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OCTOBER 23, 2013
Abbott says USD will not tolerate racism
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Retired USD professor guides students to a stable economic path Creighton Hoefer The Volante
Perhaps the best thing in life isn’t free, but instead being financially ‘free.’ At least that’s what Robert Reinke hopes to demonstrate in his upcoming course at the University of South Dakota. “I want people to understand how great it feels to be financially literate and financially free so they don’t want to go back to being in debt and making poor decisions,” he said.
Stay committed “It doesn’t take a long time and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to develop a plan but it does take a commitment."
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Strollers members ride their float in the Dakota Days homecoming parade. Nathan Ellenbecker and Megan Card The Volante
President James Abbott said Tuesday in a release by the University of South Dakota that “insensitive remarks and rude treatment of minority groups on campus” will not be tolerated by the university. Abbott’s comments were incited by an incident reported during the university’s homecoming, when student organization Strollers admitted that members on their Dakota Days float taunted USD student Alexis
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Robert Reinke, emeritus faculty member at the Beacom School of Business
Oskolkoff and her 9-year-old son for wearing traditional Native American regalia. The students reportedly yelled out, “Look at those Indians,” and began making war whoops with their hands to their mouths. Lindsay Sparks, assistant director of student life, said students within Strollers have done everything asked of them to make up for this incident — which Abbott described as deplorable in the release. Sparks Please see STROLLERS, Page A8
VPD denies open record request in reported assault Museum design plans 'not “If you get into financial difficulty, there is a way to get out of the financial hole you’ve dug yourself.”
in the spirit of preservation' Levi Gutz The Volante
The National Music Museum may not be seeing as many extra funds as hoped for a planned atrium or “link” between the museum and the South Dakota Union building, said Cleveland Johnson, the museum’s director. The proposed expansion will cost approximately $15 million. The South Dakota State Historical Society in Pierre sent a team to review the plans, Johnson said, and after reviewing the proposed design, they ruled the plans were “not in the spirit of historical preservation.” The museum received a similar ruling from the Clay
County Historical Society in the spring, but Johnson said these rulings do not mean the project is cancelled. For the National Endowment Humanities grant, the ruling may or may not be a problem, he said. “It’s just simply a process that we JOHNSON have to go through because of federal regulations,” he said. “These reviews do not make or break a project. NEH will now have to decide whether or not this is an issue for them.” Johnson said the museum’s
expansion is part of the university’s Capital Campaign, which is putting about $250 million toward improving campus facilities and programs. “We are just another project in there along with the athletic facilities and other buildings on campus,” he said. To help with the construction, the National Music Museum applied for a $500,000 grant from the NEH last year and was accepted last November. Being a recipient of the grant, Johnson said part of the federal regulations for the (NEH) grant require there to be a historic landmark review of the facilities to see if there is any impact on the histori-
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cal site. “Because neither of the existing buildings are on the historic register, they would be ineligible,” Johnson said. “Because they are ineligible, this conversation has to take place.” There is no way to know how long NEH’s decision will take, Johnson said, but because of the trouble in Washington it won’t be any time soon. But ultimately, if this funding comes through, Patricia Bornhofen, manager of communications, said the expansion would ideally be a place for people to gather. “We want to create a Please see MUSEUM, Page A8
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The Vermillion Police Department denied a formal open records request Tuesday submitted by The Volante for the initial incident report from an alleged sexual assault in Coyote Village more than two weeks prior. The form denying the request said the report is not subject to the state’s open records law, because the report constitutes as part of the investigation being made by the law enforcement agency. Under the statute given by VPD Chief Matt Betzen on why the request was fully denied, he cited it as an exemption under the condition that the report was “developed or received by law enforcement agencies…and constitute(s) a part of the examination, investigation.” The statute used to deny the request also reads it is at the discretion of the police to
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release information relating to the presence of alcohol or drugs found in a person’s body involved in the report, or a 911 call recording or transcript of the incident if they determine disclosing it to the public outweighs keeping the information private. Betzen confirmed last week the investigation into the reported sexual assault is ongoing, and could take weeks, possibly months, before more information surfaces about the incident reported between two University of South Dakota students Oct. 6. Frank LeMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, said most police departments give out the first page of incident reports. "It is pretty rare for an entire police report to be withheld on the grounds it interferes with the investigation," LeMonte said. Reach reporter Megan Card at Megan.Card@coyotes.usd.edu