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Must See in this issue WOMEN'S BASKETBALL MOVES TO ELITE EIGHT PAGE 12 A VOICE LEFT UNHEARD PAGE 6 z. -;ivierTri 0 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, Sec PHILLIPS, page 3 Keeping the Faith Balancing politics and religion
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Title | Mirror - March 22, 2013 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 2013-03-22 |
Publishing agency | Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
Rights | This image may not be reproduced without the express written consent of Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. |
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Language | English |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |
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Date | 2013-03-22 |
Text | Must See in this issue WOMEN'S BASKETBALL MOVES TO ELITE EIGHT PAGE 12 A VOICE LEFT UNHEARD PAGE 6 z. -;ivierTri 0 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, Sec PHILLIPS, page 3 Keeping the Faith Balancing politics and religion |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |