Campus Update: Emergency drill next week

April 13, 2023

🚨 Campus-wide drill next week

Next Thursday, April 20, Augustana will conduct an emergency drill. To prepare, familiarize yourself with these three key emergency actions:

• Evacuate: Exit the building using designated routes. Don't rush or crowd, and don't use elevators.
• Shelter in place: Proceed to the designated shelter for your building. If a shelter is not indicated, move to an interior room or hall on the lowest floor. Get under a sturdy piece of furniture and stay away from windows.
• Lockdown: Lock your door and stay inside. Close all windows and blinds.

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📰 Announcements

🎉 RSVP for the Vietnam Street Fest on Friday and enjoy traditional Vietnamese food and games.

☪️ The Muslim Student Association will host a community Ramadan iftar dinner Friday evening.

📌 As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Augustana's Public Safety officers will hold an informal Q&A session Friday morning, and international student leaders and staff will hold a virtual panel discussion next Thursday.

🎼 Two music ensembles will perform on Saturday: the Augustana Choir will perform at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport at 2 p.m., and the Augustana Symphonic Band will perform on campus in Centennial Hall at 7 p.m.

🗺️ Augustana's Sierra Club will lead an exploration of the Maquoketa Caves on Sunday and a presentation from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance next Thursday.

🌅 Augustana community members who have directly experienced a loved one's incarceration are invited to a breakfast gathering on Monday.

🤹 Dr. Steve Butler, professor of mathematics at Iowa State University, will present a mathematical analysis of juggling next Thursday.

🎶 Next week Augustana's OperX will perform "Amahl and the Night Visitors" (April 21, April 23) and "Stolen Scenes" (April 20, April 22). 

📰 Headlines

• Steve and Jane Bahls create Nelly Cheboi scholarship

• Vikings and opera - beyond the cliché

• Augustana juniors selected for Texas Medical Center internship

🎉 Congrats to these award winners!

• CORE career coach Jessica Estes recently won the Outstanding Emerging Professional Award from the American College Personnel Association's Coalition for Women's Identities. Estes is the lead for shepherding Augustana women through PLEN, a program for female students to experience firsthand how public policy is shaped and implemented at the national level.
• Junior Laurence Pavlik received the Eta Sigma Phi H.R. Butts Scholarship for Fieldwork in Classical Archaeology. Pavlik was also elected Megale Prytanis (president) of Eta Sigma Phi's national organization and received an honorable mention for his paper "De Deis Naturae" at the honor society's annual convention last month.
• At the annual Classical Association of Middle West and South convention in Provo, Utah, juniors Allie Anderson and Laurence Pavlik received the Manson A. Stewart Undergraduate Award, and sophomore Iratze Acaves received the Rudolph Masciantonio Diversity Award.