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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
SGA tackles bylaws, talks adjustment Nathan Ellenbecker The Volante
The University of South Dakota Student Government Association is working to fix a number of outdated laws and guidelines concerning control over student organizations and fiscal responsibility. FISCHBACH During the group’s first meeting Sept. 3, Club Lacrosse President Alex Peterson confronted SGA, looking for a donation to go towards purchasing helmets for the club to use this coming season. The request for helmets was turned down, because the club is ineligible for funding for not being an active club for at least one year and did not originally list helmets as a line item. However, during discussion it became apparent a few points and procedural instructions in the SGA fiscal guidelines as well as the appropriation guidelines for club sports are no longer current. SGA Business Manager Kara
'ONWARD' TO $250 MILLION University fundraising campaign goes coast to coast in search of donors Trent Opstedahl and Alex Schaefbauer The Volante
University of South Dakota leaders are a quarter of the way through completing a seven-year, $250 million fundraising campaign, making it the largest philanthropic drive in the university’s history. A comprehensive campaign impacting the entire USD campus, the “Onward South Dakota” campaign is expected to increase student scholarship funds, attract and retain a more diverse faculty, maintain student and program enrichment endowments and fuel capital revitalization projects, said USD Foundation President Steve Brown. “This campaign is more far reaching to more constituencies than others (fundraising campaigns) may have been before,” Brown said. “…Our sights are set higher than ever before.” Now in its silent phase, Brown noted "Onward" has raised nearly $75 million in gifts and pledges since its launch Jan. 1, 2012. Averaging about $1 million each week, Brown said the foundation is aiming to surpass the $134 million mark by Dakota Days 2014, when the campaign officially goes public. PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAM MCMAHON AND TRENT OPSTEDAHL
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"ONWARD SOUTH DAKOTA" BY THE NUMBERS: THE PHILANTHROPIC AGENDA
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Museum set to expand, fulfill brand Austin Ashlock and Creighton Hoefer The Volante
Upon arriving at the National Music Museum last November, Cleveland Johnson, the institutions second director in its 40-year existence, was faced with a number "daunting" challenges. "I quickly realized the museum had a corJOHNSON ner to turn," Johnson said. "We had to decide whether to keep on keeping on, or take the chance to reevaluate the institution, it's setting, it's era and it's cultural impact." Choosing the latter, Johnson set out, not to renovate the historical institution, but to fulfill its national title. "Our biggest challenge is how to breakout and kind of get out from under that bushel that (the museum) has had for many years," Johnson said. "We want to live up to our national name."
$112 MILLION in capital projects
$97 MILLION in student scholarships
$29 MILLION in faculty support
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Unofficial partnership benefits county EMS, university students Michael Geheren The Volante
Heard, not seen However, before Johnson and his staff can concern themselves over garnering national recognition, their most up front obstacle is right outside their door. Located on the campus of the University of South Dakota, Please see MUSIC, Page A8
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Jordana Lamb, physician assistant student and EMT at Vermillion-Clay County EMS prepares a stretcher to make ambulance 19-9A ready for an emergency call.
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Student musicians featured on area band's newest album.
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Merritt Groh is one of eight students from the University of South Dakota volunteering for the Vermillion-Clay County Ambulance Department. Vermillion’s ambulance department responds to approximately 800 calls per year, and is staffed 24 hours a day with two ambulances on duty at all times. About half of the roster is made up of university students, said former Emergency Medical Service Director Lee Huber. Groh discovered a passion of medicine by working for the department. When he was an undergraduate student at USD, his degree was secondary education in history with a minor in physics. His master’s degree was for public administration. Now he is finishing his clinical rotations to be a physician assistant, a career he did not think about when he started. Huber calls the job opportunities a revolving door. Students come in their first year and are typically trained in Vermillion as an Emergency Medical Technician. He said many move on to medical school, physician assistant school, nursing school or
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Joey James fills men's basketball coaching shoes after Boots retires.
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their career at their end of time as an undergraduate. “Rather than looking at that as one of the obstacles, the last couple years, we have embraced it,” Huber said. While there is no official partnership between USD and the city of Vermillion for an EMT program, many students who are planning on attending graduate programs in medical areas choose to volunteer with the department, said Huber. Senior Nicole Gulley plans on attending medical school next year, and she is also an instructor for the EMT class held at the Vermillion Ambulance department and is the president of the Vermillion/Clay County Ambulance Association. “It’s really beneficial to start getting patient contact and actually interacting with patients,” Gulley said. “You get a little more experience and you get to know, yes, you want to be in the medical field.” The department provides emergency medical services for the majority of Clay County including Vermillion, said Huber. Students play a vital role in the department’s success. There are Please see AMBULANCE, Page A6