Sioux Falls, S.D.
Volume 85, Issue 18 Friday, April 25, 1997
The Augustana
The Spanish Tragedy: Cut-throat drama with sunglasses
The Augustana College
Theatre presents
"The Spanish Tragedy"
a play by Thomas Kyd,
May 2-3 and 8-10.
Performances will be at
7:30 p.m. in the Old Gym,
which is located behind the
Morrison Commons. All
performances are free for
Augustana students, $6 for
adults, and $4.50 for students
and seniors.
`The Spanish Tragedy" is a
Bare Bodkins production of
the most popular revenge
tragedy in Elizabethan
England. It is filled with love,
intrigue and murder. 'The
Spanish Tragedy" is directed
by Ivan Fuller.
Call 336-4613 for reservations
or more information.
Dvorak elected S. D. Education Association Student Program president
Four students
win prestigious
business
scholarships
BY MEGAN MERICLEY
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
Four Augustana Business
majors seized finalist positions
for the annually awarded Sales
and Marketing Executives
business scholarships.
Amy Steele, James Abens,
Heidi Hofmeyer, and Sarah
Fosheim were chosen as the
four finalists for the SME busi-ness
scholarships.
The four Augustana finalists
compete against each other to
determine the individual
amounts awarded to each stu-dent.
The capture of four finalist
positions by one school is a
unique achievement.
"No school has ever taken all
of the finalist positions. This
was simply that Augustana
sent over the best students
and they [the scholarship com-mittee]
were forced to pick us,"
Dr. Paul Krueger, professor of
Business at Augustana, said.
The scholarship was offered
to any sophomore or junior
student anticipating a career
in the business or marketing
field and attending Augus-tana,
University of South
Dakota, South Dakota State
University, University of Sioux
Falls, Dakota State University,
and Dakota Weslyan. The
finalists for the scholarship
were chosen based on a writ-ten
essay, resume, and GPA.
The four awarded scholarships
range from $1,000 to $2,000
and are used toward tuition
expenses for the following
year.
The finalist competition
entails presenting an individ-ual
production service market
plan to the committee of schol-arship
members. Each finalist
has 20 minutes to present
his/her project to the commit-tee.
"The main goal is to have the
members sign my contract
that I have," Hofmeyer said.
An Awards Banquet, on
April 22, was held at Westward
Ho Country Club to recognize
the finalists and to announce
the individual scholarships for
each student.
Like the recognition of the
finalists, the support from the
Sales and Marketing Execu-tives
organization was also
recognized from the finalists
themselves.
"It's a big honor to have this
award from such a prestigious
group," Hofmeyer said.
BY BETH HAIVALA
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
The signs read "245 days
until Christmas," each sport-ing
images of Santa Claus and
Christmas packages and
declaring the name of the mys-terious
Carol Project. "Isn't it
early for Christmas in April?"
passerby's wonder. This air of
intrigue leaves one question
lingering in the minds and
meandering into the conversa-tions
of many students and
faculty alike, "What is the
Carol Project?"
BY
ADRIENNE HOVERSTADT
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
The South Dakota Education
Association Student Program
recently elected Augustana
junior Laura Dvorak to serve
as president for the 97-98
school year.
The SDEA-SP includes over
600 members from all of the
colleges in South Dakota. It
serves as an association that
prepares students for things
they will encounter as teachers
that are not taught in the
classroom such as interviewing
skills or things to know when
signing contracts.
As president, Dvorak, an
Enalish major who is also
working towards her teaching
certificate, will be in charge of
planning two conferences dur-ing
the next school year. She
The answer lies in the vision
of Julia Pachoud, Augustana
professor of Communications
and Theater, and Jeff Wirth,
one of the country's leading
experts in interactive theater.
The two visionaries have creat-ed
the groundwork for a
semester long service project
connecting the Augustana
community and the Sioux Falls
community in a partnership
that would both encourage the
spirit of giving and expose the
community to a new realm of
interactive theater.
will also be touring the other
colleges involved and attending
the NEA leadership conven-tions
in Atlanta, Ga.. and Ana-heim,
Calif. along with several
other conventions, one of
which is in San Antonio, Texas.
Dvorak said she has two
main goals which she hopes to
accomplish over the next year.
They are to increase state-wide
membership to at least 750
members, and to increase the
number of attendants at con-ferences.
Dvorak said that she
really wants to see the number
of members from Augustana
increase.
Dvorak, is also the president
of the Augustana College Edu-cation
Association, serves on
the SDEA-SP board of direc-tors,
and serves on the SDEA
human relations committee.
She was chosen as the out-
According to Pachoud, the
Carol project is a collaborative
effort between the Augustana
Theater and the Sioux Falls
Community Playhouse, the
objective of which is to involve
the whole community in a the-atrical
experience that extends
beyond the walls of the play-house.
'The umbrella project
will embody the Christmas
Carol's spirit of transforma-tion,
generosity, and love,"
Pachoud said.
This project was inspired
dramatically by the move in
standing state leader for her
efforts during the 96-97 school
year.
Dvorak said, "It's an honor
and a privilege to be able to
serve my fellow future teach-ers.
I'm looking forward to a
busy but productive year."
Dvorak encourages every
person interested in teaching
to join the ACEA and the
SDEA. Benefits include
attending conferences, partici-pating
in helpful workshops,
receiving magazines on educa-tion,
and being insured up to
$1 million for liability. The
membership fee is $30.
"This has really been a won-derful
organization for me. Im
meeting people all over the
country and learning a lot
about education in the
proscess," Dvorak said.
theatrical productions toward
interactive theater. This is a
form which allows the audi-ence
to play a part in the story
whether by performing the
roles of specific characters, by
taking part in the events, or by
just being part of the audience.
Pachoud explained that the
key to interactive theater is the
environmental aspect in which
the audience is able to interact
with the characters in real time
and space. "Interactive or
Continued on page 8
Laura Dvorak, an Augustana
junior majoring in English, and
recently elected president of the
South Dakota Education Associ-ation
Student Program.
Photo by Beth Haivala
A Christmas Carol comes to Augustana
Carol Project to combine community service and cutting-edge theatre