the augustana college • mirror sioux falls, south dakota
Thursday, May 4, 1967
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57102 Vol. 48, No. 25
Syttende Mai King, Queen
to lead Norwegian weekend
AUGUSTANA LIBRARY
SIOUX FALLS, S. DAS..
Societies are currently busy entering nominations for this year's Syttende Mai King and
Queen, to be crowned next Friday night at intermission of the annual Pops Concert that kicks
off the Blue Key sponsored weekend celebrating the Norwegian Independence Day.
Voters will make their selection from the final list of candidates Tuesday, with balloting
continuing all day in the Commons concourse. Giving up their crown to new royalty at the 7 p.m.
performance of the Pops Concert will be reigning King Steve Sunwall and Queen Stella Georgo-poulos.
A second performance of the Pops Concert, under the theme "To Be Alive,"starts at 9 in
the caf. Freshmen members of the Concert Band are in charge of details, with Dr. Lee Lillehaug
directing the program of show and popular music.
Students open ears,
mouths at workshop
Faculty and students discuss one of the Leadership Work-ship
topics as they enjoy the afternoon sunshine.
photo by Blegen
by Dennis Ohrtman
"Be big mouths," was Gary Howerton's command heard by
over 100 Augustana students at Lake Shetek this past weekend.
Dr. John Kendall also filled their ears with the need for
student-faculty-administration decision making.
That's just what happened-mouths flapped, ears filled and
brains functioned. Awareness, apathy, paternalism, privatism,
initiative and progress all became part of the weekend's dis-cussions
at Leadership Workshop.
The group nearly unanimously felt that there was an un-awareness
of varied natures throughout the campus-politically,
socially, administratively and academically speaking. The cry
that Student Council does not reach the students because of
poor communications was heard. Communication between the
two mutually oriented segments of a college--the students and
the faculty—is weak and often misinterpreted.
THUS, IN REITERATION, summary _of the day's events.
student discussion groups It was suggested and placed
plan to refer their resolutions in resolution form that students
to the Student Council. Stu- would have a stronger desire
dents talking about freshmen to connect themselves with
orientation were discontent the world outside if the
with it. Extended lectures on student body began to make
etiquette and dating met this representative campus state-committee's
ax. In addition to ments to news sources. Dorm
well-informed group leaders, discussions were also pre-the
students agreed that the sented as a possible plan to
library orientation, how to create a desire to become
study dialogue with both aware of the world outside.
students and faculty and Pastor THE SOCIAL - AFFAIRS
Pete's presentation should group made a number of sug-be
continued. The book which gesticns, many superficial in
the freshmen were to read for nature. Concretely, more
discussion was banned, but participation, weekend retreats
the beanies survived through and orientation revision were
the discussion. More social proposed. Forgetting that a
events the first week, after- library is a place to learn and
dinner dances, dorm exchanges not to relax, they proposed a
and AWF emphasis were library dance. A lift on juke-advised.
box hours and several inco-
The students discussing hesive suggestions like
physical growth felt that getting more scholarships of
students should suggest more an academic nature, meeting
ideas to the administration with advisers and religious
for dorms, other projects and discussion groups made the
student growth. They asked social scene.
what projects, what kind of The afternoon saw the
dorms and what kind of stu- students discussing individual
dents we should have at Augie. growth in which the committee
The question brought a deluge drew the conclusion that im-of
discussion, but no resolu- proved communication is
tion resulted. needed, after throwing out a
Another section of students series of rhetorical questions.
explored the lack of knowledge A discussion on leadership
relative to international led to a plea for increased
afThirs despite the tremendous awareness, initiative and
availability of news. News-o- orientation.
grams to be ',placed in the The growth in the humani-cafeteria
and the lluddle are ties discussion groups resolved
be to suggested to the council. to have organized art displays,
These will contain a capsule permanent art, a change in
Featuring musical selec-tions
from the 16th through
the 20th centuries, the Augus-tana
Brass Quintet will
present its annual concert
tonight at 8:15 in the Alumni
Auditorium of the Science
Center. Members of the quintet
are Dr. Harold Krueger and
Pam Upland, trumpets; Barbara
Johnson, French horn; Paul
Reeg, trombone, and Stan
Eitreim, tuba.
Miss Janet Raybutn, cellist,
will join the quintet for the
number"Interbalances Three."
This song, to quote Dr.
Krueger, is "probably the
most unusual number ever
performed on this campus." It
features sounds and instrumen-tati
ens that are not commonly
heard. In addition, the quintet
will play numbers that run
courses and the institution of
individual study programs. An
emphasis on more courses and
inter-departmental seminars are
ideas to be referred to Dean
Kendall.
Another group realized the
necessity for healing the
split between faculty and
students. The revised catalog
now in print, the revised
adviser system and lunch
with the professor were said
to be good, but only just
starting. More dialogue, infor-mal
gatherings and intellectual
openings for helpful sugges-tion
will appear on the Student
Council agenda.
DEAN KENDALL CON-trasted
the elements which
must work together since
they are the college, namely
the students and the faculty
with administrators acting as
necessary coordinators, bus-inessmen
and enforcers of
the faculty-student policies
and the decisions of the
Board of Regents representing
the Augustana Corporation
which owns Lutheran-affiliated
Augustana. Kendall felt that
students should participate in
the gamut from the formal
sonata to light popular music.
While this is the only
formal concert the Brass
Quintet plays all year, it also
performs for several banquets
and civic organizations as
well as for campus variety
shows.
The senior English pro-ficiency
test will be given for
the last time this year May 11
at 3:30 p.m. in room 7 in the
Social Science building. This
test is required for graduation.
E. W. Skarda, superintend-ent
of the Sioux Falls Public
Schools, will speak on careers
in teaching at a convocation
Tuesday at 9:45 a.m. in the
chapel-gymnasium.
decisions, but be ready to
accept the responsibility for
their ideas.
Dr. Jorgen Thompson, Doug
Noteboom and Tom Killian
presented several other facets
of the Augustana community
and its growth.
Pastor Kent Johnson won
the ears of his banquet listen-ers
when he explored the
questi cn, "What kind of
student do we want at Augie?"
Faculty and administrators
cleared a stuffy air with a
light and yet deeply profound
skit. Pastor Fred Fritschel
terminated the weekend with
administration of the communal
sacrament.
Augustana students were
exposed to their own thought,
problems and methods of
reaching goals. They took
glimpses at Augie--academ-ically,
socially and spiritually.
Their voices cut an often stiff
air with fresh, well-intentioned
discussions, folk songs and
the shouts of victory after
athletic events. These were
parts of Augustana's essence,
the students--the leaders.
TICKETS CAN BE PUR-chased
from band members at
75 each and will go on sale
in the concourse Wednesday.
The real start of the week-end
comes at 3:30 Friday
afternoon, when an intrepid
group of faculty "swingers,"
under the annual management
of Iver Spilde, will try to
challenge the occassional
supremecy of Blue Key on
the Augustana softball fields.
A busy day of celebration
is planned for next Saturday,
starting with the 1 p.m.. raft
race, an outdoor steak fry at
4:30 and a folk festival on the
football field that evening.
All eight men's societies
are expected to enter the raft
race, and they have been sent
instructions and specifications
for their rafts. The race will
be run in the diversionary
canal of the Sioux River north
of the city starting at 1 p.m.
with all rafts required to be at
the starting line by 12:40. All
rafts must be ready for in-spection
by Blue Key at 10
a.m. Saturday at the s with end
of the Solberg parking lot.
Last year the Kappas rowed
fiercely to overcome a five-year
domination of the event
by the Chis.
Tickets will be soon avail-able
for the annual Blue Key
steak fry set to run between
4:30 and 6:30 on the East
Hall lawn. The honorary
society has ordered over 800
steaks for the fry. Tickets,
$1.75 apiece, can be pur-chased
from mealbooks.
Capping off the weekend
will be a folk festival on the
football field (BYOB) at 8 p.m.
with a number of local groups
presenting their talents.
ASA elections
approaching
A student election for the
new class coordinator posi-tions,
and for open Student
Council positions, will be
held May 15.
Petitions for these posi7
tions may be picked up in the
ASA office and must be re-turned
by midnight Wednesday.
Application blanks for
Coffee House manager, to be
selected by Student Council,
may also be obtained at the
ASA office.
Brass Quintet concert
offers musical variety