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Visit URGO For Advising On Grad School Apps

Applying to grad school? Come meet with URGO staff for individualized advising on finding and selecting programs, preparing for standardized tests, securing letters of recommendation, and writing application essays. We are here to help you through the process!

To make an appointment you can call the URGO office at 612-330-1446 or email us at urgo@augsburg.edu.

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Papers, Revisions Due? Get Help in the Writing Lab

The end is near and papers, applications, reports, revisions will soon be due. Don't panic. Do find the WL now! It's located in Lindell Library, street level, just left of the circulation desk. Here are the hours:

Mondays: 11:10 - 1:40 and 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Tuesdays: 12:30 - 3:00; 3:30 - 6:00; and 7:30 - 10 PM
Wednesdays: 3:30 - 6:00 and 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Thursdays: 12:30 - 3:00; 3:30 - 6:00 and 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Fridays: 4:00 - 6:30 PM
Sundays: 5:00 - 8:00 PM

Questions? Contact K. Swanson, English professor (swanson@augsburg.edu).

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Gen Ed Question of the Week: Augsburg Experience

Experiential education has long been a hallmark of an Augsburg education. As part of the general education requirements for their degree, all students complete an "Augsburg Experience" requirement through one of the following ways: internships, study abroad, student-faculty research, student teaching, special immersion trips, and/or other approved experiences. For more information, see http://www.augsburg.edu/academics/augsburg-experience/

As the Gen Ed Design Team considers how to strengthen our commitment to experiential education, while at the same time simplifying and improving access, we seek your input. Please send your response to the following questions to genedrevision@augsburg.edu

All faculty, staff, and students are encourage to respond.

What are the greatest benefits of the Augsburg Experience as it is now configured?
What are the obstacles to completing it?
Can you imagine ways to simplify and improve access?
Do you have expertise and ideas you'd like to share with the Design Team?

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Scholarships + 2 Paid Internships For First-Years

Apply to be a 2017 Kemper Scholar!

The Kemper Scholars Program is designed for first-year students who are pursuing, or intend to pursue, a business related degree program such as accounting, data science, finance, risk management, economics, statistics, math, and/or actuarial science. Scholars receive:

*Up to $10,000 yearly scholarship
*2 guaranteed paid internships:
*1 paid summer internship at a nonprofit in Chicago, learning and living with 25 fellow Kemper Scholars
*1 paid summer internship at one of the many Kemper companies around the US
*Paid trip to annual Kemper Conference in Chicago; 3 summers (Hard Rock Hotel)

Augsburg is one of only 14 liberal arts colleges selected to take part in the Kemper Scholars Program. Come learn more about this unique opportunity and hear from current Augsburg Scholars about their experiences.

Information Sessions:
Tuesday, November 29 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Marshall Room
Wednesday, November 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Marshall Room

To learn more about the Kemper Scholars Program email urgo@augsburg.edu.

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AugSem Go To Card Promotion Deadline

AugSem students have 1 more day to add value to the Go To card to get the $10 bonus.

AugSem students received a Metro Transit Go To Card with $10 already added this fall. Add at least $10 by December 1 and receive $10 from Metro Transit.

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Multicultural Dinner, this Thursday, December 1

Multicultural Dinner
This Thursday evening, December 1st
5-7pm
Brian Coyle Community Center

Food, fun and neighborhood festivities.
Everyone is welcome.
No charge.

It's one of the great events of the year in Cedar Riverside!

Please let me know if you are interested in helping serve dinner at truem@augsburg.edu

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Paid Internships in China After Graduation

Augsburg exchange partner, United International College (a liberal arts college taught in English) is looking for recent graduates to serve as teaching assistants in multiple departments for next academic year. Approximately 12 Auggies have taken advantage of this opportunity over the past 6 years. Deadline to apply is February 1.

Airfare, housing, Mandarin language classes, and stipend provided.

For more information:
http://uic.edu.hk/en/ido/international-students/intern-programme/programme

Questions: intl-intern@uic.edu.hk or devega@augsburg.edu

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Food Service Hours

Einsteins is open from 7:30am-9pm, with the Late Night Menu starting at 7pm.

Nabo is open from 7:30am-8pm, with Hot Food starting at 10am

The Commons is open from 7:30am-7pm
Breakfast 7:30-9:45am
Continental Breakfast 9:45-11am
Lunch 11am-1:30pm
Light Lunch 1:30-4:30pm
Dinner 4:30-7pm

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Augsburg Advent Vespers, Christmas Celebration

Services are quickly filling for Augsburg College's annual celebration of the Christmas season, Advent Vespers!

> Friday, December 2nd - 5 p.m. less than 100 tickets left!
> Friday, December 2nd - 8 p.m. less than 200 tickets left!

> Saturday, December 3rd - 2 p.m. NOW FULL
> Saturday, December 3rd - 5 p.m. NOW FULL
> Saturday, December 3rd - 8 p.m. room still available!

Order online, stop by the Music Office, or visit the Christensen Center Welcome Desk

(http://www.augsburg.edu/music/vespers/ )

Tickets are free, but required, so reserve your spot now!

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First Pre-Dental Student Club Meeting Wednesday

Are you interested in the field of dentistry?
Come join us for our first meeting and tell us how you want this club to benefit your experience!
Snacks will be provided.

Wednesday, November 30, from 10:30-11am in Science 212

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NODAPL Meeting - Tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.

There will be a meeting in the Riverside Room at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow to discuss how the Augsburg community can help the No Dakota Access Pipeline effort. We are currently working to organize an event around creating items to send the water protectors there as well as educating people about what is happening at Standing Rock. All are welcome to join us on Wednesday!

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TODAY - Nazi & Holocaust Analogies in Politics

When: Tuesday, November 29 from 2-3 p.m.
Where: Riverside Room, Christensen Center at Augsburg College (or register to view online)

In the last several years we have seen an increase in the use of Holocaust and Nazi comparisons in American politics. For example, Donald Trump is compared to Adolf Hitler on an almost daily basis. The Iranian regime was routinely compared to Nazi Germany during last summer's debate on the Iran nuclear agreement, while some in the gun lobby blame the Holocaust on gun control measures. Nazi comparisons are often made in a variety of issue debates ranging from abortion to climate change. The phenomenon has significant implications for how the Holocaust is remembered, and how history is interpreted. It also has profound impacts on American civil discourse.

Rep. Frank Hornstein (MN House District 61A) spent the last year exploring the issue of Nazi and Holocaust analogies in American politics as a Sabo Fellow with the Sabo Center for Democracy & Citizenship.

To explore this topic more, the Sabo Center for Democracy & Citizenship has partnered with Rep. Hornstein to host a web-based or in-person presentation and discussion entitled, "The Use of the Holocaust and Nazi Comparisons in Contemporary American Politics." The event will be moderated by Rep. Hornstein and will feature a presentation with Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld, Professor of History at Fairfield University.

Those interested may either register to participate in the interactive livestream or attend in person at Augsburg College.

To learn more, visit the Sabo Center blog: http://www.augsburg.edu/sabo/2016/11/21/sabo-fellow-rep-frank-hornstein-to-host-lecture-and-discussion-on-holocaust-and-nazi-analogies-in-american-politics/

Register to participate online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-use-of-the-holocaust-and-nazi-comparisons-in-contemporary-american-politics-tickets-29086697094

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Wednesday: Visiting Lecture on Randomness

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
3:10 - 4:10 PM Old Main 105

Take What You Have Gathered from Coincidence: Understanding and Using Randomness

Matthew Richey
St. Olaf College

Abstract:
What does it mean to be random? We all encounter randomness every day - it is part of how we talk about the weather, sports, and even love. Despite being so familiar, randomness has proven to be an elusive idea to pin down. Even mathematicians have struggled to define randomness, leading to competing and sometimes conflicting definitions. Whatever it is, randomness is a driving force behind many modern computational algorithms. These algorithms --- the Metropolis Algorithm, Markov chain Monte Carlo Methods, and others --- use randomness as the secret ingredient that makes it possible to tackle famously difficult problems such as the Traveling Salesperson Problem and image reconstruction. Using many pictures (and even a few Bob Dylan references), this lecture will reveal the historical quest to define randomness and illustrate how randomness allows us to solve many of today's most challenging applied mathematics problems.

St. Olaf College Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Matthew Richey has taught courses in pure and applied mathematics, computer science, and statistics. He has supervised numerous undergraduate research projects in areas that include neural networks, statistical modeling, and, his favorite, the mathematics of baseball. Richey earned his bachelor of arts degree from Kenyon College in 1981 and his masters of arts and Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Dartmouth College in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He joined the Mathematics Department at St. Olaf in 1986.

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Norwegian Arctic Explorer

TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, November 30, Tobias (Toby) Thorleifsson's big lecture will be held in OGC 100 from 2-3 pm.

Torleifsson is a Norwegian Arctic Arctic explorer, acclaimed historian, sailor, environmental education consultant. He has taken part in a number of Arctic expeditions in Canada, Greenland, and Russia, observing the effects of climate change and melting ice and its impact on wildlife, nature, and society.

COME JOIN US!
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ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE: TODAY TUESDAY November 29:

You are invited to a high level discussion with MN Arctic Explorer Will Steger and Norwegian Arctic Explorer Tobias Thorleifsson at Norway House, 913 East Franklin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55404, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm.

Free admission for students!

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Save the Date - Faculty Staff Holiday Party: 12/15

Save the Date for the 2016 Faculty & Staff Holiday Party!

December 15, 2016
3:00pm-5:00pm
Christensen Center Lobby/Einsteins/Student Art Gallery

Happy Holidays!

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Cooking and Canning Class

Learn to preserve produce. We will make kale kimchi and tomatillo sauce. Take a jar home with you.
Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7:30pm 

FREE 

We will meet by the Campus Kitchen closet located on the second floor of Christensen by the kitchen. See you there! 

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Velkommen Jul is Friday, December 2

Velkommen Jul is an annual celebration at Augsburg, presented by the Augsburg Associates, to welcome the Advent and Christmas seasons. It provides an opportunity for alumni, friends, faculty, students and the greater Augsburg community to come together and celebrate the Scandinavian heritage on which Augsburg was founded. The celebration begins at 10:40 a.m. with A Scandinavian Christmas Celebration in Hoversten Chapel. We welcome Nordic musicians Erik Rydvall & Olav Luksengård Mjelva, who play traditional Scandinavian instruments in new ways (http://www.rydvallmjelva.com/en/ ). We will also sing Swedish, Danish and Norwegian carols together. A reception and boutique follow in Christensen Center at 11:00. You may find that perfect Christmas present at the boutique and there will be goodies galore at the bake sale. On second floor of Christensen, in the Commons, you'll find many beautiful ladies dressed in traditional bunads waiting to serve you their delicious treats. Your free-will monetary donations will go to support the Associates' scholarship program for Augsburg students. Please join us and wear your Norwegian sweater!

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Theatre Dept. : Passing Strange Info Meeting

This spring, the Augsburg Theater Department is proud to present the musical Passing Strange, guest directed by Jamil Jude, a freelance director, producer, playwright, and dramaturg based out of Minneapolis

Auditions for Passing Strange are in January, but there will be an informational meeting with Jamil and musical director Sonja Thompson on December 5th at 5:00 p.m. in the Foss TV/Film Studio. At the meeting, Jamil and Sonja will talk more about the production and auditions and answer any questions that come up.

Any and all students interested in participating are welcome! No need to be a Theater major or minor. We're eager for you to join us!

If you have any questions about the meeting or the musical more generally, feel free to reach out to theatre@augsburg.edu. If you aren't able to make the meeting but are still interested in auditioning, please get in touch!

Again, the meeting will be on Monday, December 5th at 5:00 p.m in the Foss TV/Film Studio. Hope to see you there!

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Synopsis of Passing Strange:

The play follows a Black young man in his journey to find "The Real." For him, he recognizes that his middle-class, raised by a single mom, pseudo-religious, suburban L.A. lifestyle doesn't resemble the type of life he wants. So he sets out on a journey that takes him to Amsterdam and Germany, gets him involved with several rock and roll and avant garde street bands, introduces him to drugs and sex with strangers, all in hopes of arriving at something "real." While he finds fulfillment along the journey, he loses touch with his mother. The play asks us to consider the costs of searching for "the real." It's a rock musical that's really aware of itself. It's steeped in the connection between Blues, Gospel and Rock and Roll. The show does not shy away from issues of race, sexuality, religion, and family but does so from the perspective of a witty Black musician.

Jamil Jude's website: http://www.jamiljude.com/bio/

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Morning Chapel: Communion & Chapel Brass

Join us for worship in the chapel as we begin our Advent Series, "Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life," with a service of Holy Communion. Musicians: The Chapel Brass.

Advent Chapel Series Continues: Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life

Wednesday, 11/30, 10:40am: President Paul C. Pribbenow preaching. Musicians: Erika Svanoe, Alex Olson, Sadie Paulsen, Elizabeth Whalen - woodwind quartet; and Italian Diction students.

Thursday, 12/1, 11:30am: World Aids Day Rev. Greg Renstrom preaching, board member of MN Aids Project. Musician: Abby Salmonson, oboe.

Friday, 12/2, 10:40am: Velkommen Jul Scandinavian Christmas celebration featuring Nordic musicians Erik Rydvall & Olav Luksengård Mjelva. Remember to wear your Norwegian sweater and be ready to sing along!

We gather in Hoversten Chapel - Everyone is welcome.

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