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Sioux Falls, SD Volume 69, Number 19 March 20, 1986 Finished Dr. Art Huse:aoe and Kathy Welter, senior, display their 1985 summer study grant project, "Civil War Miniatures." The book, on sale for $3 at the bookstore, is a compilation of Civil War letters from Union soldiers on the battlefield. The letters are part of Augustana's ar-chives Historical book published Cr C) Music Dept. downbeat over cuts Steve Nelson staff writer Confusion reigns in the Augustana Music Department as the loss of two positions seems imminent. Dr. Merle Pflueger is retiring at the end of the year and, while no formal action has been taken, the retirement of Concert Band Director Gary Tanouye is almost assured. These positions will not be replaced by new staff. The band director's spot is presently filled by David Mit-chell who temporarily replaced Tanouye, who suffered a disabl-ing stroke, at the beginning of this school year. Mitchell's one year contract will not be renew-ed. According to Music Depart-ment Chairman Walter May, "Right now I have two faculty ASA Tammy Van Wyhe staff writer Four ASA representatives returned from the United States Student Association Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Jeff Grell, Erich Steinman, Mary Ritter-shaus, and Kara Storm spent the weekend in the nation's capitol attending workshops and speaking with legislators on campus issues. "We were about the smallest school at the conference," Steinman said. He said many of the issues discussed at the con-ference pertained to larger cam-puses. The topics relating to Augustana were limited. The ASA representatives attended workshops on student aid, education cuts, and domestic vs. defense spending. members who are qualified to be band directors (Dr. Leland Lillehaug and Dr. Harold Krueger). I can't announce who the band director's going to be just yet." Both Lillehaug and Krueger say they have been talked to about the vacant position. Neither would comment about the likelihood of becoming the next director. "I'd like to see the position retained," Lillehaug said. "I have no knowledge that I'll be doing anything differently next year than I'm not doing presently." Krueger stated what seems to be the dominant feeling of all concerned with the music cuts, "I just wish everything would get squared away so we can start making plans for next year." The four students contacted legislators or congressional aides from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Rittershaus said she felt the student contact had a very positive impact. "They all assured me they were concerned with education, and I really believe they are," she said. "We spoke on behalf of concerned students at Augustana. We told them we hoped Pell Grants and GSL's wouldn't be cut and qualifica-tions wouldn't be changed." "Just having someone (from Washington) in person had some effect on the represen-tatives and senators," Steinman said. "We at least reminded them that we're watching and they are accountable for how they vote on education-related bills." May explained that certain performance pedagogy and music history classes will be reduced to an alternating year schedule. Provost Lee Bowker called this a start, but said there would be more. "I don't think that's enough," he said. "You have to ask each performing group to what extent does it meet the needs of students; and can our faculty really handle it." Bowker noted that "If you have a performing group in which half the people who perform are not Augie students, that takes half the time of an Augustana professor away from the students who are, in fact, pay-ing that professor's salary." Bowker said that he has "ask-ed the department to construct a plan for the future. We're (the Steinman said the group voic-ed their concerns in regards to education cuts. Since Reagan took office in 1980, he said, education spending has decreas-ed 20 percent. "Education is less than 2 per-cent of the federal budget," Steinman said. That 2 percent is an 18 percent decrease from last year's education allowance. "The decrease includes specific cuts in student aid," Steinman added. "Personally, I don't think everything will be handed to (students) on a silver platter," Rittershaus said. She believes students at Augustana and elsewhere will be affected by the cuts, but perhaps, because of student participation in the USSA Conference, cuts won't be as drastic as originally plann-ed. administration) not saying how the resources are going to be allocated. That's for the depart-ment plan to decide. My own standards have nothing to do with what the department should or should not do." Bowker said that the band program, if anything, will be helped by the upcoming changes and that while two posi-tions are being cut, the money gained from these reductions will stay in the music depart-ment budget. He added that the music department "may even need more money when they come up with a plan." One band member was con-cerned over the possible loss of prospective students. "High school kids will be pushed away," the band member said. "They won't realize that we're trying to build the program up and they just won't come." Alan Petersen editor Certain faculty members at Augustana are being told to go back to school. Lee Bowker, provost at the college, said faculty members who don't have their doctorates will have to get them within the next few years. Bowker said the standards for professors at colleges and universities in this country has been rising for the past 30 years and Augustana is no exception. According to Bowker, having a doctorate is something pro-fessors have always been re-quired to have. "The difference is," he said, "we are, shall we say, hurrying the process up a bit because of the economics of quality. We need to move very rapidly. There wasn't a sense of urgency before. People did it at their own leisure." Bowker said three Augustana faculty members are currently Karin Bumgardner assistant editor The Rev. Stephen Wohlfeil of Minot, N.D. accepted the call last week to serve as campus pastor at Augustana. Selected from 70 applicants and seven finalists, Wohlfeil will begin work officially April 15. Wohlfeil, 35, contacted at his office in North Dakota this week, explained his initial reason for applying. "I didn't know a lot about Augustana before the interview," he said. "It was more a matter of wanting to be at a church college." Wohlfeil served as campus pastor at Minot State College from 1980-1984, before becom-ing pastor at Minot's First Lutheran Church, which he presently serves. "I was in campus ministry before at a state college," he said, "but I've always wanted to be a campus pastor at a church college." He said his past experience in camping ministry and churches has taught him that leaders in those fields come from church colleges. He would like to be an Bowker admits some students will probably be lost whose in-terests lie in those "peripheral activities." But he is confident that "if you focus more resources on the things that matter you'll show that you're strengthening your programs and folks that want to come for those areas will come in larger numbers and be more talented," he said. "There is no danger that we would be-head a successful pro-gram simply because we had other ideas of what Augustana should be doing." Poor communication was mentioned as a block to progress in the current situation by all members involved. As one stu-dent put it, "I'm still kind of lost. Everything is so up in the air." working on their doctorates this year. They are Joe Pagone, computer science, and Mary Otterman and Margot Nelson of the nursing department. Quality, according to Bowker, is the main reason for professors getting their doc-torates. He said faculty members don't receive tenure at quality institutions without one. Besides tenure, Bowker said grants for colleges, students, and individual research projects are often times withheld from people without doctorates, and colleges that do not require their faculty to have one. "If you go to the hospital, would you allow someone to operate on you who hasn't finished his internship or isn't out of medical school yet?," Bowker asked rhetorically. "That's what you're talking about when teachers don't have doctorates. They haven't finish-ed their educational training." influence on those leaders while they are still in school. The search for a new pastor to serve the Augustana com-munity was undertaken by the Search Committee, appointed by President William Nelsen. Wohlfeil's duties will include serving as the chapel's ad-ministrator, planning seminars and conferences, counseling, and teaching .and providing pastoral guidance to the Presi-dent's Council. Wohlfeil is a native of Bot-tineau, N.D., completed high school in Grand Forks and earn-ed an undergraduate degree in classical languages at the University of North Dakota. He attended Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul in 1977 and served another Minot parish before his first campus ministry position. Wohlfeil has also been active in a family guidance institute, the YMCA, on Minot's com-mittee on the handicapped, in the heart association, as presi-dent of the PTA, as chaplain of the city police department, and as an official timer at Minot State basketball games. reps. lobby Congress Doctorates mandatory Wohlfeil accepts call
Object Description
Title | Mirror - March 20, 1986 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1986-03-20 |
Publishing agency | Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
Rights | This image may not be reproduced without the express written consent of Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. |
Medium | Text |
Format - Digital | |
Language | English |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |
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Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1986-03-20 |
Text | Sioux Falls, SD Volume 69, Number 19 March 20, 1986 Finished Dr. Art Huse:aoe and Kathy Welter, senior, display their 1985 summer study grant project, "Civil War Miniatures." The book, on sale for $3 at the bookstore, is a compilation of Civil War letters from Union soldiers on the battlefield. The letters are part of Augustana's ar-chives Historical book published Cr C) Music Dept. downbeat over cuts Steve Nelson staff writer Confusion reigns in the Augustana Music Department as the loss of two positions seems imminent. Dr. Merle Pflueger is retiring at the end of the year and, while no formal action has been taken, the retirement of Concert Band Director Gary Tanouye is almost assured. These positions will not be replaced by new staff. The band director's spot is presently filled by David Mit-chell who temporarily replaced Tanouye, who suffered a disabl-ing stroke, at the beginning of this school year. Mitchell's one year contract will not be renew-ed. According to Music Depart-ment Chairman Walter May, "Right now I have two faculty ASA Tammy Van Wyhe staff writer Four ASA representatives returned from the United States Student Association Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Jeff Grell, Erich Steinman, Mary Ritter-shaus, and Kara Storm spent the weekend in the nation's capitol attending workshops and speaking with legislators on campus issues. "We were about the smallest school at the conference," Steinman said. He said many of the issues discussed at the con-ference pertained to larger cam-puses. The topics relating to Augustana were limited. The ASA representatives attended workshops on student aid, education cuts, and domestic vs. defense spending. members who are qualified to be band directors (Dr. Leland Lillehaug and Dr. Harold Krueger). I can't announce who the band director's going to be just yet." Both Lillehaug and Krueger say they have been talked to about the vacant position. Neither would comment about the likelihood of becoming the next director. "I'd like to see the position retained," Lillehaug said. "I have no knowledge that I'll be doing anything differently next year than I'm not doing presently." Krueger stated what seems to be the dominant feeling of all concerned with the music cuts, "I just wish everything would get squared away so we can start making plans for next year." The four students contacted legislators or congressional aides from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Rittershaus said she felt the student contact had a very positive impact. "They all assured me they were concerned with education, and I really believe they are," she said. "We spoke on behalf of concerned students at Augustana. We told them we hoped Pell Grants and GSL's wouldn't be cut and qualifica-tions wouldn't be changed." "Just having someone (from Washington) in person had some effect on the represen-tatives and senators," Steinman said. "We at least reminded them that we're watching and they are accountable for how they vote on education-related bills." May explained that certain performance pedagogy and music history classes will be reduced to an alternating year schedule. Provost Lee Bowker called this a start, but said there would be more. "I don't think that's enough," he said. "You have to ask each performing group to what extent does it meet the needs of students; and can our faculty really handle it." Bowker noted that "If you have a performing group in which half the people who perform are not Augie students, that takes half the time of an Augustana professor away from the students who are, in fact, pay-ing that professor's salary." Bowker said that he has "ask-ed the department to construct a plan for the future. We're (the Steinman said the group voic-ed their concerns in regards to education cuts. Since Reagan took office in 1980, he said, education spending has decreas-ed 20 percent. "Education is less than 2 per-cent of the federal budget," Steinman said. That 2 percent is an 18 percent decrease from last year's education allowance. "The decrease includes specific cuts in student aid," Steinman added. "Personally, I don't think everything will be handed to (students) on a silver platter," Rittershaus said. She believes students at Augustana and elsewhere will be affected by the cuts, but perhaps, because of student participation in the USSA Conference, cuts won't be as drastic as originally plann-ed. administration) not saying how the resources are going to be allocated. That's for the depart-ment plan to decide. My own standards have nothing to do with what the department should or should not do." Bowker said that the band program, if anything, will be helped by the upcoming changes and that while two posi-tions are being cut, the money gained from these reductions will stay in the music depart-ment budget. He added that the music department "may even need more money when they come up with a plan." One band member was con-cerned over the possible loss of prospective students. "High school kids will be pushed away," the band member said. "They won't realize that we're trying to build the program up and they just won't come." Alan Petersen editor Certain faculty members at Augustana are being told to go back to school. Lee Bowker, provost at the college, said faculty members who don't have their doctorates will have to get them within the next few years. Bowker said the standards for professors at colleges and universities in this country has been rising for the past 30 years and Augustana is no exception. According to Bowker, having a doctorate is something pro-fessors have always been re-quired to have. "The difference is," he said, "we are, shall we say, hurrying the process up a bit because of the economics of quality. We need to move very rapidly. There wasn't a sense of urgency before. People did it at their own leisure." Bowker said three Augustana faculty members are currently Karin Bumgardner assistant editor The Rev. Stephen Wohlfeil of Minot, N.D. accepted the call last week to serve as campus pastor at Augustana. Selected from 70 applicants and seven finalists, Wohlfeil will begin work officially April 15. Wohlfeil, 35, contacted at his office in North Dakota this week, explained his initial reason for applying. "I didn't know a lot about Augustana before the interview," he said. "It was more a matter of wanting to be at a church college." Wohlfeil served as campus pastor at Minot State College from 1980-1984, before becom-ing pastor at Minot's First Lutheran Church, which he presently serves. "I was in campus ministry before at a state college," he said, "but I've always wanted to be a campus pastor at a church college." He said his past experience in camping ministry and churches has taught him that leaders in those fields come from church colleges. He would like to be an Bowker admits some students will probably be lost whose in-terests lie in those "peripheral activities." But he is confident that "if you focus more resources on the things that matter you'll show that you're strengthening your programs and folks that want to come for those areas will come in larger numbers and be more talented," he said. "There is no danger that we would be-head a successful pro-gram simply because we had other ideas of what Augustana should be doing." Poor communication was mentioned as a block to progress in the current situation by all members involved. As one stu-dent put it, "I'm still kind of lost. Everything is so up in the air." working on their doctorates this year. They are Joe Pagone, computer science, and Mary Otterman and Margot Nelson of the nursing department. Quality, according to Bowker, is the main reason for professors getting their doc-torates. He said faculty members don't receive tenure at quality institutions without one. Besides tenure, Bowker said grants for colleges, students, and individual research projects are often times withheld from people without doctorates, and colleges that do not require their faculty to have one. "If you go to the hospital, would you allow someone to operate on you who hasn't finished his internship or isn't out of medical school yet?," Bowker asked rhetorically. "That's what you're talking about when teachers don't have doctorates. They haven't finish-ed their educational training." influence on those leaders while they are still in school. The search for a new pastor to serve the Augustana com-munity was undertaken by the Search Committee, appointed by President William Nelsen. Wohlfeil's duties will include serving as the chapel's ad-ministrator, planning seminars and conferences, counseling, and teaching .and providing pastoral guidance to the Presi-dent's Council. Wohlfeil is a native of Bot-tineau, N.D., completed high school in Grand Forks and earn-ed an undergraduate degree in classical languages at the University of North Dakota. He attended Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul in 1977 and served another Minot parish before his first campus ministry position. Wohlfeil has also been active in a family guidance institute, the YMCA, on Minot's com-mittee on the handicapped, in the heart association, as presi-dent of the PTA, as chaplain of the city police department, and as an official timer at Minot State basketball games. reps. lobby Congress Doctorates mandatory Wohlfeil accepts call |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |