Trio of Juniors Vie for Student Association Presidency
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he Augustana Mirror
February 3, 1941 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. No. 13 - Volume XXII
Student Prexy Campaign pens Thursday
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w. Austin Kilian
A BIT ABOUT THE RIGORS
OF REGISTERING, Oil, IF
I CAN STAND IT, WHY
THEN YOU SHOULD BE
ABLE TO TOO.
There is one thing about semes-ters
toward which my attitude
is unbending
And that is their ending.
Semesters should never end, they
should just diminish and fade
and the next one should reap-pear
like a Phoenix
Out of the ashes of the old one,
if you get my meaning,
And when the student body finds
out that the new semester has
begun,
Instead of getting the end of sem-ested
panic they will say school
is fun.
I recommend the installation of
automatic registering machines
that do all
The registering and filling out of
yellow and white cards fo' you
all.
You have heard of The Squirrel
Cage, Smokey Stover, and The
Adventures of the Puffle Board-ers,
Well, the authors of these fea-ventors
of machinery to the
customers' orders,
And the specifications for College
Registration Machines are now
in the hands of Mr. Rube Gold-
1- erg, Mr. Gene Ahern, and Mr.
_till Holman, who will do their
:level lest to simplify things
for freshman, junior, senior and
sophomore
And expect to have the gadgets
ready for installation by 1944.
And another thing about semes-ter
ends is that they are all
loose ends and you have to
tighten them up and if you
have any money in the bank or
in your purse
Mr. Gilbertson, Mr. Hanson, and
Mrs. Gudmundson will take it
off your hands and thus avoid
the necessity to immerse
Their pens in red ink when figur-
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In various storage places about
Sioux Falls the material things
that go into the making of a year-book
are being carefully laid
away. The paper must be pur-chased
and stored for several
weeks or a month so that is can
become acclimated to the atmos-
)heric conditions here, and will
then take a perfect impression
from the printing presses.
The nv.tal plates from which
:Ile book will be printed are be-ing
made by the South Dakota
Engravei s in their establishment
on North Main Avenue. The cov-
,-21 s are being made at Kingsport,
Tennessee, and will be incorpor-ated
into the book at the Will A.
Eeach Printing Company, which
Jompany also does book-binding.
A portion of the EDDA will be
done in lithographing as of form-er
years; the advertising section
has been selected to be done in
this medium, which will enable
the artists and designers of ads
to use a much wider group of
illustrations and unusual decor-ative
effects.
The price of the EDDA has
been fixed at the sum of 3.50;
each student will pay forty cents
to have his portrait inserted. Au-gustana
business manager Deb
Hanson has set the goal of 300
books to be sold with a deposit
of $1.50 by the middle of Febru-ary.
Copy writers have acclaimed
the photographic excellence of
Engravers' panels will begin
writing as soon as proofs are
available.
Collegiate Digest
Shows McCormick
In Page Layout
A full page layout of Stanley
"Mac" McCormick, senior and stu-dent
association president, was
featured in last week's issue of
the Collegiate Digest, national
college newspaper supplement
distributed weekly on the Augus-tana
campus. The magazine fea-tured
McCormick as a football
player, an amateur poet who has
had two poems published in
Pasque Petals, S. D. poetry maga-zine;
as a math assistant, student,
and campus play-boy.
Pictures for the layout were
taken by campus photographer
Howard Olson and the copy was
written by Robert Haakenson,
Mirror staff member.
It is the second time that Au-gustana
has had pictures in the
Collegiate Digest. Last year the
five college glamour girls select-ed
for the Pic-Campus contest
were pictured in the rotogravure
magazine.
Glenn Bragstad
Three juniors, Glenn Bragstad,
Floyd "Baldy" Nelson, and Ken-neth
Storsteen, will vie for the
presidency of the Augustana stu-dent
association when the open-ing
guns of campaign week ex-
Clifford Olson
Receives Honor
The reward of the "Order of
Merit," an international award
given by the University of Oslo
to outstanding promoters of Scan-dinavian
music, was awarded t. -
Prof. Clifford Olson recently for
his contribution to the field as a
promotor and director of the Nor-wegian
Male chorus in Sioux
Falls.
Prof. Olson has further distin-guished
himself as director of the
Sioux Valley Singers association
and as associate director of the
Norwegian National Singers as-sociation.
For his master's degree, Prof.
Olson wrote on the "Critical An-alysis
of the Selected Works of
Halfdow Kjerulf,". a noted Nor-wegian
composer.
in, his grade point average, and
the number of hours he is carry-ing.
(A word to the wise — the
number of major and minor acti-vities
are being rigidly enforced
—and remember bleow a C grade
point average eliminates you.)
Of what use is this YOU tuck-ed
away in a green file in the
personnel office? It is, along
with your matriculation record
the most important thing you
will leave behind you at Augus-tana.
It is the only tangible evi-dence
of your personality the
school has. It is the first place
your employer will go when he
is considering your application
for a job — only recently it was
checked by an investigator from
Washington, D. C., before grant-ing
an FBI position. From this
information the advisors can tell
if a student is overloaded — if
he is working too many hours —
help him determine what voca-tion
he should follow — in other
words it helps the teacher help
the student.
Among the interesting
facts that may be found is
the fact that the IQ ranking
of Augustana freshmen has
steadily increased over a
number of years from 107 in
1934 to 112.5 in 1941.
The personnel department has
visions for even bigger and bet-ter
things in the future for YOU
with plans for giving a course in
personnel work and remodeling
the offices to better facilitate per-sonal
interviews by advisors.
Floyd Nelson
plode Thursday in student associ-ation
meeting. Heading the Nel-son
campaign will be sophomore
Don Gross and Senior Norman
Severson. Kenneth "Carp" Sand-vig,
dynamic editor of Pic-Cam-
Schedule St. Olaf
In Chapel Debate
Next Tuesday
St. Olaf College, Northfield,
Minnesota, will bring a men's de-
L.Ate team for a chapel debate
with Augustana, February 14.
The debate will be held at an
11:00 o'clock chapel.
Eight members of the debate
squad will enter the Red River
Valley invitational tournament
which will be held at Concordia
College, Moorhead, Minn., Feb-ruary
6-9.
Pairings for the debates
will be: Kenneth Raschke
and Don Gross; Norman Sev-erson
and Harold Houske;
Ruth Glenn and Evelyn Dri-ver;
and Hazel Johnson and
Avis Bekke.
In addition to being represent-ed
in debate, Houske and Evelyn
Driver will participate in men's
and women's oratory; Don Gross
and Avis Bekke in men's and wo-men's
extemporaneous speaking;
and Kenneth Raschke and Hazel
Johnson in men's and women's
discussions.
About thirty schools from
five states will be represent-ed
at this tournament.
The college of St. Thomas, St.
Paul, Minn., is bringing two de-bate
teams to Augustana Febru-ary
10. Two Augustana men's
teams will debate the St. Thomas
men in two speech classes, one at
11:15 a.m., the other at 2:15 p.m.,
in the speech room.
Scott Lovald, speech instructor
at Augustana, has been invited to
judge the Nebraska Intercolle-giate
Forensic Association's an-nual
debate and speech tourna-ment
at Wayne, Nebraska, March
13-14-15.
Strom In Recital
For Canton Club
Emil Strom, assistant in the Au-gustana
music department, was
guest artist at the monthly meet-ing
of the Canton music club
Sunday.
His program included "Pastoral
in E Minor" by Scarlotti; "Varia-tions
on a Minuet Theme," by
Mozart; "Beethoven's Sonata Opus
31;" "Chopin Etudes," three pre-ludes
by Delius; "Clouds," by
Griffes, and Tacotto by Lesche-tizsky.
Kenneth Storsteen
pus, will manage the campaign
for Storsteen, while Joe Johnson
and Herman Solem will marshal
the Bragstad forces. Bragstad is
from Sioux Falls, Nelson from
Cambridge, Minn., and Storsteen
from Webster.
Mission Speaker
Rev. Edward C. Fendt, one of
the three College Mission speak-ers
on our campus today, tomor-row
and Wednesday, is professor
of systemmatic theology at Capi-tal
university, Columbus, Ohio.
Mrs. Clarence T. Nelson, Duluth,
Minn., sister of Dr. Youngdahl,
and Dr. T. 0.
branch of the student service de-partment
of the American Luth-eran
Conference of which Augus-tana
is a member. The College
Mission is a relatively new en-deavor
on the part of the confer-ence
and has been conducted very
successfully on a number of the
campi of our sister colleges.
The speakers will alternate
conducting chapel services on
their three day stay here and
evening meetings tonight and to-morrow
night. They are also
conducting group and personal
conferences and informal discus-sion
groups.
Rev. Stanley Olsen is in charge
of the College Mission visit to
our campus.
Hauge Is Registrar
While Berdahl Recovers
Because Prof. Berdahl's school
program has been interrupted
due to his illness, Dr. I. B. Hauge
has temporarily assumed the po-sition
of registrar. Prof. G. E.
Carlson is the acting head of the
Placement Bureau in Dr. Hauge's
place.
Managers Dust
Platform Planks
For Candidates
Gross, Johnson,
K. Sandvig Lead
Political Factions
Campaigning for Augustana's
major political office—that of the
student association president —
will begin Thursday of this week
and continue until next Monday,
when the polls will open im-mediately
after the final session
in chapel.
Candidates for president are
Glenn Bragstad, Floyd Nelson,
and Kenneth Storsteen. Promot-ing
Bragstad's campaign are Joe
Johnson and Herman Solem. Don
Gross and Norman Severson will
manage Nelson's campaign, and
Kenneth "Carp" Sandvig will run
the Storsteen campaign.
Candidates for the other offices
are: vice-president, Peggy Blath-erwick,
Clyde Bunt, Don Fera-gen,
and Mae Arlene Rogness;
secretary, Evelyn Driver and
Hazel Johnson; treasurer, Neil
Jacobson and Max Johnson.
Sophomore representatives who
were nominated are Don Gross
and Kathryn Johnson; freshmen
representatives, Dean Hofstad,
Marlys Ormseth, and Ernie Sven-sen;
forensic board, Avis Bekke,
Harold Houske, and Ruth Glenn;
music board, Howard Hillman,
Chuck Carlson, and Evelyn Gran-skou.
Religion board, Dick Nelson and
Ruth Seim; athletic board treas-urer,
Harold Melemseter; social
board, Alice Haakinson, Chuck
Carlson, Stubby Moe, Paul Od-land,
Dean Hofstad, Grace Dick-ey,
Margaret Johlfs, Barbara Mat-son,
and Gertrude Rogness.
Running for Mirror editor are
Doane Fessenden and Bob Haak-enson.
Austin Kilian and Bob
Berg are homecoming co-chair-men.
Freshman Plan
'MI-formal' Party
For Friday, Feb. 14
nice Shapiro is going to present
a comedy ballet, and Lyle Lien's
swing band is scheduled to start
the program promptly at 7:30.
A door prize consisting of
a 1941 Edda is to be given to
the holder of the lucky num-ber.
Numbers will be used
throughout the evening in
choosing participants in the
various activities. Punch will
be served during the evening.
Students taking part in the
planning of the party are Bergie
Halvorson, chairman of the stage
show group; Norma Knudson,
Elaine Frey, Marie Iverson, Mark
Odland, Bob Tunks; Dean Hof-stad,
head of entertainment com-mittee;
Alfred Hoyem, Myrtle
Iseman, Irene Walstad; Bob Gable
chairman of the publicity and
decoration committee; Percy Kir-keby,
Bernice Shapiro, Corinne
Griffith, and Lynne Stout. Bob
Snook is going to act as Master
of Ceremonies.
Evidently the Freshmen's en-deavorings
are appreciated only
by the freshmen alone, as their
signs and advertising have been
partially destroyed by some ill-bent
soul, undoubtedly from one
of the upper classes.
By Ruth Seim
tucked away in some rather un-pretentious
looking files. The
OU that goes to classes and your
reactions—the YOU that works
—the YOU that used to be in high
s:hool—the rating of YOU among
the intelligensia (I.Q.)—the study
habits c f YOU — a photograph of
YOU — that YOU that sings in
choir, writes for the Mirror, plays
in the orchestra—the autobiogra-phy
of YOU — even the family
background of YOU—the prob-lems
of YOU — in fact almost
anything anyone could ever de-sire
to know about YOU is tuck-ed
away in a file between two
manila papers. (Don't worry, it
is confidential information.)
The individual back of this
enlightening information
about YOU is not Yehudi but
the Personnel setup with
Dean Martin L. Cole in
charge of this growing sys-tem
whose predominant phil-osophy
is individualized edu-cation.
Assisting Dean Cole is Dr. I.
B. Hauge as technical advisor on
the testing system and Martin
Lutter who is engaged in the
active work of compiling the in-formation.
How do they know YOU? The
answer is not simple; as is not
the process of keeping their fin-ger
on the pulse of some five
hundred students. The work of
and
itecoul Yau,
Personnel Dept. Keeps
Even G-Men Come For
the Personnel Department begins
Do you feel you know yourse lf the day you enter Augustana
—maybe?—but there is also YOU coil :.-ge by mass photography (re-member
how you hated having
your picture taken in the hub-bub
of registration). This is followed
by the latest modernized editions
of tests given during orientation
week which include the Bernreu-ter
personality tests, the Otis IQ,
the 1940 edition of the general
culture and the cooperative Eng-lish
test. When these tests have
been completed the results of the
2ulture test are put on a graph
on the centile basis in the various
divisions of fine arts, social prob-lems,
social sciences, literature,
science and mathematics. From
the personality tests it is possible
to determine a great many things
about you — neurotic (simply
nervous) tendencies, how socia-ble
you are, your liking of peo-ple,
etc., and from the IQ test
your mental calibre.
Of all the records, you are
mirrored most in the indivi-dual
rating sheets. Perhaps
you are unaware of it but
every instructor hands in a
rating sheet of the personal-ity
traits, the habits of work,
the course performance, in-terests
and intellectual activ-ity
in each course you take
each semester.
One of the biggest jobs of the
personnel department is check-ing
up on the extra curricular
activities. A separate file is kept
in which is recorded the activi-ties
each student is participating
Accurate Record
Personality Information
Debaters to Enter Red River Valley Tournament
By Lynne Stout
If you should happen to see
numerous bits of old clothing,
shoes, and what have you strung
around the campus, don't become
alarmed; it is just the Freshman
class advertising their unformal
party which is scheduled for
Burntvedt, profes- 1Friday, February 14.
sor at Augsburg college, Minne- 1 The program promises to con-apolis,
and president of the Luth- sist of something new and dif-eran
Free church, are the other ferent for Augustana college.
speakers. Dean Hofstad has charge of an
The College Mission is the field T aa ll -man 1890 Follies group; Ber-