Vespers this year was opened with the creation of Dr. Palmer Eide. The service annually celebrates the.
coming of Christ in word and music. Once again the gym was filled to capacity twice as townspeople
joined the college community in welcoming the Babe.
Debaters place second
in state tournament
Debaters from 24 colleges
representing a 6-state area
convened on the Sioux Falls
College campus last weekend
for a debate tournament.
Black Hills State College
captured the first place
trophy of the tournament;
Augustana placed second,
South West Minnesota State
College took the third
position, and the University
of Nebraska came in fourth.
A Superior rating in
oratory went to Ralph
Gunderson. Diane Dauner
captured the same rating in
the oral interpretation
division, David Larson in
Extemporaneous, and Sheryl
Johnson and Diane Baird in
Novice Debate.
In t he "Lunar One"
debate tourney held at Sioux
Falls College last week, the
varsity cross-examination
team of David Knutson and
Dave Nelson captured a
Superior rating. Doug Kraft
and Waynette Moeller
brought home a third place
r a t ing. Augustana College
took a second place rating in
the tournament.
Vance Goldammer, Pam Agrimson and Dean Schueler discusses and plans for the upcoming implementation of the new election system. Watch
for further news. photo by Photographic Department
the augustana college
December 18, 1969 Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57102 Vol. 51, No. 14
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Norm Olson and John Grouls tied in the annual Ole sitting contesL.
They stepped down together at 8:30 p.m. Sat. shattering the previous
record. They lasted approximately 28 hours.
photo by Photographic Department
Lutheran student leaders urge
economic boycott of Christmas
Submitting deadline nears for
Interim course proposals
Students have the
opportunity t o propose
courses for the 1971
Interim, and are urged to do
so by the Interim
Committee. The proposed
courses must be in
accordance with the
guidelines established by the
faculty. Therefore, if you are
interested in taking
advantage of this
opportunity discuss your
proposal with a faculty
member. He will be able to
help you with the mechanics
of setting up a course.
However, time is running
Augustana College's
Mikkelsen Library is the
recipient of a collection of
25 books dealing with
English and American
history and on education of
the deaf handicapped. The
gift comes from Louis M.
Balfour, Chevy Chase, Md.,
whose daughter Josephine
was a one time student in
Augusta na's program of
training teachers for the
deaf.
The collection includes a
group of books printed
during the first half of the
19th century on the lives of
Washington, Jefferson, Henry
Clay and Stephen Decatur.
More recently printed
volumes deal with the lives
of Jefferson and Cordell
Hull.
A rare two volume
edition of "Bishop Burnet's
History in His Own Time,"
out. All interim course
proposals are to be
submitted to the Interim
Committee by January 6,
1970.
The grading system for
the 1971 Interim has also
been established. Courses
will be graded in one of
three ways: satisfactory-un-satisfactory;
A-F; A-F or
satisfactory-unsatisfactory
(selection to be made by the
student). The student
proposing the course should
also indicate how the course
will be graded.
treating the period of
English history from Charles
II to the reign of Queen
Anne, published in London
in 1724, is included. The
balance of the volumes
concern education of deaf
people, a field in which Mr.
Balfour has an active
interest.
The gift was made in
memory of the late Miss
Josephine B. Timberlake of
Washington, D.C., director of
the Volta Bureau for the
Deaf and executive secretary
of the Alexander Graham
Bell Association for the Deaf
for fifty years.
Three years ago Mr.
Balfour presented the
Augustana library with a rare
group of books written by
Thomas Jefferson and
published in the early
1800's.
Minneapolis—Student
leaders from colleges and
seminaries of the American
Lutheran Church have urged
people to refrain from
buying Christmas presents as
a testimony against the
fighting in Vietnam.
At their annual three-day
meeting in Minneapolis
recently some 60 students of
the American Lutheran
Church Student Conference
also adopted resolutions
pertaining to Vietnam, drugs,
education, and selective
service.
The resolution on the
economic boycott of
Christmas was expressed
through approval of a letter
in the Wartburg Trumpet
student paper of Wartburg
College, one of the ALC's
twelve colleges.
The letter stated: "As
long as American soldiers are
fighting in Vietnam, we are
not going to buy Christmas
presents...Because by
refusing to buy we can make
a powerful protest against
war. The power of the dollar
goes right to the heart of the
way of life in America, and
last year we consumers spent
close to eight billion dollars
Drinking problem
reduced by privilege
(St. Bonaventure U.
"Bona Venture" CIB)—Since
the new privilege of allowing
drinking in dorms at St.
Bonaventure University has
been in effect this semester,
drinking problems on
campus "have been reduced
by 75%" estimates the Rev.
THANK YOU
The family of Norman
Hudelson wishes to express
their thanks to the student
association for the symathy
shown during their bereave-ment.
on Christmas shopping. If all
of us who oppose the war
unite in withholding our
Christmas dollars, we'll make
an overwhelming point.
Money talks. Let's have ours
talk peace."
The student conference
urged ALC students to write
their home congregation
pastors urging them to
conduct Christmas Eve
services dedicated to peace
in Vietnam.
In other resolutions the
students
—asked the ALC to take the
stand taken by the
Lutheran Church in
America and the Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod in
approving selective
conscientious objection;
—asked colleges of the ALC
to "explore the possibility
of various types of open
and honest dialogue between
students and non-students in
churches and other
community groups;"
—a sked for a complete
overhaul of the educational
structure to allow students
the right to control their
own affairs and social
environment and make
optionable a pass-fail
grading system in all
courses;
—asked for more research in
the use of drugs and, "as a
temporary measure only,
to reduce penalties for
simple possession or use of
marijuana to a
misdemeanor."
—encouraged all local
congregations "to invite
young people of the
community regardless of
their relationship to the
church to use church
facilities to self-organize
their own recreation;"
—affirmed that "white
racism can be confronted
only in consultation with
minority groups.
Library receives books on
deaf handicap education