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Recycling prominent on campus

Recycling prominent on campus

Priyanjana Chaudhary May 17, 2023

A sustainability report released by Augustana College in 2021 reports the work that has been done and that Augustana continues to do with recycling. According to the report, the goals were to increase...

Celebrating Quad Cities Cities computer history

Lexi Woodcock March 3, 2023

From the birth of the first electronic computer to the first student-run Augustana website, Augustana College and the Quad Cities have cultivated many technological advancements from 1937 to now.  On...

The power of ChatGPT and AI

The power of ChatGPT and AI

Taylor Roth February 25, 2023

A new concern within the education and writing community is ChatGPT, an AI that mimics the human aspect of writing.  But what makes this new gadget so frightening? If it helps students with their classwork,...

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...

Five innovations from the COVID-19 pandemic

Five innovations from the COVID-19 pandemic

Phea Gonzalez March 7, 2021

As talk spreads about the COVID-19 vaccine, now is a good time to reflect on some recent innovations that have come about as a result of the pandemic. Widespread accessibility to online events With...

Blue Light Glasses: Are they worth the hype?

Morgan Clark April 17, 2019

In the age of technology, one of the common problems people have is eye strain from looking at computer or phone screens. It’s virtually impossible to go a day without using some sort of technology,...

Media consumption: Staff, students reflect on digital interactions

Brady Johnson March 22, 2018

Vibrations, alerts, and pings fill the room as students scroll down electronics to consume media. There was a time at Augustana where students had to dial out on landlines and visit their mailboxes to...

Augustana Go?

September 9, 2016

We all remember where we were when we saw it on the news. Previously deserted neighborhoods flooded with people from all walks of life looking for them, flooding parks and shopping areas. In the blink...

Technology Dependency at Augustana College

December 10, 2015

In the modern world that we live in, technology is a dependent factor in students' everyday lives. Here on the Augustana College campus, technology is prevalent on a daily basis. While enjoying a meal...

Majority of student body visits CORE

April 25, 2015

After almost a year since Augustana implemented a center devoted to career development, statistics show CORE is being utilized by the majority of the student body. “We have a 98 percent referral rate,”...

Tinder information was taken from Tinder.com, the New York Times and CNN.
Graphic by Ryan Silvola.

Students: Tinder more of a dating game

March 29, 2015

Taking away the stigma of online dating is Tinder, a dating app where users decide in seconds if someone is attractive or not with a smile swipe left or right. Tinder is a social networking app for the...

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