Sen. Barack Obama became the first African-American to ever be elected president of the United States. The U.S. Senate race between Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken is so close that the votes will be counted again. Despite a firestorm of criticism, Rep. Michelle Bachmann will return to Washington, D.C., as the U.S. Representative from Minnesota’s Sixth District.
What does all of this mean?
That is what former U.S. Representative Martin Olav Sabo ’59 and Lyall Schwarzkopf, a former state legislator and former chief of staff for Gov. Arne Carlson, will attempt to explain on Monday evening. “Reflections on the Elections,” an event sponsored by the Sabo Center for Citizenship and Learning, the College Republicans, and College Democrats will be held at Augsburg College on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. Continue reading “Sabo and Schwarzkopf reflect on the elections”
Augsburg will formally dedicate the new press box at Edor Nelson Field during Saturday’s 1 p.m. football game against St. Thomas. A recognition ceremony for the donors will be held during halftime of the game.
Who wouldn’t want to spend a semester in the “city of eternal spring”? Ask Antonio Ortega, a staff member at the Center for Global Education’s study site in Cuernavaca, Mexico. “I think students have been to Cancun or Acapulco and think ‘I’ve been there, done that.’ They think Mexico, as a place to study, is not as interesting as Europe or South Africa,” he said.
Eric Franzen makes his to-do list at about 5:30 a.m. each day and hopes to get through half of it. Josh Linde calls the past two months, “the most stressful and packed of my life.”
Three current Augsburg students and a recent graduate have received 2008 Vincent L. Hawkinson Foundation scholarships in recognition of their involvement in peace and justice activities.
Augsburg College will host a bipartisan discussion, “Beyond Party Lines,” featuring Minnesota State Reps. Steve Simon (DFL) and Pat Garofalo (R) from 7:30-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29 in the Sateren Auditorium on campus. The discussion will revolve around current local political issues such as transportation and the gas tax. The event is free of charge and open to the public.
The Augsburg College Convocation Series continues Friday, Oct. 31 with nationally recognized eco chef, author, and food justice activist, Bryant Terry. Terry’s lecture, “Just Food: Cooking as an Organizing Tool in the Food Justice Movement” will be held at 10 a.m. in the Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center.
“Eurydice is interesting,” says Martha Johnson, director of Augsburg’s first mainstage play of the year, but she doesn’t mean that in the way most Minnesotans use the word. “It’s quirky and funny…interesting in a good way.”
If you want to know what it’s really like to be an Auggie, we think you should learn it from one of us. That’s the promise, or the directive, of “Homemade,” the website made by Augsburg students for Augsburg students.
Augsburg College will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of its Rochester program with an open-house reception on Tuesday, Oct. 28 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Rochester location in Bethel Lutheran Church, 810 3rd Ave. SE. A short program will begin at 7 p.m. with comments from Augsburg College President Paul Pribbenow, Barbara Farley, dean and vice president of academic affairs, and Rick Thoni, the founder of Augsburg’s Weekend College and Rochester programs.