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Two USD student-athletes charged with rape were bailed out of jail Tuesday afternoon.

Football players Danny Rambo, a junior, and Dale Williamson, a sophomore, were charged with one count of second degree rape and one count of attempted second degree rape, respectively.

Rambo’s bond was set at $25,000 and Williamson’s was set at $20,000.

According to the affidavit for arrest, the initial complaint was made by someone other than the victim.

It states, “The victim was very reluctant about having an investigation started due to the backlash she believed she would suffer from the football team, student population and community.”

Around 10:26 p.m., after watching a movie in senior Adam Harris’ bedroom, the victim’s friends left the residence, according to the affi-

davit. Rambo and Williamson left the bedroom as well.

The victim stated that she and Harris began to have consensual sex. During that time, the affidavit states Rambo and Williamson entered the bedroom without the victim’s knowledge.

Without the victim’s consent or knowledge, Rambo approached her from behind and inserted his fingers into her vagina.

The affidavit said he left the room after the victim stopped him.

Williamson attempted on two occasions to force the victim to give him oral sex. The victim told Harris to get Williamson out of the room.

He left and later reentered, and the victim again told Harris to get him to leave, the affidavit said.

“The victim stated that Adam (Harris) did not seem surprised at all that Danny (Rambo) and Dale (Williamson) entered the room while they were having sex and he did not initiate asking Danny (Rambo) or Dale (Williamson) to

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leave the room,” according to the affidavit.

There are no charges against Harris at this time, but he is still suspended from the football team.

Khara Iverson, USD’s Chief Title IX Officer, is conducting her own investigation into the complaint.

“They are not suspended from school, they have been previously indefinitely suspended from football, and that was a decision made by coach Nielson for violation of their football policy,” she said. “So right now I can’t speak about an ongoing investigation because that is exactly what it is.”

The circumstances in which a student who’s charged with sexual

assault would be suspended are determined on a “case by case basis,” she said.

“I can’t really comment on that because of the ongoing investigation that we currently have,” she said.

Iverson was unable to comment on safety concerns for the victim.

In an article by Keloland, vice president and dean of students Kim Grieve acknowledged that the victim could run into the two men that are charged with raping her.

“There is a chance that could happen, absolutely,” she said.

Grieve also said in the article the victim does have the option to ask for interim measures to be taken in the meantime, if she has any concerns about running into the football players on campus. So far that hasn’t happened.

Once she receives a complaint, the administrative investigation normally takes 20 business days, Iverson said.

“However, if there is good rea-

son or cause to extend that time period, all parties involved will be updated and told the reason why it was being extended,” she said.

One reason why an investigation may be delayed is if a party is unable to cooperate or participate in the investigation, Iverson said.

“We can also delay any type of investigation if there is a concurrent criminal investigation during that fact-finding period,” she said.

This is done so as not to interfere with a criminal investigation, Iverson added.

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Rapper Macklemore performs to an energetic crowd in the Sanford

Coyotes Sports Center Tuesday night.

“It’s Halloween,” he said at the beginning of the concert. “I want to get weird.”

Center for Diversity & Community holds discussion following faculty departure Cheyenne Alexis

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Following the departure of former intercultural programming coordinator Lena Tran, the Center for Diversity & Community held a two-hour open discussion on moving forward as a community.

About 15 students attended the discussion on Sunday.

S o m e topics discussed were the future of the CDC, how to move forward with event planning and a d d re s s i n g u n we l c o mTRAN ing feelings in the CDC. Adetokunbo Oredein, director of the CDC, said the meeting was a crucial step in this transition process.

“We had a vital part of our team leave and go to another part in her journey, and when a vital part of a small team leaves, people feel like it’s not going to be the same,” Oredein said.

Tran’s departure, however, was not the major point of the meeting. It wasn’t explained when or if a replacement search will begin.

“We had to just have a conversation,” said Marcus Destin, a sophomore.

One topic discussed was student involvement at the CDC. “Everybody has their comfort zone, their comfort space, their comfort people,” Oredein said.

Destin said the CDC needs to move forward and get rid of negativity.

“How we execute things from here on out needs to be strategic, because we’re already in this box, figuratively and literally, this glass house,” he said. “Us destroying it from the inside doesn’t do any good.”

Open communication was another topic discussed.

“Sometimes our students don’t talk to each other — they talk, but they don’t talk to each other,” Oredein said. “We wanted an open forum where they could talk about how they were feeling, what they want their space to look like.”

Agustina Callegari, a junior health sciences major, said the discussion was “eye-opening.”

“To hear some of the issues that are happening surprised me because I just never knew people felt negatively,” she said. “I foresee the CDC making a more successful stride to brining more awareness of inclusivity to USD.” Callegari said she hopes that students and administration start working together more.

“I believe it doesn’t just start with us,” she said. “The meeting last night proved that both groups are willing to fight for change, and care for the CDC immensely.”

Oredein said next steps in this process are planning more CDC events, collaborating with different student groups and having conversations.

“We need our students to know that, moving forward, it’s going to look different,” he said.

Destin said it’s imperative for students to “step up” within their organizations.

“If you really want to do something and you really want to be involved and you really want to participate in something, you’ll do it,” he said. “I just always want to make sure that people are happy and that people are comfortable.”

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Brian Burrell (top) conducts research on the biological basis of changes in behavior with a specific focus on changes in pain, specifically nociception. Samuel Sathyanesan (bottom) cinducts research on growth factor molecules relating to psychiatric disorders such as depression.

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The Center for Diversity & Community hosts a discussion about moving forward with programming and student participation Sunday night.

Three faculty members were awarded the 2017 President’s Award for Research Excellence on Oct. 4. Recipients were selected by the university and external reviewers based on research accomplishments, publications and grant success.

This award serves as a grant valued at $3,000 to faculty members for continuing their research.

Brian Burrell

Brian Burrell, professor of basic biomedical sciences, teaches introduction to neurobiology.

Burrell got his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. from Ohio State University and did his post doctorate at the University of Miami School of Medicine and at Purdue University.

Burrell received the established faculty award for his See AWARDS, Page A3

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Students perform at The Varsity Pub for an event called “Ghosts, Real and Imagined: The Spooky Stuff That Haunts Us” Monday night.

City of Vermillion Police Blotter Highlights >> Oct. 22-28

2 Oct. 22 Officers responded to a report theft from a local convenience store. Video surveillance showed the suspect taking alcohol without paying. Charges have been referred to the States Attorney.

Oct. 22 Officers responded to a welfare check request from an outside agency. Officers made contact with the individual and offered assistance.

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reported fights Oct. 23 Officers responded to a check welfare request.

Officers made contact with the subject and found everything to be in order.

Oct. 23 received a Officers report of damaged property. The case is under investigation.

Oct. 23 Officers are investigating a sex crime report.

Oct. 24 Officers responded to a reported fight in pro-

gress. Officers found that one subject was trying to engage in a fight while the other subject was trying to avoid the fight. Officers arrested the subject trying to fight.

Oct. 24 Officers made contact with a wanted person.

Officers arrested the subject without incident.

Oct. 25 Officers received a sex crime report. It is under investigation.

COYOTEHistory 1969

1931 G.R. Albertson, dean of the School of Medicine died suddenly from a heart attack. The Vermillion native was 45 years old.

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sex crimes reported

Thomas James Whitehawk was convicted of killing Vermillion jeweler James Yeado on March 24, 1967. He was sentenced to death in 1968 with the execution to be set for February 1969. He filed for communtation on Nov. 15, 1968.

hit & run

Oct. 25 Officers received a court order to place a patient in protective custody for mental evaluation. They found the patient and placed them in protective custody.

report of shoplifting where the subject was detained.

Officers discovered the subject had trespassed on the property before & had stolen items. The subject gave Officers a false name and was arrested.

Oct. 25 received a Officers report of suspicious activity with an identified suspect. The case is under investigation.

Oct. 27 Officers responded to a local restaurant for a panic alarm. Officers discovered no emergency; an employee pressed the button on accident.

Oct. 25 Officers assisted other agencies with a welfare request. The subject was located and transported to the emergency room for treatment.

Oct. 26 Officers responded to a call for medical assistance.

Officers remained on scene until the patient was transported by ambulance.

Oct. 26 received a Officers report of a hit & run on private property.

The suspect’s vehicle was located and the driver admitted to the hit & run. Charges are pending.

Oct. 26 Officers responded to a

Oct. 27 Officers responded to a dispute between persons downtown at a local bar.

One of the subjects was arrested for an outstanding warrant.

Oct. 28 Officers responded to a reported fight in progress.

Officers detained both subjects. Charges are pending.

Oct. 28 Officers responded to an accident east of Vermillion.

South Dakota Highway Patrol and Clay County Sheriff’s Office responded as well as Vermillion Fire & Rescue and Clay Area EMS.

One person was transported to the emergency room for injuries.

Oct. 28 A caller reported finding a woman on the roadside with a laceration to her head. An officer contacted the woman, who was intoxicated and had fallen.

Officers provided care until the ambulance arrived.

Oct. 28 respond Officers ed to a report of a fight outside a bar downtown.

Investigation resulted in the arrest of one of the men for aggravated assault and an outstanding warrant.

Oct. 28 An officer saw two men in an alley. They attempted to hide some alcohol as the officer approached. Both men were underage and had been consuming alcohol. Both men were cited.

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DakotaDome renovations to be completed by 2020 Cheyenne Alexis

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A $26 million project, DakotaDome renovations will likely begin by next year.

By about 2020, the west side of the Dome will have new entrances’ storage space, new facilities for locker rooms, offices and meeting rooms and updated HVAC electrical, lighting, speakers and plumbing systems.

Emily Badura, a junior elementary education major, said these upgrades will impact the Dome’s

atmosphere.

“Even though those things may seem small, not a big deal to us, they contribute to the overall experience of watching the game, which is important,” Badura said.

The initial planning process for the renovations began about a year ago.

“When we first started the planning process for the new arena, the Dome renovations were part of that process,” said David Herbster, USD’s athletic director.

“We realized not only was it going to cost more money

at that point in time, but we weren’t sure how all the pieces would fall together.”

The cost for renovations went down from $30 million.

“You just have to work really, really hard to make sure you keep in what you absolutely need to have in the project,” Herbster said.

Herbster said they planned to have the Sanford Coyote Sports Center up and running for about a year before moving on to Dome renovations.

“Then we have a better idea of what’s usable, what’s

not usable, what are some of the traffic or flow patterns,” he said.

Herbster said USD is searching for a permanent architect, who they hope to have “by the end of the calendar year.”

“Then we’ll go through and try to define how this is all going to fit together,” he said.

The plan will still need to go through the legislature next session to get approval for the comprehensive plans, Herbster said.

“Finishing the Dome” is

something Herbster is excited for.

“When the Dome was originally built, both sides were supposed to look like the permanent seating side — there were supposed to be entrances on that side,” he said.

Madison Godschalk, a junior secondary education major, said she attends football games often. Upgrading the Dome will be a great change to USD, she said.

“No one’s really going to want to go to a place that isn’t going to have the cor-

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The initial planning for renovations on the DakotaDome began last year and will likely be completed in 2020.

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research on the biological basis of changes in behavior, with a specific focus on neurobehavioral changes related to pain.

“Most of my research works on what changes inside the brain in order to produce a change in behavior,” Burrell said. “For example, how do synapses change in relation to after we’ve undergone a painful event?

A lot of the research I’m focused on is what’s called nociception, or the sensory component of pain, not the emotional component of pain.”

Burrell said his research could improve future therapies for treating pain.

“When we receive a nociceptive stimulus or a painful stimulus, we’re often more sensitive afterward, so what are the mechanisms that mediate that? On the flip side, our brains have inborn ways to control pain or reduce it, so I’m also interested in what those mechanisms are,” he said. “If we understand those processes, we might understand and be able to develop better therapies to treat pain in the future.”

Samuel Sathyanesan

Samuel Sathyanesan is a basic professor of biomedical sciences and a neuro-

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Soonhee Roh conducts research on vulnerable populations and diverse people including Native American. scientist. He teaches a wide variety of classes, including molecular biology of the gene, neurobiology of disease, cardiovascular sciences and foundations of nervous system.

Sathyanesan got his bachelor’s degree in zoology, master’s in zoology with fisheries and an emphasis in human genetics and then his Ph.D. for biotechnology in India. He also received a second Ph.D. at Notre Dame, followed by his post doctorate at Yale University.

Sathyanesan received the research innovation &

entrepreneurship award for his research on growth factor molecules in the brain, and how they relate to psychiatric disorders such as depression. “(I’m) trying to understand how they work, but falling in one central hypothesis, which has to do with antidepressants as well as depression affecting levels of these protein molecules called neurotrophic factors,” he said. “These proteins are responsible for the health and nourishment of neurons in the brain and their structure and function.”

Halloween in the Halls an ‘exciting’ experience for first-year students

This year, $4,000 was allotted for Halloween in the Halls candy.

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Costumed children trickor-treated down the halls of North Complex Monday night for Halloween in the Halls.

Sponsored by the Residence Hall Association (RHA), students sign up to hand out candy in their residence halls in North Complex.

Students are provided candy and a door sign

by RHA and the hous-

ing department. This year $4,000 was allotted for purchasing candy at Hy-Vee. Sarah Liddell, the residence hall director for Richardson and Olson and adviser for RHA, said the main goal of the event is “to give to the community and have the community visit the residence halls.”

Brittany Goodall, a firstyear student, said she enjoys the excitement the children have for Halloween.

“I love to see the smile

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on their face when they get candy,” Goodall said.

Duña Vanderhorst, a first-year student, handed out candy on third floor Richardson. She said this was a unique experience for her.

“I’m a foreign student — I am from the Netherlands — and this is probably the only Halloween I will ever experience,” she said. “I thought, ‘This is a good way of seeing how it is.’”

rect plumbing, or the correct facilities,” Godschalk said.

Herbster said these renovations are important for “fan amenities.”

“You’ve got to make it a space and an environment not only they want to come to, but they want to return to as well,” he said. “The Dome has been an iconic facility in the state for 38 years now. We need to make sure that we keep this facility to the state that the standard has come to expect, and make sure it is an iconic, usable facility for the foreseeable future.”

Sathyanesan said prolonged stress is a subset of depression, and neurotrophic factors are declining so neurons begin to malfunction and affect behavior.

“Previous studies have shown that people who suffer from depression use stress to try and reproduce facets of depression,” he said. “That’s what’s used in all these models, they found that the level of neurotrophic factors are declining. So when that happens, their neurons begin to malfunction and when that gets affected, behavior gets affected. That’s what you see on the clinical side of depression.”

Sathyanesan’s work is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. His laboratory looks at molecular, cellular and behavioral approaches to look at safer options for the treatment of depression and cognitive

dysfunction. He said antidepressants elevate the levels of neurotrophic factors in the brain.

Soonhee Roh

Soonhee Roh, an associate professor of social work in the health science center in Sioux Falls, received her mid-career faculty award for her research on vulnerable populations such as older adults, acculturative stress and those with health and mental health problems such as substance use.

Her research is funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institute of Health. She’s interested in research relating to diverse ethnic populations such as American Indians.

Roh was unavailable for an interview.

Opinion

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2017

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Students shouldn’t have to live in dorms

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BLAKE JEFFERS is a junior majoring in media & journalism and photography.

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The Student Government Association meets once a week in the Muenster University Center.

Editorial: SGA should do more before semester ends The semester is now half over. People and organizations have been busy. The Student Government Association (SGA), however, seems to be taking things slower.

Recall from last year’s election the platform of now President Teagan McNary and Vice President Josh Anderson.

There were three pillars: increase student involvement, build partnerships with Vermillion and promote inclusiveness.

These are all admirable goals. However, upon looking at this semester’s agendas, one begins to wonder what happened to the platform.

The beginning of the semester saw some activity: There were proposals to implement changing stations and lactation spaces on campus. Several new organizations have received funding.

A couple resolutions have come forth recognizing things like President James Abbott’s successful career, honoring veterans and supporting equal pay in the Summit League.

Perhaps the most important product to some from SGA has been the resolution to establish a needbased scholarship.

While these are all well-

intentioned ambitions which benefit the university, none of them explicitly support the original three pillars campaigned on.

In an article from the beginning of the semester, they said one of the first things they want to address is their first pillar: student involvement, which will be centered around a new program for first-year students. Anderson said the program would be modeled after something called the 60-day challenge where students can have a one-onone experience with student organizations.

It’s a fantastic idea. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any progress.

Promoting student involvement is a worthy goal, but progress has been slow.

As for building partnerships with the Vermillion community, nothing on the agenda even comes close to this goal. If this administration really wants to leave a mark, this is one goal that should be rigorously pursued. It was a good campaign promise: now it should be fulfilled.

Finally, promoting inclusiveness has been lack-luster. The need-based scholarship is a good start, but

there’s still plenty of room to grow.

SGA needs to get back to work. The three pillars campaigned on ought to be erected, not just left on the blueprint sheet. Students look to SGA to improve USD, both in large and small ways.

USD is changing in many ways this year, and SGA could and should play an integral part in ensuring student concerns are always a priority for decision makers. All SGA senators should put more effort into keeping USD a high-quality university.

So far, SGA has done a fairly good job; there’s been progress in some areas.

That being said, the SGA senate should commit to completing the campaign goals set out earlier this semester. SGA shouldn’t just be a line on a resume: members should put forth the time and energy to address their constituents’ concerns, fulfill campaign promises and improve campus life.

McNary and Anderson weren’t available for an interview before this editorial was published.

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The first two years of college are always the hardest. Between balancing time, paying bills and figuring out what they want to do with their lives, it becomes almost too hard for students to bear.

So why are students required to live in the dorms?

USD policy dictates that first- and sophomores are required to live on campus.

In a way, this policy is sabotaging people’s success.

No matter where a student comes from, there’s a culture shock that exists between high school and college.

People must adjust quickly just to keep up.

If a student is required to live in the dorms, studying and even managing time becomes harder.

I remember living in a dorm and hating it. It became harder for me to focus on my academics because there was so much going on.

Between noisy roommates and constant music blasting on the floor above me, I was forced to go to a coffee shop just to get some peace and quiet.

I understand the benefits of living in the dorms.

Friendships are easily made, and countless events and opportunities are available.

Unfortunately, none of that matters if students can’t pass their classes.

Students who pay thousands of dollars to attend college should have the choice of where they want to live. For first-year students especially, they need to find out what’s best for them.

USD isn’t the only college who implements this policy.

Students who pay thousands of dollars to attend college should have the choice of where they want to live.

The University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Augustana are just a few of many in the country with this ridiculous rule.

According to the Washington Post, at least 87 U.S. colleges and universities make first-year students attending college full-time live on campus.

This policy also puts financial stress on students.

If these colleges are forcing first-years and sophomores to live in the dorms and purchase a meal plan, that adds to the already overbearing student loans.

Kelsey Berger, a sophomore health services administration major, said only first-year students should be required to live in dorms.

“There are a small amount of dorms available,” Berger said. “A lot of people get stuck in places they don’t want to be in.”

This is discouraging to me, because every student is different in how they learn.

At the end of the day, the most important thing in college is student learning. The long hours, all-nighters, frantic writing and the occasional nervous breakdown seems irrelevant when a student holds the degree in their hands.

If students are in an environment they don’t like, they can’t possibly succeed.

If USD wants its students to achieve, they need to reevaluate this policy.

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Students are required to live on campus their first two years.

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Here you’ll find the weirdest, funniest and stupidest things we’ve heard during the week. Context is for suckers.

“I don’t like to try very hard, but I like to get good grades.”

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“Did I just get my boob sweat on you?”

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“Thanksgiving is just the pregame for Christmas.”

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“Why is your tongue blue?”

“I ate out a smurf.”

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“I am literally stupid.”

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My perspective as a conservative woman on campus GIANNA MIRANDA is a first-year majoring in Political Science.

Coming from California, I’m used to being that one red speck in the middle of a bunch of blue.

It’s not easy being a conservative woman on a liberal campus.

Most universities are factually more liberal than any other political party in their belief systems and the way they run their schools.

In most of my classes and organizations I’m involved in, I’m afraid to voice my opinions because I’m afraid of being attacked for speaking on behalf

of what I stand for, except for the College Republicans.

This club has meetings once a week, and that’s my one day a week when I don’t have to shelter my feelings and emotions in fear of being judged.

It’s an hour of pure freedom in which I don’t have to shelter myself.

However, when I walk out of that room, it’s back to reality — the reality that this is a liberal campus and conservatives are highly out numbered.

There have been many times in which, even by friends, I’m put down for even using the word “conservative.”

For example, within the first week of being on campus I met an

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Not only being conservative, but also being a Trump supporter as a woman is especially tough.

individual and somehow politics came up. She asked what political party I supported.

When I told her the Republican Party, she said, “That’s fine, I just lost a lot of respect for you.” I haven’t spoken to that individual since that day.

Students should be much more openminded to other political beliefs than just sticking to what they know.

It creates more people who are educated about both sides, and we need

more of those people.

The majority of this campus is left-leaning, and it makes some students feel as if they’re unable to speak politics or that they’ll be looked down upon as human beings.

There are also people who think that just because a conservative is a woman, they shouldn’t even get involved in politics.

But for many young women, one of the biggest reasons why they’re conservative is

because of the powerful women in politics such as Kellyanne Conway and Shantel Krebs.

Not only being a conservative, but also being a Trump supporter as a woman is especially tough.

Many people claim our president is “misogynistic” and “disrespectful to women.”

However, he has some very powerful women who work for him who are nothing but respected by him.

Kellyanne Conway is the counselor to the president. She’s a powerful woman in politics, and it’s so inspiring that she’s such a strong advocate for President Trump.

Another one of the

powerful influences for me is Shantel Krebs, whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting.

She’s running for Congress this coming election.

“I am running for Congress to help Trump deliver results,” she said.

This should inspire more people to have faith in our president and support him through his first term instead of people judging everything he does.

Although this is a liberal county and college, I’m proud to be a conservative and I’ll continue to voice my opinion for all of those too afraid to do so.

USD School of Law deserves more respect on campus SETH GERBERDING is a sophomore majoring in math and philosophy.

Let’s be honest: the USD School of Law has a bad rap around campus.

Talk to faculty and students and it won’t be long before someone says something negative about the law school.

I’ve been told that if I attended the law school, I would be selling out.

The recent debate about moving the law school to Sioux Falls has brought the law school into the spotlight, with one side belittling the law school and the other defending it.

I won’t pretend to be blind to issues facing

the law school, but I also won’t be blind to the good things it does.

Contrary to popular belief, the USD law school actually does a pretty good job.

One thing the law school does is provide a nice scholarship for incoming first-year students. The Law Honor Scholar is a scholarship given to incoming first-years.

These first-years receive automatic acceptance into the law school as long as they complete various requirements in undergrad.

Belittled by some, this scholarship is actually a huge plus. It’s one of the reasons I elected to attend USD. When junior year rolls around and students are thinking about going to law

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Free speech is a wonderful concept, until it’s taken too far.

The springboard is often social media, because it’s easier to say what normally couldn’t be said face-to-face in an area where no one really knows one another.

While yes, everyone’s entitled to their opinion, there’s no excuse for belittling others for having an alternative belief.

Disagreement is a part of human nature, but what needs to be put into consideration is how people disagree and to be aware of how cruel and threatening words sound once they’re written down.

Words hold a lot more power than people think.

Social media is often the place where it’s now dangerous to exchange ideas. Once someone writes something not everyone agrees with, those who disagree attack that person like a pack of piranhas.

Often I look at the political forum on Facebook out of mild curiosity. And then I make the mistake of looking at the comment section.

Every time, I regret looking at what people

have to say, because there are so many negative comments.

Even though people have a right to their opinion, that doesn’t mean it’s morally right to trample on someone else’s opinion.

Senior Xavier Wright said he handles online negative comments differently depending on how hostile they are.

“If it’s about race, I would reply aggressively,” he said.

Wright said he tries to be more sensitive when responding to topics like religions.

“If I don’t know anything on it then I won’t speak on it,” he said.

Other students take a different approach.

If they can’t say anything nice in response to a negative comment, as senior Megan Bartels said, “I usually just ignore them.”

It would be much better if people had something constructive to say, or even politely ask questions. Often when students are online they throw out all human decency and act like small children.

Despite the fact that not all students know everyone on social media, what seems to be forgotten rather quickly, is that they’re human too. They have thoughts and feeling of their own.

Shooting down

USD Law may not be

For a small law school to give undergraduates an opportunity while also providing an affordable education for law students is an admirable achievement, one that deserves recognition.

producing Supreme Court justices, but it does give its student an education worth the price.

For what it’s worth, USD’s law school does a pretty good job. Could they do better? Of course

school, it’s comforting to know USD Law has already (more or less) accepted them.

Having this in the back pocket greatly reduces stress, and while students still have to take the LSAT, the pressure to perform well isn’t as high.

Some people say that, while this scholarship is nice and dandy, the law school as an institution is not that great. I

Being respectful while on social media is important SARAH JONES is a senior majoring in English.

than $20,000 per year.

someone’s opinion just because it doesn’t seem

disagree. Of course, USD is no Harvard — nor should it be — but there’s one list USD is consistently at the top of and Harvard is nowhere to be found.

That list is the National Jurist’s Best Value Law Schools. For the last few years, USD has consistently been in the top 20. In 2017, the law school was ranked the sixth best value law school in the nation.

approach.

There are ways to word opinions online that will diminish the onslaught of aggressive responses.

“There’s absolutely a way to form posts online that won’t offend peoples opinions, but I also don’t believe everyone’s opinion matters, like a Nazi or a rapist,” Wright said.

Students should consider if they would actually speak the words they wrote down out loud if those people on social media were actually in front of them.

“If there was more of an effort to be more respectful then people wouldn’t be as offended,” Bartels said.

Writing should be the equivalent of speaking: ideas should be given a lot of thought before they’re put on display where everyone can see them.

Students should be aware that while they have a right to their opinion, it’s how they word and portray that opinion that matters.

— there’s always room for improvement. But for a small law school to give undergraduates an opportunity while also providing an affordable education for law students in an admirable achievement, one that deserves recognition.

Gerberding is a Law Honor Scholar.

Honesty not always best policy JOE VITO MOUBRY is a sophomore majoring in studio art.

right, or appears to be wrong isn’t the correct

The ranking system compares tuition with other costs with bar passage rates, and job placement rates.

Consider this: for the money, a student gets more bang for their buck by going to USD than to Yale or Harvard, or any Ivy League school for that matter.

Simply look at the numbers: Harvard’s tuition is about $93,000 per year. USD is less

I was raised hearing the saying, “Honesty is the best policy.”

Yet, there are situations when it’s not.

According to PsychCentral, white lies are common in healthy relationships.

Licensed psychologist and relationship expert Susan Orenstein defined a white lie as, “omitting the complete truth to spare someone’s feelings.”

In other words, we can tell the truth if it doesn’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

Another reason why white lies are OK: people want reassurance about what they believe in.

Recently, I came across a post on LinkedIn in which the author suggests most people want what they believe in to be true.

If someone presents information contrary to their beliefs, then the person wants no part in it.

One example of something people don’t want to believe in is global warming.

President Donald Trump has tweeted 115 times between 2011 and Oct. 2015, sharing his skepticism when it comes to global warm, according to Vox. One such tweet from Dec. 13, 2013, stated,

“This is one of the COLDEST WINTERS ever, freezing all over the country for long periods of time! So much for GLOBAL WARMING.” Trump’s skepticism isn’t out of the norm, though.

According to an article on the Weather Channel’s website from March, 30 percent of Americans don’t believe climate change is happening, and only 40 percent of Americans are worried climate change will impact them personally.

Despite the denial in climate change, saying climate change is true isn’t hurting anyone.

In contrast to climate change, sexual orientation and gender identity is a different story.

Coming out of the closet about sexuality is a tough situation to navigate when it comes to the truth.

According to the Pew Research Center, 60 percent of Americans view homosexuality in a positive light as of 2013.

I’ve gotten to know two different people at USD who haven’t come out to their families yet. Both have their reasons as to why they haven’t come out to their families.

Both students have created separate Facebook profiles with their preferred names and as a way to be part of the LGBTQ+ community.

By doing so, both students feel safer.

Possibly one reason

why they haven’t come out of the closet is that parents still reject their children.

Psychology Today has an article that lists reasons not to come out.

One of the reasons not to, according to Psychology Today, is if they’re financially dependent on their parents.

For college students who are a part of the LGBTQ+ community, being financially dependent and coming out of the closet might not be a feasible possibility.

Another realistic possibility as to why they haven’t come out of the closet: the fear of being physically harmed.

Withholding their gender identity or sexual orientation from their parents might be lying by omission, but it provides them with the safety they need to be part of their family.

The fear of being disowned or even harmed by your family for who you are is why honesty is no longer the best policy.

The notion of “honesty is the best policy” only works if you can back the truth with cold, hard facts.

The lies we tell — whether white lies, lies of omission or just plan old lies — don’t have to be justifiable if they keep the peace.

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Saturday (left). Members of both AWOL and the USD chapter of Habitat for Humanity collaborate to build a new home Saturday (right).

Students build a home in Sioux Falls for Make a Difference Day Morgan Matzen

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Seven members from both Alternative Week of Off-Campus Learning (AWOL) and Habitat for Humanity collaborated on Saturday for Make a Difference Day, one of the largest annual single days of service nationwide.

Students traveled to Sioux Falls Saturday morning to build a home on the north end of town. The USD chapter of Habitat partnered with the Sioux Falls branch to fill the need for housing in that area of the community.

“Sioux Falls actually has a pretty sizable lowincome population, as well as a homeless population that’s growing in the city,” said Connor McMa-

hon, president of the USD chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

McMahon, a junior medical biology major from Sioux Falls, said Habitat reaches out to people in need of proper housing.

In Sioux Falls, they mostly build homes in new neighborhood developments on the edge of town.

“What we do is reach out to a family in the community who we see as in need, and then we work with them on minimizing their expenses for a home,” he said. “It’s a good way to reach out, and it helps you see the need for housing in a community.”

Allie Logan, a senior health science major and the president of AWOL, said AWOL wants students to prioritize service learn-

ing.

“We coordinate opportunities for students to be immersed in a new community and really focus in-depth on a social issue that they may not have thought about before,” she said. “We definitely embody what service learning means and how to tackle social issues as a student in South Dakota.”

‘More than being a volunteer’

Claire Hoogland, a sophomore nursing major, serves as a site leader for AWOL. She facilitated the trip to Sioux Falls and helped prepare new AWOL members for the project.

“AWOL is really about active citizenship, which is more than being a volunteer,” Hoogland said.

“It’s being part of your community and knowing the problems, and being able to help rather than just volunteering here and there.”

Hoogland got involved in AWOL last year. She said she learned Clay County is the only food insecure county not on a reservation in South Dakota.

“We went around Vermillion and learned about the poverty and food insecurity that is in Vermillion that affects Clay County,” Hoogland said. “I learned a lot about Vermillion in general, and I met a lot of awesome people.”

She also went to Pine Ridge over spring break with AWOL to serve as a teacher aid and organize donations.

“We got to be inte-

grated into the community and see little kids and help out, so that was fun,” Hoogland said.

Hoogland said the people of Pine Ridge were grateful for AWOL’s service.

“They thanked us beyond what we deserved because they were astounded by what we wanted to do,” she said. “It’s kind of menial work, but they were just astounded that we wanted to help wherever we could and after that, they want us back.”

Hoogland plans to become a nurse after graduating. She said she wants to go back to Pine Ridge and serve the community there.

“They’re super understaffed at the medical cen-

ter they have, and it would be awesome to just go and volunteer there for a year or so,” she said.

Bailey Zimmerman, a sophomore health services administration major, recently joined AWOL. She said it was her first time on a service-learning trip.

“It’s great to see what you’re doing firsthand and how it affects people,” Zimmerman said. “(I like) getting to know different people around campus that I never would have crossed paths with. It’s really fun to get to know each other and to get to work as a team to create something that will help another family.”

Dark Matter Day showcases research Dustin VanHunnik

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Blake Jeffers I The Volante Junior Megan Feerich, (above), attends a lecture during Dark Matter Day. Joel Sander,

assistant professor of phsyics, discusses his research on the detection of dark matter on Monday (below).

The USD department of physics hosted Dark Matter Day to educate more students on its research about a relatively unknown topic.

About 100 students and faculty snacked on dark chocolate and asked questions after listening to a lecture on the dark matter research that’s being conducted on campus.

USD professors Joel Sander and Dongming Mei led the Monday event with lectures on dark matter, its detection and their research.

“Internationally, there are activities going on and there are the two biggest dark matter experiments in the U.S.,” Sander said.

“Dongming and I are involved in one and I’m involved with the other, so how can you not (hold the event)? This has been a lifetime’s worth of work of researching, so it’s exciting to get a chance to share what’s dear to my heart.”

Sander works with the SuperCDMS dark matter search experiment, which has the world’s highest sensitivity to low-mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).

Sander said his research will prove if WIMPS are a

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I think a lot of people learned a lot of new stuff about (dark matter).

If new events do come, there will be more people curious to know more about it.

Nick Rabern, junior business management major

component of dark matter in the next 10 years.

Mei leads the effort in researching germanium and dark matter detectors while collaborating with scientists worldwide in experiments at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF).

Mei also leads PIREGEMADARC, which is also a worldwide collaboration that develops germanium detectors for searching for dark matter.

Junior business management major Nick Rabern said he thinks the event was well-attended.

“I think a lot of people learned a lot of new stuff about it,” he said. “If new events do come, there will be more people that are curious to know more about it.”

Sander said the next planned event is the Astronomy Day lecture

that will take place in April.

“Often times we’ve had very good speakers,” he said. “We’ve had astronauts, we’ve had Nobel laureates and we just about a month ago had the Nobel Prize winner in physics here before the laureate was announced, so it will be good.”

Junior marketing major Jake Stotts said he learned a lot from the discussion.

“I think they brought up a lot of good points, knew their stuff and how to deliver it,” he said. “Not many people know very much about dark matter, even the scientists themselves. So I think it’s really interesting to go to an event like this where they talk about not only what we do know, but also what we don’t know.”

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Women’s cross country wins fourth Summit League title in a row Nikolas Wilson

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The South Dakota women’s cross country team won its fourth straight Summit League Championship Saturday.

South Dakota won the title with 30 points. NDSU finished in second with 57 and SDSU came in third with 67.

While USD didn’t have a runner in the top three, they had every runner from fourth to 10th place.

According to GoYotes, Junior Megan Billington finished fourth in the race in 21 minutes, 17.37 seconds. She led the team, and was only six seconds slower than her personal best.

Junior Lindsay Joyce, who finished fifth, broke her per-

sonal record with a time of 21:27.09.

Junior Madeline Huglen and sophomore Kianna Stewart finished in sixth and seventh, with a time of 21:31.

Billington, Joyce, Huglen and Stewart all earned all-Summit first team honors. Freshman Laura Nelson finished in eighth with a time of 21:34.38. Senior Erin Wetzstein finished in ninth with 21:34.96. Junior Bethany Kozak finished in tenth with 21:39.30.

Nelson, Wetzstein and Kozak all earned all-Summit second team honors. Sophomore Julia Noah finished in 16th place.

Senior Nicole Schmidt finished in 26th.

USD head coach Dan Fitzsimmons was named the

Summit League Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year for the fourth consecutive season.

The men’s team also saw success. Junior Eldon Warner led USD with a third-place finish. He finished the race in 24:52.90, less than one second shy of breaking his personal record. Senior Brice Cowman finished in eighth place and set a personal best of 25:17.86.

Junior Nate Wendt finished in 12th and freshman Luke Bailey finished in 14th.

USD’s next event will be the NCAA Midwest Regional in Ames, IA on Nov. 10. The top two teams will earn automatic bids to the NCAA Championships.

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The USD women’s cross country team won its fourth Summit League Championship on Saturday. The team got 30 points.

‘Biggest, fastest, strongest’ Male body image an important discussion in USD athletics Cheyenne Alexis

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ith hefty schedules and an emphasis on strength, male athletes focus on gaining muscle, staying healthy and maintaining a certain body type.

With these expectations comes insecurities and perceptions of body image many male athletes don’t often talk about.

Different focuses

Josh Sorbe, a sophomore on the swimming/diving team, said the team focuses a lot on their chests, shoulders and cores.

“When we’re swimming, that’s particularly what we focus on and make sure we have good body alignment with our cores,” he said.

Cross country focuses on strengthening different body parts.

“Of course legs, when it comes to training,” said junior cross country member Eldon Warner. “Most of what we focus on is the core or what’s called your VO2, which is essentially how your blood carries oxygen.

So it’s all about running, getting your miles in and boosting your cardio.”

Since football players have different body types, some train differently.

“With bigs, it’s a lot of legs... also, for bigs, you need a bigger punch where you’re striking, so a lot of shoulder work,” said Josh Leohr, a senior offensive/defensive lineman.

“There’s so many different position groups and so many different types of bodies that we’re focused on our position and how to best perform on the field.”

Warner said having low body fat is important in cross country.

“For them to be able to perform the way they need to, they’re going to have very low body fat and it’s just how it needs to be to perform at that level at that high of a volume,” he said.

File Photos I The Volante Male athletes’ schedules consist of heavy lifting, core training and gaining muscle. Several USD male student-athletes said there are expectations with maintaining a certain body image. This is

the second part of The Volante’s body image series. Next week will be the final part, which focuses on coaches’ perspectives of athletes’ body images.

Strength importance

Sorbe said strength in swimming and diving is treated differently than in other sports.

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Coyotes upset Southern Illinois Salukis 42-0 Cheyenne Alexis

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The USD football team beat the Southern Illinois Salukis 42-0 Saturday in the DakotaDome. The Coyotes will take on the University of Northern Iowa next week in Cedar Falls, IA.

After a loss to the Illinois State Cardinals last weekend, the football team defeated Southern Illinois University Salukis 42-0.

A few USD players were held from the game: senior Adam Harris, sophomore Dale Williamson and junior Danny Rambo.

Head coach Bob Nielson said at a press conference that the players were held because of “a team policy violation.”

“The suspension is indefinite,” he said.

USD quarterback Chris Streveler and SIU quarterback Sam Straub were both injured in the first half, and didn’t return for the remainder of the game.

Sophomore quarterback Austin Simmons replaced Streveler for the rest of the game to score two passing touchdowns.

Nielson said Streveler’s injury affected his upper shoulder.

“He was stiff there, but I don’t think it was anything major at this point,” he said. “Chris is a fierce competitor – if the doctor would have said it was alright, he would have played, but I think we felt we had the ability to win the football game with Austin Simmons as quarterback. Based on what the doc-

tors are telling me now, they think he’ll be back (for the next game).”

Though Streveler was walked off the field and wasn’t present during the first half, he was seen passing the ball during halftime.

Redshirt freshman Brett Samson scored the first touchdown, a 2-yard pass from Simmons in the first quarter.

Freshman Kai Henry scored a 1-yard run during the first quarter.

Another pass from Simmons, senior Alonge Brooks scored at 17 yards at two minutes remaining in the second quarter, ending the first half 21-0.

At 20 seconds remaining in the third quarter, junior Andrew Gray scored a 97-yard interception run. This was the longest interception return in Coyote football history, according to GoYotes.

Junior Michael Fredrick scored a 1-yard run in the fourth quarter, and gave the Coyotes their second interception run at 79 yards.

Gray said at a press conference that the team “knew they had to step up their game” after injuries and player holdings.

“I’m super proud of the guys who stepped in — they played really hard and pretty good,” he said. “Collectively, we all put in better effort.”

There were several members of the team who had to come through for this game, Nielson said.

“We didn’t feel our defense played very well, and I thought that unit really stepped up today,” he said.

Gray said the team was “better” this week.

“We changed up some things on defense,” he said. “On defense we tackled better, we flew around, our mentality was better than last week. I think that showed.”

Simmons said it took a bit to “get in the flow of the game” after Streveler was injured.

“It’s not the way I’d like to be playing — I don’t want Streveler to be hurt.

If he can’t (play), I’ll do my best to be ready and step in and do what needs to be done,” he said.

Senior Stetson Dagel said the team brushed up on their defense and offense after their loss last weekend.

“As much as a disappointment as last week was, that just drove us that much more this week in practice to bounce back from that,” Dagel said.

The team now has seven wins.

“We put ourself in a really good spot,” Nielson said. “Everybody talks about seven wins being such a magic number. From a football standpoint, our guys realize that seven wins is seven wins.”

The Coyotes take on the University of Northern Iowa next week in Cedar Falls, IA.

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Vining’s dedication to golf ‘really paying off ’ Shawn Henley

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USD men’s golf team junior Tommy Vining capped off September winning the Summit League player of month.

“It was a good feeling I didn’t really expect,” he said.

“A lot of hard work paid off.”

Vining, originally from Sioux Falls, finished second overall out of 68 players in the team’s season opening Itani Quality Homes Collegiate in Pullman, WA. He finished 11-under-par, breaking the program record for a 54-hole tournament and helped the Yotes to a fourth-place finish.

“Winning player of the month doesn’t change anything when it comes to preparation,” Vining said.

“It’s a byproduct of the work I am putting in.”

During his high school career, he won two individual state championships in 2012 and 2013 and led his team to the team championship in 2012.

As a senior, Vining finished sixth at the state tournament while recording an average round of 71.6. He was named to the all-state and all-conference teams all four years of high school.

“I wasn’t surprised when I heard he had won the honor,” said Nick Hovden, head coach of the men’s golf team. “The kid works his butt off.”

In 2015, Vining competed and won a U.S. Amateur Qualifier and the 45th South Dakota Golf Association’s Men’s

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propulsion, or you reduce your drag in your water with your technique,” he said. “Having sheer strength is a lot more important to sprinters who do a 50 down and back in the water where they have to go as fast as they can. For long distance swimmers like myself, it’s more longevity strength.”

Warner said strength in the core is important for cross country runners.

“Everything that’s physical, any physical activity you can do is based around the core,” Warner said. “If you don’t have a strong core, then you really don’t have anything.”

From a football standpoint, gaining muscle is extremely important.

“You always want to be the biggest, fastest, strongest player out there and the biggest, fastest, strongest team out there,” Leohr said. “It’s very important to hit the weight room and give your all in the weight room.”

Since basketball players focus more on speed, junior center/forward Tyler Hagedorn said gaining muscle isn’t a vital part in their training.

“Especially in my position as a center, it’s extremely important to be strong and physical because there’s a lot of banging and bruising and rebounding,” he said. “We’re not just trying to gain muscle mass — in basketball there’s a lot more running. It’s really one of the only sports that is just non-stop play.”

Sorbe said he thinks male athletes have more insecurities about muscle.

“I think it’s definitely something that men internalize, but everyone has some sort of insecurity when it comes to muscle, especially in the weight room where everything is divided up by racks and you can tell who’s lifting 175 pounds and who’s lifting 115 pounds,” he said. “I’m 6 foot 4 and 185 pounds, and I know I will not lift as much as the person who’s 5 foot 10, a sprinter and weighs 220.”

Leohr said there’s a misconception of football body types.

“When you think of football players, you think of big dudes, meatheads that yell in the weight room and throw a bunch of weight around,” Leohr said. “(But) there are guys who are not ‘weight room guys.’”

Sorbe said people expect male swimmers to be tall,

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USD men’s golf team junior Tommy Vining recently won Summit League player of the month.

Amateur Championship.

He started his collegiate career at the University of Minnesota with a fifth-place finish out of 81 golfers in his first tournament. With the Gophers, he played in nine tournaments and had an average round of 76.3.

Last year, Vining was named to the all-Summit League first team squad.

He also broke multiple program records throughout the course of the year.

“He puts in a lot of time and effort,” Hovden said.

“His hard work and dedication towards the game is really paying off.”

This summer, Vining won the South Dakota Men’s Amateur Championship for the second time after trailing going into the final

round. Vining won shooting a five-under 66.

The team had four players finish inside the top five and 10, said Hovden.

“It’s been a very fun fall season,” Hovden said.

USD men’s golf closed their fall season at the Pacific Visit Stockton Invitational hosted by the University of Pacific in Stockton, CA. Vining placed second at the invite.

Vining said he’s grateful for being able to play golf for USD. “I choose to play golf because God gave me the ability to play it,” Vining said.

“I want to work as hard as I can at it until he changes that plan for me.”

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You can only be an athlete for so long, so in these four years of college, being in the best shape you can be and not ruining your body with unhealthy choices is extremely important.

Tyler Hagedorn, junior center/forward with a longer wingspan and be slender with wide shoulders.

“Looking at my team and looking at other swimmers at other schools that I’ve worked at, that’s not the case for a lot of them,” he said.

For basketball players, height is crucial, as well as having a muscular, but not too muscular, build.

“There’s different positions, so height is important,” Hagedorn said. “You don’t want to be thick. We’re more just trying to stay tone and as fit as we can be with a slimmer physique because it’s a lot of running.”

Common insecurities

Warner said he’s dealt with body image insecurities before, but has learned to come to terms with his body since becoming an athlete.

“I’m only 5 foot 6, 5 foot 7, and then I’m also very small when it comes to my waist and my chest,” he said. “Ever since high school, I’ve always battled with what is my image. I don’t have too much of a problem with my physical appearance, just because I know that for me to achieve what I want to get, this is the body I’m going to have to deal with.”

Sorbe said male swimmers sometimes feel insecure because of the smaller swimsuits.

“It really shows off the rest of your body,” he said.

“Not just for our men, but women as well. They become self conscious when they’re walking around the pool with their entire back exposed and all their legs below the waist, as well.”

Competition is a common trait in football players, Leohr said.

“The main concern would be, ‘Oh, is this guy stronger than me? Because I need to be stronger than him,’” he said. “It’s really strength and speed aspect of, ‘OK, is so-and-so faster than me so I have to work

on my speed? So-and-so is benching 400 pounds, I should bench 405.’”

Hagedorn said maintaining a certain body image is a “livelihood” for basketball players.

“If our bodies aren’t right and we can’t perform at the level we’re supposed to, who knows what could happen?” he said. “I weigh a little bit less than the typical center in the Summit League... right now I’m like 230. Once we start preseason, it’s so hard to keep on your weight.”

Sorbe said it’s important to realize body sizes shouldn’t matter.

“Look at the final result on the scoreboard, because there are a lot of Olympic swimmers who are 5 foot 8, 5 foot 9, and they’re men,” he said. “I think people need to look more objectively at the scoreboard and the times themselves and not at what the person looks like behind the blocks.”

Warner said body image is “ingrained” in people.

“Being healthy is good, it looks good, it feels good,” he said. “(But) as long as you’re happy, that’s OK. As long as you’re doing what you love and you love yourself, that’s OK.” Hagedorn said body image isn’t as important as being healthy.

“Being healthy is our livelihood. That is one of the most important things in our lives right now,” he said. “You can only be an athlete for so long, so in these four years of college, being in the best shape you can be and not ruining your body with unhealthy choices is extremely important.”

This is the second part of The Volante’s body image series. Next week will be the final part, which focuses on coaches’ perspectives of athletes’ body image.

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The USD men’s basketball team practices Monday night in the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. The team plays their first game on Nov. 10.

USD basketball teams prepare to take the court Heidi Schneider

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The Coyote men and women basketball teams ended both seasons on losses in the Summit League Tournament and NIT and WNIT last year.

This season, the teams are focused on getting better and winning the Summit League Tournament.

Men: Get better everyday

Last season, the Coyote men lost the second game of the Summit League Tournament against SDSU by a last second shot.

This year, they’re looking to avenge that loss.

The Coyotes have 13 returning players on their 17-man roster.

“Even though we’re a relatively young team, we have a pretty experienced team,” said head coach Craig Smith.

Included on the returning players list are junior forward Trey Burch-Manning and junior guard Matt Mooney.

During his sophomore season and first season as a Coyote, Burch-Manning started all 34 games and averaged 9.2 points per game. Mooney started 34 games during his first season with the Coyotes and averaged 18.6 points per game.

Noticeably missing from the Coyote roster is Tyler Flack who, though he spent part of his senior

season injured, averaged 15.2 points per game.

Smith said he isn’t worried about filling his spot, as he has several players who played in his absence last season who are ready to take over full time.

“Tyler Hagedorn and Austin Sparks and Jack (Stensgard) were able to get a lot of meaningful reps,” Smith said. “And really had a positive impact on our game.”

This season, to prepare for the closely-fought Summit League games, the Coyotes will be taking on highly-ranked teams such as Duke, UCLA and TCU, last year’s NIT winner.

“The non-conference is really good, we play really good competition,” Hagedorn said, “So that’s going to prepare us for the battle in the Summit League Conference.”

The men play their first game of the season on Nov. 4 at home with an exhibition match against the University of Sioux Falls.

Women: Defend, compete, execute

Last season, the Coyotes finished with a 23-9 run. After losing a close game to Omaha in the first round of the Summit League Tournament last season, the Coyotes have been focused most on defense.

“Last year we had a really good year, we scored very efficiently offen-

sively,” said head coach Dawn Plitzuweit. “But this year we’re really focusing on becoming a better defensive team.”

Junior guard Allison Arens said they’ve been focusing a lot more on defense this year.

“That’s been our main goal,” said junior guard Allison Arens. “Just pressuring the ball.”

The Coyotes have nine players returning this season to the 14-player roster. Notable returning players include sophomore guard Ciara Duffy and Arens.

Duffy started all 32 games her first Coyote season and averaged 11.2 points per game. Arens also started all 32 games during her sophomore season and averaged 17.1 points per game.

The Coyotes are facing a tough schedule this season. It includes Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Tennessee all before December.

“It’s the toughest nonconference schedule that we’ve ever had. It’s been awesome to have that in the back of our minds just motivating us all through the summer and preseason,” said redshirt senior guard Caitlin Duffy. “We know we’re going to have to be ready to go right away.”

The Coyotes open the season against Iowa State in Iowa on Nov. 10.

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“My motivation comes from falling short of making it to the NCAA championships.”

Karina Dufoe: How does being powerful in the weight room translate into being able to throw further in the ring?

Jake Barents: It really helps having good weight room numbers if I’m able to translate it into my events. Creating functional strength is one of the most important roles that the weight room can play. Being strong enough to hold positions and being able

to recruit the fast-twitch muscles can help time up better and better throws.

KD: What does having the school record mean to you?

JB: My motivation comes from falling short of making it to the NCAA championships.

It’s always been a dream

of mine to compete at the indoor and outdoor championships in Track Town USA. Knowing now that it’s not a dream anymore and it’s a real possibility to be in the mix with the best of the best is what keeps me going.

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Members of speech and debate club warm up in Farber Hall before the speech and debate showcase on Oct. 26. Students delivered a variety of speeches on topics ranging from the LGBTQ+ community to mental health.

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Public speaking is the number one fear and death is number two. What we do is literally a superpower, we develop communication skills every week, construct effective speeches that can move and persuade audiences.

Blake Warner, senior

Speech and debate teaches students to view the world with an open mind and accept different perspectives.

The USD speech and debate team showcased their pieces in Farber Hall on Oct. 26. USD students, faculty members and families came to see the showcase.

Bailey Quanbeck, a senior and president of the speech and debate team, performed an impromptu and drama piece.

Quanbeck said she enjoys the storytelling aspect of speech and debate.

“I definitely gravitate toward oral interp,” she said. “I am in five or six events and most of them are interp, that is where my heart is.”

Oral interp pieces have more acting involved. A performer is typically taking on a new persona.

“When choosing a speech topic, first and foremost, pick what you are passionate about, change you want to see, issues you want to address,” Quanbeck said.

Quanbeck tries to take her own advice when choosing her speeches.

“One of my pieces is about a child who comes out as genderqueer,” she said. “Many of my friends are part of the LGBTQ+ community, so I really want to spread the message of being inclusive.”

First-year Anna Grimsrud, an English education major, said Quanbeck’s drama piece titled “The Pink Unicorn” was her favorite performance of the night.

“The raw honesty of her piece was

incredibly moving,” Grimsrud said.

Quanbeck said she’s learned to be open-minded and inclusive through her involvement in debate.

“When I first came to college, I didn’t have many perspectives,” she said.

“Speech helps people speak their truth, so I was exposed to more stories and have learned more about myself in the process.”

Quanbeck said she’s excited for the future of the team.

“Our team has 15 members and we only have five or six returning members, so our team is very young,” Quanbeck said. “It’s exciting because we are hoping to grow and get bigger.”

Blake Warner, senior psychology and communication studies major, is one of the club’s vice presidents. Warner performed his drama piece about an individual with Tourette’s syndrome at the showcase.

Warner said he tries to speak about topics he is passionate about.

“Unspoken voices are one of the best ways to talk about something you’re passionate about,” he said.

Speech and debate has given him a new set of skills with public speaking.

“Public speaking is the number one fear and death is number two,” he said.

“What we do is literally a superpower, we develop communication skills every week, construct effective speeches that can move and persuade audiences.”

Tristan Chasing Hawk, a junior business administration major, has been

involved in speech since his first year when he signed up on a whim.

“It has such a unique storyteller and it is very personal,” Chasing Hawk said.

“I really got into it because my school’s plays weren’t the best and it presented an opportunity to grow as a performer.”

Despite all his years in speech, Chasing Hawk said he still gets nervous.

“The use of anxiety to make you a better performer is what sets apart talented speakers,” he said.

Chasing Hawk uses the motto “write what you know” when choosing a speech topic. He said he believes it is easier to speak about things you have prior knowledge about.

“I learned that I don’t know anything.

It always astounds me how much I learn in a single weekend,” he said. “The breath of speech is so diverse in topics, it’s incredible how much I learn from watching different modes of storytelling.”

“A lot of my time in speech has been very solitary, so I’m extremely grateful for my teammates,” he said. “Relying on other people has been hard, but coming to USD and having a real team has been a great influence on me as a performer and as a person.”

More than anything, speech gives students a place to express their opinions.

“I think one of the most important things is it allows people to express their voices in a safe and welcoming environment,” Quanbeck said. “Our team is like a family... I think that is a very powerful thing to be a part of.”

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that up is the exhausting part,” she said.

The memorization process is different for each band member.

“I have been in choir and band for a while, so it takes me about 20 to 30 minutes to memorize music, but for people with less experience it might take a little longer,” she said.

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Eighty to 90 student musicians play at games, tour to 15 high schools in the region and rehearse more than four hours a week as members of the Sound of USD. Three band students share how being a part of the marching band has impacted their college experiences.

Friendships, life lessons

Busy, but fun

Emily Gillespie, a sophomore business administration and trumpet section leader, said band is a big time commitment.

“We have four hours of rehearsal each week plus an hour-long sectional rehearsal,” Gillespie said. “Plus, we have game days and also have to practice on our own.”

Gillespie’s favorite part about band is performing on game days.

“They are busy days, but fun days,” she said.

As section leader for the trumpets, Gillespie leads nine other band members.

“I help the people in my section become better and try to fulfill the expectation of the band as a whole,” she said.

Gillespie said the hardest thing about band is having to miss class for performances and memorizing her music.

“We typically get one new song to memorize each week, but at the beginning of the season we had to memorize eight pieces,”

The Sound of USD practices their songs and marching formations on Oct. 19.

Gillespie said.

Gillespie became interested in band because of her father, who played trumpet in high school.

“My dad always told me how much fun he had,” she said. “I really enjoy it because I have met a lot of my friends through band.”

Carrying their weight

Jeanna Brandsrud, a junior majoring in music education with an emphasis in vocal, plays the baritone.

“I was in marching band all

through high school and really enjoyed it,” Brandsrud said. “I wanted it to carry over into college because I knew it was something I was passionate about.”

Brandsrud said it’s important that each member of the band carries their own weight.

“A lot of preparation is spending time learning your part so when we come together we can work on the emotion of the piece,” she said. “We work on coming together and playing as a whole instead of individual

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musicians.”

Brandsrud said members are held accountable by their fellow bandmates.

“When you don’t know your music, it’s pretty embarrassing,” she said. “It’s easy to tell if people don’t know their music, so it’s more of a pride thing.”

Band practices are an intense mental and physical workout for students, Brandsrud said.

“It’s a lot of upper body strength. My instrument weighs about 50 pounds and holding

Samuel Craig is a sophomore finance major who plays trombone. Craig has been playing since he was in sixth grade.

“All my older brothers were heavily involved in music, so I wanted to continue that tradition,” he said.

The hard work and pressure can sometimes take a toll on band members, Craig said.

“It gets a little stressful right before a performance if people don’t know their music or if we just learned the piece we are performing,” he said.

Despite the time commitment, the performers develop lasting friendships.

“My favorite part of band is all of the amazing friendships that I have created because of it,” Craig said.

Craig said marching band has equipped him with a set of life lessons.

“There is always somebody counting on you, even if you don’t know it, so you always have to put your best effort forward,” Craig said.

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Teri Bellis teaches American Sign Language class in Beacom Hall Monday afternoon.

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Voice off, voice on and interpretive dance – Teri Bellis, chair of the department of communication sciences and disorders, uses unique teaching techniques in and out of the classroom.

Sydney Busch, a junior communication sciences and disorders major, said she’s enjoying her first class with Bellis.

“I love her. I think she’s a great professor just in the fact that she tries, in ASL (American Sign Language) specifically, to help us learn the language in the most genuine way possible — immersion,” Busch said.

Bellis grew up in the Deaf community, which helped her find her way to her field. However, it wasn’t always easy being an audiologist and a member of the Deaf community.

“Being an audiologist and being someone in the Deaf community was something that was seen as shameful in the Deaf community,” she said. “When I first started teaching here, ASL was the

last class that I wanted to teach, and that’s where my two worlds collided.”

Growing up with a deaf older brother meant Bellis’ first language was ASL. “By the time I came along, we were immersed in the world of ASL and the Deaf community,” she said. “So, all my friends were deaf. My parents’ friends were deaf.”

Teaching is what Bellis always wanted to do.

Growing up in the Deaf community, she assumed she would go into Deaf and English education.

Her plans soon changed when she took her first audiology class.

“I fell in love with (my very first audiology class) because it had more of the medical aspects, which I love, and then I fell in love with the brain,” she said. “So I specialized in neurology.”

She then got her master’s degree in Santa Barbara at the University of California, completed her residency in Los Angeles and moved to Colorado Springs where she worked in the medical field.

While she was happy in the medical field, she still had the desire to teach,

but there was nowhere nearby to get her Ph.D. Then one day, as she was expecting her third child, her husband was laid off.

The family decided to make a move.

“With a five-weekold baby, two other kids, a golden retriever and a husband, we sold our house and moved into a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago so I could go to Northwestern University and get my doctorate so I could teach,” she said.

When Bellis completed her doctorate in audiology and hearing sciences with a specialty certification in language and cognition, she started applying for teaching jobs.

“I wanted to be at a place that I truly felt valued teaching, because what I wanted to do more than anything was teach. I had a lot of interviews lined up, but my first interview was here,” she said. “(After the interview) I canceled all the other interviews and I took the job. I didn’t even interview anywhere else, I just said, done. This is it and I’ve never looked back.”

Bellis taught for a while and continued

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Teri Bellis teaches Sydney Busch how to sign in her American Sign Language class Monday afternoon.

her research, eventually becoming the chair of the department. But she still didn’t want to teach ASL. That all changed when an ASL professor resigned a week before school started.

“Somebody had to step up. So there I was, teaching ASL and I found out that I love it,” she said. “It’s one of my favorite classes to teach.”

Ti’Esha Jones, a senior psychology major, said Bellis’ passion shows in her teaching.

“She wants us to learn how to sign, but she’s really concerned that we learn a different culture,” Jones said. “I feel like it’s a different type of inclusive excellence than what we’re used to seeing around campus. Usually what we see on campus is about race. As a minority, I get to see it first hand and I care so much about having all these different minorities represented... I never stop to think about deaf versus hearing. It’s crazy, I’m a majority in this case, being hearing and it’s just a humbling experience.”

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Devin Martin: What are your plans for winter?

“I want to learn how to ski.”

Tuyen Do: Stay warm. I want to learn how to ski.

But in Vermillion we don’t have a mountain. So (I’ll) try and ask somebody to see if they

can give me a ride Vietnam and we (somewhere). didn’t have snow in Vietnam, so it’s DM: What made just my first time you want to learn here and I just had how to ski? the idea to learn how to ski.

DM: I come from

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It’s not something that you’re really that aware of until you take a course like this.

Sydney Busch, junior

opens a lot of students’ eyes.

Junior communication sciences and disorders major Sydney Busch is in her first class with Bellis.

“You know, the Deaf community, nobody really talks about it. It’s not something that you’re really that aware of until you take a course like this,” Busch said. “But they have the way that they perceive the world and the way that they live the life.”

Busch said as a DCOM major she knew some about the community but the class has expanded her knowledge.

“I knew that it existed, but I definitely think I’m more interested in it now that I know more about it and I’d like to keep learning more about it,” she said.

Bellis said raising awareness about the Deaf community will help parents understand that having a deaf baby isn’t a sad or bad thing.

“When (a) child grows up they can choose to be a member of the hearing world, a member of the deaf world or a member of both, and we’re not doing enough there,” she said.

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A class usually taken to fill a language requirement is opening student’s eyes to an entire community and culture.

American Sign Language (ASL) is a 400-level class in the department of communication sciences and disorders (DCOM).

This course has been so popular that another section is being added on next year.

While the purpose of the class is to teach sign language, it also serves as an introduction to the Deaf community.

The World Health Organization reports that worldwide, there are 360 million people with disabling hearing loss. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders reports that one in eight Americans – 30 million people – have hearing loss in one or both ears.

USD Disability Services reports that there are seven students with reported hearing impairments.

Teri Bellis, chair of the DCOM department, teaches ASL. Bellis grew up in the Deaf community — she is hearing but her older brother is deaf, and she grew up with deaf friends and ASL as a first language.

Bellis said classes like hers help raise awareness about the Deaf community.

“There has been a real up search in awareness on social media, particularly Facebook,” she said.

“There’s been several sites that have been putting out videos to try to raise awareness.”

Very few students know there’s a Deaf community and that its members are “loud and proud and deaf,” she said.

Bellis showed her class a video of a baby hearing for the first time, and then asked the class if they’ve ever seen videos of babies signing for the first time.

Bellis said that question

John Lee Hancock’s “The Founder” is a fascinating tale that may be concerning at first, but turns down a darker, more complex path that showcases its star with gusto.

How McDonald’s was spread from San Bernardino to the entire United States and most of the world is explored in “The Founder.” Hancock tells the story of Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman who travels the country selling various restaurant equipment to drive-in theaters.

After receiving a call from a new restaurant, he travels Route 66 to California and meets the McDonald brothers, Dick, played by Nick Offerman and Mac, played by John Carroll Lynch. Struck with vision and ambition, Ray convinces the brothers to franchise the restaurant throughout the United States.

The movie does fall flat at certain points. The film wasn’t produced by the McDonald’s Corporation, nor was it affiliated with it in any way, but it certainly feels like it in the first half of the film.

There are dozens of shots of men, women and children biting into a McDonald’s burger with

a look of euphoria on their faces. When Dick and Mac McDonald tell Ray their origin story over dinner, the whole montage plays like a McDonald’s commercial.

The true selling point of this movie isn’t the cinematography, the soundtrack or even the supporting cast. The best part of “The Founder,” is Michael Keaton’s performance.

Readers may remember Keaton’s stellar performance in this summer’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” and Keaton fans will definitely remember 2014’s Oscar-nominated “Birdman.” The performer has proven himself in recent years as an actor to be respected, and his potential is utilized to his full extent in “The Founder.”

The way in which Keaton inhabits the role of Ray Kroc is immediately immersive. The movie begins with Keaton looking directly into the camera, delivering a sales pitch.

The sheer charisma Keaton exudes is irresistible, and his smile draws the audience into the personality of a man desperate for success and persistent enough to achieve it.

Complimenting Keaton’s performance are the McDonald brothers, Offerman and Lynch. The

pair have a lot of chemistry on screen, and Offerman makes a surprisingly graceful transition from his normally comedic roles and facial hair.

Laura Dern plays Ray’s unhappy wife well enough, and B.J. Novak portrays the heartless Harry J. Sonneborn with skill. All these performances serve to elevate Ray Kroc as a character.

The film is a “Breaking Bad”-esque transformation. Ray Kroc starts with very little to his name.

He can’t vend his wares anywhere, and his wife is unhappy with him.

Over the course of the movie, Ray begins to embrace his darker side as he milks the cash cow that he discovers in San Bernardino.

Watching this change, the audience begins to question if Ray ever was a decent man from the start, and Keaton keeps us surprised all along the way.

At its core, “The Founder” is a powerful tale of a self-made man self-making.

Anyone searching for a skilled actor showing off his craft should look no further than this film.

“The Founder” can be found on Netflix.