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SOUTH DAKOTA LEGALIZES MARIJUANA

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This November, five states had medical or recreational ballot measures on the ballot. All five passed those measures, with South Dakota making history by passing both medical and recreational marijuana simultaneously, through Initiated Measure 26 and Constitutional Amendment A, respectively. The SD ballot measures will take effect in July of 2021.

Drey Samuelson, campaign manager for South Dakotans for

Better Marijuana Laws, the umbrella organization that campaigned for both measures, said he was surprised Amendment A passed by an 8% margin as he expected it to be closer.

“I think it’s clear that attitudes in the United States and also in South Dakota have changed on marijuana reform,” Samuelson said. “And I don’t think we’re going back.”

Because of the solid margin Amendment A passed by, Samuelson said he didn’t expect lawmakers to try to get in the way of it, but he hoped for fair regulations from the Department of Revenue.

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David Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ran the campaign against Amendment A through the “No Way on A” committee. Owen said the opposition came about through concern from employers, as well as concerns about youth usage, impaired driving and whether a policy measure should be implemented through the constitutional amendment process.

Owen credits the victory of the measures in part to higher spending, as well as the ability of the “yes” campaign to link the two measures in

enough voters’ minds. Because there was a gap between the margins by which each measure passed, Owen said the “No Way on A” committee had some success separating the two, but not enough.

“It’s like Vince Lombardi of the Packers used to say,” Owen said. “I’ve never been beat, but I’ve run out of time.”

While it’s true the “yes” side spent more on ads, Samuelson said they faced their own challenges, including South Dakota being a very culturally conservative state.

Additionally, South Dakota Governor

Kristi Noem herself cut an ad against Amendment A. “We had almost the entire South Dakota establishment against us,” Samuelson said. “We had to run a really good campaign to pass it.”

South Dakota State Senator Arthur Rusch, who supported Measure 26 but not Amendment A, said because the latter is an amendment, the legislature has no ability to change it.

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SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES ORGANIZES NEW PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT Miles Amende

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Radioactive materials are stored in the basement of the Akeley-Lawrence building to ensure student safety.

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USD’s Physics Department is taking part in radioactive material experiments with the goal to research and develop the next generation of germanium (Ge) detectors.

Ge detectors are particle detectors that attempt to use excellent energy resolution and extremely low-energy thresholds for dark matter searches and detection of new

properties of neutrinos.

Dongming Mei, the principal investigator of the experiments and USD’s Physics Department director, said the experiments are being done through a global partnership with Partners for International Research and Education for Germanium Materials And Detectors Advancement Research Consortium (PIREGEMADARC).

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This semester, the USD School of Health Sciences organized the new Department of Public Health and Health Sciences, and while it doesn’t offer any new majors, it does combine several programs to allow for new educational opportunities.

DenYelle Kenyon, Amy Nelson, DenYelle Kenyon, Associate Dean of Health Associate Dean of Health Director of Undergraduate Sciences Sciences, said the new Health Sciences Program department is the result science is very broad and in the health sciences and of Dean of Health Sciences prepares students for clinicians and bring them Haifa Samra looking for positions which are more together with the public ways for programs within patient-focused, whereas health folks in the MPH the school to collaborate. public health focuses on program,” Nelson said. “We The department population-level outcomes. can all be working together combines three programs “A lot of the focus in in our own ways, whether — an undergraduate public health is (getting) it’s from a population health program in health sciences, health promotion activities perspective or from more a Ph.D. program in health to impact the broader level of an individual health sciences and a master’s of the population, so we perspective and just show program in public health. think about things on a how those two worlds really “I think it was a natural bigger scale, where health need to collide.” fit,” Kenyon said. “It helps sciences and a lot of the Nelson said the the student who might other health professions are collaboration between come in at the bachelor’s focused on just that person students of all degree levels, level and see that there’s in front of you,” Kenyon as well as with faculty, will additional higher education said. improve the health of the that they could go for that Amy Nelson, state, which is the ultimate are in related fields, and program director of the goal of the School of public health and health undergraduate health Health Sciences. She said sciences are pretty similar.” sciences program, said the the sooner students get By combining smaller name of the department exposed to real life projects, programs, Kenyon said, itself shows how students the better. the school creates a bigger are going to work on “We shouldn’t be waiting emphasis on that field and collaborating more with until they’re Ph.D. programs gets more momentum public health professionals. students before they can in collaboration between “We’re going to have really make a difference programs. students working on and work on some projects, Kenyon said health projects together that bring I think we need to start

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on that earlier in their curriculum,” Nelson said.

The undergraduate program in health sciences is also joined with SDSU’s program. Kenyon said SDSU’s College of Pharmacy brings a unique perspective to the program, as it focuses more on agriculture.

Some of the undergraduate courses in the department are in-person, but students can graduate from all three of these programs onlineonly, which Kenyon said is a unique feature of the department.

“We find it offers a really nice flexibility for working professionals who want an advanced degree, or even the undergraduate degree,” Kenyon said. “They get a lot of people working in healthcare who are looking to come back for their See HEALTH, Page A3

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Nov. 8 Officers responded to a report of a disturbance at a residence. They located an intoxicated adult male who was arrested for an active warrant.

Nov. 8 An officer responded to a report of a non-injury accident. Officer’s investigation found one of the drivers to be uninsured. The driver was cited.

Nov. 8 Officers took a report of a possible sex crime.

Investigation continues.

Nov. 8 An officer responded to a check welfare

request.

An officer located the subjects in question and found them to be intoxicated. Officers cleared the scene.

Nov. 9 Officers took a report of a stolen bicycle.

Nov. 9 An officer responded to a report of a hit-and-run car crash with property damage.

Video surveillance was available. The suspect and their vehicle were identified.

Officers contacted the suspect who admitted to causing the damage and leaving the scene. Charges are pending.

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Nov. 9 Officers stopped a car for not having its lights on at night. The driver was ticketed.

Nov. 9 Officers took a report of an assault that occurred at a residence two weeks prior. Investigation did not result in charges.

Nov. 10 Officers took a report of a non injury two vehicle accident. One of the drivers was cited for overdriving road conditions.

Nov. 10 Officers investigated a report of a male trying

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to enter cars parked at a business. The suspect was found and has charges pending.

Nov. 10 Caller reported a subject breathing but not responsive. Officers responded and found an extremely intoxicated subject and the ambulance responded.

The subject was transported to the ER. Nov. 11 Officers responded to a complaint of a car parked blocking a driveway. Officers couldn’t find the owner of the car to move it, so it was towed.

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Officers observed a subject with an active warrant while on patrol.

Officers made contact with the subject, identified the subject and arrested the subject for two outstanding warrants out of Clay County.

Nov. 11 A male called to report he’d been attacked and then almost run over by a car. Investigation continues.

Nov. 12 Officers were called to a report of an assault.

Investigation showed the reporter had lied about the assault occurring. Charges of False Reporting are pending.

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Nov. 13 Officers investigated a stolen pickup from a house. It was later found at a hotel in Vermillion.

Suspect is unknown.

Nov. 14 Officers were called to a report of a domestic assault. Investigation showed a male had attacked his spouse and was arrested.

Nov. 14 Caller reported loud music coming from an apartment.

Officers contacted the renter at the apartment and warned them. The renter turned down the music.

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SGA held their final meeting of the semester via Zoom on Tuesday evening.

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In the USD Student Government Association’s last meeting of the semester, the organization passed special appropriations bills for the College Democrats and Orthopedic Special Interest Group.

Aaron Mallinger, SGA Director of Finance, reported SGA has only used 12% of their total budget so far this year and attributes that low number to operations changes around COVID-19.

“You can’t really blame orgs for not spending, you can’t blame us for not spending,” Mallinger said. “It’s just because we can’t.”

Katie Brust, SGA Director of Communications, presented an upcoming rebrand of SGA’s colors, documents, and legislation, as well as their online presence. The rebrand brings SGA into alignment with university standards.

SGA President Abuk Jiel said she is on board with the rebrand.

“Every time we get a new exec board, SGA and the vibe of SGA changes quite dramatically,” Jiel said. “And just being able to hold that consistency makes us look better.”

Senator Addison Miller reported he was voluntarily tested for COVID-19 and

said the last push for voluntary testing has been very effective, as there was a line of cars waiting to get tested around the block.

“To see that many people getting tested now is really nice,” Miller said. “I was pretty proud of our students.”

Senator Armand Khan reported on last week’s meeting of the Athletic Board of Control. Khan said Coach Wagner of the USD softball team said it was hard on his team for their season to be canceled last semester and to be pushed back this semester.

Khan also said the push to register student-athletes to vote on campus resulted in a 92% registration rate.

Senate Bill 65 and Senate Bill 66, special appropriations bills for the College Democrats and the Orthopedic Interest Group, respectively, passed unanimously without further discussion.

President Jiel thanked the members of SGA for their work this semester, through the challenges of COVID-19 and SGA’s use of remote meetings.

“I know this semester has not been what we expected it to be at all,” Jiel said.

“Just know that your voice in senate has made an impact on campus.”

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USD’s annual Harrington Lectures, from the College of Arts and Sciences, have been compiled into a book every twenty years since its conception in 1952. In Aug. 2020 the third book was released, which covers the lectures from 1993 to 2013.

Judith Zwolak, an Information Specialist working at USD’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been the primary individual compiling the lectures into this book. Zwolak said she likes to describe the lecture as a dinner party with a lot of smart people because of the exchange of information in terms meant for everyone to understand.

“I’ve sat in the audience and listened or read many of these lectures and it just shows you what work is going on at this institution, what knowledge we’re generating,” Zwolak said.

The Harrington Lecturer must have worked at USD’s College of Arts and Sciences for 15 years in order to qualify, and Zwolak said they must have an esteemed record in research and teaching.

She said the lecture should present something about the lecturer’s field of research and their discipline but also tie everything back into arts and sciences in general.

Michael Kruger, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the annual Harrington Lecture is a proud

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The second edition of the Harrington Lectures can be found in I.D. Week Library for students to check out. tradition within the college.

“Faculty members who have devoted their lives to rigorous academic research and teaching enlighten their audiences with deep insights in their fields of study while also integrating these ideas into a broader discussion of a liberal arts education. Every lecture is different, yet all are inspiring,” Kruger said.

Zwolak said she has been producing the book because USD no longer has a printing press on campus which complicated matters. She also said this book is different than the first and second scores because of the advent of PowerPoint and the inclusion

of some slides in the book.

The 60th Harrington Lecturer, Karen Koster, a professor in the Department of Biology and a Chair of Anthropology and Sociology, said it was a huge honor to be asked to give the lecture.

Koster’s lecture is titled Connections, Conundrums, and the Meaning of Life.

She gave her speech in 2012.

Koster says that her speech was meant to accentuate the ideas that the humanities and natural sciences share, and ultimately that is what the Harrington Lectures are about.

Koster said the book represents the Harrington

Lectures being about the scholarly tradition of a liberal arts and sciences education and how it exists throughout all of the subjects taught at USD’s College of Arts and Science.

Much of Koster’s work has focused on the tolerance of plants and anhydrobiosis, things that remain alive without water, like seeds or yeast. Koster is currently teaching several classes along with her administrative work.

Her classes include Plant Physiology and Plant Behavior.

“The Third Score: Harrington Lectures 19932013” is available on Amazon.

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Many changes have come due to the pandemic, including changes to education systems among schools and universities nationwide. However, in the upcoming semester, students, staff and faculty will begin to see some of those changes being reversed.

Last month, the South Dakota Board of Regents gave universities a new schedule for spring semester operations.

This will include holiday breaks, three-day weekends and spring break.

Kim Grieve, Dean of Students said these decisions have largely been influenced by responses from students, staff and faculty.

“Students responded that they felt the fall semester was a little bit rough not having any time off so they looked

at everything and decided that would be the best way, by making sure we had time and space for students as they move through the semester,” Grieve said.

Students, staff and faculty can expect to have classes off on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Presidents’ Day and Good Friday. Spring break will be held March 8-12.

Kurt Hackemer, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, said he still advises students to not travel and to remain safe.

“We’re advising caution but quite frankly I don’t want students to travel over spring break, travel like that is extraordinarily dangerous and puts the entire community at risk,” Hackemer said.

USD, Hackemer said, is also advising students to stay safe during the winter and to consider self-quarantining before returning for the spring

semester.

“The most important thing students can do if they want to keep their classes is to selfisolate or quarantine before they come back,” Hackemer said.

Hackemer said if students don’t do this the community could experience a spike in cases, and if it cannot be handled, students will not be able to remain in their face-toface classes.

Grieve said plans have been established in case this does happen and USD has to change operations.

“Of course we have a plan, but what we really want is to be face-to-face and that is absolutely the plan for us, to do as many classes as possible face-to-face within our classroom’s capacities,” Grieve said.

Students, staff and faculty will still be expected to abide by safety precautions such

as wearing masks, social distancing and staying home if they don’t feel well.

“We will keep all precautions we have in place because we want to make sure this is as safe as possible for our faculty, staff and our students,” Grieve said.

Both Grieve and Hackemer said USD has been very cooperative of the guidelines and that the fall semester went better than on some other campuses.

“I couldn’t be more proud of the campus and Vermillion community for taking this so seriously and really stepping up so that we could have a successful semester,” Grieve said.

Classes will begin for the spring semester on Monday, Jan. 11. USD will observe spring break March 8-12 and the semester will conclude May 8.

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primary concern is the lack of a workable sobriety test for marijuana. There is no marijuana equivalent of a blood alcohol test.

“Right now, my members and my board members face this issue where they know they have employees that go to Colorado, ski for the weekend, load up on a bunch of brownies, and come home Thursday afternoon and fail a drug test when everybody knows they’re not impaired,” Owen said.

Brian McDonald, manager of Flamez Tobacco & Vapor in Vermillion, said any businesses in Vermillion that wanted to get into the marijuana business would likely have to open a second location.

“Pretty much every other state that’s legalized, it’s a completely separate building,” McDonald said.

The amendment leaves it up to counties whether to allow dispensaries in their borders, and McDonald said he expects there to be an influx of sales overall in Vermillion if Clay County decides to allow dispensaries to open.

“They’re going to be in the local economies of the town, grabbing the product from that particular place, maybe trying some of the wonderful food that Vermilion has to offer,” McDonald said, “Everybody benefits.”

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bachelor’s degree, so the online (program) is a really positive thing for those folks.”

Sabina Kupershmidt, interim director of the Ph.D. in health sciences program, said the Ph.D. program is somewhat of a novelty in that there are few online Ph.D. programs around the country. She said it can be hard to envision an online Ph.D. program, since research is usually done in teams, whereas in this program, the Ph.D. advisor is in a different location than their advisees.

“We’ve had good results with it, we’ve had some functional projects come out of this, and we feel that we’re somewhat of a trailblazer here,” Kupershmidt said. “It’s not

really a common thing yet, although with the current COVID crisis, there is certainly a move from face to face teaching to online teaching.”

Kupershmidt said the pandemic has dramatized a shift toward focusing on public health, but the shift itself has been coming for the past decade, and that conditions can’t be solved on an individual basis.

“I think the last people who adhere to this belief … recognize now that this is not the way to help society,” Kupershmidt said. “In all our individual programs, (we) recognize that we need to prepare our students to look at large pictures.”

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The Student Government Association voted this past October to move the jurisdiction of the Green Initiative Fund (GIF) from SGA to the USD Sustainability Committee.

The GIF gives students at USD funds provided by the general activity fund (GAF) to pursue projects on campus that make USD a more sustainable and environmentally friendly place.

Abuk Jiel, SGA President, said she hopes moving the GIF to the Sustainability Committee will let students’ sustainability projects the ability to reach their full potential.

“Over the years I don’t think (the GIF) was used to its full ability,” Jiel said. “We know sustainability is important and I think this move will do a better job at helping students make USD a more sustainable place.”

Anna Moore, the sustainability coordinator at USD, said the move will help make sustainability projects funded at USD more financially efficient, effective and worthwhile.

“Up until this point there has not been a very rigorous process for applying for (GIF’s) money,” Moore said. “Now the Sustainability Committee and four (SGA) senators will be working on refining the application criteria, discussing what the goal of this fund is and how best to achieve it and then eventually recruiting students to apply.”

Moore said the Sustainability Committee

with the bureaucrats in the Department of Revenue, not the elected members of the legislature,” Rusch said.

Rusch did not think that it was right to pass this policy through the constitutional amendment process and cited the passage of Marsy’s Law in 2016, a victim’s rights measure that had to be repealed with another amendment because of difficulties of implementation.

“The constitution should not be a compilation of policy statutes,” Rusch said. “I wish the voters would better understand the difference between initiating a law and initiating constitutional changes.”

In South Dakota, c o n s t i t u t i o n a l amendments can only be changed through another vote of the people, while initiated measures are able to be repealed by the legislature.

Samuelson said the power of the ballot measure process comes in giving power more directly to the people, and not just to elected legislators.

“We couldn’t have dreamed passing this through the legislature,” Samuelson said. “What you do with a ballot initiative is you turn the state’s voting population into the legislature.”

Owen said he is concerned that the move to legalize marijuana on a state level could lead to eventual federal legalization. Owen’s

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The Green Initiative Fund provides funds for students to pursue projects on campus that make USD a more sustainable and environmentally friendly place. hopes to improve at giving better feedback to students with ideas for sustainability projects on campus than was previously given when the fund was under SGA’s jurisdiction.

“When a student applies (for the GIF) and has some improvement they can do on campus we’ll look at that idea, see how feasible it is, see if they need to reach out to somebody, and help them come up with a plan that is a good and solid plan,” Moore said.

Jiel said by moving the fund to the jurisdiction of the Sustainability Committee people who better understand sustainability practices will be managing the fund’s application process and implementation.

“We saw with students who were on that SGA committee

who previously managed the application process that were just making decisions based on what they saw in the application,” Jiel said. “They really had no background into how sustainable this would be on campus … so it was basically like throwing a dart into the dark and hoping it would stick somehow.”

Jiel said she hopes the Sustainability Committee will be able to better cooperate with different departments around campus to make the GIF and the projects it funds more successful.

“By having the GIF within the university’s Sustainability Committee it will allow for (the Sustainability Committee), dean of students, the Housing Department and others to sit together and make sure all the boxes are being checked,” Jiel said.

Moore said she has been happy to see the steps taken by Jiel as SGA president towards sustainability initiatives in her time as president. Jiel said she hopes to see improvements in sustainability practices at USD to improve after she leaves USD this spring.

“As SGA president you always want to make sure whoever comes after you does an even better job than you could ever imagine doing … I hope whoever comes after me will be able to make USD an even more sustainable place,” Jiel said. “Making sure our students have the opportunity to do things where they can recycle or be involved with sustainable organizations to make USD as sustainable as it can be in the future is very important.”

the research expertise, training capabilities, and world-renowned facilities of 15 institutions in the United States, Canada, China, Germany, India and Taiwan,” Mei said. “The partnership is created to accelerate the Ge material platform used in research and development for ton-scale dark matter, neutrinoless double-beta decay and other lowenergy neutrino research, education and training.”

Mei said the PIREGEMADARC partnership and experiments advances the next generation of physics research in two specific ways.

First, the partnership and experiments will advance the research and development of Ge materials, detectors and related technologies.

Secondly, the partnership and experiments will help train undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students on how to complete scientific research.

“Specifically, PIREGEMADARC advances next-generation frontier physics research by … training and preparing students, particularly Native American, women and other underrepresented groups in the field, for academic, industrial, government and non-profit careers,” Mei said.

All students who participate in the radioactive experiments at USD are trained to handle radioactive materials.

In addition, all researchers must complete a course to get a certificate to participate in radioactive experiments.

This certificate must get renewed by the participants of the experiment every two years.

The experiments are conducted in the basement floor of the Akley-Lawrence Science Center at USD as well as in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. The experiments at the SURF are held in SURF’s underground laboratory, which is the largest underground laboratory in the United States.

Currently, there are 28 active experiments being worked on at the facility — 24 of which have professors, graduate students and undergraduate students from South Dakota universities on staff. One of these experiments includes the radioactive experiments being done by USD. Jing Liu, an associate physics professor at USD, said the findings of these experiments can help advance an array of different scientific fields such as medicine, astronomy, and energy.

“Anything we find (in the radioactive experiments) has the potential to lead to the advancement of science,” Liu said. “There’s biology, energy production, different light (waves) and a lot more we can learn about (from radioactive experiments).”

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Is Joe Biden trying to lock us down again?

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With coronavirus spiking again, President-Elect Joe Biden’s political statement was to lock down the United States in order to decrease COVID-19 cases and try to eliminate this virus.

With this sounding like a challenging process, recent reports are saying there will be no lockdown as of now. Biden wants to decrease the huge coronavirus curb but does not want to commit to having a fully shut down on the country.

Hospital beds are filling up around the country and causing a major crisis for people who need medical attention but cannot. Biden states that this is a problem depending on the state and the state governor should mandate masks more seriously.

It was recorded recently that South Dakota is the only state that doesn’t order masks to be worn and has been causing a huge uproar on Governor Kristi Noem. Although the news is hard to believe sometimes Biden is avoiding questions about the shutdown and only talking about sensitive subjects.

News can be bias and be full of fake ideas and concerns just to stir up our country a little. With this being probably our craziest year yet, the news is full of fake information. This being said, it is hard to believe what Biden says is true and making sure it is a reliable source.

Being the president, tough decisions are made a lot and according to multiple news sources, they state that Biden is holding off on the shutdown to see how our economic environment handles the situation without a lockdown.

With tough decisions trying to be made, a shutdown might not hurt to try just to try and reduce the number of cases.

With holidays coming around the corner, traveling will be at an all-time high this next month and we need to be aware of our health when going to places.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 A5 Opinion Ranking of Thanksgiving food from someone who hates it

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CHLOE FULLENKAMP is a sophomore double majoring in media & journalism and political science.

Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. I have never liked it. I don’t understand the holiday, why we still celebrate it or why we stuff ourselves full of mediocre food. With that said, I reluctantly eat the food cause I am not going to be the one to tell my grandma I don’t like her lumpy, lukewarm mashed potatoes.

So here is a definitive ranking of Thanksgiving food from someone who hates Thanksgiving.

11. Coming in at last place we have Stuffing.

Stuffing is the work of the devil. As defined by Wikipedia, “Stuffing is an edible mixture, normally consisting primarily of small cut-up pieces of bread or a similar starch and served as a side dish or used to fill a cavity in another food item while cooking.” Why on Earth would I want the first adjective used to describe a dish to be “edible”. I would argue that this mushy mess

of moist bread and celery is inedible. Stuffing is horrid.

I cannot express how much I HATE stuffing. The name makes me cringe the most.

I will dislike stuffing until the day I die. I will force my kids to also hate stuffing so I don’t even have to make it. Gross, disgusting, worst Thanksgiving food ever.

10. I don’t think many people will argue with me when I say cranberry sauce has no right to even be a thing. What the hell is this too-thick-to-be-jello monster. It looks like jello, it jiggles like jello, but it is the furthest thing from it.

And don’t give me that crap about “Oh you can’t buy the cranberry sauce out of the can, you have to make it from scratch”. No, I don’t have to make it from scratch because I have 12 other things on the stove and in the oven and don’t forget about that turkey out on the porch with a beer up its “cavity”. I do not have time to mix sugar, cranberries and water just so it can sit there and jiggle on the table.

Cranberry sauce is cut-off.

9. Green Bean Casserole is just an excuse to pour more fat over your vegetables.

Why can’t we just eat green beans? I love green beans,

but not when you pour a can of cream of mushroom soup over them and slop some crunchy, sodiumfilled onions on them. I can’t even talk about this monstrosity anymore.

8. A little better than Green Bean Casserole, but not by a lot is Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows. First things first; sweet potatoes are weird and gross. Like why are they sweet and savory, but not in a good way? But you caramelize the sweet potatoes with a butt load of brown sugar and then put marshmallows on top? I seriously do not understand.

I feel like some poor housewife in the 50’s ran out of ideas and just loaded some sweet potatoes in a pan and called it good. Not the worst thing on the table, but I still won’t touch it.

7. Pecan Pie is the worst of the pies. It gets points for being a dessert, but it has no other redeeming qualities. I will only say this once; Nuts do not belong in desserts. It is literally just nuts, sugar, and syrup. I feel like we’re getting lazy here, people.

6. Finally, here we are at food that I will reluctantly eat (only to appease the people that prepared it).

And with the worst type of

poultry, we have turkey.

Turkey is dry and bland and was meant to be cold cuts.

Turkey is not meant to be this decadent, moist slab of protein and fat. These birds only eat grass and leaves, no wonder your Thanksgiving turkey was forgettable. They didn’t even eat turkey at the first Thanksgiving. They had lobster and venison! If my mom was serving up lobster at Thanksgiving, I would be the first person to say what they are grateful for, and I would be grateful for the lobster sitting in front of me. Turkey is the most nondescript, bland, worst protein you could choose for the most iconic meal of the year. Try harder, America.

Also putting a can of Busch Light up the turkey’s “cavity” does not make it taste better. Get a better beer and get a better bird.

5. This may be the most controversial of my opinions, but I can do without the mashed potatoes and gravy. The one thing I really do not understand about Thanksgiving is we are celebrating a holiday that has little to do with the actual event. We are slaving over food that was not served at the first Thanksgiving and only became tradition in

Letter from the Editor: My final story LEXI KERZMAN is a senior majoring in media & journalism.

Roughly three and a half years ago I was assigned my first story for The Volante as a new freshman reporter. I remember that first story so vividly — I was going to cover Nikki’s Run, a suicide awareness glow in the dark run.

I remember calling my mom terrified to interview a college senior and terrified my article would be terrible.

It was.

The editor at the time called me and basically told me I needed to rewrite the entire story. I cried the next time I called my mom.

Despite thinking I was a terrible journalist and nervous I would never be trusted to write an article for The Volante again, I went to the next meeting and signed up for another story.

I have been at every meeting since.

For the last three and a half years The Volante has been my home. The Volante has made me the journalist and person I am today.

When I signed up for my first story, I had no idea how much a college newspaper would mean to me in just three and a half years.

The Volante, in a way, saved me. During my sophomore year of college, I was extremely depressed, lonely and lost. I was considering transferring schools because I didn’t feel like I belonged at USD. Then I got a text from the Editor-in-Chief at the time inviting me to her place for a Volante movie night.

I made my best friends that night.

My best friends in the world are from The Volante.

Spending late nights in the newsroom was never hard or dreaded because I got to spend time with all my friends. I will cherish the memories of print nights forever.

It has been an absolute honor to serve as the Editor-in-Chief of The

Volante this year. When I first became editor last year, I had absolutely no idea what this year would bring — no one did.

Being the editor during COVID-19 was extremely challenging. At first, I felt so bad for myself. I thought “why did it have to be this year, my year as editor? It’s not fair, I deserve better.”

While I wish more than anything COVID didn’t happen at all, I know it had to happen during my term as EIC — everything happens for a reason. I am so proud of all the work The Volante was able to do this year despite all the ups and downs we faced.

Getting sent home last semester was devastating.

While we were still able to put out content last spring, it wasn’t the same.

I missed our staff. Every single member on staff brings a different talent and energy. I am so grateful we were able to be back in the newsroom this semester so I could learn from all of them.

I am ready to graduate and start my next chapter in my life, but I will always

cherish my time on The Volante. I have never felt as welcomed or loved as I did while working at The Volante.

I hope in 50 years when students or new Volante members look back on The Volante from 2020 they see the passion this staff had for putting out the stories of USD. More than anything, I hope they see how even through a pandemic, we were a team and did amazing work.

It has been an absolute honor to call myself Editor-in-Chief and staff member of The Volante. I hope I have made current, past and future Volante staff members proud.

Thank you to the current staff especially for trusting me as their leader. I was gifted with the best staff possible. I couldn’t imagine a better group to end my career on The Volante with.

I have come a long way since my first story. Thank you, Volante for helping me find my voice as a journalist.

It’s been an honor.

Follow me on Twitter HEIDI SCHNEIDER is a senior majoring in sport marketing and media As a December graduate, I could write about how long and awful of a last semester this was but instead I’ll write about something different.

How grateful I am for a break.

It feels as though this entire year has lasted 20 years but also only two weeks. COVID-

19 has made things weird.

While I didn’t anticipate finishing college in my apartment in Sioux Falls it feels like a fitting way to end thanks to 2020.

Regardless, once these next two and a half weeks hyperspeed on by, I will be nothing but a couch potato for as long as it takes me to recover from whatever it is I just went through.

I’m beyond blessed to be graduating early and getting ahead of the rest of my graduating class, don’t get me wrong.

I’m going to take this time to look for jobs, bolster by resume and prepare myself for a full-time job.

But I’m also going to relax.

And not sumer vacation relax. I work full-time and take classes over summer vacation. No, I’m going to relax.

So if you see me on Instagram doing my third selfcare day in a row, mind your business.

If you see me making cringey TikToks in the parking lot of a HuHot, mind your business.

Or if you’re a hiring

OVERHEARDS

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

“If a girl I’m getting funky with calls me daddy, do I call her mommy?”

— MUC Pit

“So did you guys catch any good porn last night?”

— Dakota Street

“The last time I got anything close to a hickey was a dog bite to my neck.”

— Hy-Vee Starbucks

“I made a cocktail it’s called the Norton Suicide... it’s sprite and hand sanitizer.”

— Newsroom

manager, call me, I need a job.

I’m probably hungry.

So until I find my big-girl job, I will be napping, cuddling with my girlfriend’s cat and live tweeting my post-graduate life. (If you’re interested in that, follow me @heidisxhneider).

Adjusting to a life after education will be an interesting next step, but I am more than excited to take it. I think changing up what makes me tired and anxious at the end of the day will be good for me.

Thanks for everything USD.

the 1950’s when everyone decided casseroles were hot shit. Mashed potatoes and gravy are fine. I will eat them on Thanksgiving, but why make homemade ones?

Some people like lumpy, clumpy mashed potatoes and all I have to say is “barf”. Make the potatoes smooth and buttery and make the gravy thick and fatty. If you don’t listen to me, SNL’s “Crystal Gravy” will become a real thing. If you don’t know what I am talking about, look it up and stop living under a rock.

4. Coming in at big ol’ number four is your mom’s wine. Finally, you’re old enough to have a glass of wine with the grownups at Thanksgiving. Look at this fancy bitch. Now, is the wine good? Eh. Do you not really appreciate wine yet because your taste buds are old and aged yet? Yes. But is it better than that dark Cabernet your grandmother drinks? Oh you betcha.

3. The best dessert at Thanksgiving is the infamous Pumpkin Pie. And I am not talking about that boring pie you buy from your local HyVee. I am saying, make that pie from scratch, find the best pumpkin filling you can,

and top that thing with some whipped cream and you enjoy that sweet and a little bit of savory pie. Pumpkin pie is fantastic. A top tier pie.

2. I don’t know about anyone else, but Mac and Cheese is my main course at Thanksgiving. Creamy, tangy, buttery goodness.

Maybe the only way to get that mac and cheese is to sit at the kids table and yes, mom, I will be taking my glass of wine with me.

Mac and cheese will have a place in my heart until the day I die. God bless cheese.

1. Finally, to the ‘cream de la cream’ of the annual Thanksgiving meal. Your mouth waters just thinking about their buttery goodness. You wait with tempered anticipation to hear the beep of the oven.

They are prepared last because they are the best part of the meal — the bread. I don’t care if it’s sourdough rolls, crescent rolls or cornbread. Bread is the best part of any meal. Any other part of Thanksgiving does not even hold a candle to fresh, warm bread. I give thanks for this bread and butter. No wonder Jesus broke bread; the man obviously knew what he was doing.

Enough is enough KATIE BRUST is a junior majoring in biology and graphic design.

Throughout the history of America, our government has upheld a tradition of classiness, integrity and understanding — the tradition of peaceful presidential transitions. As terms come to an end, both sides are able to put their differences aside and come together for the sake of the country. This, unfortunately, couldn’t be farther from true in the weeks following the 2020 election.

The actions of Trump and his administration come as no surprise. Far prior to the election, he was alluding to the terrifying notion that he would not leave office willingly. During a September press conference, when asked about a potential transition he answered by ranting about the ballots and said, and I quote, “We want to have — get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful, there won’t be a transfer, frankly, there’ll be a continuation”.

This has always been his prerogative.

And now, while the world watches, America has a president who blatantly refuses to honor tradition and respect the decency that should come with the oval office. Our democracy should be much bigger than the narcissism of Trump — it requires us to respect the results of an election even when we don’t like the results.

Instead, he has made it entirely about himself — and what’s worse, establishment Republicans aren’t standing up to it. Trump has taken to Twitter and is spewing tweets

about the election being false, rigged, crazy, a hoax.

He has decided that a margin of millions of votes cannot possibly be true, that Joe Biden under no circumstance would procure those many votes.

We have a president who dissuaded mail-in voting, then votes by mail then turns around and takes to Twitter in a completely unhinged flurry of rants. Trump tweeted, “how come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?”

(Nov. 4th), as if he had not personally told his followers not to vote by mail, and thus the majority of mail-in ballots were cast by Democratic voters.

Other favorites of mine are “STOP THE VOTE” (Nov. 5), “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT” (Nov. 7) and finally, “Twitter is out of control, made possible through the government gift of Section 230!

(Nov. 6). This last one brings up a great discussion - should social media be allowed to fact check or add checks & balances of their own to content made on their platform?

I personally believe so.

Twitter merely adds disclaimers — they do not delete his tweets or account, and the platform provides sources and links to back up their claims. Twitter is certainly not the one out of control.

Overall, Trump’s behavior 1) is extremely dangerous and casts doubt on our democracy, 2) was completely, and sadly, expected, and 3) tarnishes the reputation of the Republican Party, and dishonors the Oval Office and America. Enough is enough, and Trump needs to swallow his massive ego, and aid in the transition for the sake of America.

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USD professors evaluate fall semester, look ahead to spring Sara Cappiello

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This semester, the entire USD community implemented and adapted to the changes in place due to COVID-19. From wearing masks across campus to getting used to hybrid and online learning, the fall semester was much different than years past.

While students had to adjust to new schedules and campus operations, USD professors had to alter their entire course loads in order to reach every student, whether it be in the classroom or remotely.

As the semester comes to a close, USD professors are determining what went well this semester and how next semester will look.

Prentiss Clark, assistant English professor, is in her sixth year teaching at USD. This semester, she taught an American literature course, which was hybrid, and Aesthetics, which was a faceto-face course.

Clark said this semester made her realize what she had taken for granted in the classroom.

“The biggest challenge, for me at least, has been figuring out how to enable class discussion when we can’t see each other’s faces or sit near to each other and when speaking through masks — and hearing — is difficult,” Clark said. “Social distancing, masks and the necessary safety precautions limit the kinds of personal interactions that make a classroom lively and engaging.”

Learning new

technologies, teaching in new formats and helping students in various stages of quarantine or illness, Clark said, were just a few of the day-to-day things she and other professors on campus managed.

Clark said this wasn her most challenging semester at USD yet, but she has also learned many things she will keep in mind for next semester.

“I’ve learned that Zoom fatigue is real, but I’ve also learned that many universities and libraries and scholarly organizations are making lectures and events free and available to the public,” Clark said.

“We have access to writers, and artists, and scientists, who we wouldn’t ordinarily have access to. I’m going to integrate more of these online opportunities into my classes next semester.”

Joel Sander, associate physics professor, is in his eighth year teaching at USD. Similar to Clark, Sander said this semester was difficult, but also allowed him to learn how to teach more effectively.

“Getting everybody trained and getting students all on the same page with technology they’ve never used before was really challenging,” Sander said. “That was a lot of work early in the semester, but I eventually got there and it worked out in the first couple of weeks.”

Sander taught astronomy and astronomy lab this semester. Since 180 students are enrolled in astronomy, the course was taught entirely online, while the lab was taught in a hybrid format.

Sander teaches astronomy

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In order to continue the semester during the pandemic, instructors had to adjust to hybrid and online learning methods. online in the summer, so he said making the shift in the fall was relatively easy.

“I’d begun recording video lectures before COVID happened,” Sander said. “So a lot of that class was already packaged and ready to go.

There are some aspects of the online course that didn’t scale well to 180 students so I had to adjust those, but that wasn’t as big of a thing.”

Sara Lampert, an associate history professor, also taught a mix of online and hybrid

courses this semester. For her online courses, Lampert said delivering them in a synchronous format was most effective in terms of developing connections with students, but it took some getting used to.

“Even though synchronous courses give you the opportunity to foster connections with students and create community, nothing can replace the community you have in a physical classroom,” Lampert

said. “We all know that it can be challenging sometimes to teach to a bunch of blank boxes. I think we all miss the physical classroom a little bit.”

Like Clark and Sander, Lampert said she learned a lot this semester that she will continue to use in the future, especially in terms of using technology to maintain her relationships with students.

“This semester was hard for everybody and we were all trying to find ways to stay engaged and keep our

energy up,” Lampert said.

“Any opportunity I had to connect with students and interact with them was good for me. So whether you’re in a hybrid environment, a social-distanced, face-to-face environment, or an online environment, trying to use that technology to do those more interactive things is really important.”

Duo Security to be required by all Board of Regents schools in 2021 Miles Amende

Miles.Amende@coyotes.usd.edu

Students may not know it, but hackers and scammers try to steal university credentials every day.

This, IT security officer Joe Reynoldson said, is why the Board of Regents (BOR) is requiring all students to enroll in Duo Security by Jan. 27, 2021.

About half of all active students have Duo, and new students are required to enroll in Duo when they first pick up their university accounts, Reynoldson said. If a student doesn’t have Duo by Jan. 27, they will be required to enroll before they can access services like D2L. Cybersecurity, Reynoldson said, is critical at all levels of people’s lives and is a complex field of work, though there are straightforward steps people can take to protect their information.

“The single most effective way to protect yourself, as well as your friends and family, is to enable multi-factor authentication wherever you can,” Reynoldson said.

Information Technology Service (ITS) sees a variety of attacks on a daily basis, Reynoldson said, but attackers’ primary goal is to steal student usernames and passwords. Attackers can

then use this information to put spam on the internet or spread ransomware across BOR networks.

“What we see most often is that student passwords are compromised with different websites online,” Reynoldson said. “And because … people tend to reuse their password for lots of different accounts, they turn around and the bad guy takes those passwords, turns around and logs into a university account.”

With Duo, Reynoldson said, even if a password is stolen or put online, it’s useless without a second factor of authentication.

Nate Brady, a security engineer at ITS, said USD is a target because it has valuable information. He said attackers often try to use direct deposit information to steal student refunds and staff paychecks.

“They’re constantly trying to send emails to HR, or find other ways through phone calls to change my — or other staff members’ — direct deposits, just before payday,” Brady said. “They’ve done this research. I mean, it’s obvious that they know what they’re doing, they know who to talk to.”

Brady said ITS uses Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection to send him alerts when student accounts are potentially compromised,

like when an account which has been consistently logging in from Vermillion suddenly logs in from Latvia or Nigeria.

First, Brady has to vet the login because USD has some students who work and live overseas, though he knows who those people are because they’ve been found to consistently log in from that location by analytics. If they use Duo, he said, he knows it’s a good login.

“But when I see you’re in Vermillion today, and then in five hours you’re in Washington, and then a couple minutes later you’re in Nigeria, that means the bad guys are … checking your credentials to see if they can turn around and make use of them,” Brady said.

Additionally, ITS has installed software on university computers that seek and report malware.

ITS also does penetration scanning against all of USD’s servers, Brady said.

Reynoldson said since adopting Duo, ITS has seen a significant decrease in compromised accounts.

He said in Aug. of 2018, the university saw a large attack where hundreds of student accounts were logging in from foreign countries — after which ITS made students change their passwords — and since then, there have

been spikes in compromised accounts at the beginnings of semesters, although each spike gets smaller.

“You’ll see them test the accounts, to see if the password works, approximately two weeks before the semester starts, and then about two weeks after the semester starts, they try again,” Reynoldson said.

“They know our business processes, they know when our semester starts, they know when students are likely to be getting financial aid. They’re really targeting us, just like they do everyone else online.”

When the end of January comes and all students are required to have Duo, Brady said he will breathe a little easier since attackers often give up when they see they have to go through two-factor authentication.

Another tool that helps protect USD students and staff, Brady said, is the human firewall — the ability for people to report phishing or spam directly from their emails.

“It’s one of the best things, because if all of a sudden we’re getting hit really hard with a phishing scam, and let’s say they send in 100 emails, if you report it or a staff member reports it, it comes directly to my phone,” Reynoldson said.

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By Jan. 27, all USD students are required to have Duo, a multifactor authentication service. and delete those emails out of your inbox.”

For students looking for additional cybersecurity, Reynoldson said people should enable multi-factor authentication if possible for all their accounts using apps like Duo Mobile, Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator.

Using a password manager like LastPass or 1Password, he said, is a good way to protect passwords, especially for services which can’t be protected by multi-factor authentication.

Students who have not yet enrolled in Duo can do so by visiting link.usd.edu/duoinfo.

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SENIOR ART SHOW CONCLUDES TIME AT USD

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The senior art show, “Here//Gone” which features six graduating seniors will be showcased until Nov. 20. The pieces above are digital illustrations in Annie Farmer, senior graphic design student’s portion of the show.

Sydney Johnson

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Six students are preparing to have their artwork showcased to USD faculty and students before they graduate in December.

Each year the art exhibition is produced for senior art majors to have their work seen by a large audience before their graduation.

This year’s exhibition show for the six seniors who are graduating in December’s theme is “Here//Gone”.

Every year, in order to graduate, art majors must create an exhibition to showcase their work. This is similar to an exit exam for other majors. Each show consists of a few students who develop a concept

and execute everything involved in creating an exhibition.

Two of the six art students who are participating in this gallery showcase are Jenna Kari and Annie Farmer. Kari and Farmer are studio art majors with an emphasis in graphic design.

“The art showcase gives graduating seniors the opportunity to display their work in an actual gallery setting,” Kari said. “It’s a great opportunity to network and represent yourself professionally within the art community.”

While providing graduating seniors the chance to meet people within the art world, this art See GALLERY, Page B2

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Jenna Kari, senior graphic design student set-up a boutique-like space to showcase her screen printed western apparel brand, Rowdy Rags.

Symphony Orchestra provides hope through semester concert Alle Anduaga

Alle.Anduaga@coyotes.usd.edu

USD Symphony Orchestra has been doing its part to provide quality performances since the nineteenth century. Amidst COVID-19 they have faced challenges, adapted and still continue to put on performances for all to enjoy.

The Symphony Orchestra is comprised of mainly university music students. However, it is open to and currently consists of non-music majors, community members and advanced high school students.

Due to COVID-19, the Symphony Orchestra has had to move their practices from a rehearsal room in the fine arts center to their typical performance area, in Aalfs Auditorium.

Luis Víquez, director of orchestras, said moving the classroom to Aalfs auditorium has granted the musicians the opportunity to continue practicing while allowing the space to remain socially distanced.

“I have to be wearing a mask which is really tricky because as a conductor you want to make sure you have facial expressions alongside with the movement of your hands,” Víquez said. “A lot of the time you communicate music through your mouth, smile and facial expressions and that is something

that is missing a lot.”

All musicians have to wear a face mask as well and to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 the orchestra has limited rehearsals to every other week.

Limited rehearsals result in shorter concerts. What would typically be an hour-long concert is now 25-30 minutes for the Symphony Orchestra.

During the concert, Víquez said there will be a few musicians on stage and the rest will be in the front house of the auditorium. They are allowing about 20 people to sit in the balcony of the auditorium to enjoy the show live.

Sierra Kamin, senior criminal justice and psychology major, is in her second year of playing flute for the Symphony Orchestra. Kamin said there has been more positives than negatives to this semester.

“Just being here playing it has really shown that we can still produce music during a time where it was uncertain that we could and out of that experience there have been positives of being able to further develop more technique for my instrument and developing more of a chamber ensemble mentality,” Kamin said.

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The Asian American Student Association (AASA) has hosted many different events this semester and looks forward to next semester.

Asian American Student Association educates students about culture Bennett Clary

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The CDC on campus is comprised of multiple organizations that focus on different cultures. The Asian American Student Association (AASA) is one of the smaller groups within the CDC that focuses on bringing Asian culture to USD. Naivy Patle, a senior economics and political science double major, is the president of AASA. Patle said the group strives to educate students on Asian American history, heritage and culture here in the US. “Our motto is to build a bridge between the communities,” Patle said. “Everybody is welcome to our organization and to learn about who we are and what we do on campus.

That’s one beauty of our campus and our community here that everybody

can come, everybody is welcome. They are free to ask questions.”

Diane Na is a senior addiction studies major that has participated in AASA for two years and is the vice president. Na said this semester AASA decided to hand out road trip goodie bags when students leave for winter break.

During the first semester, they usually celebrate Diwali with traditional dances and musical performances. However, COVID-19 has stopped the organization from having big celebrations, but Na said they are hopeful for next semester.

“We’re more focused on Asian culture such as Diwali (which) is one of our big events and next semester the Lunar New Year is one of our big events,” Na said.

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USD Symphony Orchestra is set to perform on Monday, Nov. 23 for a live-streamed audience at 7 p.m.

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Rachel Reacts: ‘Dash and Lily’ reignite Christmas spirit Rachel Thompson

Rachel.R.Thompson@coyotes.usd.edu

Netflix Studios

Usually Hollywood likes to repackage its stories and give the same thing every year for Christmas, which ultimately makes me dread the screens this time of year. This show, at first glance, sounds like the usual cringe Christmas story but turns out to be the gift we all deserved.

“Dash and Lily” is a new show on Netflix based on the book “Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.” Out of all the rapidly growing list of Christmas originals that Netflix is adding to its service, this one might be the only one with the substance.

The show is about a girl who leaves a journal in a bookstore full of dares in hopes of finding a boyfriend. This eventually leads to the two becoming close but with the exception of never actually meeting in person, only communicating

through a journal.

I went into this very cautious thinking it was going to be cringey like many other book adaptations Netflix has chosen recently and rom-coms in general, but it surprised me and made me rethink bias against rom-coms.

I thought it was going to be the typical Christmas story. A guy hates Christmas and a girl who loves Christmas helps the guy love Christmas again.

It turned out to be more. Both characters help each other become their better selves by going outside their comfort zone and the guy loves Christmas again.

The premise itself feels refreshing to watch, it’s not the conventional plot we usually see in these types of movies but is still reasonable and an attention grabber for audiences.

Many shows these days are trying to make a statement or try to be an eye-opening

experience to viewers. “Dash and Lily” just asked the audience to join their adventure if they pleased, they didn’t try to be spectacular, they just told a story.

This works heavily to their advantage as I left the show feeling content, happy and excited for the holidays, and the little adventures that may come.

The lead actors Austin Abrams and Midori Francis make the show. Their characters had barely any screen time together but the actors were still able to show the great chemistry between their characters Dash and Lily.

While it is geared towards a younger crowd, I do believe this would be fun to watch for all ages and to watch with family.

“Dash and Lily” is a great show to get you in the holiday spirit and is not like the usual Christmas entertainment that comes out this year.

USD Chamber Singers look forward to spring season

The USD Chamber Singers performed at the Music is Alive Festival on Oct. 11 and is looking forward to more performances next semester.

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USD’s Chamber Singers looks nothing like it did last year.

Singers are required to wear masks and are divided into four separate groups. The four groups work on their own music along with several combined pieces, Emily Muirhead, choir president said.

Combined rehearsals with all four groups are held outside, weather permitting, or in Aalfs Auditorium.

“Some of our rehearsals are student led which is a great opportunity for students to take on different leadership roles,” Muirhead said.

David Holdhusen, USD Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music, said adapting to the pandemic has been a

challenging change.

In past years, Chamber Singers have gone on week-long tours over spring break to perform as a group. Their performances typically follow a unifying theme or story.

“This year, due to COVID, we will not be going on tour,” Muirhead said. “I have spent my last 3 spring breaks with this group on a bus so I will really miss going on tour.”

During the spring semester of 2020, the USD Chamber Singers were on tour when COVID started affecting the US. “I remember sitting in my hotel room on the Wednesday night when the NBA shut down and the President addressed the nation wondering what the future was going to hold,” Holdhusen said. “Fortunately, we were able to finish our tour, perform at the Regional ACDA Conference and give the students some sense

of finality for what we had been preparing for.”

Spring semester is going to have some of the same restrictions and changes this semester and last semester had for the Chamber Singers, Muirhead said.

“As of right now, we plan to continue to have a few concerts with a small audience,” Muirhead said.“Each member of the choir was allotted, two guests. Normally our concerts are totally open to the public.”

For spring semester, the choir will still be broken up into several groups, masks will be required and audience members will be limited.

“The spring semester is a bit of a moving target, but I would like to do more larger group music as well as the small ensembles,” Holdhusen said. “It is my hope that we will have our Spring Choral Showcase and that the

ORCHESTRA This semester Víquez said the orchestra has taken a particular approach to perform music written by underrepresented composers. This coming concert will feature a piece written by the female conductor, Deanna Wehrspann.

Deanna Wehrspann, USD staff accompanists, has been playing piano since 2016 for Symphony Orchestra. Wehrspann created a piece that would be uplifting during the uncertain times with COVID. “The piece that I wrote is called “Quirk” it’s kind of quirky, very rhythmic, kind of funny, there are a couple times when the orchestra has to audibly say ‘hey!’ in the middle of the song,” Wehrspann said.

Being that Wehrspann has played piano

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The art gallery is planned to open on Nov. 16 until the 20 at the John A. Day Gallery in the Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts.

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of culture.

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Although AASA may seem geared towards only Asian Americans, Na said the group welcomes all students who are interested in learning about Asian culture.

“If someone wants to know about Asian culture because since there’s not much resources in South Dakota,” Na said. “We can prep activities to get to know about this culture and have experience about it, for example like chopstick class.”

Patle said college is the time to make

mistakes because students are in a safe environment where they can learn from their mistakes.

Students, Patle said, are free to go to the CDC or ask him any questions they may have because he hopes it will spark their curiosity and they may consider joining the group.

“You’re in college, you are paying (so much) money, I guess you should get all these experiences,” Patle said. “It’s a good place to learn everything because you won’t get this chance when you are out of college.”

Patle said he encourages students to attend the International Bazaar on Nov. 18 to learn more about the association and about Asian culture.

choir will be able to record in the late spring as we have done in previous years. This will, of course, be at the discretion of our recording engineer and at the mercy of the virus.”

The USD Chamber Singers are currently working on several different projects.

“Our latest project includes The Chamber Singers performing Christmas tunes,” Muirhead said. ‘’If you are interested, follow us on Facebook at USD Chamber Singers to see the finished product.”

Despite the challenges this semester has had, Holdhusen said the Chamber Singers have enjoyed getting to sing together regardless.

“The USD Chamber Singers look forward to bringing live choral music back to campus when it is safe to do so. We have enjoyed being able to sing together this semester,” Holdhusen said.

for Symphony Orchestra for a while now, she knows a lot of the students and has developed a connection with them and her music.

“It’s very cool for me to see additional things that the conductor and students bring out that sometimes I didn’t even realize were in the piece,” Wehrspann said. “It’s really exciting going to the actual performance and I’m usually sitting there crying because it’s very cool to see actual people doing something with their heart and technique that I thought up in my head.”

On Monday, Nov. 23 the Symphony Orchestra will be performing and having their concert live-streamed, www.usd.edu/ livemusic, at 7:00 p.m. for all to join.

Víquez said she encourages anyone who is interested to join the orchestra and that all students, staff and faculty would join in on supporting the Symphony Orchestra by watching the live stream of their concert.

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showcase, Kari said it is also helping her continue to build her own business.

In 2018, Kari created her own clothing business called Rowdy Rags. Her installation in the art showcase will feature many pieces from her apparel business and will be set up to look as though the audience is in a boutique.

“I want it to feel like you’re walking around a boutique,” Kari said. “I’ve been working on details like product posters and clothing tags to make it feel as authentic as possible.”

Kari decided to use her space in the gallery to promote her business, while Farmer used her section to have the idea of a warm cozy morning resonate with her audience.

“The goal of my exhibition is really just to have the viewer feel like they are waking up on a cozy morning and to have them think about what elements go into making a morning great for them,” Farmer said.

Farmer’s design includes 14 digital illustrations that focus on shape and a warm color palette to encompass her “good morning” theme.

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Abigail Wienk, senior photography student showcases her photos in the John

A. Day Gallery as part of the senior B.F.A. show Here//Gone.

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WOMEN’S RUGBY WINS VIRTUAL SEASON

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The women’s rugby team won the national virtual season on Saturday. The team is hoping for a full in-person season in the spring.

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This year, due to COVID-19 the USD’s women rugby team had to compete in a different way.

At the beginning of August the women’s rugby team found out they would not be competing physically, and rather they would have a virtual competition.

For the virtual season each week, the rugby team had five main tasks to complete for competition. They had a rugby law quiz, social media task, team bonding task, a fitness component and their coach had a task as well.

When the women’s rugby team found out about the new plan for this season they decided

one person should be in charge of all the virtual aspects. Erica Oney took the position and has been the leader of this virtual competition.

“The spot was open and I just felt like I could handle it. I’m pretty on top of things, good organizing and I felt like I could keep the team together and rolling forward,” Oney said.

The team bonding task was held weekly

by Oney over Zoom. The team has played Pictionary together and created a chant for them to say before their games that will now be a part of their legacy, Oney said.

The team’s cheer is “Yotes are USD, Yotes are rugby, Yotes are family.”

For one of their social media tasks the women’s rugby team decided to spotlight breast cancer awareness.

“The task was like a charity campaign and so we really focused on breast cancer awareness,” Eden Liebenthal, president of USD women’s rugby team said. “We had a player whose mom passed away about a month ago due to breast cancer, so that’s something that’s been near and dear to our hearts.”

Another social media and team-building task the team did was their virtual homecoming.

They invited women’s rugby alumni to join and share their stories.

For the fitness component of the competition, the team as a whole is given a checklist of fitness tasks to complete and they get divided amongst the team.

“Rugby has a spot for someone of every size, so we have skinny quick girls and bigger

girls that can tackle and this virtual season has been great to really enforce that because there are girls that can do the quick fitness stuff and there are girls that can do the strong fitness stuff,” Oney said.

Saturday was the final day of the national competition and is the day when they announced the winner. They announced that USD’s women’s rugby team has officially won this virtual season.

Next semester is still undecided on whether or not there will be a physical competition or another virtual one.

“We would love to play but we’re gonna do what’s best for the team for the health of everybody involved,” Liebenthal said.

Coyote Athletics spring slate Madilyn Sindelar

Madilyn.Sindelar@coyotes.usd.edu

Looking ahead to the new year, Coyotes sports teams are gearing up for an unusual spring. All sports will be competing during the second semester after schedule delays and changes due to the pandemic.

Basketball

The women’s and men’s basketball teams will be the first Yotes to play in the competition since March.

The women will face the No.1 ranked South Carolina Gamecocks in Sioux Falls on Nov. 28 at 2:30 p.m. as a part of the Bad Boy Mowers Classic. The team will also face off against Gonzaga and Oklahoma during the tournament.

Summit League play begins for women’s basketball Jan. 2 against Denver inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. Games will be played back to back doubleheaders. The doubleheaders will be played each Friday and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday each week. Each team will play 16 games over the course of a nine-week season ending with the Summit League Tournament March 6-9 at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center in Sioux Falls. The Coyotes host Omaha (Jan. 29-30), Oral Roberts (Feb. 20-21) and North Dakota State (Feb. 27-28) as well.

On the men’s side the team will travel to Sioux Falls for the Dakota Showcase. The Coyotes will take on North Dakota (Dec. 10), NDSU (Dec. 11) and South Dakota State (Dec. 12) during the tournament.

The men will open conference play Jan. 2 against the Denver Pioneers and follow the same back to back

double header format as the women’s team, hosting the same teams on the same dates. Their season will conclude at the Summit League Tournament in Sioux Falls March 6-9.

Mens Golf

The men’s golf team boasts a slate of invitationals throughout the spring, ending with the Summit League Championship in Newton, Kansas May 1-3.

The team will open play in Goodyear, Arizona at the Loyola Invite Feb. 21-23. The Coyotes will then travel to Phoenix for the GCU Invitational March 15-16.

Following that they will return to the midwest for the Missouri State Invite March 22-23 and follow that with a trip to Colombia, Missouri for the Mizzou Invite April 5-6. The last tournament will be the Stampede at the Creek in Omaha.

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The Pierre Governors dominated number one seeded Brookings, 38-6.

Women’s Golf

The women’s golf team will travel across the country for multiple invitationals this spring. They will end their season in Newton, Kansas for the Summit League Championship April 25-27.

They open play at the Battle at the Rock Feb. 8-9 in Riverside, California. They will then travel to Jacksonville, Florida for the Amelia Island Collegiate Feb. 15-16. The Coyote will then compete at the HBU Intercollegiate in Houston March 15-16. Following that they will play in the Diane Dougherty Invite in Missouri March 29-30.

Concluding with the Stampede at the Creek in Omaha April 12-13.

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2020 South Dakota high school State Football Championships recap Tyler Boyle

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11AAA:

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The USD football season will begin Feb. 19 against Western Illinois in the DakotaDome.

Brandon Valley 35, Harrisburg 14 The 11AAA state title went to the number two seeded Brandon Valley Lynx with the team’s 35-14 victory over the Harrisburg Tigers.

The win gives Brandon Valley their second state title in three years after the Lynx’s loss to O’Gorman in last year’s state title game.

“Especially after last year losing in the state championship, it just feels good to be champs again,” Tate Johnson, senior running back for Brandon Valley, said.

Johnson was partly responsible for the 21 point victory for the Lynx as he rushed for a total of 225 yards and 2 touchdowns. However, Johnson was not the only player for Brandon Valley to have a dominant performance Saturday night. The Lynx’s senior quarterback, Joe Kolbeck, also finished the game with 188 yards of total offense and 3 touchdowns.

Kolbeck was named the Joe Robbie Most Valuable Player of the game and Johnson was named the

Most Outstanding Back of the game.

Brandon Valley senior, Jaxon Mullet, was named the Most Outstanding Lineman of the game.

11AA:

Pierre T.F. Riggs 38, Brookings 6 In dominant fashion, the Pierre Governors upset the number one seeded Brookings Bobcats 38-6 on Friday, Nov. 13. The win gave the Governors their 4th straight state title.

The Governors were led by sophomore quarterback, Lincoln Kienholz who completed 10-of19 passes for 151 yards and 3 touchdowns. Kienholz also got help from his senior running back, Maguire Raske, who ran for 164 yards and 1 touchdown.

Kienholz was named the Joe Robbie Most Valuable player of the game and Raske the Most Outstanding Back of the game.

Preston Taylor, a senior nose tackle for the Governors, was named the Most Outstanding Lineman of the game.

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USD athletic facilities plan for busy spring season Bailey Zubke

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With all fall sports at USD moved to the spring semester, USD’s athletic facilities have a packed spring while still adjusting to the ever changing world of COVID-19.

Corey Jenkins, the senior associate athletic director for facilities and operations, has been working with the rest of the athletic department to coordinate plans for the spring semester. Jenkins said they have had a few socially distanced events this fall. (“The events) were certainly very unique and very different from what we’re accustomed to as we implement our reserve social distance seatings, mask requirements, hand sanitizer stations everywhere, totally changed up how we handle things like concessions,” Jenkins said. “And I think that these events have been important learning opportunities as we prepare for what will be a very busy spring and certainly look to improve upon how we handle these events and providing a safe environment as we can.”

This fall, USD’s 2020 commencement ceremony was hosted inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center in October. The DakotaDome hosted a fall football scrimmage, and last week the high school football championships.

The first USD sporting event on campus is currently scheduled for Dec. 6, when the women’s basketball team hosts Lipscomb.

Basketball, volleyball and soccer have conference schedules set up to limit travel by hosting the same team twice on a single weekend. Jenkins said that this busy schedule is a great learning experience for some of his staff. “(This) presents kind of a unique opportunity for people like practicum interns and graduate assistants that are always involved, but now we’re going to be kind of forced in a way to give them a lot more responsibility, which is a fantastic opportunity for those individuals,” Jenkins said. “And we’re very fortunate we’ve got some really good ones this year. So I know they can handle it.”

Jenkins said the keys to navigating the busy schedule are organization and all hands on deck. Coaching staffs will have to cooperate with facilities management for practice schedules to ensure that practice spaces are available and cleaned properly before a different group of athletes enter the weight room or practice gym.

“Just making sure that we partner well, communicate well, across campus,” Jenkins said. “So whether it’s the grounds departments, the Facilities Management Department, we’re all going to have to really work closely together to make sure we’re staying ahead of everything that’s on the schedule and, taking care of every event and giving it its own due diligence as we

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Teams will have to be willing to cooperate in order for each team to have space to practice. Football, track and field, softball and golf all practice inside the Dome over the winter months. move through a very busy spring.”

Hosting events inside the facilities is only part of the battle. Jenkins said that teams will have to be willing to cooperate in order for each team to have space to practice. Football, track and field, softball and golf all practice inside the Dome over the winter months.

“Scheduling is of paramount importance,” Jenkins said. “We’re also going to be asking some of our programs to practice at times where they may not normally practice when they’re in season. So either you know go into a 7 pm practice or really early 6 am practice so that we can take care of everyone. With the dome and the SCSC certainly being where the majority of our programs practice, there’s a lot of overlaps there in time.”

Jenkins said that they are still in the process of figuring out everyone’s schedules for practices, but it is important for the programs to communicate and be willing to share their training space.

“We’re asking for flexibility from our

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Soccer

The women’s soccer team will play 16 games as eight backto-back doubleheaders, eliminating travel due to COVID-19.

The Summit League Tournament will be hosted in Omaha April 15-17.

The Coyotes home game slate includes Omaha (Mar. 5,7), Western Illinois (Mar. 12,14), Oral Roberts (Mar. 26,28) and North Dakota State (Apr 2, 4).

The women’s volleyball team will play 16 games as eight back-to-back doubleheaders, limiting travel due to COVID-19.

The Summit League Tournament will be hosted at the Sioux Falls Pentagon April 2-3.

The Coyotes home game slate opens against Omaha Feb. 14-15. Followed by a visit from North Dakota State Feb. 21-22 inside the SCSC. Following that Oral Roberts (Mar. 5-6) and Kansas City (Mar. 19-20) will visit Vermillion.

Football

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The Canistota-Freeman Pride won their third straight 9A state championship title over Warner, 12-0.

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11A:

Tea Area 35, Canton 16 In a matchup between the 2019 state champions, the Canton C-Hawks, and the 2018 state champions, the Tea Area Titans, Tea Area was able to clinch their 2nd state title in 3 years with a 35-16 victory over the C-Hawks.

In Tea Area’s 19 point victory, senior running back Kaden Johnson and senior quarterback Austin Lake combined for 386 total yards and 4 touchdowns. In addition, Tea Area junior wide receiver Cael Lundin had 3 receptions for 74 yards and Tea Area running back Connor Mulder had 2 receptions for 36 yards.

The Joe Robbie Most Valuable Player of the game and the Most Outstanding Back of the game was Lake. The Most Outstanding Lineman of the game was senior Luke Rettedal.

11B:

Winner 18, Bridgewater-Emery-Ethan 14 In a battle of the unbeaten, the Winner Warriors were able to edge the BridgewaterEmery-Ethan Seahawks 18-14. Winner’s victory

coaching staff and our student athletes as well to kind of work with us and be understanding that we’re going to do the best we can to take care of everybody,” Jenkins said. “But with the realization that probably everyone is going to have to concede something along the way this spring.”

WIth basketball and volleyball being played at the same time and the hopes of having fans in the SCSC this spring, Jenkins said the athletic department has electrostatic sprayers that will be used to clean the seating bowl between events. The sprayers take a few hours to get every seat cleaned.

These sprayers will be especially helpful on days with multiple events. Jenkins said having combined basketball season tickets will hopefully keep fans in the same seats for basketball games, but if volleyball and basketball games are on the same day, the crowd turnover will be the most important thing to manage and clean for.

“It’s a pretty complex jigsaw puzzle to put

avenged the team’s loss in the state title game last year to give the team its third state title in the past six years.

The game between the Warriors and the Seahawks came down to the final play when the Seahawks had the ball on Winner’s 26 yard line with 6 seconds remaining in the contest.

However, the Seahawks’ quarterback, Kaden Klumb’s pass was broken up by Winner’s Riley Orell to clinch the state title for the Warriors.

The Joe Robbie Most Valuable Player of the game was Riley Orell, who rushed for 101 yards and 1 touchdown. The Most Outstanding Back of the game was Sam Krueger, who had 48 rushing yards and 30 receiving yards. The Most Outstanding Lineman of the game was Charley Pravecek.

9A:

Canistota-Freeman 12, Warner 0 The Canistota-Freeman Pride won its third straight state title against the Warner Monarchs 12-0. The loss gave the Monarchs their first loss of the season.

The Pride defense only allowed the Warner offense a total of 146 yards in the contest, the lowest of the season for the Monarchs. The Pride’s offense was led by senior quarterback Tyce Ortman, who ran for a total of 253 yards

together, that our ticket office works on,” Jenkins said. “The goal is consistent seating in a lot of ways, which we’re able to hold true in basketball. And as we switch to volleyball, it’s working on scenarios of having that opportunity to clean between events.”

The COVID-19 policies and guidelines are ever changing, and the athletic department is following the changes as they come. Jenkins said the most important thing in everything is to be fluid.

“I think the number one thing is probably that everything’s extremely fluid, as it relates to COVID,” Jenkins said. “It’s a real challenge because it feels like you come up with a good game plan, and then whether it’s national or local guidelines get tweaked a little bit, and you have to adjust to that. So while we’re planning on spectators, that’s obviously a fluid situation. And we’ll continue to look at policies and procedures that put us in a situation and provide a safe atmosphere as possible.”

renovated DakotaDome.

The team will host four home games and will travel to four away games. They will play for a chance at a spring FCS championship.

Following the bout against the Leathernecks, USD will host UNI (Feb. 26) and will then play a road streak. The team will return to Vermillion for North Dakota State (Mar. 20) and Missouri State (April 3).

Other sports

Track and field, cross country, triathlon, softball, tennis and men’s and women’s swimming and diving await an updated spring schedule.

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The Wolsey-Wessington Warbirds won the 9B Class State Championships over Dell

Rapids St. Mary, 32-14.

and 2 touchdowns and threw for 42 yards.

Ortman was the Joe Robbie Most Valuable Player of the game and the Most Outstanding Back of the game. The Most Outstanding Lineman of the game was senior Cole Papendick.

9B: 14

Wolsey-Wessington 32, Dell Rapids St. Mary

In a matchup between the three seeded Wolsey-Wessington Warbirds and the five seeded Dell Rapids St. Mary Cardinals, WolseyWessington prevailed to a 18 point victory giving the Warbirds its second state title in school history.

Wosley-Wessington’s success was largely due to the Warbirds strong first half. After two quarters, the Warbirds held an 18-0 lead over the Cardinals. In the second half, the Warbirds continued their offensive prouse with two more touchdowns but allowed the Cardinals to score two passing touchdowns to make the final score 32-14.

The Joe Robbie Most Valuable Player of the game and Most Outstanding Back of the game was quarterback Corbin Haarmeyer of Wolsey-Wessington, who finished with 173 passing yards, 57 rushing yards, 1 passing

touchdown and 1 rushing touchdown. The Most Outstanding Lineman of the game was Sterlin Bonin of Wolsey-Wessington.

9AA:

Platte-Geddes 42, Hamlin 12 In a battle between two unbeaten, the fourth-seeded Platte-Geddes Black Panthers defeated the second seeded Hamlin Chargers in a dominant 42-12 final.

Platte-Geddes won its first state title since the two communities formed into one school in 2007. The Black Panthers’ win was partly due to their strong defensive performance in which they were able to limit Hamlin’s top rusher, Jackosn Noem who averages over 200 yards rushing per game, to just 29 yards on 11 carries.

The Black Panthers’ offense was led by Grayson Hanson, who had 78 rushing yards with 2 touchdowns and 13 yards passing with 1 touchdown. Hanson was named the Joe Robbie Most Valuable Player of the game and the Most Outstanding Back of the game. Caden Foxley, a junior tight end of the Platte-Geddes, was named the Most Outstanding Lineman of the game.