportunity Fund
established in March of 2004.
The fund aims to attract students
from various backgrounds who would
do well at Augustana but are not able
to attend due to financial restraints.
This particular scholarship is
available to incoming freshmen and
transfer students. Freshmen can
renew the scholarship for up to four
years, and transfer students can
renew the scholarship for one to three
years.
The first scholarships of this
opportunity fund were given out this
academic year.
Recipients of the scholarships are
going to have a chance to meet the
donors at a scholarship banquet on
Nov. 13, where Joe Floyd will be the
featured speaker.
Floyd is a 1958 graduate who earned
(See GIFTS-Page 12)
Submitted Photo
George and Gay Gubbrud Kapplinger and their children, Jason and Amy,
recently gave a gift to Augustana of over $1 million. Both George and Gay
attended Augustana, George having graduated in 1965.
Augustana evaluating possible dorm problems
BY KARI DEVICK & EMILY VADNER
MIRROR STAFF WRITER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Following the recent evacuation of four
eighth floor Stavig girls due to allergy-related
symptoms, Augustana has sent in samples of
suspicious deposits found in the rooms to be
tested. The evacuees suspect the deposit& to be
mold-related.
With these rooms now vacant, Augustana
maintenance staff has evaluated and taken sam-ples
of the growths in order to understand what
exactly they are dealing with. After sending in
the samples, Gene Marko, Augustana director
of buildings and grounds, is awaiting the test
results to find out what the deposits are. Until
the results come back, he said nothing could be
determined about the nature of the growths. This
includes not being able to confirm or deny that the
growth is actually mold or something else.
Each of the four girls say they noticed the
deposits when they first moved back to school in
September. Due to its appearance, they suspect it to
be mold.
"The mold was basically on the brick walls and
the ceiling by the window," sophomore Megan
DeVries said. "There was so much of it on the ceil-ing
that it started to make the paint peel away and
bubble."
When the girls started to display allergy-like
symptoms, they began to be suspicious about the
effect the growth may have been having on them.
They eventually determined the only solution to
their problem was to move out.
"I'm allergic to mold so I was constantly sneez-ing
in the room," sophomore Claire Conniff said.
"When I moved into my new room, I looked around
and didn't see any mold, so I knew I would be bet-ter.
Residents of one of the rooms last year also filed
(See DORMS-Page 12)
World Food Day to
put hunger into
perspective
In an effort to make Augustana more aware of global
issues involving hunger, the Augustana Coalition for Social
Justice is promoting World Food Day (Oct. 16). This is an
international day, which, according to www.worldfood-dayusa.
org, is "designed to increase awareness, understand-ing
and informed, year-round action to alleviate hunger."
Earlier today, the club hosted the viewing of a three-hour
long teleconference in which international experts addressed
the problems and possible solutions to world hunger. To put
World Food Day into perspective, here are some facts to get
you thinking about what you eat on Sunday:
"'OUT OF 6.4B PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, 1 OUT
OF EVERY 6 IS CONSIDERED HUNGRY
"'11M CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF S DIE A
YEAR, MORE THAN HALF FROM HUNGER-RELATED
CAUSES
—1.2B PEOPLE LIVE ON LESS THAN $1 DAY
FOR MORE INFO GO TO:
WWW.WWW.WORLDFOODDAYUSA.ORG
Gene Marko Megan DeVries
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