On Thursday Nov. 9, Augustana’s chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) hosted a fundraiser to raise medical relief funds for Palestinians affected by the ongoing conflict with Israel....
Climate activists with Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion and other organizations cycled across a private jet runway and chained themselves to aircraft at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on Nov. 5. These protesters...
Every day of the week, millions and millions of people clock in and out of work. The United States relies on every type of job under the sun to keep the gears of life turning and moving forward. On a local...
Numerous news outlets have recently covered the clash between students at UC Berkeley and conservative commentator Ann Coulter. Simply put, Coulter was scheduled to speak at the university until news of...
On the morning of Jan. 20, 2017, some of the citizens of the United States prepared for their world to be turned upside down. Protesters lined the streets of Washington, D.C. for the Inauguration of the...
Election results for the 2015-2016 Student Government Association were announced on April 9, naming David Sommers and Jackie Jastrzebski as the next SGA president and vice president.
The Observer endorsed...
Would you consider yourself to be white? Would you consider yourself a good person? Considering that the majority of students at Augustana are white, and hopefully good people, a fair majority of people...
Before walking into Paul Croll’s American Race and Ethnic Relations course on Dec. 15, I witnessed the visual protest organized by students on campus. Walking past, I couldn’t help but feel the tension...
It has been my honor, and a humbling one at that, to participate in the recent protests on campus, most notably the protests that occurred across campus on Monday of this week.
As a white student, a white...
As citizens react to the ruling in favor of Darren Wilson, Paul Croll, associate professor of Sociology, said the protests happening across the country show how citizens do not want to live in a country...
