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Augustana Observer

Augie Students Prepare ‘Children’s Hour’

Katherine Hogan November 29, 2018

  Starting Thursday December 6, the student directed play Children’s Hour be performed.  Children’s Hour is set in a school for girls where a disgruntled student starts a lie about one of the...

Pathfinder club comes to campus

Katherine Hogan October 11, 2018

Augustana has a brand-new type of game club on campus this fall: the Pathfinder Club. Pathfinder is a tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) where players explore a fantasy world as a Dungeon Master introduces...

Vendors sell records and photos at the event

Lowland Block Party

Katherine Hogan October 4, 2018

The Quad Cities plays host to several interesting cultural happenings and on the overcast and slightly drizzly day of Sunday Sept. 30, local hangouts Rozz-Tox and Laborspace hosted the third annual Lowland...

Blackkklansman Review

Katherine Hogan September 13, 2018

Blackkklansman is the unbelievable true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), who was the first African American police officer in Colorado Springs in the early 1970s, and his plan to infiltrate...

Teaching Museum of Art to participate in #5WomenArtists campaign

Katherine Hogan March 22, 2018

To celebrate Women’s History Month, Augustana’s Teaching Museum of Art will be participating in the national social media campaign #5WomenArtists that is organized by the National Museum of Women in...

Maria Emerson, the Research and Instruction Librarian, is holding a Literary March Madness competition. If you win then you have the chance to be on your own READ poster in the Tredway Library.

Literary March Madness

Katherine Hogan March 15, 2018

The month of March can sometimes be synonymous with March Madness, the NCAA’s basketball tournament. This year at Augustana there is another form of March Madness—the Literary March Madness. Literary...

(left to right) Vanessa Perez (18) and Meghan Graham (19) sell shirts for Best Buddies at the basketball game on Saturday. Photo by Kevin Donovan

Best Buddies fundraise for Blue Out and future events

Katherine Hogan January 28, 2018

This past week, Best Buddies has been selling shirts for their Blue Out event at the men’s and women’s basketball games that occurred on Saturday the 29th. This event was partly to raise awareness...

Hispanic Film Festival gives Augie students a glimpse into another culture

Katherine Hogan January 18, 2018

The festival was created by Dr. Jeanneth Vázquez in 1994. Dr. Vázquez stated that “the goal of the film festival is to teach Augustana students about the art & culture of Spanish-speaking countries...

Students win big bucks at Augie bingo

Katherine Hogan December 16, 2016

Augie students take bingo seriously and on Dec. 2nd double the usual money was given away—a total of $1,000 going towards prize money. This bingo night also had a Beach Party theme, with Augustana students...

Christmas at Augustana

Christmas at Augustana

Katherine Hogan December 8, 2016

According to Dr. Jon Hurty, an Augustana music director, “Christmas at Augustana has been the most well-attended on campus concert at Augustana since its inception about eight years ago.” The opening...

Video Game Development Club

Katherine Hogan December 2, 2016

Can you imagine a video game that is based on college? Thanks to a new club that has been created at Augustana an Augustna themed roleplaying game may soon be reality. The video game development club was...

Masterminds Review

Katherine Hogan October 22, 2016

I knew when I went to see Masterminds—staring Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, and Owen Wilson—that it was a comedy and I love comedies.  One would think that since this movie has checked all the...

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