Written by David Lapakko<\/strong><\/p>\n If you were an Augsburg student prior to 1988, Lindell Library and Oren Gateway Center didn\u2019t exist–in fact, in their place was the college\u2019s main parking lot. What would become Foss Center was simply a bare plot of land. Occupying the edge of the main parking lot on 22<\/span>nd<\/span>\u00a0and Riverside was a rickety old building that housed North Country Coop, a predecessor to places like Whole Foods and The Wedge. It\u2019s where Auggies and residents of Cedar-Riverside got their bagels and granola.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Your classes were likely to be in the Science Building or Old Main. You would not be majoring in Communication Studies, but rather, Speech Communication. And you would be in a joint department–the Department of Speech, Communication, and Theatre–with, as often as not, a chair who was a theatre professor. Some theatre professors even taught COM 111 on a fairly regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n In the mid-\u201880s, you wouldn\u2019t be taking Intercultural Communication, Introduction to Communication Studies, Research Methods, Nonverbal Communication, or Family Communication because none of these courses existed. And there was no forensics program either.<\/span><\/p>\n When Foss was opened in the fall of \u201988, it was designed with the idea that all the communication faculty could easily fit into the corridor that houses 178-180 Foss, which has three offices (currently occupied by Professors Groven, Chamberlain, and Lapakko). Who in their right mind could imagine a communication department with more than three full-time faculty? Now, of course, we have six, if you include film and new media studies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In short, the \u201880s were in many ways a simpler time, and our footprint on campus was more modest.<\/span><\/p>\n Next time:\u00a0 When the VHS era was in full swing and voicemail arrived! <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A\u00a0Periodic\u00a0Tale of Departmental Lore (Part 1) Written by David Lapakko If you were an Augsburg student prior to 1988, Lindell …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,13,2,8,12],"tags":[114,65,113],"class_list":["post-25578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-communication-studies","category-faculty","category-film","category-new-media","tag-campus-history","tag-david-lapakko","tag-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25578"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25611,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578\/revisions\/25611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}