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Viking Days 2003
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Photo by T.J. Nelson
Homecoming King Ryan Ovenden and Queen Jackie Hingst revel in the warmth of
applause at the Viking Days coronation ceremony Sunday. Royal Blush
Viking Days kicks off with coronation
BY LAURA VOLT
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
The Viking Days celebration began by
crowning Jackie Hingst and Ryan Ovenden
as this year's homecoming queen and king at
coronation on Sunday, Sept. 28 in the Elmen
Center.
Other king candidates included Micah
Aberson, Dan Breuer, Matt Grandbois, Todd
Manion, and Adam Weber. Queen candi-dates
included Lauren Butterfield, Kira
Christenesen, Molly Grimm, Megan
Mathison and Teresa Resch.
The Mistresses of Ceremony were Alyssa
Barrick and Rita Von Seggern. The ceremo-ny
included music by the Augustana Band
and the Augustana Choir, a welcome by
President Bruce Halverson, and a greeting
from the 2002 homecoming queen, Amy
Johnson.
Hingst's majors are psychology and soci-ology.
Hingst is originally from Hooper,
Nebraska. She transferred to Augustana the
second semester of her freshman year. Her
activities include Fellowship of Christian
Athletes, Life Check Bible Study, outreach,
mentoring, volleyball, and Psychology Club.
Hingst is considering attending Bible
College or seminary next year for Christian
counseling. "I want to counsel in a ministry
setting," she said.
Ovenden's majors are exercise science
and fitness management. Ovenden is origi-nally
from Sioux Falls. His Augustana activ-ities
include football, Fellowship of Christian
Athletes, outreach, Under the Influence of
Christ, Throwdown, Life Check Bible Study,
and Student Advisory Committee.
"I'd like to build a Christian-based athlet-
(See ROYALTY— Page 12)
"The last thing I want to do is take money out of people's pockets." — Rick Tupper, page 12
Volume 92
Issue 3
In this issue Music industry acts on piracy issues
BY SCOTT PETERSEN
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
Music has always been an instrument of
rebellion. In the 1950s in was all about
rock n' roll; the hippies of the '60s sang
about free love; '70s disco defied basic
human morality; and the '80s brought us
music television. However, in the late
1990s and early 21st century, the contro-versy
has been less about the content of
the music and more about the format.
Just a few weeks ago, the Recording
Institute Association of America (RIAA)
started suing individual file sharers. In
fact, the RIAA has contacted the adminis-tration
here at Augustana identifying spe-cific
students that have engaged in illegal
copyright file sharing activities.
The history of file sharing began with
Napster, a computer program that allow its
users to send and receive files over the
Internet. According to CNN, Napster was
as revolutionary as vinyl.
In just a few short years after its con-ception,
Napster was blamed by the
recording industry for a loss of revenue
totaling billions of dollars. Why would
anyone want to buy music when they
could download it free from the Internet?
The best part was that it all seemed legal.
That was until the RIAA decided to sue
Napster for copyright infringement. As
anyone who has ever downloaded music
knows, Napster is now as dead as eight-tracks.
However, to the dismay of the
RIAA, Napster-like services were resur-rected
in the form of programs like Kazaa,
Morpheus and Gnutella.
All of this has spelled disaster for the
recording industry. Since 1999, CD sales
are down 26 percent, and 14 percent fewer
titles have been released according to the
October 10, 2003 Wired magazine. All of
this adds up to roughly $1 billion in lost
revenue for the industry and artists com-bined.
But the RIAA still had a trick up its
sleeve.
(See PIRACY — Page ii)
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Initiative
could cap
tuition
BY CHAPMAN RIEDEL
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
For first-year student Kaeti Hinck, the
check written at Validation for her first
semester at Augustana cleared only because
she worked 50 hours a week this summer at
a health food restaurant.
"I now have negative $65 in my checking
account and am wondering how I am going
to pay for second semester," she said.
For Hinck, and many other students across
the nation, college costs can be overwhelm-ing,
and at times even crippling. To make
matters worse, institutions of higher learning
are making a habit of raising the cost of
tuition with each passing year, making the
life of a college student more and more
stressful.
U.S. House Committee on Education and
the Workforce Chairman John A. Boehner
(R-Ohio), along Chairman of the U.S. House
Subcommittee on 21st Century
Competitiveness Rep. Howard P. "Buck"
McKeon (R-California)is championing a
movement in Congress to hold institutions of
higher learning to greater accountability
when it comes to the ever-ascending cost of a
university education.
A Sept. 4, 2003 report released by the two
conservative congressmen notes that
"according to the Advisory Committee on
Student Financial Assistance, cost factors
prevent 48 percent of college-qualified high
school graduates from attending a four-year
institution, and 22 percent from attending
any college at all."
For years, colleges and universities have
been blaming state budget cuts as a justifica-tion
for tuition price hikes. Sagging state
budgets and the U.S. economy slump are also
reasons said to have caused higher education
institutions in raising the bar when it comes
to cost. In addition, the luxurious demands of
students and parents can be blamed for price
increases say school representatives. In
(See INITIATIVE— Page 12)