Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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CAMPUS NEW'S OF 77-78 Sanka Lucia Festival. Chrismzn recess begins. Classes renunm RHJP Snaw Ball . 'Tumnban! Dance. Whiter yroducEm: opus. Carnival mm for 5 daym Canvecadanehomring winte: quarter gradu- ates. Angie hum NCAA Div. 111 Nadcml Basket- ball Tournament. WINTER CLASSES END. Final exams stay: and nu: to the 24th. Choir and Band Toms Feb. 24 rhmugh Man 5L SPRING QUARTER CLASSES BEGIN. Easter r'ecm begins. - Classes rem: . SpHiIg Ontario. Spring Ring '78 spammed by RHIP. UMOC Auction and Talent Show. Spring Humanities Fesh'val hkprli Zldmough 733., Spring Play. ' 'The Importince of Being 'Elmut nan: and rum 5 days. SPRING QUARTER CLASSES END. Final exams star: and run to the 73:3. Alumni Day, h Baccalauieate Service. 116th Annual Con- voea'don-Commencement. . 7 -Intormadon for this calenda: of event: was taken from me studem handbook, Inside Augustin: 1977-73 . . By Caves Where Never Spring Supplement is gone at Augie; yearbook is changed to a complete fall delivery book. anasu-awpolloftheRAre- vealing major support is: the change and thmugh a unanimous vote of the Publicadons Board, students will now get their annual in the fall; not in two hutlemenLi. Some of the reasons given fm- doing away with the sup- plement were a mare complete and cohesive coverage of the year. mon- ey savings from lower production com, and relaxed deadlines for the staff. Books will be distributed in those returning in the fall of the fol- lawing year. Non-retumihg students will receive their books in the mail directly from the plant in Topeka. The college formulated a' hazing policy through the combined efforts of Greeks, Indees, faculty, and admin- istration. The product of 4 month: of com- mittee deliberation, the Policy Sutement on Hazing endorsed by the Student Personnel Committee. unanimously appmved by the Faculty Senate, and signed by the President is Sun Has Shone, expected to serve 3 basic pluposes. Hm: of all it provides legal protec- tion for the college in the eVent of a personal injury suit initiated thmugh a haulng incident. Secondin it reaiw firms the Augustus community's dedication to safe and respectful treatment for all of its members. Fi- nally it establishes a committee to review. implement, obnin feed- back. and provide for the enforce- ment of the policy. The hazing poli- cy will not apply only to Greek pledging practices, but to any actions by any groups or individuals which can be considered as hazing under 11- linois state statutes. Shoppetalk sings and wins its way to national talent competiv tion. Competing in the HBob Hope Search for the Top in Collegiate Talent' ' , the barbemhnp quarter of Paul Renken, Dina Pappademos, Aaron Backman, and Bill Epperly started by taking fits: place in the regional held at Illinois State No- vember 19; then went on to take the sectional competition at Ball State. Thus qualifying for the national compe- n'u'on the group traveled to Kama: City where'they achieved an outtanding rat- ing, although not placing in.the finals. OTHER NEWS BRIEFS OF THE YEAR A move by the Greek system to allow affiliation with antional Greek groups was nejected. The college gained a new college center, but lost an old friend, Augie landmark, East Hill. Introduction 7

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INSIDW The college's $11.7 million fund raising effort, the Agenda for Leadership, reached the $6 million mark in November In addition tn receiving cash and pledge: to beef up the college financial endomnt. funds were also directed to Angie's near-term projects. Included among these were the constructiOn of a new union. the renovation of Old Main, and the remodeling and expamion of the science facilities. Automation even crept into campus leisure time as stu' dents learned to play with computers . Hoping to ihuoduce students to the computer system and stimulate educa- tional interest in other programs avail- able. the computer center offered var- ious demonstration tgamel programs. It was necessary to restrict the play times of certain addictive games tsuch as Star Trelq to ncn-peak hours. Some of the other games offered were tic-tac- tee, a civil war game. checkers, Olympic boxing, golf, football. and blackjack. llRoads G0 Ever Ever On, 0V r Rock And Under Tree, The Student Affairs Office tried a new way to increase student awareness of campus announcements . HIDDEN HERD NE The Hidden Word Game emblem included On many campus notices meant that when a student was fortunate enough to lind the emblem word in his copy of the notice, he could present it to the Union desk for a prize. Prizes of- fered were silver dollars, dinners at the Timbers Supper Club, and passes to movies or cancers . It was hoped that this new word game would encourage more students to read the many notices publicizing various programs. services 211d oppommities. National Public Radio found a home at Augustana. A $25 .009 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting last October launched the planning phaze of the NPR station, and this year a $145,000 matching grant received from the U . S. Office of Education paved the way for progress towards scheduled operation sometime next year. The station will be managed by a professional staff and will feature fine arts, local culture . and public affairs. AU l -'It'

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'F E A T U R E : Do you want a bargain? Try Augustana College's 10-week fall foreign study program. This year held in Asia, the trip cost a surprisingly modest $1950, which included over 20,000 miles of flight and ground transportation. meals, housing, special side trips, lecture honoriums, and as many as 1'? academic credits . The program rotates in a 3- year cycle with foreign study fall quarters in Europe and Mexichouth America. Starting September 7, with their departure from Chicago, 70 Augie students with 2 facul- ty persons, Dr. Donald Peter- son and Mr. Ben Jasper began their 17 hour trek to the for- eign study program's first destination, Japan. The first half of the program was held in Japan, the first month being spent equally be tween the cities of Tokyo and Kyoto. In Tokyo members of the foreign study program stayed at the 1964 Olympic Games' Memorial Village. While there they enjoyed side trips to Uemo site of the nae tional art museum and park complex, to Mt. Fiji, and to tun. .I L?