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Profs lead interim tour Karen Bos staff writer "Dissidents and Patriots: A Literary Tour of Britain" is of-fered to Augustana students through Upper Midwest Association for Intercultural Education (UMAIE) and is be-ing led by Carolyn Geyer and Carole Barrowman, assistant professors of English at Augustana College during the the 1986 January Interim. Geyer led a student group to England in 1983 and has added Barrowman's historical knowledge of Britain to develop the intinerary and focus of this year's course. Barrowman said,"We are looking at the literature in the context of the background of the authors." Thus, the experience is "a little bit of a history course, also." The course will include visits to Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Alnwick, Bath and London. The students will experience a 3-day homestay, which will give them "a real taste of the culture of the area," said Barrowman. The visitations to historical places will be related to the works of authors such as Shakespeare, Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Geyer said, "We match the place with the literary work...that makes the literature come alive...makes it much more vivid." "We hope students will be excited to read more of the literature of the area," said Bar-rowman, a native of Scotland. "The exciting thing for me is the chance to take a group of students around. . . to show off my home country." Carolyn Geyer is looking for-ward to having "students travel in a study context. . .tremen-dous resources. . . make the travel a different kind of learn-ing - learning through ex-perience is exciting." Details about the course may be obtained from either Geyer or Barrowman, They advise that applications be submitted as soon as possible. Applications may be obtained from Jeanne Kruse in the Provost office at Augustana College. Carole Barrowman and Carolyn Geyer Sioux Falls, SD Volume 69, Number 3 September 26, 1985 Vikings on MTV? No, its just the Pep Band playing the "Augustana Rouser" for a Viking Days commercial. Augustana College Carol Hansen New Honeywells in Humanities Administration improving campus computers Dawn Thurn staff writer As a part of an administrative effort to improve the campus- - wide computer system, a new computer lab has been opened in Humanities 103. The room is used for some classes but at other times is available for use as an open lab. For the past couple of years, a committee has been researching the academic computer needs of the campus. Chet Whitney, assistant to the president, is a member of this committee which decided that having a cluster of 12 micro-computers in Gilbert Science Center, the Social Science Building and the Humanities Building was essen-tial. The clusters were to be "open labs for students and faculty" and "not associated with certain classes," he said. The administration is presently looking at proposals from various companies in-cluding Honeywell, which is the type of computer currently in the Humanities cluster. These computers were given to Augustana last spring by Honeywell for use while a pro-posal is being worked on. Whitney said that he is "fair-ly confident we'll come to an agreement with Honeywell," due partly to the fact that Honeywell can also provide other campus needs such as a telephone system and a building control system. But even if a proposal isn't worked out with Honeywell, a computer lab will remain in Humanities. The ad-ministration will either pur-chase the present computers or will find some other way to replace them with an IBM-type micro-computer. "We won't just pull them out some Friday afternoon," Whitney said. The computers were housed in GSC this summer and were used for faculty workshops. After these workshops, Pro- COMPUTERS see page 2 Distinguished alum defends liberal arts Alan Petersen news editor Ten years ago, as an Augustana senior, Carol Hansen wrote a term paper in defense of liberal arts education. Last Friday, during convoca-tion, Hansen returned to her alma mater to speak on the same subject. Hansen, a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee, credits her liberal arts background as the key to multi-dimensional job opportunities she has received. The list is impressive. She has worked with the CIA, National Security Council, State Depart-ment, and the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce since her graduation from Augustana. "Liberal arts is a good educa-tion that gives you maximum mobility • in life," explained Hansen. "It's all sequential. You take a good basic educa-tion, throw in some good job ex-perience, then every time you re-write your resume, you've created more job opportunities." She then pointed out three problems that liberal arts is cur-rently facing. Twenty years ago, 20 percent of all college students graduated from a liberal arts institution - that figure has dwindled to 7 percent today. The breadth of instruc-tion is beginning to erode, she said. Since 1970, students graduating wish English, philosophy, history, and modern language degrees have all dropped by around 50 per-cent. Finally, she pointed out, with fewer people graduating from liberal arts schools, there are fewer people being trained to teach in the liberal arts field. "In my mind, that is why they need defending," said Hansen. "Liberal arts is losing at the number's game. That's a very dangerous trend I see in higher education." Hansen paints a grim future for this country if liberal arts colleges were lost. "We'd lose an extremely im-portant opportunity to train Americans," she said. "62 per-cent of all high school students are now going to college. Our goal should be to insure they know a common culture; something they can carry with them the rest of their lives. No successful society is ignorant of it's past. "We'd also lose the quality in our educational system. Something of the magic that comes from liberal arts will be gone. You can't get that from a purely technical education. Graduates are becoming too specialized...they seem lifeless." Life, according to Hansen, HANSEN see page 2
Object Description
Title | Mirror - September 26, 1985 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1985-09-26 |
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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Title | Page 1 |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1985-09-26 |
Text | Profs lead interim tour Karen Bos staff writer "Dissidents and Patriots: A Literary Tour of Britain" is of-fered to Augustana students through Upper Midwest Association for Intercultural Education (UMAIE) and is be-ing led by Carolyn Geyer and Carole Barrowman, assistant professors of English at Augustana College during the the 1986 January Interim. Geyer led a student group to England in 1983 and has added Barrowman's historical knowledge of Britain to develop the intinerary and focus of this year's course. Barrowman said,"We are looking at the literature in the context of the background of the authors." Thus, the experience is "a little bit of a history course, also." The course will include visits to Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Alnwick, Bath and London. The students will experience a 3-day homestay, which will give them "a real taste of the culture of the area," said Barrowman. The visitations to historical places will be related to the works of authors such as Shakespeare, Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Geyer said, "We match the place with the literary work...that makes the literature come alive...makes it much more vivid." "We hope students will be excited to read more of the literature of the area," said Bar-rowman, a native of Scotland. "The exciting thing for me is the chance to take a group of students around. . . to show off my home country." Carolyn Geyer is looking for-ward to having "students travel in a study context. . .tremen-dous resources. . . make the travel a different kind of learn-ing - learning through ex-perience is exciting." Details about the course may be obtained from either Geyer or Barrowman, They advise that applications be submitted as soon as possible. Applications may be obtained from Jeanne Kruse in the Provost office at Augustana College. Carole Barrowman and Carolyn Geyer Sioux Falls, SD Volume 69, Number 3 September 26, 1985 Vikings on MTV? No, its just the Pep Band playing the "Augustana Rouser" for a Viking Days commercial. Augustana College Carol Hansen New Honeywells in Humanities Administration improving campus computers Dawn Thurn staff writer As a part of an administrative effort to improve the campus- - wide computer system, a new computer lab has been opened in Humanities 103. The room is used for some classes but at other times is available for use as an open lab. For the past couple of years, a committee has been researching the academic computer needs of the campus. Chet Whitney, assistant to the president, is a member of this committee which decided that having a cluster of 12 micro-computers in Gilbert Science Center, the Social Science Building and the Humanities Building was essen-tial. The clusters were to be "open labs for students and faculty" and "not associated with certain classes," he said. The administration is presently looking at proposals from various companies in-cluding Honeywell, which is the type of computer currently in the Humanities cluster. These computers were given to Augustana last spring by Honeywell for use while a pro-posal is being worked on. Whitney said that he is "fair-ly confident we'll come to an agreement with Honeywell," due partly to the fact that Honeywell can also provide other campus needs such as a telephone system and a building control system. But even if a proposal isn't worked out with Honeywell, a computer lab will remain in Humanities. The ad-ministration will either pur-chase the present computers or will find some other way to replace them with an IBM-type micro-computer. "We won't just pull them out some Friday afternoon," Whitney said. The computers were housed in GSC this summer and were used for faculty workshops. After these workshops, Pro- COMPUTERS see page 2 Distinguished alum defends liberal arts Alan Petersen news editor Ten years ago, as an Augustana senior, Carol Hansen wrote a term paper in defense of liberal arts education. Last Friday, during convoca-tion, Hansen returned to her alma mater to speak on the same subject. Hansen, a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee, credits her liberal arts background as the key to multi-dimensional job opportunities she has received. The list is impressive. She has worked with the CIA, National Security Council, State Depart-ment, and the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce since her graduation from Augustana. "Liberal arts is a good educa-tion that gives you maximum mobility • in life," explained Hansen. "It's all sequential. You take a good basic educa-tion, throw in some good job ex-perience, then every time you re-write your resume, you've created more job opportunities." She then pointed out three problems that liberal arts is cur-rently facing. Twenty years ago, 20 percent of all college students graduated from a liberal arts institution - that figure has dwindled to 7 percent today. The breadth of instruc-tion is beginning to erode, she said. Since 1970, students graduating wish English, philosophy, history, and modern language degrees have all dropped by around 50 per-cent. Finally, she pointed out, with fewer people graduating from liberal arts schools, there are fewer people being trained to teach in the liberal arts field. "In my mind, that is why they need defending," said Hansen. "Liberal arts is losing at the number's game. That's a very dangerous trend I see in higher education." Hansen paints a grim future for this country if liberal arts colleges were lost. "We'd lose an extremely im-portant opportunity to train Americans," she said. "62 per-cent of all high school students are now going to college. Our goal should be to insure they know a common culture; something they can carry with them the rest of their lives. No successful society is ignorant of it's past. "We'd also lose the quality in our educational system. Something of the magic that comes from liberal arts will be gone. You can't get that from a purely technical education. Graduates are becoming too specialized...they seem lifeless." Life, according to Hansen, HANSEN see page 2 |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |