• Dance-a-thon
raises $3000
• Armendariz for MDA. p. 3.
wins Friedman
essay contest. •Vikes break
p. 2. Chief's home-court
winning
• Wacipi to streak. p. 6.
highlight KINI
conference. p. ■ Gross named
2. MVP. p. 6.
INSIDE .. .
Results
Voter turnout: 460
President/Vice President Grell/Ruff 261 58%
Tostengard/McDonald 188 42%
Secretary Heckelsmiller 252 60%
Mary Rittershaus 170 40%
Treasurer Carol Burcham 294 67%
Mark Huisman 148 33%
Senior Class Representatives
Chris Fedde 319
Mike Youngquist 297
Jim Thomas 264
Doug Loon 256
Junior Representatives
Diane Schluter 335
Jay Steinke 299
Angie Wethar 297
Jean Gilles 267
Sophomore Representatives
Erich Steinman 315
S. Vanden Heuvel 302
Dayton Meyer 297
Sharon D' Souza 294
ASA president-elect Jeff Grell and vice-president -elect Mark Ruff.
Grell, Ruff sweep elections
Lee Erickson
staff writer
The ASA elections may be over, but for newly-elected
president and vice president Jeff Grell and
Mark Ruff, the work has just begun.
Grell said that his first item of business will be to
organize the general council. "The first meeting
will be basically explaining to them what our goals
are and how we think that it will affect their role as
representatives and going through some give-and-take
with them and bouncing some ideas off of
them," said Grell.
Ruff stated that building relationships will be im-portant
early on in their administration. "I think in
the next few weeks the main thing we are going to
do is build relationships both with the people that
are on ASA and also with the administration and
faculty since Jeff and I are younger and they really
don't know who we are," he said.
Carol Burcham, newly-elected treasurer, has
faith in the Grell/Ruff administration. "I think that
Jeff will be good president. He's got the experience
behind him. And I think that Mark, being new to
ASA will have new ideas to bring in," she said.
"Relieved" was the word that Karyl
Heckelsmiller used to describe her feeling after the
election. "It's been a long campaign," she said. As
the new ASA secretary, Heckelsmiller said that she
thought that organization is very important to the
secretary. "I think I have to take my responsibilities
seriously right away, because to get off on the right
foot is so important in any administration," she
said.
Immediate items that the new administration will
have to attend to include committee chair appoint-ments,
budget hearings, getting student input, and
following through on other campaign promises.
"Like we've been preaching all along, we want to
try to make ASA something that will lead the stu-dent
body and speak with one voice to the ad-
. ministration and faculty about student concerns,"
said Grell.
Ruff stressed the need for student input. "I hope
people would not hesitate to approach us on
anything that they would need. We would do all we
could. We are both very open," he said.
Others that were elected to the spring term of
ASA were senior representatives Chris Fedde, Mike
Youngquist, Jim Thomas, and Doug Loon; junior
representatives Diane Schlueter, Jay Steinke, Angie
Wethor, Jean Gilles; and sophomore represen-tatives
Erich Steinman, Stacey Vanden Heuvel,
Dayton Meyer, and Sharon D'Souza.
Campus Briefs
The sauna in Granskou is dry
heat only. No water should be
used in the sauna at all_ Student
cooperation is necessary to pre-vent
damage to the sauna.
Residence Halls will close for
Spring Break at noon on Satur-day,
March 30 and re-open at
noon on Monday, April 8. .
There is an Alcoholics
Anonymous meeting every
Tuesday evening at 5:15 in the
Religion Seminar Room (Room
227).. Anyone with a desire to
stop drinking is welcome.
Two CPR classes are now be-ing
held for all faculty, ad-ministration
and support staff.
The classes will be held on Mar.
18 and April 15 at 7 p.m. in the
Gilbert Science Center, Room
121. Registration must be made
before classes begin by calling
4424.
Mother-Daughter Weekend
will be March 15-17. Tickets will
be on sale February 27, 28, and
March 1 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Request from Food Service:
Please return the plastic glasses
to the cafeteria or Huddle, We
purchased these items this year
in an effort to control paper
costs and reduce the litter on
campus. Since the school year
began we have purchased well
over 1000 of each glass and have
less than 300 left. Quite ob-viously
this is not something we
can continue to do. These
glasses are not to be removed
from the dining rooms. Please,
help us out,
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Volume 68, Number 18
February 28, 1985
TEG revived Mark Collins
editor
Like a cat with nine lives, the
Tuition Equalization Grant
program has been resurrected
by the South Dakota
Legislature.
The bill was killed by the
Joint Appropriations Commit-tee
last week, but Represen-tative
Debra Anderson,
R-Sioux Falls, brought the bill
back to life as an amendment to
another bill.
Senate Bill 295, a bill ap-propriating
funds for the State
Student Incentive Grant (SSIG)
program, received Anderson's
amendment calling for
$200,000 in grants for students
attending one of South Dakota's
six independent colleges.
The amendment received
stiff opposition in the House
before prevailing on a 47-22
vote. Representative James
Hood, R-Spearfish, moved to
lower the amount to $100,000,
and Representative Joseph
Barnett, R-Aberdeen, offered a
compromise amount of
$175,000, but House members
rejected both proposals on voice
votes.
With the amendments firmly
in place, the House voted to ap-prove
the new form of the
Karin Bumgardner
staff writer
The search is underway for a
new Augustana provost to
replace the college's current
provost, Dr. Art Olsen.
Dr. John Bylsma, an
Augustana history professor, is
chair of the committee which
has been formed to seek a new
"chief officer."
The committee, which con-sists
of six faculty members and
two students, will suggest pro-vost
nominations, review ap-plications
and make a final
recommendation to President
William C. Nelsen.
Bylsma said that the commit-tee
is looking for someone who
is qualified to be the chief officer
of both academic and student
affairs.
He emphasized the need of
"someone who has the ability to
consult with people and make
decisions, even when those deci-sions
are difficult. . . . someone
who can delegate authority."
SSIG/TEG bill. The measure
passed 51-17 and was returned
to the Senate for approval of the
amendments.
The State Senate acted on the
bill the day after returning from
their trip to Washington, D.C.,
with the members voting to
send the bill to a conference
committee.
Senator Thomas Shortbull,
D-Pine Ridge moved to ap-prove
the bill in its amended
form, but the measure fell far
short of the necessary two-thirds
needed to pass an appropoia-tions
bill. The measure received
12 ayes and 21 nays.
The bill will now be sent to a
conference committee where
members of both chambers will
try to hammer out an agreeable
compromise. The members of
the committee will be chosen by
the majority leaders of the
House and Senate.
Action on the bill is expected
to take place before the end of
the week, since the 40-day ses-sion
of the legislature is schedul-ed
to conclude shortly.
The TEG program will pro-vide
grants of up to $250 to
eligible South Dakota students
of the bill is approved by the
Senate and signed by Governor
William J. Janklow.
The committee has advertised
the job opening in several
educational and Lutheran
periodicals. The presidents of
all the private ALC and LCA
colleges in the United States, as
well as 30 other colleges in the
Midwest, have been contacted
by letter. According to Dr. Chet
Whitney, Augustana's Director
of Institutional Research, these
letters are the best way to find
nominees.
Thus far, the committee has
received 20 applications for the
position. The tentative deadline
for applications is March 8.
A final decision will most like-ly
be made by the beginning of
May.
Olsen will resume teaching
next September and will help
implement Augustana's newly-approved
academic re-quirements.
He will also chair a
professorship sponsored by the
National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Search for new
provost begins