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Michel Bafondoko/The Mirror From left: Chemistry lab instructor Diane Pullman guides two Chem/Phys 115 students through an experiment on Wednesday. Freshmen science majors learn to adjust study habits Dylan West THE AUGUSTANA 737717r7n must sees i Alumna rejoices over health care bill Page4 Student-run theater 11 production opens this Z. weekend Page6 Men's basketball seniors 3 earn high honors for season Page 9 Friday, March 26, 2010 1908 • 2010 • AUGUSTANAMIRROR.COM Vol. XCVIII No. 16 By Alan Thompson Mirror Staff Writer More than 43 percent of incoming fresh-men were classified as natural science ma-jors in the fall, a number that has barely de-creased since. While 187 of the 431 entering freshmen began as natural science majors, just seven students dropped biology for a humanities or social science major. In fact, most stu-dents that do switch from biology or chem-istry end up in another science major, like nursing or exercise science, according to Registrar Joni Krueger. Freshmen biology major Christina John-son knows that biology is the best fit for her. In high school, she disliked chemistry and physics, and her love for science drew her to-ward biology because of both academic and personal interests. "I love learning about science because, for me, science is our way of discovering God and understanding his creations," Johnson said. "The parts of science that interest me the most are cell biology and genetics, be-cause they explain our bodies and the bodies of other animals and plants at an incredibly small level." One of Johnson's cousins has mitochon-drial disease, so she is also interested in learning more to see what she can do to help. "I want to understand how cellular res-piration works, how her particular disease works and if there is anything I can do in my future to help her and others who have the same dis-ease," Johnson said. Freshmen bi-ology major and hopeful pediatrician Dylan West stays positive despite the rigorous, vast material covered in the intro-ductory science courses. "The hardest part about biology for me so far is that Biology 120 and 121 are classes See SCIENCE MAJORS, page 12 Sessions challenge Midwestern stereotypes By Mike Hight Mirror Guest Writer Midwesterners are non-com-petitive and uncreative by nature - or at least that's the stereotype that Hugh Weber, owner of Deep Bench Strategies, will be trying to debunk at his OTA sessions. The OTA sessions, which rep-resent Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, are called such because all three states end in O-T-A. This serves to dispute the notion that no creative work-force talent is produced in the Midwest. Hugh said that his motiva-tion for putting on the inaugural event came from growing up in the small town of Milbank, SD. When Weber was younger, one of his teachers acknowl-edged how his creativity sepa-rated him from his other class-mates. That teacher told him that to get somewhere, he would need to get out of South Dakota. He was told there would be no future for him in the Midwest. "When I was looking into where I was going to go to col-lege, I was encouraged to go out of state," Weber said. "And when I was getting mentored about fu-ture employment, I was also told to go outside of South Dakota to find success". Weber wanted to make a statement with his OTA sessions, See OTA, page 12 Legislature passes changes for South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship By Jenny Lockhart Mirror Staff Writer The South Dakota Legisla-ture recently passed several bills pertaining to the South Da-kota Opportunity Scholarship (SDOS), but the budget that will determine scholarship money for thousands of students re-mains on the table until later this month. Recipients of the scholarship currently receive $1,000 their first three years and $2,000 their fourth year toward tuition at a higher education institution in South Dakota. Ten institutions, including Augustana, partici-pate in this program. To be eli-gible, students are required to meet specific course require-ments in high school and obtain an ACT score of 24 or higher. House Bill (HB) 1190, recent-ly passed in both the South Da-kota House and Senate, allows for students to take technical courses in high school in place of world language courses. The changes, which will start with next year's high school fresh-men, were opposed by the South Dakota Board of Regents. "We don't disagree that pro-viding students with opportu-nities for career and technical education will prepare them for college, but students who take the foreign language will be bet-ter prepared," said Paul Turman, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs of the South Dakota Board of Regents. "South Dakota is only one of four states that don't require for-eign language for admission to public universities," he said. Turman also said that by re-moving the foreign language requirement from the SDOS requisites, South Dakotan stu-dents are at a disadvantage. If a student chooses not to take a language, they could be denied admission to a school in one of the 46 states that requires world languages. Representative Oran Soren-son, a former South Dakota edu-cator, pushed for the bill to pass. "I do think the foreign language requirement may have had some merit, but the problem is that most high school career and tech classes are offered at the same time as the language class-es," he said. "I simply felt it was wrong to deny so many students the chance at this scholarship because of a scheduling problem that was no fault of their own." See SDOS, page 5
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Title | Mirror - March 26, 2010 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 2010-03-26 |
Publishing agency | Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
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Date | 2010-03-26 |
Text | Michel Bafondoko/The Mirror From left: Chemistry lab instructor Diane Pullman guides two Chem/Phys 115 students through an experiment on Wednesday. Freshmen science majors learn to adjust study habits Dylan West THE AUGUSTANA 737717r7n must sees i Alumna rejoices over health care bill Page4 Student-run theater 11 production opens this Z. weekend Page6 Men's basketball seniors 3 earn high honors for season Page 9 Friday, March 26, 2010 1908 • 2010 • AUGUSTANAMIRROR.COM Vol. XCVIII No. 16 By Alan Thompson Mirror Staff Writer More than 43 percent of incoming fresh-men were classified as natural science ma-jors in the fall, a number that has barely de-creased since. While 187 of the 431 entering freshmen began as natural science majors, just seven students dropped biology for a humanities or social science major. In fact, most stu-dents that do switch from biology or chem-istry end up in another science major, like nursing or exercise science, according to Registrar Joni Krueger. Freshmen biology major Christina John-son knows that biology is the best fit for her. In high school, she disliked chemistry and physics, and her love for science drew her to-ward biology because of both academic and personal interests. "I love learning about science because, for me, science is our way of discovering God and understanding his creations," Johnson said. "The parts of science that interest me the most are cell biology and genetics, be-cause they explain our bodies and the bodies of other animals and plants at an incredibly small level." One of Johnson's cousins has mitochon-drial disease, so she is also interested in learning more to see what she can do to help. "I want to understand how cellular res-piration works, how her particular disease works and if there is anything I can do in my future to help her and others who have the same dis-ease," Johnson said. Freshmen bi-ology major and hopeful pediatrician Dylan West stays positive despite the rigorous, vast material covered in the intro-ductory science courses. "The hardest part about biology for me so far is that Biology 120 and 121 are classes See SCIENCE MAJORS, page 12 Sessions challenge Midwestern stereotypes By Mike Hight Mirror Guest Writer Midwesterners are non-com-petitive and uncreative by nature - or at least that's the stereotype that Hugh Weber, owner of Deep Bench Strategies, will be trying to debunk at his OTA sessions. The OTA sessions, which rep-resent Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, are called such because all three states end in O-T-A. This serves to dispute the notion that no creative work-force talent is produced in the Midwest. Hugh said that his motiva-tion for putting on the inaugural event came from growing up in the small town of Milbank, SD. When Weber was younger, one of his teachers acknowl-edged how his creativity sepa-rated him from his other class-mates. That teacher told him that to get somewhere, he would need to get out of South Dakota. He was told there would be no future for him in the Midwest. "When I was looking into where I was going to go to col-lege, I was encouraged to go out of state," Weber said. "And when I was getting mentored about fu-ture employment, I was also told to go outside of South Dakota to find success". Weber wanted to make a statement with his OTA sessions, See OTA, page 12 Legislature passes changes for South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship By Jenny Lockhart Mirror Staff Writer The South Dakota Legisla-ture recently passed several bills pertaining to the South Da-kota Opportunity Scholarship (SDOS), but the budget that will determine scholarship money for thousands of students re-mains on the table until later this month. Recipients of the scholarship currently receive $1,000 their first three years and $2,000 their fourth year toward tuition at a higher education institution in South Dakota. Ten institutions, including Augustana, partici-pate in this program. To be eli-gible, students are required to meet specific course require-ments in high school and obtain an ACT score of 24 or higher. House Bill (HB) 1190, recent-ly passed in both the South Da-kota House and Senate, allows for students to take technical courses in high school in place of world language courses. The changes, which will start with next year's high school fresh-men, were opposed by the South Dakota Board of Regents. "We don't disagree that pro-viding students with opportu-nities for career and technical education will prepare them for college, but students who take the foreign language will be bet-ter prepared," said Paul Turman, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs of the South Dakota Board of Regents. "South Dakota is only one of four states that don't require for-eign language for admission to public universities," he said. Turman also said that by re-moving the foreign language requirement from the SDOS requisites, South Dakotan stu-dents are at a disadvantage. If a student chooses not to take a language, they could be denied admission to a school in one of the 46 states that requires world languages. Representative Oran Soren-son, a former South Dakota edu-cator, pushed for the bill to pass. "I do think the foreign language requirement may have had some merit, but the problem is that most high school career and tech classes are offered at the same time as the language class-es," he said. "I simply felt it was wrong to deny so many students the chance at this scholarship because of a scheduling problem that was no fault of their own." See SDOS, page 5 |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |