Volume 84, Issue 2 Sioux Falls, S.D.
Thursday, Feb. 22, 1996
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Working up a good SWEAT
BY BETH HAIVALA
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
This year's SWEAT
Program, sponsored by the
Augustana Wellness Task
Force, provides incentive for
keeping that health con-scious
New Year's Resolution
that was made two months
ago to give up chocolate, to
exercise more often, to lose
those extra five pounds, or
for shaping up that great bod
before swim suit season.
Open to all Augustana stu-dents,
faculty and staff,
SWEAT is an individually-based
fitness and nutrition
program which encourages
the adoption of a healthy
lifestyle while still in college.
Teams of four compete for
prizes in two divisions, a fac-ulty
and staff division and a
student division. The kickoff
for the program was held
Sunday, February 18, and
the program will continue
until Friday, March 15, with
an awards brown bag lun-cheon
to conclude the pro-gram
on March 28.
"The program was started
to promote a healthy lifestyle.
We believe lifetime habits
start in college," said Jeri
Smith, director of the
Wellness Center. "We
encourage people to develop
goals that are lasting."
Although all goals are
based on an individual level,
participants in the SWEAT
program work as a four-per-son
team to gain team points
as well as reach individual
goals.
"The SWEAT program is
unique in that it provides
individual effort as well team
effort. It really combines the
best of all worlds. The team
works together, but the goals
are personal," said Tonya
Schoenfelder, assistant
director of Recreational
Services and one of the orga-nizers
of this year's SWEAT
program.
The program is based on
six criteria, in which team
points can be gained. The
criteria include not only
healthy eating and exercise,
but points are also gained for
quiet time, sleep, and for
abstaining from alcohol and
tobacco use.
"People don't realize that
wellness involves more that
just fitness and nutrition,"
Schoenfelder said.
"The SWEAT program cov-ers
all realms of wellness,"
Smith said, "So people can
participate at whatever phys-ical
level they are at."
According to Smith, the
program has been running
for about seven years, and
she expects about 100 partic-ipants
this year.
"It's interesting," Smith
said. We get a whole variety
of people who come."
People become involved in
the program for a variety of
reasons, and each individ-ual's
goals are unique.
Michelle Spence, a member
of one of the student teams,
expressed her reason for par-ticipating
in the SWEAT pro-gram.
"I want to be skinnier
before spring break," she
said, bringing a nods of
agreement from her team-mates.
But Schoenfelder reminds
participants that weight loss
is not the only benefit of the
program. "Exercise provides
many more things beside
weight loss. Exercise builds
muscles and bones, boosts
the immune system, and Just
makes you feel better."
Rewards at the end of the
program include T-shirts for
every individual who meets
his or her goal, as well as a
$30 gift certificate for each
member of the winning team
in each division.
Interested individuals can
still become involved in the
program by contacting the
Wellness Center at 5552.
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Augustana students and faculty at "home" on the Internet
BY AINA THUNEhl
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
In today's world the comput-er
is a necessity for a lot of peo-ple,
either for pleasure or busi-ness,
if not both. With a com-puter,
the right software and
access to the Internet, many
people are discovering the plea-sures
of "surfing" the World
Wide Web, which consists of
hundreds of thousands of
linked sites across the
Information Superhighway.
The key sites along this
chain are called Homepages,
and are maintained by individ-uals
who link their Homepages
to files and sites of interest to
that individual. A growing
number of students at
Augustana are creating their
own Homepages. Some make
them for the flow of informa-tion
one can receive or provide,
and others are making them
for pure amusement.
"The Homepage is a comput-er
file that is accessible to the
world via Internet," said biology
professor Oscar Will. Will
taught a computer class deal-ing
with the Internet during
interim, and the students in
the class could create
Homepages for a
project.
Kenneth Hoidal,
a student operat-ing
his own page,
says that the
Homepage is won-derful
equipment
that allows one to
collect information
within one area
and store it in a
file.
'The Homepage
itself," Hoidal
says, i""noffooternl acuoonn-about
the holder ,
of the page. One
can also attach
several links of
information to it." These links
can either be open for others to
read or closed by a password.
Hoidal, who is an interna-tional
student, has made two
links to his Homepage. One
contains Norwegian news, and
the other provides information
about soccer and game
updates.
Will says that there are cur-rently
about 30 Homepage
owners at Augustana. This
number includes both stu-dents
and different
campus offices. Will
strongly reccom-mends
students to
open up their own
Homepages and
says that it is "a
great way to
exchange informa-tion
and meet people
over the Internet."
Will also says that
most people who
open a Homepage
are amazed at how
easy it is. It is hard-er,
however, to find
access to the
Internet. Will says
that there may be a
workshop for setting
up Homepages on Internet this
semester, but encourages stu-dents
to call him if they are
interested in creating a
Homepage of their own.
If you have access to a corn-puter,
Internet access and a
web browser such as Netscape,
you may wish to visit some of
the Augustana related
Homepages. One can visit
Will's homepage at http://Joe-
Pye.augie.edu/owhome.html
or http://www.augie.edu/ for
Augustana's own Homepage.
Other Homepages of interest
include a listing of student
owned pages at
http://www.augie.edu/,
KAUR's Homepage at
http://inst.augie.edu/-kaur/
and a Homepage guide to
everything you ever wanted to
know about Augie but were
afraid to ask at
http: //wwvv.augle. e du /araugie
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Photo by Paul Krueger
ASA campaigns begin
BY PAUL KRUEGER
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
As the presidential candidates
kickoff their campaigns nation-wide,
Augustana will be holding
its own election—for student
government representatives for
the 1996-97 school year.
The Augustana Student
Association Spring Election will
be held Tues., March 12.
Students will be electing a new
ASA president and vice presi-dent,
secretary/treasurer, and
two senators from each respec-tive
class.
Petitions and election informa-tion
is available at the Commons
desk. The deadline for returning
petitions is Tues., Feb. 27 at 5
p.m.
Senators must have and main-tain
a 2.0 GPA during their term
of office. ASA officers must have
and maintain a 2.5 GPA during
their term. All terms are approx-imately
one year.
If more than two sets of candi-dates
run for ASA president/vice
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president or secretary/treasur-er,
a primary election to narrow
the field to two candidates will
take place on 'rues., March 5.
All candidates are required to
attend a mandatory meeting on
Wed., Feb. 28 from 8 to 9:30
p.m. Election guidelines and
campaign rules will be distrib-uted
followed by attending the
weekly Student Senate meeting
at 8:30 in the Halverson Room.
A "Meet the Candidates" night
and a presidential/vice presi-dential
debate is scheduled to
take place on Mon., March 11 at
6 p.m. in the Commons Dining
Room.
For more information on the
ASA Spring Election stop by the
ASA information table in the
Commons concourse on
February 22, 23, 27 and 28 from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or contact ASA
President Janelle Lee at 334-
5985.
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