Soft jazz filters through Centennial Hall, five minutes before the community celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is set to begin. The seats are filling up fast and multiple conversations...
With Christmas just around the corner and Thanksgiving last month, Augustana’s campus is awash with holiday festivities. Christmas trees are being lit, Christmas concerts given, festive dinners hosted...
The Quad Cities have a lot to offer, and proof of this can be found in its museums. Whether by reliving the experiences of immigrants and examining questions of identity and assimilation at the German...
Ascension Chapel is yellow-lit and serene. Students fill the first few pews; beside a table holding four wooden boxes labeled “Hope,” “Grace,” “Truth,” and “Justice,” board members of Augie...
Last week, the Augustana community united for numerous Homecoming festivities. Alumni returned to the campus and students participated in events such as the third annual Homecoming Games, the talent showcase,...
Misty Urban, author of "The Necessaries," is reading from the "Canterbury Tales" to a crowded hall in the Rock Island Public Library (RIPL). In Middle English, she shares the retraction added by Geoffrey...
The Quad City International Airport echoes with overhead announcements and rolling suitcase wheels. People hurrying to security rarely stop to look around, but they might be surprised if they did. The...
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. He is the author of three novels, with a fourth coming out in February 2019. He writes about politics and racial violence in America and his columns...
With Augustana’s annual Study Away Fair taking place on Wednesday, September 12, Augustana students share their experiences of having studied outside the US.
Senior Filip Kuzmanovic spent six weeks of...
The Augustana Teaching Museum of Art (ATMA) is buzzing with conversation. Visitors wander through the Centennial Hall Galleries, lingering before certain pieces or returning to their favourites. There...
The week of April 16th to 22nd was Earth Week at Augustana. Student organizations such as the Augustana Local Agriculture Society (Augie Acres), Sierra Club, Geography Club and Biology Club collaborated...
On April 2nd, teachers in Oklahoma walked out of their schools, filling the State Capitol in Oklahoma City to ask for better school funding and higher wages. Similar protests occurred in Kentucky and Arizona,...
