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Loading… Augie Wi-Fi remains unreliable

Loading… Augie Wi-Fi remains unreliable

Hailey Glasnovich December 9, 2023

At the beginning of the school year, Augustana students and faculty received an email from ITS about the new AC1 Wi-Fi network, a supposedly new and improved campus Wi-Fi. Other campus networks were said...

Sophomore Pooja Mehr walks towards Olin after her art 211 class on Sept. 22 on the quad. She walks with her classmate Erik Pattersson.

Students return to in-person learning

Feven Zewdu October 10, 2021

Augustana College transitioned fully back to in-person classes for the fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year. The students were notified over the summer and are now attending all  classes in person. To...

Online classes are not too bad

Online classes are not too bad

Bethany Abrams April 16, 2021

In Augustana College’s COVID-19 briefing on March 11, it was announced that all classes next fall will be held in-person. Although this news is exciting and shows great progress that the college and...

Graphic by Jordan Lee.

Online games shape changing social practices

Abigail Larson October 2, 2020

Graphic by Jordan Lee. With the concern of COVID-19 still present, people have turned to online resources and video games to create new social experiences. Through internet-based games and communication...

OBScast: The Challenges of Digital Education – Ep. 2

April 6, 2020

Join us for our weekly Observer podcast! Here's episode two on the challenges of digital education. The Observer Editorial staff talk about their first week of digital classes, how it has affected their...

Emails, data and privacy in the tech era

Emails, data and privacy in the tech era

Brady Johnson March 19, 2019

Countless emails bombard student and staff mailboxes on a daily basis. It is a constant flow of information that is either useful or meaningless. In the last six months, 24.5 million emails were sent over...

Music streaming sites have plenty to offer

October 6, 2016

Whether they’re walking to their next class, working out, or frantically trying to finish an essay, college students constantly have their headphones in. In a digital age with music at its center, it’s...

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