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Due to renovations to the north wing of the Gilbert
Science Center (GSC) and to construction of the new
wing, students and faculty members of the sciences will
need to adjust to learning and working in new areas of
campus next fall.
According to associate professor of physics Eric
Wells, who is shepherding the science building project,
renovation of the GSC's north wing and the GSC 100
classroom area will begin in May or early June and will
continue through the fall semester, hopefully conclud-ing
in December (around the same time as construc-tion
on the new wing is scheduled to be completed).
Registrar Joni Krueger said that, while lectures will
be relocated to other academic buildings, to the Sioux
Falls Seminary and to Our Savior's Lutheran Church,
"with a few exceptions:' all labs will continue as they
normally would.
"Biology and chemistry labs will be largely unaffect-ed
next fall, since the west wing of the GSC will still be
operational;' Wells said. He also noted that, while nurs-ing
labs will be relocated to Humanities and physics
labs will be "split between" Humanities and the Madsen
Center, the biology labs typically held in the north wing
of the GSC will "shift to the west wing."
See CONS I RUCTION, page 9
Photo by Mike Shafer
Kayla Gilles
Ashley rounds out
historic career
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THE AUGUSTO 'AVIAT8IJDUA :011-1T RA •
Friday, March 6, 2015
[augiemirror.com ] Vol. CIII No. 12
After stalking, missing
student reports, safety
remains campus priority
BRITT JACOBSON
bmjacobson14@ole.augie.edu
A student is missing.
Nothing is more terrifying for friends, family or a col-lege
community, and it has happened twice this year at
Augustana.
According to director of Campus Safety Rick Tupper,
missing person reports were filed for both an unnamed
student and freshman Kayla Gilles early in the mornings
of Dec. 7 and Jan. 28. The students were each found safe
within a few hours of the reports
being filed.
After friends could not lo-cate
the students, they notified
Campus Safety. Tupper said they
worked closely with the Sioux
Falls Police Department (SFPD)
in running initial search options,
which included calling the miss-ing
students' phones and the
phones of friends.
In accordance with Augus-tana's
missing student policy, once
officers had unsuccessfully completed initial search pro-cedures,
Campus Safety expanded the search in both in-cidents.
In the first incident, officers went door-to-door in
Bergsaker Hall, and in the second, SFPD, Campus Safety
officers and residence life staff searched all dorms on
campus.
"I really appreciated how much they did to try to find
me," Gilles said. "Campus Safety is a really good resource
to have."
A rise in government concern for safety on campuses
began when the federal government passed a law in 2008
Projected academic calendar moves start date before Labor Day
MATTHEW HOUSIAUX
mjhousiaux12@ole.augie.edu
Don't panic. Augustana students and
faculty will not have to come to campus
on Labor Day, despite a series of changes
made to the school's academic calendar
that push the start date up by more than
a week.
The earlier start date is part of the ad-ministration's
larger plan to solve a few
major scheduling dilemmas and address
a number of student and faculty concerns,
such as the length of J-term and the date of
graduation.
The first scheduling dilemma concerned
when to start classes in the fall semester.
At Augustana, the first day of class has
traditionally fallen after Labor Day, but
because it is always the first Monday in
September, the exact calendar date of the
holiday fluctuates from year to year.
According to registrar Joni Krueger,
this posed several problems for the school
over the next few years, when Labor Day
fell as late as is possible in September and
threatened to interfere with the Christmas
holiday.
"Ideally, we like to get our students
home well in advance of Christmas so they
can be home safely and enjoy their break,
Krueger said. "And what we sometimes
forget is that our faculty still have to grade
all their finals, and I need to get those
grades in. So, it's all about trying to figure
out enough leeway time so grades can be
entered and faculty aren't having to think
about grading on Christmas day."
Chair of the social sciences Geoffrey
Dipple, who was also on the president's
See CALENDAR, page 9
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