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Faculty vote to maintain capstone, changes will be made
SARA WEINREIS
sjweinreis09ole augie.edu
In a 59-38 vote, the Cur-riculum
Council's proposal to
end the Capstone requirements
for anyone graduating after the
2012 to 2013 academic year was
denied at the faculty meeting
earlier in the month.
"It's not about ending the idea
of Capstone, it's about the struc-ture
that it currently follows:
Curriculum Council Chair Peg
Preston said. "The ideals of
Capstone we suggested would
continue within and between
departments. In other words,
departments could still have a
`capping' course."
Capstone classes are taken by
seniors and focus on the ques-tion
"How then shall we live?"
The moral question invites stu-dents
and faculty to participate
in a conversation examining
the effects of topics such as film,
baseball, gender, genocide or
war.
The first challenge that
brought the council to their pro-posal
was the "exclusive nature"
of Capstone classes, according to
Preston.
"They're only for [general
education] classes: she said.
"They can only be co-taught.
So getting enough faculty
to be able to provide what
is anywhere from 10 to 12
courses is one challenge. It's
been an annual challenge:'
The Curriculum Coun-cil
has already addressed
this challenge and has de-termined
a solution for the
2013 to 2014 school year.
Certain Capstone classes will
be cross-listed for majors while
Civitas students can have their
Capstone class count for either
their Civitas program or for
their Capstone requirement.
The next challenge is an un-even
enrollment in Capstone
clases, -meaning that some
courses fill up quick-ly
with long waitlists,
while others were
not attracting stu-dents
at all. Preston
said that typically
students want to
take classes from a
favorite professor or
a class coordinating
with their major.
"There's been
some unhappiness
when students don't get into the
number one choice and that's
See CAPSTONE, page 9
It's not that
courses are
problematic,
it's that student
desire does not
always evenly
distribute
across all
courses.
PEG PRESTON
Senior Coral
Hanson (above)
won Excellence
on Wednesday.
Senior Katie
Hjerpe and
Junior Tony
Yang (right,
respectively)
won Liberal Arts
on Tuesday.
COLLEGE CELEBRATES ITS VALUES
MEGAN RAPOSA
mIraposa11@ole.augie.edu
This week, Augustana recognized
students in the 11th annual Covenant
Awards during Verdier.
Verdicr, a Norwegian word mean-ing
"values," consists of a week of ac-tivities
celebrating the core values of
the college.
Started in 2001, the Covenant
Awards are given to students who
embody the college's five core values
of Christian, Liberal Arts, Excellence,
Community and Service.
"It's really all about celebrating
students: Jim Bies,
dean of students,
said.
The criteria
for the Covenant
Awards were estab-lished
based on the
definitions of the
five core values set
forth by the Augus-tana
Student Asso-ciation
during the
2000-2001 school
year. The awards
were created to de-fine
what it means
to be a member
of the Augustana
Kelly Sprecher Community and to
celebrate the entire student body.
"The act of being nominated is re-ally
what the award is about," Bies said.
Generally, only one student is given
the Covenant Award in a given catego-ry,
but so far this year, two categories
have had multiple winners. The Liber-al
Arts award was given to both senior
Katie Hjerpe and junior Tony Yang,
and both seniors Coral Hanson and
Erika Zetterlund received the award
for Excellence.
"Winning the Liberal Arts award
was probably one of the hardest things
to receive at Augustana College: Yang
said. "All of the nominees are incred-ible
people who well deserved the
award, and there are many people not
nominated who deserved the award as
well:'
Each Covenant Award recipient
is chosen by a committee made up of
Augustana faculty, administration and
staff. Different committees are assem-bled
for each of the core values. Any
member of the Augustana community
can send in nomination suggestions
for any of the five Covenant Awards,
which are then reviewed by their re-spective
committees.
Once the committees have selected
nominees, they choose the people who
"best epitomize what it means to em-body
each of the five values," accord-ing
to Bies.
PHILLIP
PHILLIPS
FILLS
PAVILION
AARON VIDAL
afvidall0@ole.augie.edu
On Tuesday, the most recent
American Ido, Philip Phillips,
performed at the Washington
Pavilion twice, each time filling
the concert hall's 1,800-person
capacity with enthusiastic Au-gustana
students and Sioux Falls
community members.
Casual listeners and ardent
fans, young girls held by their
mothers and retirement age cou-ples
alike, flocked to his after-noon
performance, where Phil-lips
punctually took the stage to
eager cheers and female catcalls.
Sporting an acoustic guitar and
standing in front of a grooving,
Dave Matthews-esque backing
band that would make Andy
Dwyer jealous, the 22-year-old
singer/songwriter proceeded to
treat the audience to his raspy
style of soulful folk-rock.
"[His performance] was a bit
different than I imagined: said
sophomore Abbie Blank-Libra,
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