We are constantly informed of new threats around us. This cycle keeps us sensitized and distractible.  This doesn’t just happen online either, and this cycle’s prevalence is emergent of competing...

For many aspiring music and theatre majors, Augustana’s performing arts programs are a main draw for the college. Between the multiple Mainstage and Black Box shows put on every year, and the well-known...

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...

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?...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

All students should work a customer service job at some point in their lives, whether it be in retail, serving in the dining hall or working the register behind the counter of a coffee shop. These jobs...

It’s hard to be an international student. Away from home and the culture you grew up with, you begin a new life in a country you don’t know much about. Thrust into this new environment, what lies...