Happy St.
Pat's Day
from the
staff of
the Mirror
What's all the Blarney about Saint Patrick's Day? See page 5.
OR Augustana
INSIDE . .
■ Phone-A-Thon
scheduled for this
week. p. 5.
■ Musical opens
tomorrow night.
p. 6.
■ Parsons, orphans,
and Mexico. p. 8.
■ Spring Sports
Preview. p. 9-11.
Photo by Christie Schmidtke
Augustana athletes raise almost $ 5000 at the first
ever Augustana Lift-A-Thon held this past week. The
money will be used for new weight room equipment.
Pictured, athletes Robbie Whipple, Jay Menzel, Dan
Fedders, along with Coach Steve Lukens.
Campus Briefs
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.
Residence Halls will close for
Spring Break at noon on Satur-day,
March 30 and re-open at
noon on Monday, April 8.
Volunteers are needed in
the following areas: tour guide,
information specialist, case
aide, telephone workers, office
sitter, reader, shelter care home
provider, feeders, recreation
assistant, driver, public rela-tions
assistant, and typist.
For more information and
opportunities, please call the
Volunteer and Information
Center at 334-6645.
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.
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.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Volume 68, Number 20
March 14, 1985
Deadline: March 29
Mark Collins •
editor
Across from Bergsaker, bet-ween
Gilbert Science Center
and Bergsaker, or near the
Morrison Commons are the
three possible sites for
Augustana's proposed Health,
Physical Education, and
Recreation building, according
to Dr. Ken Kessinger.
Kessinger is chairman of the
college's physical education
department and a member of
the committee that will
ultimately decide the location of
the facility.
Kessinger said that the com-mittee
will make its final deci-sion
on March 29 and forward it
by mail to members of the
Augustana Board of Regents
the next day.
The committee charged with
the decision is made up of Vice-
President Donald Scott,
Athletic Director Virgil Sand-vig,
Professor Carl Grupp, John
Thomas of the Office of
Development, Gene Marko,
Director of Physical Plant, and
Kessinger.
The three sites all have their
advantages, according to Don
Scott, the committee chairman.
"Having it across from
Bergsaker will make for public
accessability, convey a better
image to the community, and
allow for the association of out-door
athletic fields," he said.
The space between Bergsaker
and Gilbert would "close the
`ring' around the campus," he
said. It would also place the
faculty closer to Gilbert, which
houses the PE department's
division headquarters.
The Commons location
"would perhaps increase stu-dent
use," said Scott, and "it
would also serve to develop the
heart of the campus." The cur-rent
gymnasium would - be
remodeled and built onto if this
option were accepted.
Another reason for building it
on the main campus is money,
Scott added. "Going across the
street adds considerable cost,"
he said.
Building across from
Bergsaker would either require
a separate system for heating or
extending the tunnel system to
the new building.
The tunnels currently con-nect
all buildings on campus to
the central heating system of the
college.
See HPER, p. 5.
Committee to decide
HPER building location
Legislature approves
TEG funding — barely
Mark Collins
editor
A bill doubling the amount of
money available for tuition
equalization grants passed the
South Dakota Legislature by the
closest possible margin.
Lawmakers passed a new ver-sion
of the Tuition Equalization
Grant program, raising the
maximim allocation from
$100,000 to $200,000.
The bill, SB 295, needed two-thirds
approval in both houses
of the legislature because it is an
appropriations bill. F,orty-seven
votes were needed in the House
and 23 in the Senate.
The TEG measure was pass-ed
by the legislature as an
amendment to another student
aid bill allocating money for the
State Student Incentive Grant
Program, but only after a con-ference
committee had
scrutinized the bill.
Originally, SB 295 called for
$100,000 for SSIG grants,
$200,000 for TEG grants, and
$25,000 for grants to Indian
students attending colleges, but
the House and Senate could not
agree on the bill, thus sending it
to a conference committee.
The committee was compos-ed
of Senators Tim Johnson,
D-Vermillion, Walt Bones,
R-Parker, and George Shanard,
R-Mitchell, and Represen-tatives
Debra Anderson,
R-Sioux Falls, Andrew Wiese,
D-Flandreau, and Joseph
Barnett, R-Aberdeen.
The committee, as a com-promise,
cut the allocation for
Indian student grants, and
changed the eligibility re-quirements
for SSIG recipients.
Forty-seven members of the
House of Representatives,the
minimum number necessary for
passage, approved the bill while
the Senate passed the bill with
only two votes to spare, on a
25-8 vote.
Governor Bill Janklow has
not yet passed the bill, but has
indicated that he intends to give
his approval.