Echo November 15, 1985

              Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Vol. 92, No. 9   Friday, Nov. 15, 1985
The sun sets on a quiet A ugsburg campus. With the passing of the cool, comfortable, Indian summer evenings
come the crisp and biting November nights. Once again we are faced with, and shall endure, winter . . .
—Photo by Sue Thayer
Divestment and Global Center
top regents' agenda
b> Margaret Rog
Decisions to continue reviewing
both Augsburg's Global Serivce
and Education Center and the college's investments in South Africa
were approved at the board of
regents meeting Nov. 4. Board
members also elected to delegate
all immediate decisions on the
future master's program to a standing executive committee.
A yearly audit of the ideological
and academic balance in the
Global Service seminars was
amended to an executive committee's report before the report was
approved. The committee has
been evaluating the program's
credibility in the light of
editorials, critical of the program,
that have appeared in Twin City
newspapers.
"We're at the point where we
need to see the rationale for the
Center spelled out for us," said
regent Donald Padilla. "We'd like
to see a document outlining the
reason for its existence." The
board also suggested that the College Relations office submit a
statement in support of the program to area newspapers.
Treasurer Darrell Egertson
prefaced his report on the finance
committee's recommendations on
divestment by thanking the group
of students and faculty that
brought the issue to the regents'
attention last spring. After months
of investigation, Egertson said,
the committee members have
found there are companies "that
are taking some strong steps in the
right direction."
"To say that GM, 3M, or
Chrysler are bad companies
because they are doing business in
South Africa is not correct,"
Egertson said. "We need to
segregate those that are acting
responsibly from those that are
not."
"There are many sides to this
issue . . . many gray areas . . . this
is the best solution we could come
up with at this time," he said. The
board will consider the Sullivan
Principles, a 1977 code to enforce
desegregation in South Africa, as
"meeting the desired standards of
performance."
Corporations in which the
college holds shares which are at
levels 1 of II on Sullivan's scale
will be retained.
A recommendation by regent
kjell Bergh that the college not
engage itself with companies that
loan money to the South African
government was also approved.
Bergh was the most outspoken
member against any investment
that country.
in
"When, and 1 say not if, but
when, the majority takes power in
South Africa all these investments
will be lost," Bergh said. At the
least, Bergh continued, the college
needs to have a "call-point congruent with Sullivan's principles."
Immediate decisions about the
college's future graduate program
were put under the authority of
the academic affairs committee,
so that necessary deadlines may be
met and the program could possibly be in operation by next fall.
Vice President of Finance and
Management Wayne Pederson
also announced the purchase of
the house on 7th Street and 23rd
Ave. for which the college paid
$99,000. Pederson added thai the
closing of 7th Street has been approved by the city.
An Echo editorial board of
students, faculty, and regents was
also approved.
Echo index to aid
in portfolio search
by Dan Malloy
Just completed this fall is a new
addition to the Augsburg Echo.
Over the past four years a team of
advanced student writers and
editors under the supervision of
Boyd Koehler, faculty advisor,
have prepared an index to the
school paper. Work on this project has served as the focus for
four internships.
The index, including complete
listings by both author and subject
from the Echo issues between the
fall of 1974 and spring of 1985, is
roughly 200 typewritten pages
long. The double-column format
was modeled after the standardized Wilson Co. periodical indexes
like Reader's Guide.
Practical applications of such
an index are manifold. Current
students or alumni seeking jobs
can use ihe index as a shortcut for
locating writing samples for portfolios for prospective employers,
for example.
"Even during its embryonic
siage several years ago, the index,
then in card form, filled many requests by students for portfolio
material," said koehler.
Another use of the index is to
find articles relating to institutional history. "The index, like
Carl Chrislock's book, From
Fjord to Freeway, will provide access to history of buildings on
campus,   past   school   policy   in
numerous areas, political mood
swings on campus, and
biographical material on current
and past faculty, administrators
and students," koehler said.
"The index will have far-reaching
archival significance for future
faculty and student research," he
added.
koehler is considering eventually extending the index back to the
Echo's beginnings in 1898. "The
sheer volume of work and supervision involved in such a project,
together with the bilingual
obstacle posed by the issues in the
early 1900s, however, will retard
completion," he finished.
The Echo index is a pioneer effort among Twin Cities college
newspapers. Only the University
of Minnesota Daily has ventured
into an indexing system, but theirs
is a temporary author and subject
card file, which, because of its
bulk, is disposed of after a year's
time.
Partial funding for the project,
at the time of the index's inception, came from a $300 ALC
Faculty Growth Award to koehler
in 1980.
Copies of the completed index
will be available shortly in the
Echo office, at the library circulation desk and in the library archives. Research questions are
welcome.
Liberal arts goals;
success and wealth?
by Jenni Lilledahl
Staff Writer
"Yuppie College. Augsburg can
be proud that it is a Yuppie College ... it is education for affluence." Bradley Holt, associate
professor of religion, was the impetus behind these statements that
appeared in recent issues of the
Update.
Holt is a member of the Christian faith and liberal arts education committee. The purpose of
this group Holt said, is "(to) on
occasion, discuss issues of Christian faith in liberal arts and to
continue discussion throughout
the year."
Last year, the committee
members decided to have an essay
contest on the topic of Christian
education. They came up with the
controversial topic: "Success,
Wealth and Happiness: The Goals
of Lutheran Higher Education?"
The date was set for Nov. 7 to
discuss the chosen essay. Holt
then wrote the Update advertisements to rouse attention and
get people thinking.
From 2:45 to 4:30, a group
(mostly faculty and staff) turned
out to discuss whether affluence is
the goal of Lutheran higher
education, ken Bailey, prolessor
of philosophy, began by reading
his essay. Bailey addressed many
sides and possible answers to the
question. He considered the view
of the students (who now, more
lhan ever, say ihey go to college to
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