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The Sierra Club’s members attend the Mycology Club meeting in Lindberg on April 16, 2024.

Small clubs support niche interests, diverse membership

Gavin Nicoson April 27, 2024

Transportation, time, money and mental energy: a not-at-all exhaustive list of the limitations of undergraduate students. Augustana’s website claims that 50% of students are working towards more than...

College extracurriculars are burnout palooza

College extracurriculars are burnout palooza

Kayla Hobbs April 20, 2024

If I had one piece of advice to give the students on campus, it would be to fill your free time with things you enjoy. This can include a sport, a club or even joining Greek Life. But as a person who is...

Breaking the ice: Debunking the stigma of joining clubs late in the semester

Chloe Baxter November 18, 2023

As we near the end of the fall semester, students often grapple with whether or not it is too late to join clubs.  The campus offers a wide variety of extracurriculars for students to engage in, advertised...

Pledging impacts Augustana clubs

Zain Shrestha March 2, 2022

Greek life pledging has made a noticeable impact on Augustana’s clubs and activities, according to junior Madison Watwood. There have been apparent differences in attendance; however, executive members...

Independents give opinions on Greek Life

William Sikich March 5, 2020

Greek Life participation at Augustana College is fairly pervasive. A walk across campus will display apparel with letters of all kinds, representing the 15 social fraternities and sororities and a handful...

Sophomore Long Nguyen helps staff the Pho-Tastic event in Wallenburg Hall on Saturday night.

Students explore new food at Pho-TASTIC

Abigail Johnson November 21, 2019

The Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) hosted the Pho-TASTIC event which shared Vietnamese culture with Augustana students, faculty and their families. This event also helped raise money for a Vietnamese...

Augie senior Jonathan Quigley, Freshman Blake Traylor, and Juniors Tyler Bentley, John Cunningham, (left to right), surrounding the speakers playing random noises during the noise event organised by Little Happenings.

Little Happenings brings absurdism to campus

Collin Schopp October 24, 2019

It’s a warm September day on Augustana’s Campus. The quad is filled with students rushing between classes. When you first step out of the Gerber Center, it may seem like business as usual — but then...

Students gather to look at the pink crosses in the pro-life club's display on Monday, April 1. Each of the 911 crosses signifies an abortion performed at Planned Parenthood each day. Photo by Emily Jacobson.

Pro-Life group demonstrates on quad

Thea Gonzales April 1, 2019

Representatives from Augustana's pro-life group stood in the quad and passed out cards to students on Monday, April 1. With a display of pink crosses signifying the 911 abortions done everyday at Planned...

New club on campus: Ping Pong Club

New club on campus: Ping Pong Club

Clint Ugolini March 29, 2019

Clubs and organizations at Augustana continue to grow and strive to include anybody and everybody who wants a place to do the things they love. One of the more recent clubs born at Augie is the Ping Pong...

Ultimate Frisbee plays through the night at Snow Sleep

Clint Ugolini January 28, 2019

The Augustana Ultimate Frisbee Team hosted their second annual Snow Sleep Tournament on Friday, Jan. 25, which lasted from 9 p.m to 4 a.m. The Snow Sleep Tournament gets its name from the fact that since...

Natalie Trujilo discusses +IMPACT to attendees.
Photo by Natalie Spahn

Emerging sex education club +IMPACT

September 7, 2017

  +IMPACT, a new student group on the Augustana Campus, wants to do just that: make an impact on the campus. The group meets every other week to discuss sexual health, safety and bystander intervention...

Club hockey lack of depth leads to loss

Matthew McKay December 7, 2016

When the Augustana men’s hockey team took the ice at the River’s Edge in Davenport on Saturday afternoon, they had only six forwards and three defensemen. Head coach Perry Jacobs pointed out that the...

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