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O OC Variety Minnesota folk singer goes on the record Sports Softball wins two on Wednesday Photo by Carrie DeRuyter Archaeologist Gloria Everson presents some of her Mayan research to the public in GSC on Tuesday evening. The Augustana Augie alumna shares research Forum Gov. Janklow gets a piece of Garrick BEN SCHUMACHER . MIRROR CO-EDITOR Gloria Everson believes that one of the reasons archaeologists may not fully understand some ancient Mayan architecture is because any message they left behind was not meant for us. • Everson, a 1990 Augustana his-tory and English major, also spent much of her time at Augie in Dr. Adrien Hannus' anthropology and archaeology classes. She was back in GSC Tuesday evening present-ing the research she's been con-ducting on the Mayan culture. After some confusion concern-ing the time of the presentation (the Argus Leader had said the lecture would begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, rather than at 7, when it was scheduled), 56 people watched a slide show and overhead presenta-tion guided by Everson. She said that the history the ancient Mayans left behind was not intended to be found by Americans. It was meant for Mayan ancestors. "The time of the gentleman scholar is over," Everson said. "We need to give back to whom the message is for." Everson described the site of her fieldwork at La Milpa in Belize for the audience, which was originally scheduled to be Hannus' "High Cultures of Central and South Erin Hallstrom Augie senior selected as Fulbright Scholar BY BRIAN ALLEN LIESINGER MIRROR STAFF WRITER The fear of not knowing what to do after graduation haunts many seniors. Parents express the necessity of join-ing the work force. Those who just cannot get enough schooling will contemplate graduate school. Others will just try to avoid loan payments. One senior at Augustana College has seized a unique opportunity to broaden her base of knowledge after graduation. Erin Hallstrom, who majors in psychology and' modern foreign language, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to participate in a nine-month program in Norway. The Fulbright Program was initiat-ed in 1945 when Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas proposed it to the U.S. Congress to provide means for ambitious Americans to learn Erin Hallstrom continued on page 11 America" class, but was open to the public. One of the most remark-able findings her team discovered during its time in Belize were addi-tional Mayan plazas, 3.5 kilometers in each primary direction from the central site. The plaza in Everson's assigned area included palaces, administrative buildings, a monu-s ment and a couple of small pyra-mid structures. The plaza, located on the highest point east of La Milpa, was aligned with a clear view of the temple in the main city, and was in a direct line with the sun during the winter solstice. Everson worked closely with several full-blooded Mayans dur-ing her time in Belize. In addition to discovering archaeological and architectural structures, her team also encountered many looters' tunnels. Looters often dig into archaeological sites and extract artifacts which they can sell to pri-vate collectors for large quantities of money. Everson described her confusion on this issue. She said it was easy to say, "Don't take those things! Those are important to your culture!" Yet archaeologists often remove artifacts which then sit dormant in museum vaults unseen for years or forever. Who was she, a white American, to tell Mayan ancestors what they ought to be doing with Mayan artifacts? BY KARI PETRYSZYN MIRROR VARIETY CO-EDITOR On Saturday, March 31, a sym-posium was held here at Augus-tana, the first of its kind to be in this institution. Named after the ancient discussion recorded by Plato in a book of the same name, the conference consisted of Augie students presenting their original research. With the help of numerous fac-ulty members from all depart-ments on campus, over 40 students presented on subjects ranging from God and the nature of suffer-ing, to educational strategies to the intricacies of specific chemical processes. • Many students presented research they had already complet-ed, while still others took up new areas of study specifically for the symposium. This was one of the things Assistant Professor of Phi-losophy Dr. Michael Waddell, one of the seven members of the steer-ing committee for the event, hoped would happen. "We wanted to encourage stu-dents to undertake this kind of research, and when you've got a format for presenting it, it provides an incentive for getting involved in the first place," he said. Another of the committee's goals was to raise the level and visibility of intellectual conversa-tions on campus. "We all have conversations Everson said one of the problems is a lack of educa-tion in this Third-world area. It is Everson's hope to soon write a bilingual book (Eng-lish and Spanish, the two pri-mary languages in Belize) at the fourth-grade level that would describe some of the history of the Mayans so that archaeology can be brought into the schools there. "If you don't give back to the people, you're not doing anthropology or archaeology the responsible way," Ever-son said. Everson decided to become an archaeologist after an interim trip to Mexi-co while at Augustana. She continued her graduate work at Tulane University and recently received her Ph.D. in archaeology with a focus on MesoAmerica. "There's not that many profes-sions where you can be at work and have a pack of monkeys playing overhead," Everson said. She also noted that visiting the latrines could be exciting too. Sometimes pit vipers could be found there. Senior Jon Carlson is in Hannus' "High Cultures of Central and South America" class. He was pleased with the presentation. about big things with our friends," Waddell said, "but these things kind of happen around the edges. We talk about important things in class, but its important as a col-lege, especially as a liberal arts college, that we have important conversations in big public venues like this." Guided by scholars of their spe-cific subjects, students were able to work with professors in a way they would have otherwise not been able to do. Senior Adam Iver-son, who presented a philosophy paper on the search for and attain-ment of happiness, said that it was very helpful to have a guide for material he really didn't under-stand. "It was very good to have your questions responded to immediate-ly and to get away from the class-room where there are certain pre-tenses to be avoided," he said. Junior Nichole Miller presented the results of her 10-week-long chemistry research she had com-pleted this past summer on eac-tions of combustion kinetics and found working closely with pro-fessors and other graduate students on something like this not only creates new ideas but helps to clar-ify existing ones. "Having other ears that say, `Wait a minute, that doesn't make sense,' gives you a passage to that which you've never thought of before," she said. "I thought it was very informa-tive," Carlson said. "I think that since she was an Augustana gradu-ate it was neat to have her come back to lecture." Carlson said many speakers in the anthropologi-cal world often speak above the heads of the listeners, but that Everson did not. "She really did a good job of coming to our level. It was a fascinating lecture on the La Milpa site in Belize." Bother Iverson and Miller agreed that just the opportunity to present to a public body was an invaluable experience. "Just to practice presenting to people who may not know in depth what I'm talking about was a great experience," Miller said, "because as a professional chemist its some-thing we have to do anyway." Waddell said that's not the only practical life experience the stu-dents got from the event as many of them became in contact with influential scholars around the world as a result of the research they began for the symposium. "It opens up doors for people who want to go to on to graduate school opens up lines of communi-cation between the scholars here and the scholars elsewhere," he said. In addition to the student research, the symposium also host-ed Dr. David O'Connor, an associ-ate professor of philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He gave two addresses entitled "Is Money Killing the Professions?" and "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love," to further facilitate impor-tant conversations among students and faculty, and also to serve as a bridge between Augustana with other communities of learning." All-in-all, Waddell estimates Symposium continued on page 11 Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, April 6, 2001 Volume 89, Issue 16 First Augie symposium opens students' minds
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Title | Mirror - April 6, 2001 |
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Date | 2001-04-06 |
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Text | O OC Variety Minnesota folk singer goes on the record Sports Softball wins two on Wednesday Photo by Carrie DeRuyter Archaeologist Gloria Everson presents some of her Mayan research to the public in GSC on Tuesday evening. The Augustana Augie alumna shares research Forum Gov. Janklow gets a piece of Garrick BEN SCHUMACHER . MIRROR CO-EDITOR Gloria Everson believes that one of the reasons archaeologists may not fully understand some ancient Mayan architecture is because any message they left behind was not meant for us. • Everson, a 1990 Augustana his-tory and English major, also spent much of her time at Augie in Dr. Adrien Hannus' anthropology and archaeology classes. She was back in GSC Tuesday evening present-ing the research she's been con-ducting on the Mayan culture. After some confusion concern-ing the time of the presentation (the Argus Leader had said the lecture would begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, rather than at 7, when it was scheduled), 56 people watched a slide show and overhead presenta-tion guided by Everson. She said that the history the ancient Mayans left behind was not intended to be found by Americans. It was meant for Mayan ancestors. "The time of the gentleman scholar is over," Everson said. "We need to give back to whom the message is for." Everson described the site of her fieldwork at La Milpa in Belize for the audience, which was originally scheduled to be Hannus' "High Cultures of Central and South Erin Hallstrom Augie senior selected as Fulbright Scholar BY BRIAN ALLEN LIESINGER MIRROR STAFF WRITER The fear of not knowing what to do after graduation haunts many seniors. Parents express the necessity of join-ing the work force. Those who just cannot get enough schooling will contemplate graduate school. Others will just try to avoid loan payments. One senior at Augustana College has seized a unique opportunity to broaden her base of knowledge after graduation. Erin Hallstrom, who majors in psychology and' modern foreign language, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to participate in a nine-month program in Norway. The Fulbright Program was initiat-ed in 1945 when Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas proposed it to the U.S. Congress to provide means for ambitious Americans to learn Erin Hallstrom continued on page 11 America" class, but was open to the public. One of the most remark-able findings her team discovered during its time in Belize were addi-tional Mayan plazas, 3.5 kilometers in each primary direction from the central site. The plaza in Everson's assigned area included palaces, administrative buildings, a monu-s ment and a couple of small pyra-mid structures. The plaza, located on the highest point east of La Milpa, was aligned with a clear view of the temple in the main city, and was in a direct line with the sun during the winter solstice. Everson worked closely with several full-blooded Mayans dur-ing her time in Belize. In addition to discovering archaeological and architectural structures, her team also encountered many looters' tunnels. Looters often dig into archaeological sites and extract artifacts which they can sell to pri-vate collectors for large quantities of money. Everson described her confusion on this issue. She said it was easy to say, "Don't take those things! Those are important to your culture!" Yet archaeologists often remove artifacts which then sit dormant in museum vaults unseen for years or forever. Who was she, a white American, to tell Mayan ancestors what they ought to be doing with Mayan artifacts? BY KARI PETRYSZYN MIRROR VARIETY CO-EDITOR On Saturday, March 31, a sym-posium was held here at Augus-tana, the first of its kind to be in this institution. Named after the ancient discussion recorded by Plato in a book of the same name, the conference consisted of Augie students presenting their original research. With the help of numerous fac-ulty members from all depart-ments on campus, over 40 students presented on subjects ranging from God and the nature of suffer-ing, to educational strategies to the intricacies of specific chemical processes. • Many students presented research they had already complet-ed, while still others took up new areas of study specifically for the symposium. This was one of the things Assistant Professor of Phi-losophy Dr. Michael Waddell, one of the seven members of the steer-ing committee for the event, hoped would happen. "We wanted to encourage stu-dents to undertake this kind of research, and when you've got a format for presenting it, it provides an incentive for getting involved in the first place," he said. Another of the committee's goals was to raise the level and visibility of intellectual conversa-tions on campus. "We all have conversations Everson said one of the problems is a lack of educa-tion in this Third-world area. It is Everson's hope to soon write a bilingual book (Eng-lish and Spanish, the two pri-mary languages in Belize) at the fourth-grade level that would describe some of the history of the Mayans so that archaeology can be brought into the schools there. "If you don't give back to the people, you're not doing anthropology or archaeology the responsible way," Ever-son said. Everson decided to become an archaeologist after an interim trip to Mexi-co while at Augustana. She continued her graduate work at Tulane University and recently received her Ph.D. in archaeology with a focus on MesoAmerica. "There's not that many profes-sions where you can be at work and have a pack of monkeys playing overhead," Everson said. She also noted that visiting the latrines could be exciting too. Sometimes pit vipers could be found there. Senior Jon Carlson is in Hannus' "High Cultures of Central and South America" class. He was pleased with the presentation. about big things with our friends," Waddell said, "but these things kind of happen around the edges. We talk about important things in class, but its important as a col-lege, especially as a liberal arts college, that we have important conversations in big public venues like this." Guided by scholars of their spe-cific subjects, students were able to work with professors in a way they would have otherwise not been able to do. Senior Adam Iver-son, who presented a philosophy paper on the search for and attain-ment of happiness, said that it was very helpful to have a guide for material he really didn't under-stand. "It was very good to have your questions responded to immediate-ly and to get away from the class-room where there are certain pre-tenses to be avoided," he said. Junior Nichole Miller presented the results of her 10-week-long chemistry research she had com-pleted this past summer on eac-tions of combustion kinetics and found working closely with pro-fessors and other graduate students on something like this not only creates new ideas but helps to clar-ify existing ones. "Having other ears that say, `Wait a minute, that doesn't make sense,' gives you a passage to that which you've never thought of before," she said. "I thought it was very informa-tive," Carlson said. "I think that since she was an Augustana gradu-ate it was neat to have her come back to lecture." Carlson said many speakers in the anthropologi-cal world often speak above the heads of the listeners, but that Everson did not. "She really did a good job of coming to our level. It was a fascinating lecture on the La Milpa site in Belize." Bother Iverson and Miller agreed that just the opportunity to present to a public body was an invaluable experience. "Just to practice presenting to people who may not know in depth what I'm talking about was a great experience," Miller said, "because as a professional chemist its some-thing we have to do anyway." Waddell said that's not the only practical life experience the stu-dents got from the event as many of them became in contact with influential scholars around the world as a result of the research they began for the symposium. "It opens up doors for people who want to go to on to graduate school opens up lines of communi-cation between the scholars here and the scholars elsewhere," he said. In addition to the student research, the symposium also host-ed Dr. David O'Connor, an associ-ate professor of philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He gave two addresses entitled "Is Money Killing the Professions?" and "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love," to further facilitate impor-tant conversations among students and faculty, and also to serve as a bridge between Augustana with other communities of learning." All-in-all, Waddell estimates Symposium continued on page 11 Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, April 6, 2001 Volume 89, Issue 16 First Augie symposium opens students' minds |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |