the augustana college
MIRROR
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Concert Choir Concludes '74 Tour Season
Augustana Concert Choir members spent their interim on a
western tour giving numerous public performances. (Photo by
Paul Ostrem.)
Mr. Helland has announced a
rise in fuel costs from about 11
cents a gallon last year to the
current rate of slightly above 25
cents this year.
Additional fuel tanks will be
purchased to better the appor-tionment
of Augie's fuel
supplies, increasing storage
capacity from one week's supply
to one month's supply. Students with ideas or
The Task Force issued its suggestions for the Emergency
thanks to the Augustana corn- Task Force should contact Bob
munity for its assistance in say- Chell, Karen Kroels, or Randy
ing energy. Savings to date have Kochenderfer.
amounted to about 20 per cent
less expenditures this year than
last.
"However," the Task Force
reported, "while things look fair-ly
good at the moment, such
savings as we have already ac-complished
have to be carried on
on a continual basis.
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ASA Nominating Convention
To Be Held Feb. 20-22
In less than a week, political
maneuvering will be the prime
interest of one-fifth of the
Augustana Student Body. The
annual ASA Nominating
Convention, Feb. 20-22, features
the traditional lobbying,
speeches, and points of order of
past conventions.
One of the convention
highlights will be a nationally
known keynote speaker. The
convention will in turn be one of
the highlights of Political
Science Emphaisi Day, a UBG
Student Development Board
project for area high school
students.
The convention will begin
Wednesday afternoon at 1:30.
Delegates will begin the conven-tion
process by accepting, chang-ing,
and amending the floor
rules. This year's floor rules for-mulated
by the judicial corn-mittee,
have some new, and
possibly controversial changes.
One is a concession to the
yearly conflict between on- and
off-campus factions about
delegate attendance rules and
proxy selection. The rules, as
they now stand would allow off--
campus delegates to choose an
on-campus proxy if an off-cam-pus
one is impossible to find.
The convention officials have
also added strict time enforce-ment
rules for nominating,
seconding and acceptance
speeches, in the hope that the
convention time can be cut.
After the floor rules have been
accepted the delegates will get
on to the real business of the con-vention,
the selection of can-didates
for ASA council
positions. The delegates will
select two candidates for each of
the freshman council positions,
and four candidates for the
men's and women's sophomore
Task Force
Augustana's emergency task
force has recommended that
there be no further interruption
in the heating of water for this
winter because "it now appears
that for the short run we have
sufficient fuel."
But a Task Force report stress-ed
that "the total community,
including faculty, administra-tion,
and particularly the stu-dent
body to do what they can on
a voluntary basis to effect
savings in hot water."
The Task Force requested that
dorm residents observe the
council positions. If there is time
the junior positions will also be
considered during the conven-tion's
first session.
The second day of the conven-tion,
beginning at 6:30 p.m., will
be devoted to the four can-didates
for the junior men's and
women's positions and selection
of officer candidates. Presiden-tial
and vice-presidential can-didates
will be considered Friday
night beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Throughout the convention
resolutions may be introduced,
except during nominating
periods, and delegates may even
be faced with some rules of order
controversies like those that
slowed the convention process
last year. Parliamentarian Craig
Anderson, a freshman debater
who attended the national Stu-dent
Congress last year, will
make the procedure decisions.
Co-Chairpersons Dave
Lillehaug and Ruth Bylander
will lead the convention assisted
by the personnel in the judicial,
credentials and election com-mittees.
Both Nikki Johannsen
and Dawn Christensen will
return as the convention
secretaries.
Although no one has officially
tossed their hat into the
presidential ring, rumor has it
that Anna Harare, Carol
Hansen, Curt Roggow, Bill Bent-zinger,
and Paul Westby are can-didates
for the nomination. Milt
Wieland, the only Augie student
who had officially declared his
intentions, (last fall), has left
Augustana.
The convention happenings
will be covered by KAUR and
the Mirror for those who do not
attend. However, there will be
room for observers in addition to
the delegates, candidates and
lobbists who will attend.
following:
—no more than four or five
minute showers
—avoid showering on intense-ly
cold mornings because of add-ed
pressure on the heating
system
—avoid showers between 6
a.m. and 10 a.m. because that is
when the heating plant is most
loaded.
The reason for the above
suggestions was cited as the fact
that when the heating plant runs
at above normal capacity, it is
less efficient in its use of fuel.
Dr. Olaf G. Malmin will direct
the Augustana College Concert
Choir in the presentation of its
annual home concert at 3:00
p.m., Sunday, Feb. 17, at First
Lutheran Church. The program
will be the same as that per-formed
at 19 sites during a three
week January tour through
North Dakota, Montana,
Washington, Oregon, California,
Utah and Colorado.
The choir's program for its
1974 tour season consists of four
parts, all of which will be sung
during Sunday's concert. The
63-voice mixed ensemble will
sing selections by Sweelinck,
Gabrieli, Johann Schein,
Poulenc, Karl Graun, Normand
Lockwood, an arrangement by
Roger Petrick of "Ah, Holy
Jesus," and "Lord, In Thy
Resurrection," a motet for dou-ble
choir by Jacobus Gallus.
Following an intermission,
Tenor Todd Sulzdorf, baritone
Bruce Becker, Dave Versteeg,
bass, and soprano Shirlene
Peterson will be featured in the
performance of Lloyd Pfautsch's
"A Day for Dancing." Miss
Peterson was chosen a winner in
the Metropolitan Opera
Auditions held recently at Aber-deen
for this region. Instrumen-tal
accompaniment will be fur-nished
by four of the choir's
singers — flutist Barb Johnson,
clarinetist Nancy Muller,
bassoonist Mary Beth Savage
and percussionist Robert
Collins.
The final section of the
program will again feature
Becker as soloist as the choir
sings the Shaw-Parker arrange-ment
of "My God Is a Rock."
Also in the final section are corn-positions
by Randall Thompson
and an arrangement of "Amaz-ing
Grace" by Leland Sateren.
Excellent facilities, audience
enthusiasm and full houses at
most tour stops were high points
of the choir's tour.
By consensus, the highlight
concert was the one given at
Tacoma, hometown of Dr.
Malmin. The concert was given
in Trinity Lutheran Church
which is just across the street
from Pacific Lutheran Universi-ty
which Malmin attended and
where he sang in the choir under
the direction of his father, Prof.
Gunnar Malmin who led that
choir for 27 years. The audience
there was liberally sprinkled
with his friends, relatives and
college classmates.
Packed houses were experienc-ed
at Seattle and Bellingham,
Wash.; Eugene and Silverton,
Ore.; and Sacramento and San
Jose, Cal., with overall atten-dance
setting new records. At
San Jose the choir was a part of
the dedication service for the
new St. Timothy's Lutheran
Church.
Suggests Ways to Save Energy
Regents Make Decisions Concerning
ROTC, Budget, Academic Affairs
The Augustana Board of
Regents have decided against
the implementation of an Army
ROTC program at Augustana, at
least for the present time.
The Regent's decision followed
a great deal of discussion concer-ning
the pros and cons of such a
program, long a controversial
issue at Augie.
The next meeting of the Board
of Regents will be May 6-7, 1974,
when the Augustana College
Association will hold its annual
meeting on the campus.
A tentative budget for fiscal
1974-75 of just under $6 million
was approved by the board dur-ing
its regular winter meeting. A
full time, salaried director posi-tion
of the Augustana Research
Institute was approved by the
board. The Institute is a non-profit
corporation created for the
purpose of providing contract
research and technical services
to the region on a financially
sustained basis.
Reports were heard concerning
current fiscal conditions, projec-tions
for upcoming years and the
college's status relative to the
energy crisis.
In the area of academic affairs,
the board took action on a
number of faculty leave requests,
several promotions and the gran-ting
of tenure to several faculty
members. A report concerning
the establishment of an
Augustana Center for Internship
Education at the college under a
grant from the Hill City founda-tion
was received.
Also approved was the es-tablishment
of "The Regents
Medal" to recognize distinguish-ed
or unusual achievement by
individuals or organizations in
service to mankind, in educa-tion,
religion, public affairs,
research service, or in any field
where such efforts have made a
notable contribution to the im-provement
of the quality of life
for mankind or his material,
moral or spiritual ad-vancement."