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Raccoons are not your backyard buddies

Santino Bedolla October 26, 2025

As the colorful leaves of fall return to Augustana College, campus wildlife continues to adjust to the presence of new and returning humans in their home. While this wildlife can be exciting, humans must...

“Freshmen Fifteen”: When food becomes a fear

Vivian Bornhoeft October 26, 2025

When students enter Augustana College as First-Years in the fall, tons of numbers are thrown their way. They must worry about the hours of their classes, memorize room numbers and try to count how many...

Autistic people do not want to be cured

Callum Tait October 18, 2025

What comes to mind when you picture an autistic person?  Do you picture someone experiencing intense, distressing meltdowns in public? Someone who is unable to care for themselves or be independent?...

The tricks of fast fashion and the treats of second-hand shopping

Vivian Bornhoeft October 18, 2025

Halloween has some pretty iconic imagery: bowls of candy on doorsteps, jack-o’-lanterns lining dying grass and landfills becoming mountains because of clothes that were thrown out after their single...

Inaccessibility is built into Augustana’s campus

Callum Tait October 13, 2025

For any student at Augustana who needs to access the top floors of Olin, the ongoing broken elevator in the building is a heavy inconvenience. However, for physically disabled people, the broken Olin elevator...

Performance isn’t winning

Josh Hackney October 13, 2025

Ever fallen for some fancy talk that didn't walk the walk? Debate commonly involves the art of rhetoric or the art of persuasion. This includes simple ideas like repetition and more complicated ones,...

Sustainability starts on your plate

Santino Bedolla October 11, 2025

Every day, students of Augustana College visit the Gerber Dining Center and select any variety or amount of food that they want. With a luxury like this, students often ignore what happens to excess food...

Bedtime procrastination to daytime destruction

Vivian Bornhoeft October 11, 2025

In the lives that we lead today, hearing a peer sighing and chugging an Atomic energy drink before stating that they only got four hours of sleep the night before has become almost commonplace. Students...

Your attention: Colonizing the last asset

Josh Hackney October 5, 2025

How long is your attention span? Can you finish this article without distractions? Our attention is for sale, and we barely even notice. All around us, all the time, our attention is beckoned, and we...

Communal spaces demand our respect

Santino Bedolla October 5, 2025

The students of Augustana College are flooding to their home away from home, and the experience of communal living. Despite the school's generous allowance of these communal spaces, there has been a chain...

It is time to lay YikYak to rest

Santino Bedolla September 28, 2025

The social media app YikYak is once again in full steam as Augustana College First-Years and returning students settle into campus. The new year brings new drama for students to share online anonymously,...

We must protect our international students and declare full sanctuary

Soulaima Ben Ismail May 11, 2025

Let’s imagine this. It is finals week. The library is buzzing and coffee cups are stacked on the tables beside open laptops. are lost in their notes, syllabi and stress. Now imagine that one of those...

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