As I sat down to write this, my final column for the Observer, I couldn’t help but think back to when I first started out, both with the newspaper and at Augustana.
I don’t think the me that I was...
Augustana College's new chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an important step forward in the college's quest to truly embrace and foster diversity on campus. I...
On Monday, April 11, President Bahls, Dean Campbell, Dean Lawrence and the Office of Multicultural Student Life hosted a diversity forum for students to come and give feedback on the president's diversity...
As an exiting senior, I've had four years to reflect on the choice of my major. I declared as a Women and Gender Studies major my first year, and I can imagine no other major that could suit me better.
However,...
There is never a good time to lose someone you love, but senior year of college is perhaps amongst the rougher times to have it happen. I've gotten two of the sort of phone calls no one ever wants to get...
Winter term is winding down, and that means week ten stress and finals week freak-outs are nearly upon us. As a senior, I've been around that block more than my fair share of times already. So here are...
Symposium Day has always been an event of mixed opinion at Augustana College. Term to term and session to session, the quality of each Symposium Day can vary widely. This winter term’s Symposium Day...
Despite threats from Congress, Planned Parenthood appears to be here to stay, for now. Since the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973, the battle to keep abortion safe and legal has been...
The topic of race in higher education is a burning issue lately. From the Mizzou protests to the petitioning action last week here at Augustana (that I participated in, for transparency’s sake), diversity...
Nearly every day this year, reports of extreme violence flood the public consciousness. In just the last few months, there have been terrorist attacks in dozens of places globally by both “Christian”...
Approximately 20 students will be petitioning the Augustana community for the support of students of color in the Gerber Center all day on Wednesday. As of 8:30 a.m., the group has collected 216 signatures...
