- 184 students have ap-plied
for Civitas.
Three reasons you
should read this issue:
1 Details on Wednesday's
basketball games.
Pages 8, 9
2 Kin opens with the
bang of a gavel.
Page 5
3 Reflections from
down south.
Page 4
Jane Kuper
THE AUGUSTANA
Friday
February 23, 2007 MIRROR Vol. XCVI
No. 12
ESTABLISHED 1908 I SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
Incoming class will include first Civitas students
co-directors Geoffrey Dipple
and Michael Mullin.
In fall 2005, Academic Dean
and Vice President of Academic
Affairs Bob Kiner assembled a
group of faculty and administra-tion
to discuss the idea of imple-menting
an honors program at
Augustana. The program was
approved by the Board of Trust-ees
in December 2006.
Journalism professor Jeffrey
Miller, a member of the original
committee, said that for the most
part, the idea was well received
among faculty "We all thought
it would be a good idea: he said.
Earlier this year, recommen-dations
for the program were
brought forth at the faculty fall
meeting.
"It received firm faculty sup-port:'
said Dipple. Mullin and
he were asked to head the Civitas
committee this past December.
The committee is in the pro-cess
of recruiting students to
Augustana and informing them
about the Civitas program. Stu-dents
will submit applications
and be selected on the basis of
ACT scores and GPA.
See CIVITAS, page 12
By Ashley White
Mirror Staff Writer
Roughly 40 incoming fresh-men
will be the first to gradu-ate
from Augustana with Civitas
Honors in 2011.
The committee in charge of
Augustana's new honors pro-gram
is currently in the process
of working out the details, said
Viking split
ends season
Ashley Ballou/The Mirror
Ashley Holiday is congratulated by her team during the last regular season game against USD on Wednesday.
By Karyn Schubert
Mirror Co-Editor
It was the final regular season
game against the rival University
of South Dakota, and not a single
dead coyote hit the floor.
Sources who request to re-main
unnamed said that there
was a coyote in the building, but
that Sioux Falls Arena staff took
it away before it could be tossed.
"I was waiting for that coyote
to come out:' said senior Matt
Paulson. "It's always a boost. Last
year it did, and [Eric] Krogman
came out and hits three threes in
a row for nine points:'
Despite the absent dead ani-mal,
Wednesday night's games
between Augustana and USD
put the teams closer to the end
of an in-state, in-conference ri-valry.
The two Augustana teams
split the games, with the women
winning 75-63 and the men fall-ing
86-71.
The Vikings still have one
more year to battle against USD
before the Coyotes move on to
Division I. However, there is a
sense that a strong competition
is coming to an end.
"We're going to lose all the
pre-game stuff that goes along
with these games," USD head
coach Dave Boots said. "We lost
it with [South Dakota] State, we
lost it with Morningside, and
now we lost it with Augustana."
Augustana athletes, fans and
coaches will be missing a bit of
that rivalry in years to come.
Partly because
of the extra
pressure and
excitement it
brings.
"It's easier
to get psyched
up for the game," senior Ali Ad-amson
said. "It's harder to get ex-cited
during games like Manka-to.
The pressure's good, keeps
you on your toes."
That excitement showed in
the men's game too, as USD's
Eric Hall dove on senior Nick
Olson to grab the ball.
"It's was frustrating, but it
was kind of fun too," Olson said.
"Hall jumped on me and som-how
it was a jump ball:'
See BBALL, page 11
Detailed
info on
the games
page 8, 9
Dean finalists chosen, invited to visit campus
By Kaeti Hinck
Mirror Co-Editor
The Dean Search Committee has chosen
the finalists for senior vice president for ac-ademic
affairs and dean of the college.
"We're anticipating inviting four peo-ple
to campus," said Jane Kuper, ex-officio
member of the committee and vice presi-dent
for human resources. "There will be
two men and two women:'
The finalists were selected during the
committee's meeting on Tuesday, and have
been contacted about the
position.
"We are excited about
the four very capable fi-nalists
that have emerged
from the search process:'
President Rob Oliver said
in an e-mail.
"All candidates have
exceptional academic backgrounds and sig-nificant
experience," Kuper said. "In some
cases it was just the amount of experience
[that helped us make the decision]. Others
more than some:'
The meeting included a conference call
with Betty Asher of Greenwood & Associ-ates,
Inc., the firm hired to facilitate the
search. The committee also reviewed the
information provided by the candidate's ref-erences.
"Each one has particular strengths that
would make any one of them a fine dean,"
said Murray Haar, chair of the committee
and the religion department. "Now we will
see how they do meeting students and ad-ministration
and faculty...This is the inter-
See DEAN, page 12