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NEWSBRIEFLY 'Ride with Larry' features local man VOLANTE STAFF REPORTS The Coyote Twin and Vermillion Theatre will showcase the documentary, “Ride with Larry” until Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. The film follows Vermillion resident Larry Smith and a group of his family members, friends and supporters as they bike a five-day trip from Aberdeen to Vermillion alongside Smith’s battle with Parkinson’s disease. According to Katie Skow, film coproducer, the filmmaking process took more than three years, one year set aside for the editing room. Betty Smith said the ride was an unforgettable experience, considering people
from as far as California and Florida joined the journey. Directed by Ricardo Villarreal and Andrew Rubin, the film will be followed by a Q&A session with the Smiths, Skow and Tom Black of the South Dakota Film Festival. The film was recently shown at the Monterey International Film Festival in Monterey, Mexico, all three of the screenings were reported to be sold out, according to Skow. The film is being presented by the South Dakota Film Festival and the theater has said it will donate 50 percent of proceeds to South Dakota’s Parkinson’s Association and the Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s.
Kenneth J. Meier, the Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University as well as professor of Public Sector Management at Cardiff University, will speak in the Freedom Forum Conference Room Sept. 19 at 4 p.m. His speech is entitled “Public Administration and the Failure of Politics in the United States” and is sponsored by the W.O. Farber Center for
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Sophomore Jaci Dehner instructs a water aerobics class at the DakotaDome Tuesday. The class is among several aquatic options sponsered by USD that are available to the public , including youth swimming lessons.
Farber speaker takes on political failure VOLANTE STAFF REPORTS
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Civic Leadership and the Political Science League at the University of South Dakota. Meier is the author of over 20 books and 250 articles. His work examines the interplay between politics and public administration. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a Research Fellow at the Danish National Centre for Social Research. The lecture will be free and open to the public.
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USD dubbed militaryfriendly campus
Al Neuharth award postponed to 2014
Sioux Falls processing plant under inspection
Teens targeted for binge-drinking study
The University of South Dakota has been dubbed a “Military Friendly School” by Victory Media for the third consecutive year. Victory Media, the premier media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, placed USD on the 2014 Military Friendly School list, a recognition honoring the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members and veterans as students.
The 27th presentation of the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media is being postponed until next year because the recipient has an unavoidable conflict during the presentation period, which was set for Oct. 3 during the Dakota Days celebration. The award is given annually and recognizes lifetime achievement in journalism and the media. The award is named for Al Neuharth, a 1950 USD journalism graduate who went on to create USA Today in 1982. Past recipients include Larry King, Walter Cronkite and Katie Couric.
Pump failures, broken equipment and leaking pipes were among some of the violations cited by state officials at John Morrell's processing plant in Sioux Falls in 2011. The company has been documented for countless wastewater violations in recent years and will undergo a follow-up inspection later this month to determine whether upgrades and conservation efforts are helping the issues. The company settled a federal case by paying a $206,000 penalty under the Clean Water Act for the way it handled toxic chemicals in its refrigeration.
Binge-drinking amongst high school seniors was at 22 percent in 2005 and has decreased to 18.1 percent in 2011, according to the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. While the percentage of seniors who binge drink has decreased, the percentage of extreme binge-drinking amongst seniors has stayed about the same, which translates to about 15 drinks in one session. Among the research statistics, boys were more likely to binge-drink than girls at a ratio of 24.7 percent to 15 percent.
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