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Out-of-state students will see 7 percent tuition increase Trent Opstedahl
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While South Dakota resident college students are breathing easier due the finalization of the 2014-2015 tuition freeze approved by the South Dakota Board of Regents, out-of-state students will have to scrounge their wallets in order to adjust to a seven percent increase in outof-state tuition costs.
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The SDBOR met April 2-3 in Madison and officially set tuition and fees for the upcoming school year, with no changes to in-state tuition and fees. The estimated cost of tuition for a resident undergraduate student enroll-
ing in 30 credit hours during the 2014-2015 school year is $16,154. Nearly $4 million was appropriated by the state Legislature in order to make the tuition buy down possible. The buy down alleviates some
HOW DOES THE TUITION FREEZE WORK?
A tuition freeze means state resident students, or students who receive reciprocity, will not pay more for tuition and fees than they did for the prior year.
of the largest costs associated with tuition rates, such as inflation, operating expenses, faculty salary increases and health insurance costs. Janelle Toman, director of comm u n i c a tions for the SDBOR said the SDBOR
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lobbied diligently to convey the importance of a tuition buy down to Governor Dennis Daugaard and state Legislators. "The request to freeze tuition for resident students was the Board of Regents number one priority as we were putting together our budget for the upcoming fiscal year," she said. However, the tuition buy down was not large enough to
also cover out-of-state tuition costs for students. "It was certainly not preferable to have anyone pay increasing costs, but when we looked at the bottom line of what we were going to have to request of the Legislature to support the freeze, we were already up to $4 million to pay for the tuition buy down for resident students," Toman SEE TUITION, PAGE A6
CHANGING GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
"In the media, every time they talk about Africa they talk about wars, rape, famine and all that. We wanted to show another picture, a picture where you show people building something — a better future, a bright side of Africa." -Nicoll Saboukoulou, president of the African Student Association
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The Volante is changing its mindset: This semester we've embraced a cleaner, mobilefirst way of thinking. We're not just focusing on the print edition anymore — we're bringing the news to you as it happens, through our website. In order to do that, we needed to change our website design to make it better for college students. Not only is it more visually appealing, it's responsive to your mobile devices, something our old site could not do. It's not good enough just to get out a print edition once a day or once a week. Journalism is about telling a story in the best way possible, and in this day that means through photos, videos and sound bites that are all online first. By adapting to the change, we get the news to our readers faster, making it more convenient, visually appealing and interesting to you. Now this certainly doesn't mean we're getting rid of the print edition. It's still a valuable product to us, and something all of us at The Volante take a lot of pride in. We're simply pushing ourselves to get you the news faster. We would love to hear your feedback, and you can do so by tweeting with #NewVolante.
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Nicoll Saboukoulou, president of the African Student Association, quizzes African Celebration Night attendees over facts about the continent of Africa and its people.
Malachi Petersen
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Food derived from African culture passed between the hands of students, faculty and community members as per-
formances depicting culture and dance were presented, all in an effort to convey Africa is a continent filled with more than just war and famine. The African Student Associa-
tion hosted its second annual African Night, "Africa: The Rainbow Continent," April 13 in the Muenster University Center ballroom. The event, which drew a crowd of about 50, is a cel-
ebration of African culture. During the event, attendees were seated at decorated tables with a single centerpiece decoration SEE AFRICA, PAGE A6
Student organization funding under SGA comittee review Josie Flatgard and Trent Opstedahl
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Student Government Association senators read aloud 46 budget allocation bills during its April 15 meeting. The bills will undergo their second reading April 22 before being voted on.
The Student Government Association is one step closer to allocating $186,131.50 to nearly 50 University of South Dakota funding-eligible student organizations for fiscal year 2014 2015. Senators heard the first readings of 46 budget allocation bills pertaining to small organizations, large organizations and club sports April 15. In order for the allocations to be approved, a second reading will take place April 22. Each bill will then be voted on for approval. Any amendments to the bills will also be made at this time. SGA business manager Katie Staley, who oversaw the entire allocation process, said the allocations committee tried their best to allocate funds
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fairly among each student organization. "It just depends on how reasonable the request is," she said. In each budget request, the student organization was to make a list of line items explaining how the allocated funds would be spent. Staley said this helps the committee better discern the necessity of funds being allocated to each organization. The amount of student interaction each student organiza-
WHO SERVES ON THE BUDGET COMMITTEE?
Non-voting members: Katie Staley, Tyler Tordsen Voting members: Dustin Santjer, Michael Buchanan, Lyndsay Claussen, Micaela Duch, Leah Gleason, Jamie Rykhus, Muhammad Suria
tion has with the student body is also one of the top factors the committee considers. Prior to being presented to SGA for their first readings, the budget allocation bills underwent the first of two hearings April 11. The six-hour hearing entailed the committee meeting with the student organizations to discuss their budget proposals. During the hearing, student organizations also presented brief reports about the happenings of their group. "A lot of student organizations were very realistic in their proposals," Staley said. "Doing the hearing in one day was very beneficial." The allocations committee consisted of a seven-member SEE BUDGET, PAGE A6
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