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USD to convert to online bookstore Austin Lammers

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vote him to be (Mr. Congeniality)’ and at first it was a surprise. I was like ‘I didn’t know they would pick me.’”

Hulse partnered with Dakotathon to plan Mr. USD, and the proceeds of the event will be donated to the Children’s Miracle Network.

Hulse said the event brought in a total of $500.

“The boys are selling 50/50 tickets and half those proceeds go to the pot for the 50/50 prize, but the other half is raising for their personal donor drives, so that was an incentive to compete.

The people’s choice jars, which we have here in the MUC… that money goes to the Dakotathon overall drive,” she said. “The ad-

USD will implement a new online bookstore through a platform called Akademos, ending a 17-year partnership with Barnes & Noble, beginning June 1.

Charlie’s, USD’s retail store, will replace Barnes & Noble’s current space in the Muenster University Center with a second location.

Charlie’s will still sell basic student supplies, but if students opt to order textbooks and course materials through the university, they must do so online using usd.textbookx. com.

“They are going to facilitate how faculty adopt books and then how students buy books.

That will all be done online in partnership with Charlie’s,” Scott Pohlson, VP of Marketing, Enrollment and University Relations, said.

According to University Relations, the online bookstore will offer “real-time pricing,” a “peer-to-peer marketplace” where students can buy and sell textbooks, free shipping on orders over $49 and a “course page showing only the courses students are registered for with all corresponding materials.”

Rentals and used textbooks will still be available to students through the online bookstore. Students can also deliver their books to Charlie’s

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Peyton Beyers I The Volante Carson Sehr, Mr. USD (left), and Kallo Arno, Mr. Congeniality (right), pose with Amber Hulse, a Miss South Dakota state titleholder and organizer of the Mr. USD pageant (middle).

Creating Mr. USD: Male pageant spurs camaraderie and funds charity Kelli Susemihl

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Aalfs Auditorium was filled with testosterone on Sunday afternoon, as ten USD men had the chance to flaunt their dance moves, their fitness skills and even their flugelhorn talents.

Carson Sehr, a first-year English major, won the title of Mr. USD, along with a pair of Beats headphones.

Kallo Arno, a sophomore kinesiology major, took home the Mr. Congeniality title.

The contestants competed in fitness, talent, on-stage question and evening-wear categories, which Amber Hulse, who brought the pageant to campus, said is similar to the teen competitions in Miss America.

South Dakota state titleholders from the Miss America pageant judged the contest.

“The people that are judging are actually all Miss South Dakota contestants, so Miss USD is one of them, and there’s a bunch of other girls that have held titles for the USD pageant,” Hulse, sophomore political science major and South Dakota’s Miss State Fair said. “Miss South Dakota and Miss South Dakota’s Outstanding Teen will be emceeing the first part of the show, and the second part of the show will be emceed by Mitchell Olson, who is kind of a famous Vermillionaire; he actually was on the TV show Survivor when he was younger, and he has worked with the Miss South Dakota organiza-

tion for years and years.”

For his talent, Sehr performed on his flugelhorn, a valved brass instrument similar to a cornet or trumpet.

“I took more time than I probably should have deciding my talent and picking out music and also spending too much time on my outfits,” he said. “I sang and I played flugelhorn.”

Arno said he was surprised he was chosen to be Mr. Congeniality by his fellow contestants.

“Everyone picked who they thought was the most funny, had a lot of spirit and was just overall positive throughout the whole thing,” he said. “I don’t want to say I knew, but I kind of felt like all the guys were like ‘hey, he’s pretty funny, maybe we should

Verve Festival of Nations: Traveling through food and culture Lexi Kerzman

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The Festival of Nations event gives students and community members a trip across the world without leaving Vermillion–and it’s done all through food.

“People cook from their heart and they can share their culture,” said Anita Shrestha, president of the USD International Club, whose annual potluck-style event featured dishes from 35 countries, including Pakistan, India, Spain, Germany, France, Egypt, Ethiopia and others in the MUC Ballroom on Saturday.

Students, faculty and community members volunteered to prepare traditional dishes from countries around the world, and although the event could be catered, the International Club prefers having homecooked dishes to capture authentic elements of the meals, Shrestha said.

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“The biggest goal for us is to bring the community together. I think that is what the Festival of Nations has always been doing,” Shrestha said. “Even though... you can go to restaurants, it’s the home cook food that makes it special.”

The spices and traditions contained in a nation’s cuisine vary from country to country, and not all are available or familiar in America, international student advisor Semehar Ghebrekidan said. The Festival of Nations helps brings them all to Vermillion.

“Having events like this where we are able to eat food from those countries and have a communal program around food that isn’t our own gives back to the culture and we learn so much from that,” she said. “It is also like traveling for free.”

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Peyton Beyers I The Volante Festival of Nations featured dishes from 35 different nations. The event took place Saturday at 6:00 p.m. in the MUC Ballroom.

Coyotes drop first round game to Clemson Bailey Zubke

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Aaron Mercado I The Volante Coyote fans send off the women’s basketball team to their NCAA tournament game in Starkville, Miss. on Friday.

Leading by four at the half, the Coyotes went cold from behind the arc while Clemson tied a season-high in 3s to top USD 79-66 Friday evening in Starkville, Miss. at their opening round game of the NCAA Tournament.

“We had a great run. It’s been a really special year,” senior Allison Arens said. “Honestly, today was one of those games where you don’t even really look at the score because you walk off with your heads high and appreciate all that you got to experience

this year.”

The Coyotes opened the game strong, leading at the end of the first quarter and at the half 35-31. USD struggled in the turnover category, but found a way to keep Clemson’s two post players out of their comfort zone.

Kobi Thornton and Tylar Bennett, both 6-foot-2-inches or taller, were the focus of Clemson’s offense. The Coyote interior defense was solid, causing Thornton to go 0-for-5 from the floor and held the duo to seven total points.

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Seniors countdown to graduation by celebrating the last 40 days with cake and refreshments in the MUC pit on Monday.

City of Vermillion Police Blotter Highlights >> March 19 - 23

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Mar. 19 The complainant received a call claiming that their identification had been found in a drug arrest in another state and they would be charged with money laundering if they did not pay a specific amount via pre-purchased green dot cards from Walmart.

This is a fraud. No law enforcement agency will ask to use any type of prepaid money card to pay the fee on a warrant, and they will not call to clear the warrant on the phone.

Mar. 20 Caller reported discovering her stolen vehicle parked at a residence in Vermillion.

Investigation revealed it was not the car that had been reported stolen.

Mar. 20 An officer contacted the driver of the vehicle because the license plate was falling off. The plate did not belong to that vehicle. The driver had recently purchased the vehicle and not registered it yet. So, he had placed a plate from another vehicle on his vehicle until he could

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register the vehicle.

The driver was cited for substituting plates.

Mar. 20 Officers cited a homeowner for letting her dog run at large in the city.

Mar. 21 An officer responded to a request for medical assistance. The patient was suffering from hip and leg pain and was immobile. The officer provided care until the ambulance arrived.

Mar. 22 Officers received a report of a possible drunk driver. Investiga-

PAVE display vandalized in North Complex Lexi Kerzman

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PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment) began their culture board project this week in preparation for Sexual Assault Awareness month.

One of these displays was vandalized on Olson 2 in North Complex sometime between its posting over the weekend and Tuesday afternoon.

Each floor has a different theme for their boards.

The one disturbed was Finding Nemo themed and said ‘don’t touch the butt without consent.’

It was changed to say ‘dude touch the butt without consent.’

“I am deeply saddened that someone thought it was necessary to vandalize our PAVE poster boards for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This image is rape culture. We will not be idle in our mission to promote consent,” Kathryn Opitz, PAVE treasurer said in a tweet on Tuesday.

Opitz said she wanted

to tweet about the situation to limit the harm the poster could have called survivors.

“I was so angry and sad when I saw it I needed to get it across that whoever did this it’s not okay and we are taking action to reverse their action,” she said. “It was really disheartening to see that. Most importantly we wanted to apologize to all the survivors who did see that image and were troubled by it at all. That was not our intent at all.”

PAVE emailed housing as soon as they were made aware of the situation.

Since it was after 5 p.m., they hadn’t heard anything back.

Opitz said PAVE executive member hope to speak to Olson 2 residents at a floor meeting to reiterate the purpose of the poster boards.

“Our executive team would gladly go and talk to the residents on that floor about our poster boards and our projects,” she said.

“It just really shows why we need the poster board, because it’s not funny

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and it can affect anyone whether it be female or male. The fact that people do find it funny and find it necessary to take their time out to do something like that is really sad.”

PAVE wants to reiterate this was not the intention of the poster boards and apologize for anyone who was affected by this display.

“We wanted to reiterate the fact that if you are a survivor, we have resources out for everyone. We are again sorry if you were troubled by that, it was not our intent and we feel awful about it,” Opitz said.

“We hope that they can understand the idea we were trying to get across with this project.”

Although Opitz said she is disheartened by the display, she hopes it can be used to spark further conversation throughout the month of April.

“If anything, we’re not happy that it happened but empowered. It will get the conversation going more so than it originally would have,” she said.

tion showed the caller had intentionally made a false report, and she was arrested.

Mar. 22 Officers responded to a call of a woman with a severe cut to her leg.

Officers used tourniquets to help control the bleeding until EMS could take her to the hospital.

Mar. 23 Officers received a call about several men possibly assaulting another man. Officers found several people, none were able to provide a clear account

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of what had occurred.

One subject contacted was highly intoxicated and had lost his pants somewhere. He was also injured. Officers were not able to determine what happened.

Mar. 23 Officers responded to an apartment for a report of domestic assault.

Investigation led officers to believe a crime had occurred, and the husband was later arrested.

Mar. 23 Caller reported several young men walking down the street throwing

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road. Officers contacted the group and cited one of the men who matched the description given by the caller.

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overdue for a planned trip home. Investigation eventually located the son in custody in Sioux Falls, S.D.

TUNE IN THIS MONTH Tune in at noon for an interview with Hallie Downs about competing in the Hult Prize.

Watch Channel 21 for a story on flooding damage in the Midwest.

WATCH ON YOUTUBE Watch this Monday’s episode on YouTube about study drug abuse.

COYOTEHistory 1995 Sen. Lee Schoenbeck proposes closing the USD law school.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 A3 News Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: 100 years at the university The Volante I volanteonline.com

Lexi Kerzman

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For the past 100 years, USD has been home to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program.

The USD ROTC program was founded on March 22, 1919, under the request of USD president Robert L. Slagle.

To celebrate their anniversary, they held their annual military ball on Saturday. USD ROTC 1966 graduate Art Rush spoke at the event.

Dan Sundbury, professor of military science, said they chose Rush particularly because he is one of the most senior cadets and he thought he would represent the life-long commitment of the program for the anniversary celebration.

Sundbury said the ball is meant to honor members and celebrate their achievements.

“It’s not a four-year commitment. We really expect it for life. We are a part of a community,” he said.

Today, nearly 40 members are enrolled in ROTC at USD. Although USD’s ROTC program is smaller than many other colleges’ programs, it has been successful over the past

century. The unit has produced 2,215 commissions, or graduating members, 30 colonels, 14 general officers and three Medal of Honors recipients.

“In the beginning, up until 1970, all military-aged males had to do two years of ROTC training. And then due to some political changes, because that was right around the end of Vietnam, they stopped doing that compensatory requirement,” Sundbury said. “Slowly the program has declined.”

ROTC is funded by the United States government, which means the ROTC program is a guest at USD. Past leaders of the ROTC signed agreements stating the expectations the program will meet in order to stay on campus.

“Our last agreement was in 1965, and It is called a DA65,” he said.

“USD made a formal agreement that says they will host the program here and they will provide certain facilities and programs for us to do our training and we would agree to have 15 commissions a year.”

Despite that agreement, the required number of commissions has not been met since 1989.

“There are various rea-

Aaron Mercado I The Volante The USD ROTC program began in 1919. To help celebrate the 100 year anniversary, they had the most senior cadet member, Sen. Art Rush, speak to help emphasize the history of the program at the Old Lumber Company in Vermillion, S.D.

sons,” Sundbury said. “This is an affordable school, there is a strong National Guard so a lot of kids go to the National Guard, we are not by a big city so just being in Vermillion makes it hard for us to recruit and we are in the upper midwest so not many people know the difference between an officer and an enlisted soldier.”

Although USD’s ROTC program is the second smallest in the midwest region, Bailey Weavil, junior criminal justice major

and ROTC cadet, said the program continues to be a success.

This year, for the first time since 1990, cadets won first place at the annual Task Force Ranger Challenge at Camp Ripley, MN. “We are a smaller program, but being small has nothing to do with success when we work hard and we work together,” Weavil said. “Winning the competition was a big thing for us just because we did get our name out there more for USD.”

Sundbury said winning the competition has already led to an increase in recruits.

“Between last fall and this spring, we have increased by 14 cadets, which is incredible. We normally don’t see any increase between fall and spring,” he said. “We are finally fully staffed and we have a really talented recruiting scholarship officer and when you win, it creates interest and inspires other people.”

Jake Preble, senior business administration major

and ROTC member, said he thinks the program needs to continue focusing on recruitment to continue its success for another 100 years.

“Our recruiter does a great job at reaching out to not only the current college and high school students and National Guard members. So continuing that relationship with the National Guard and high schoolers and the university is going to continue to create a successful program,” Preble said.

Brookman Hall missing Residence Hall Director for the year Madilyn Sindelar

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Brookman hall is seemingly sufficient, however, it is currently missing a crucial leadership role– a residential hall director (RHD).

The RHD position was filled for next year using a similar search plan for most housing positions and will be announced in May. “A traditional search was opened for a replacement full-time RHD through Human Resources in December. That search was recently successfully completed,” Cody Burggraff, Assistant Housing Director said.

Until May, Cami Brenner,

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missions tickets will go to my donor drive for Miss South Dakota, because even though all the money goes to Children’s Miracle Network, Dakotathon and my donor drive are different.”

Hulse said a future responsibility of the winner of the Mr. USD pageant will be to attend the Dakotathon Day-Of event.

Arno said he became involved with Mr. USD “for the kids,” even though he isn’t currently involved with Dakotathon.

“At first, I was not really going to do it but then I was like ‘I might just do it for the kids,’” Arno said.

“And then I got into it, and I thought ‘this is actually

help manage Brookman.

Due to the lack of an RHD for the year, Brookman has been relying more on desk workers and RAs to help with dayto-day tasks.

“I think the RAs are very hands-on in getting to know the residents and making Brookman feel more welcoming since it is a quiet space. One is always available through the duty phone, but they all have welcoming notes and message boards outside of their rooms to allow for residents to know Rachel Newville I The Volante when they are available to Brookman Residence Hall ‘s residential hall director position has been empty since the begining of the spring semester. chat,” said Alyssa Fothergill, a Brookman desk a housing graduate assis- of Brookman Hall and erations, while Burggraff There are also three Resiworker. tant, is currently in charge handles all day-to-day op- directly supervises. dent Assistants (RA) who

pretty fun.’”

Hulse introduced the Mr. USD contest to bring something new to campus, and to increase awareness pageant involvement for women.

The Greek God and Goddess competition was a USD pageant that took place during Greek Week, although it was ended in favor of Greek unity in 2016.

“I think there is kind of a missing event like this because we don’t do Greek God anymore, so I was like “This will kind of take the place of that,” so we’re not repeating a similar event, but I think it would be really cool to promote the Miss South Dakota organization and get more women involved on this campus,” Hulse said.

Hulse hosted a male pageant for two years at her high school in Hot Springs, S.D., and has competed in several Miss South Dakota pageants herself.

“It’s almost like putting on a Miss America competition but with boys, so it’s a lot of work,” she said.

“You have to get the contestants, you have to get the venue, get the judges and so knowing what it’s like because I’m a competitor is really easy to do that because I’ve actually watched and helped set up actual locals before… so it’s kind of fun to be on the other side of it.”

Both Sehr and Arno said the day of the pageant was a bonding experience for all the men involved.

“It was a lot of fun. It was a busy day. We started at

noon, and we ran through some dance rehearsals, some rehearsals for fitness, we all ran through our talent and it was go, go, go for sure,” Sehr said.

“But it was a really fun experience, all the guys we got along really well… I had much more fun than I expected I would.”

“Throughout the day, it all felt like we knew each other, we were happy being around each other and we all had that good vibe, those positive vibes,” Arno said.

Arno said he recommends that more men give the contest a try next year.

“I got to learn a lot of new dances; I got to learn a really fun aspect of myself,” he said. “I didn’t think I was a pageant person, but I guess I am now.”

Professor Emeritus passes away, leaves legacy Cecilia Gillen

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Professor Emeritus Herbert T. Hoover passed away in Elk Point, S.D. the evening of March 21 at the age of 89.

Hoover began teaching as a history professor at USD in 1967 and served as the Director of both the Oral History Center and the Indian Studies program.

Through his work with the Oral History Center, Hoover worked on the beginnings of the American Indian Research Project (AIRP) to gather oral history recordings of memories and experiences starting from the 1890s.

Topics gathered include culture, legends and music of the Native American communities of the Northern Plains.

The collection continues to grow today. He also authored more than 25 books, including South Dakota History: An Annotated Bibliography, Wildlife on the Cheyenne River and Lower Brule Reservations, To Be an Indian and others.

Instead of flowers, his family is requesting donations to the USD Foundation designated for the University Libraries South Dakota Oral History Fund.

Opinion WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2019

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Jussie Smollett’s Charges MIKI KENNERLY is a senior double majoring in strategic communications and Spanish When Empire actor Jussie Smollett reported a hate crime against himself on January 29, he arguably had no idea of how the extent of his case would impact current news media. Smollett told police that two men approached him around 2 a.m., yelled racial and homophobic slurs, poured an unknown chemical substance on him, and finally wrapped a noose around his neck. Smollett also reported that his attackers shouted, “This is MAGA country,” in reference to the president’s famous campaign slogan.

After his initial report, more updates on the case were released by the Chicago police department and caused a confusing spiral of information meant to disprove Smollett’s claims. The police department told news media that Smollett hired the attackers and staged the entire event because he was unhappy with his salary from Empire. The president himself even posted a tweet publicly denouncing Smollett and his report.

Many were eager to believe this story, despite no official comment from Jussie Smollett himself until Tuesday, March 26th, when his charges were dropped completely. Smollett, throughout the entirety of the case, persistently stated that true justice would be served, and that he stood by his original claims. ”I’ve been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one,” he said publicly.

Though this does not absolve him of any liability if his alleged false claims did prove to be untrue, it resounds with many Black people who are hesitant to believe the police over an openly gay Black man. People alleging that this attack was completely falsified from the beginning without hearing both sides of the story are clearly not familiar with the racial bias that Chicago PD have exemplified in the past.

Though the absolving of these charges doesn’t prove Smollett’s innocence, it is in fact consistent with his previous claims, and it is consistent with the previous actions of the Chicago police department.

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Balloons float at the 40 Days Until Graduation celebration in the MUC pit on Monday.

Editorial: Are you ready for “The Real World”?

No one is ever really prepared for “The Real World.”

An existing misconception suggests that once you move out of your family’s home and into a dorm, you’ll magically learn everything you need to know in four years at college. However, senior year approaches quickly, and you’ll find yourself pulling out hair while you apply for jobs, find a permanent place to live and think about making friends post-graduation.

For those of you that are scared about graduation because you aren’t ready for “Real World” duties, here are some things to think about!

simple things: eggs and toast, grilled cheese, spaghetti.

These things aren’t hard to make, and once you start doing things on your own, you’ll be feeling more grown up in no time!

Budgeting Learning to budget your money is mandatory for survival in the big and scary “Real World.” Unfortunately, this does mean that you can’t spend all of your paychecks on $100 shoes or concert tickets all the time, unless you are okay with having your brand new $100 shoes at that awesome concert with no place to live.

Important paperwork First, get a locked box, find all your important paperwork (birth certificate, Social Security card, passport, secondary ID, birthday money, etc.) and keep it all in one place. You’ll use these things a lot in life, and you should be responsible with these documents. Learn what they do and what you’ll need them for, like when you decide to ditch your problems and flee to Mexico!

I know what you’re thinking: “I can’t cook!

I’ll burn the house down!” Listen, it doesn’t have to be approved by Chef Gordon Ramsay.

Learn how to cook

OVERHEARDS

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

“What are they gonna do? Stab me with an Epi Pen and take my Juul?”

— Muenster University Center

70 The percentage of birthmarks that gradually fade away.

Learn to do your Laundry This one goes out to the college students who still don’t know how to do their own laundry, because we all know you’re out there. Please. Learn to do your laundry before you go out into the “Real World”; your mother won’t always be there to separate your lights from your darks. Don’t forget to remove the lint from the lint trap. Your flaming house will hate you if you don’t.

Don’t worry about too much. Life happens. You’ll handle some of it, you’ll struggle with other bits.

Enjoy the stuff between the struggles. That’s what it’s all about.

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Learn to cook

IT’S ALL A NUMBERS GAME

Learning to budget your money is mandatory for survival in the big and scary “Real World.”

3 The number of ounces one human hair can support.

350 The number of hours a new baby deprives its parents of sleeping in the first year.

1,500 The amount of food in pounds one person eats in a year.

293 The number of ways to make change for a dollar.

From Statistic Brain Research Institute

THE RANT

Desperate times call for desperate words. Sometimes therapeutic, sometimes reactionary, but always lively.

Dear Android users,

The Apple vs. Android debate has persisted since the beginning of time. I’m here to

end the debate once and for all: iPhone is just better than Android. We get it, you can change the themes of your phone or whatever, but the iPhone is easy to operate. Using an Android is work.

“Do you think sorority girls would enjoy a bull riding machine?”

— Meunster University Center

The beauty of Apple is that, if you haven’t used an Apple product before, you can teach yourself – and without thinking too much! (Admit it, humans love to not think too much). As an iPhone user, I will literally never have to worry about taking a picture in which the faces of the people look like Minecraft characters. Absolutely no one wants to receive a grainy, discolored Snapchat containing crusty, deformed laughing emojis. Don’t even get me started about Android users’ toxic effects on

“God works hard, but USD’s football team works harder.”

a group message. Nobody wants to be that person, who restricts everyone from adding a quirky

— Coyote Village

every other iPhone user.

name to your group of friends. Does Android have portrait mode? I think not. Also, I have to say, I’ve never had the issue of my iPhone potentially blowing up in my face. But that’s just me... And - Tori Harwell, Opinion Editor

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Mindless giving RACHEL NEWVILLE is a senior double majoring in journalism and political science

Want to make your voice heard?

If you are interested in writing Opinion for The Volante, email Tori Harwell, at tori.harwell@coyotes. usd.edu

Donations seem like such a wonderful idea. If you’re not using something anymore, why not give it to someone lacking in resources? One person’s trash is another’s treasure, right? Wrong.

Mindless giving is when something is given out of convenience. A closet is being cleaned out and you don’t know what to do with the things you don’t want, so you donate them.

Mindful giving starts with the intention of wanting to help. When someone gives mindfully, they research who they are giving to and what is actually needed.

In 2011, longtime urban activist Robert D. Lupton published Toxic Charity. In the book, Lupton explains why good intentions don’t always end in a positive impact.

“Giving to those in need what they could be gaining from their own initiative may well be the kindest way to destroy people,” he writes.

We all can agree that helping people is good.

Nobody is saying that the rich shouldn’t help the poor, but the current donation and giving system are dysfunctional at best.

Looking at international giving is a great larger

scale example. Short-Term Missions, an information organization, reports that more than two million Americans go on mission trips around the world every year. Many of these Americans bring suitcases full of used clothes, toys and other items with them on these trips.

While the idea of helping the poor is a valid one, when this many Americans are bringing this many goods into unstable economies it keeps economies unstable.

Donations like this take business away from local entrepreneurs. Why would the poor spend money on new clothes or shoes when they know Americans will bring them some for free?

This phenomenon can be seen even in America.

One example Lupton gives is Christmas gift drives.

Lupton explains that while trying to help the poor during the holidays is a good intention, the reality is that it degrades low-income parents. The parents give up their right to pick out a Christmas gift for their own child.

Imagine working your hardest to provide for your children every other day of the year but then having a stranger pick out your child’s Christmas gift.

Lupton created a modified version of a typical Christmas gift drive. Instead of having donors buy toys for an individual child they donate toys to a pop-up shop.

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Stop telling me my English degree is useless TORI HARWELL is a junior majoring in English

At some point between the formation of universities and the increasing costs of tuition prices, being an English major became stigmatized.

Much like its companions in the world of arts and humanities, an English degree is scrutinized under the assumption that it yields no value.

At my high school graduation, a family friend asked me what I would major in when I

MARCUS IRELAND is a senior triple majoring in political science, criminal justice and philosophy The University of South Dakota is committed to the values of diversity and inclusive excellence. Diversity is the understanding and recognition of individual differences.

These differences range from age and race to political ideology and thought. However, diversity is not just descriptive representation in a community, but substantive representation.

Though prioritizing diversity is a good thing, fostering a community of “diversity on paper”

got to college. When I told her I wanted to major in English, she gave me a look of surprise, and then of confusion. She asked me what I’d planned on doing with my degree, and when I told her I had no intention of becoming a teacher, she looked bewildered.

“How are you going to get a job?”

This is the most common–and also the most passive-aggressively rude–question I get. As a junior, I have grown used to those wary stares and the quiet–but harsh– judgement from my peers.

Still, I don’t regret choosing the major I did.

There is nothing I love more than reading and

writing, and I’ve loved these things since I was young.

Employers want English majors more than they want business majors, according to CBS News.

Businesses want people that can communicate effectively–both verbally and in writing. And while I’m sure you learn some great skills in business classes, you don’t necessarily learn how to communicate effectively. All businesses need writers! There will always be jobs available in business writing.

The truth is, being an English major is hard sometimes, just like any other major.

Studying literature isn’t

as easy as people make it out to be. We study history, linguistics, culture and more; we need to be knowledgeable about so many other aspects. When reading a text, we have to understand the world it’s set in. For example, if a poem or a novel is set in 18th century England, we can’t treat it in regards to

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our own modern society.

We have to analyze it through the context of that time period socially, economically, etc.

I’ve learned a lot in my three years so far as an English major. I learned how to transform notes into an argument; I learned how to take random thoughts and

make them coherent. I learned how to research, how to be curious, how to analyze and how to tell stories.

Still not convinced?

Think about this way: what would every culture be like if their most well-known author or critic or editor had not pursued their dream?

Businesses want people that can communicate effectively– both verbally and in writing.

Diversity: Paper or practice? actually undermines the value of a diverse community. In order to claim one is committed to the value of diversity, one must do more than simply have a diverse looking community. They must also acknowledge, support, and actively engage their diverse community members.”Diversity on paper” is a phrase used when rebuking a person’s claim of being diverse. Diversity in practice is the term for the successful commitment, support, acknowledgement, and engagement of diverse community members.

The problem with diversity on paper is that it fails to go far enough.

Once diverse members belong to a community,

if the community claims diversity without providing a supportive environment, where these diverse members are able to share their thoughts, experiences, and backgrounds, then the community is not actually committed to diversity.

Simply having people who add to the appearance of diversity is not diversity per se, but actually just the first step: acceptance.

Appointing a diverse member to a spot on a committee is not enough to increase diversity if the spot is purely symbolic.

The second step of being committed to diversity is acknowledgement.

If people in power— politicians, administrators, authority figures—fail

to acknowledge the diverse members of their community, then the community is not committed to diversity.

Acknowledging diverse members encourages them to speak on their experiences, backgrounds and thoughts. Without acknowledgement, the community will marginalize these diverse members of the community; the marginalization of these community members is the antithesis of diversity.

Third is the process of support. A community cannot just acknowledge the diverse members of the community, the community must also support them. This does not necessarily mean agreement. People can

still have civil debate and come to the best decision for the community. In this case, supporting diverse members of a community means providing them the opportunity and freedoms to practice, express their diversity while being protected by the community.

Lastly, there is active engagement. The final step to being committed to the value of diversity is when the community actively engages their diverse members. Seeking to have conversations and debate respectfully with diverse members, seeking to know the thoughts of diverse members, volunteering to participating and support diverse members in their practices, these are all ways a person or

community can actively engage their diverse members in a supportive manner. A prime example of diversity in practice on USD’s campus is the Festival of Nations.

Though our campus is “committed” to the value of diversity, except in a few instances like Festival of Nations, I rarely see the university—or the state of South Dakota— demonstrating their commitment to diversity in practice by listening and considering the diverse members of their community when making decisions. Often, their commitment is to diversity on paper only.

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Peyton Beyers I The Volante Yuhlong Lio, professor of mathematical sciences, will publish his book “Statistical Quality Technology: Theory and Practice” mid-May.

Math professor pens second research book, helps students Devin Martin

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Yuhlong Lio, professor of mathematical sciences, and three co-authors will publish “Statistical Quality Technology: Theory and Practice” in May. This book will focus on concepts such as probability and reliability in the field of medicine.

Lio said the application to medical sciences is the core of the research for the book.

“This is a research book.

We invited many researchers to develop novel techniques to improve the current existing quality control charts.

We have a chapter regarding quality technique that can be applied to internet traffic monitoring, disease surveillance, and environmental

protection,” Lio said. “We also have quality technologies with application to the industry area as well as manufacturing.”

In 2017, Lio published another research book with the same group called “Statistical Modeling for Degradation Data,” which was downloaded more than 14,000 times.

After this book was published, Lio said he wanted to work with the co-authors and have a discussion about what came next.

“After the first book published by Springer, we, edit members, decided to have another book to deal with quality by using true lifetime data,” Lio said. “...We had some discussion about the subjects that should be included, then we sent the

invitation to the right persons who have been doing research in the area of quality technologies. Of course, we have two chapters contribution, too. These two books are about product reliability and quality, the first book was based on degradation measurement and the second book is using true lifetime observations.”

Lio said research is important to him because of how the university can benefit from the information showcased.

“I like to publish research work that can promote the reputation of our university and department, nationwide or even international wise...it’s not about the benefit of myself,” Lio said.

Lio said he has been re-

SI application process begins; new online SI option available Cecilia Gillen

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Supplemental Instruction (SI) courses at USD are weekly sessions available for math and science courses designed to help students excel in challenging classes and help instructors gain leadership skills.

The new online supplemental instruction option available to students is Smart Thinking on Desire2Learn.

The application process will begin in a month via Coyote Connections.

Applicants chosen to interview will present a teaching demonstration, but it doesn’t have to be specific to the class they are applying to teach.

Over 90 percent of the tutors that work for Smart Thinking have graduate degrees in the areas they’re tutoring, Sarah Wittmuss, coordinator of SI and tutoring said.“If you’re in the middle of the night and you’re studying chemistry and you need an answer, you can get ondemand tutoring right away,” Wittmuss said.

Wittmuss said there is a misperception that SI courses are chosen based on faculty.

“It really has nothing to do with the faculty, it has to do with the difficulty of the material,” Wittmuss said. “The courses that we generally pick are those that have a high rate of students struggling, failing, withdrawing or it’s a really important hurdle class to get into the major or to be on that particular academic track.”

Wittmuss said there is a steady number of natural science classes and a couple of general education social sciences, but other classes have the opportunity to add an SI

if there is a need for it.

“This year nursing approached us because they were seeing a need for SI in their pathophysiology class, which was the last class before students get admitted to the nursing program, and they wanted to try a pilot SI... so we did a partnership with them to add that and do some training together and have some open tutoring in addition to SI,” Wittmuss said.

When there isn’t budget room for an SI, Wittmuss said they try to fill the holes in with support through tutoring.

Once a class is slotted for SI, students who have received an A or sometimes a B in that course or completed a higher level of the class can apply to be an SI leader, Wittmuss said.

“Sometimes we’ve had difficulty finding students who can fit re-attending that class into their schedule and so then we often get recommendations from faculty,” Wittmuss said. “Then sometimes when the faculty suggested, the students are more willing to apply.”

Anna Doering, a criminal justice SI, was inspired to apply by her criminal justice SI her freshman year.

“Just through talking with him, that’s pretty much what motivated me I guess to do it, as well as I really enjoy the professor for the class,” Doering said. “I knew that it would be a good experience to also get to work with that professor more and develop a better relationship with the professor.”

Doering is a criminal justice major, but since becoming an SI leader, she has considered a profession in teaching.

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“I’ve realized that I really like spending time with the students, teaching them the material and helping them like prepare for exams and stuff.”

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searching quality control for the past 10 years and he wants to move into other areas of research.

Dan Van Peursem, chair of the mathematical sciences department, said the mathematical sciences department is proud of Lio’s work.

“It’s always exciting to see somebody’s hard work pay off and Dr. Lio’s been a prolific researcher in the department for many years and it’s really exciting to see a book opportunity like this come along for him,” Van Peursem said. “Obviously it gives the department some recognition out there as well. He has numerous publications and (he) is very well known and respected in this field.”

Van Peursem said Lio works well with student researchers.

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for pick-up.

A committee comprised of students, staff, faculty and administration decided to transfer the bookstore online after evaluating the future of the market and its attraction to digital bookstore vendors, which Pohlson said were the university’s main competition.

“The question that we had, and this is the number one decision-making factor for us, was ‘what does the bookstore market look like in three years, five years down the road?’” he said.

“Our feeling was that it will look different. We tried to look at it in a future setting to try and be proactive about where the market was going.”

Barnes & Noble has been USD’s vendor since 2002.

Their latest contract expires at the end of June. Earlier this year, the committee sent requests for proposal (RFP) to four different vendors: Barnes & Nobles, Akademos, Follett and BBA solutions.

USD’s contract with Akademos will span for three years with an option to renew after.

A few USD professors, including economics professor Kathy Birkeland and biology professor Andrea Liebl, said they don’t believe the shift to an online bookstore platform will drastically change the way students buy books.

“For my face-to-face classes, I think there are some students who will miss being able to go pick up their book, but I think a fair number of them order them online already because they can find it cheaper than they can find it here,” Birkeland said. “At first glance, it may mean that we don’t do a whole lot with the book that first week because we’re waiting for students to make sure they have them, but we have that problem with the bookstore anyway because they didn’t always have the books in stock.”

Liebl said it could affect students who wait until the last minute to buy textbooks for classes.

“I feel like that’s going to be problematic only for students who— it’s probably a lot of students— who don’t think about things ahead of time. Or if you change your mind or register for a class last minute or something like that,” she said.

Alyssa Bossman, a sophomore business major, said she likes the immediate availability of books Barnes

“That’s obviously what we do as educators, try to involve students in our research, trying to train the next generation of students,” Van Peursem said. “Dr. Lio’s been very good about that, he’s done several honors theses so he’s always happy to work with students on his research.”

Seth Gerberding, a junior mathematical sciences and philosophy double major, president of the math club and former opinion editor of The Volante, said that Lio writing a book about statistics is an achievement for the mathematical sciences department.

“When you walk into a room with him you automatically feel like you’re 10 years old again, walking into an elementary class and the teacher’s like ‘Now we’re going to learn all this stuff!’ So I’m not surprised that he’s able to publish this and be part of this book,” Gerberding said.

Lio said he has been researching quality control for the past 10 years and he wants to move into other areas, which he will try following the publication of the book.

“I’ll continue to do my own research if I have time,” Lio said. “No one can say you’re going to keep researching on the same subject forever because of competition. A lot of people are doing research in this true area, you’ve got to go ahead to jump into the next different area but (something that) is closely related to current research.”

& Noble does have in stock.

“I like that you can go in to pick it up. If it’s online, you have to wait for it to come in,” she said. “Usually, I go to my classes for a week, and then if I really have to get the book, I’ll just walk into the bookstore and say ‘hey, do you have this book?’ and walk out with the book.”

Shipping windows may cause issues for students at the beginning of each new semester, but the conversion may bring financial benefits.

The administration aimed to handle textbook distribution internally rather than paying out “big bookstore vendors,” which Pohlson said will funnel money back to students in the form of scholarships.

“All the other Board of Regents schools in South Dakota do it on their own.

It’s not a new thing for everyone else; it’s just a new thing for us,” he said. “The opportunity, which is also the concern, is students and faculty being on the same page about ‘hey, we can do this ourselves, and in the end, it will actually benefit students, but we have to be willing to go through that new process.’”

After deciding to go online, the committee then leveled whether or not Charlie’s was in a position to expand to an on-campus store.

“If they could do that, we were comfortable with having just an online bookstore,” Pohlson said. “We’ll be hiring students, hiring different managers. One of them is already out there— a Director of Bookstore and Retail Operation out on the employment website.”

The move will not displace students and other workers from their current jobs at Barnes & Noble; they can choose to continue working in the same location for Charlie’s.

Pohlson said the transition will involve a few kinks, but if the campus community invests into the online bookstore and Charlie’s, those profits will make up for cheaper textbooks.

“It’s going to be a process.

It will happen overnight, literally. Everybody’s going to have to be involved in moving this forward,” Pohlson said. “At the same time ‘hey, come and buy your books from USD and Charlie’s, because we’re going to put those funds into scholarships for students as opposed to sending it to a big vendor.’ We’re Coyotes, we think we can do this.”

Barnes & Noble managers and staff denied to comment on the matter.

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DOME SWEET DOME Athletes adjust to new practice facility during renovations

Nikolas Wilson

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With renovations to the DakotaDome underway, some USD athletes have to search elsewhere for a practice venue.

South Dakota’s softball players, golfers, throwers and divers travel off-campus to practice in the Builders Choice building, a large warehouse that the players refer to as the “Annex,” located on Highway 50 by Masaba Inc, about a mile from the DakotaDome.

USD helped the team transition to the new venue by turning the surface of the Annex into a home turf for the golf team to sharpen their short strokes and putts. The surface in the Annex is the same material that they used in the Dome, said senior golfer Lexi Petersen. “(They) just moved our entire putting green over there, and we can chip and just putt. It’s our same facility, just over there,” Petersen said.

Junior golfer Scott Fudenberg said that the lighting in the Annex is a nice upgrade for the team.

“The lighting in our old facility underneath the bleachers was, it was tough to stand in, in my opinion, tough to be in for a long period of time. I also just like the open feel of the

Annex. We used to call it the ‘cave’ because it was literally a cave, but the Annex is a little more open,” Fudenberg said. “It’s a pretty large space. It’s able to accommodate, I think, three or four teams and everybody has enough space to do what they need to do, so it’s a pretty good setup,” Fudenberg said.

He estimates that they started practicing in the Annex a little over a month ago. They go a few hours per week, but the team has started to practice outside now that the weather allows it. The team works on their short game in the Annex and works on other aspects of their game in the Dome.

While it’s only a short drive from the DakotaDome to the Annex, Peterson said that alternating between locations is bothersome.

“It’s kind of a pain when we’re practicing here (the Dome) for an hour and then we have to go drive over there (the Annex) for another hour… It’s just kind of an inconvenience,” Petersen said.

While the golfers have found ways to adjust to life in the Annex, the softball team faces their own challenges with See DOME, Page B2

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The DakotaDome is under renovation until the 2020 football season commences (above). These renovations include permanent seating on the west side of the Dome and a new locker room for the football team. Until 2020, athletes have to work around the construction. The track and field team uses the east half of the Dome to practice (right).

Takeaways from the Coyote men’s basketball 2018-19 season Austin Lammers

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The USD men’s basketball team ended this season with a 90-76 loss to Purdue-Fort Wayne at the first round of the Summit League tournament on March 10, a sour finish to Todd Lee’s first season as head coach.

The Coyotes spent the winter enduring injuries, inexperience and sluggish stretches of offense to finish the regular season at 13-17 overall, 7-9 in the Summit League, where they finished in sixth place.

1. Up, up and Umude

2. Defensive dominance

A 6-foot-6-inch guard from San Antonio who hadn’t started a game of college basketball before this season, Stanley Umude emerged as the Coyotes’ featured offensive force early in the season.

Through the first seven games, he averaged 3.4 minutes and 1.1 points per game. He finished his sophomore campaign as USD’s leading scorer and rebounder, averaging 14.4 points and 5.5 rebounds in 26.6 minutes per game.

Though listed as a guard, Umude took the role of a forward in lieu of injuries to senior forwards Trey Burch-Manning, Logan Power and Dan Jech. Umude’s aggressive play underneath the basket on both sides of the ball (he also tallied a teamhigh 1.2 blocks per game) earned him a spot on the 2019 Summit League First Team.

In December, Umude posted 28 points in an 89-53 USD loss to No. 1 Kansas. Following the game, KU head coach Bill Self said Umude “was, without question, the best player on the floor tonight… He killed us.”

Umude’s sudden success is promising for a player with only 18 starts under his belt, and the departure of three senior forwards will create the right environment for Umude to grow into a national scoring threat next season.

After the university announced his hiring, Todd Lee vowed his new Coyote team would be “the best prepared defensive team in the country.”

Through personnel experiments conducted by any first-year coach, USD and Lee posted one undeniable result: they caused problems.

Allowing a Summit League-low 71.2 points per game, USD held opponents to 45 percent shooting and 35.7 percent from 3-point, both third in the conference. The Coyotes also ranked third in forced turnovers with 12.2 a game.

The defensive focus also came in part to the low scoring numbers the team’s offense posted. Lee said in a press conference early in the season, “Our rule was, if we could score over 60, we were going to beat you.”

3. Scoring struggles Stanley Umude’s season was one shining spot on an otherwise bleak USD offense. The Coyote offense averaged 70.6 points per game through the season, ranked eighth of nine teams in the Summit League. Despite a sturdy defense, USD was 2-11 when their opponent scored more than 71 points.

USD didn’t have extensive problems turning the ball over or spreading it across the floor, but simply floundered in the game’s basic premise: putting the ball through the net. They shot 43.8 percent from the field and 34.1 percent from 3-point land, both last in the Summit League.

The team’s leading 3-point shooters

(minimum 50 attempts) were Trey BurchManning (43 percent) and Cody Kelley (37.4 percent). Umude lead the team in field goal percentage at 49.1 percent.

Lacking true forwards for the majority of the season didn’t help the Coyotes’ case.

Freshman Matt Johns started the season as the team’s center, but at 6-foot-8-inches, he was still undersized compared to many other teams. When Johns wasn’t on the court, Burch-Manning was often the “biggest” player on the court at 6-foot-6-inches. Not having an inside presence limited the offense.

The fact that no guard shot over 38 percent from beyond the arc was also an issue. The return of senior forward Tyler Hagedorn next season and another offseason of putting up shots will bring balance to an offense in need.

4. The core returns Five of six Coyotes that averaged more than 20 minutes per game will return to the floor next season; Triston Simpson, Tyler Peterson, Cody Kelley and Brandon Armstrong will return as seniors, Umude as a junior.

The sixth player averaging 20 plus minutes, Trey BurchManning, will be replaced by senior Tyler Hagedorn, who averaged 13 points per game over the 2017-18 season but redshirted the 2018-19 season due to an ankle injury.

The Coyotes’ lack of depth didn’t help in close games (USD lost 11 games decided by 10 points or fewer), but a deeper, experienced, uninjured roster will aid an improvement in the quality of late possessions.

USD held halftime leads in 18 games this season. They went 10-8 in those games. The Coyotes were also outrebounded in 19 of their regular season games, going 6-13.

2018-19 USD MEN'S BASKETBALL OVERALL RECORD: 13-17 CONFERENCE RECORD: 7-9 RPI RANK: 231

LEADING SCORERS Stanley Umude (So. / G) 14.4 points/game Triston Simpson (Jr. / G) 14.0 points/game Tyler Peterson (Jr. / G) 11.4 points/game

OTHER LEADERS MINUTES/GAME Triston Simpson (37.1) FG% (MIN. 15 GAMES PLAYED) Stanley Umude (49.1) REBOUNDS/GAME Trey Burch-Manning (6.2) ASSISTS/GAME Triston Simpson (3.6) DOUBLE-DOUBLES Stanley Umude (3)

GAME HIGHS POINTS 3PT SHOTS MADE REBOUNDS ASSISTS BLOCKS STEALS

32 - Stanley Umude 6 - Brandon Armstrong 14 - Trey Burch-Manning 8 - Triston Simpson 4 - Stanley Umude 5 - Trey Burch-Manning

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Depth is still an issue for the Coyotes, who lose two bench players to graduation and a third, freshman Nate Robinson, to transfer. However, Lee has three committed recruits as of right now.

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the setup. Senior infielder Jamie Holscher said that the softballs don’t bounce the same way on the Annex’s surface as they do on a dirt ground.

“It takes higher hops, but we’re used to it and we work on getting the short hops, so it’s nothing new,” Holscher said.

Senior catcher Jessica Rogers confirmed that the difference between the surfaces is notable.

“It’s not very similar to what it would be like outside,” Rogers said.

Holscher said that the team uses their time in the Annex to polish their short game, bunt defense and hand-eye coordination. The team only has access to one batting cage. While they make the most of it, the setup has limitations.

“In this facility, we can only hit in our one cage and in the Dome, we were able to get the turf for about an hour (on the bottom) and be able to hit and you could see where your ball goes,” Rogers said.

Holscher said that other collegiate teams face similar obstacles, but the Coyotes find ways to optimize their situation.

“We’re not on dirt as much as other teams are, but I know there are some teams in our conference at least that have the same disadvantage, but we make do with what we have,” Holscher said.

Athletes will be practicing in the Annex when the weather doesn’t permit outdoor practice. Teams will use the area during the winter months until the Dome’s renovations are done in August 2020.

Freshman player steps away from Coyote basketball

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Senior Allison Arens attacks the basket in the Summit League Championship against South Dakota State. Arens scored 15 points in her final game as a Coyote.

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Clemson averages 10.8 3-point shots per game this season. The Tigers changed that story by attempting 21 threes, making nine of them.

USD wanted to force them to shoot the ball, but Clemson Bailey Zubke

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USD freshman Nate Robinson has decided to step away from the men’s basketball team after appearing in 18 games for the team this season, Jay Elsen of Midco Sports Network first reported on Twitter Tuesday morning.

Robinson averaged 9.8 minutes per game this season. He scored 29 points on 6-of-43 shooting.

He played 21 minutes against Purdue-Fort Wayne

responded by making those shots.

“We knew they wanted to get in the paint more, so we dared them to shoot,” Arens said. “They made shots and did a great job. We adjusted, but we couldn’t quite hold them.”

“For us, I think it’s going to be challenging for us to take everything away from a on Jan 30., where he scored a season-high six points.

The 6-foot-4-inch guard out of California averaged 21 points a game his senior season at Las Lomas High School.

Robinson was a member of the Great Britain U18 National team at the European Championships in 2017. He averaged seven points as the team won the Silver Medal.

His best performance of the tournament was an 18 point game against Albania.

team that has more size and athleticism than we do,” head coach Dawn Plitzuweit said.

“So, we tried to do our best at limiting some opportunities.

I thought in large stretches in the game we did a good job of that. I think they got a couple in rhythm in some rebound opportunities or the one where they took a charge.

Those are tough. They are a Robinson plans to continue playing, whether that is at another university or professionally.

“Nate came to me after the season and said he felt that it was in his best interest to look to play basketball at another university or professionally,” head coach Todd Lee said. “He is trying to decide what is best for his future. Nate is a very nice young man and we wish him the best of luck in the future.”

team that has ability to hit shots and we couldn’t get off to some of those on the rebounds or charges.”

Clemson fell behind by eight in the third quarter. The Coyotes had an opportunity to extend the lead to 10, but sophomore Monica Arens missed an open lay-up.

On the following Clemson possession, sophomore Liv

Korngable entered the game before the referee signal, triggering a technical foul.

Clemson made both free throws and a lay-up to cut the lead in half. From there, Clemson’s press defense and jump shooting were the difference. The Coyotes committed 17 turnovers and struggled to move the ball inside in the second half.

“Like Coach said, they put really good ball pressure on us,” Arens said. “They picked us up full court, and we did not see that a lot this season. We prepared for it, but sometimes you can’t prepare for things like that.

They did a great job forcing us one direction and taking advantage of some of our weaknesses.”

Seventh-year senior Simone Westbrook led all scorers with 27 points.

Fellow Tiger senior Danielle Edwards tallied 25 points (5-of-9 for 3-pointers) and eight rebounds. Redshirtsophomore Hannah Sjerven led the Coyotes with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Arens, the lone senior on this Coyote squad, pitched in 15 points, all of which came in the second half.

No. 1 Mississippi State defeated Clemson 85-61 on Sunday.

For the Coyotes (286), Arens ends her career with over 1,400 points, 500 rebounds and 300 assists.

“When I first got here, I started to realize the kind of special player that Allison was,” Sjerven said. “Knowing it was her senior year we had a lot of goals oriented towards that, and I wish there was more that we could have done for her, but I’m glad we made it this far.”

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Freshman Nate Robinson has been granted a waiver to transfer from the University of South Dakota.

Track and field captures 15 events at Wildcat Classic Jake Lindenberg

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The Coyotes won 15 of 35 events at the Wildcat Classic at Simpson Track in Wayne, Neb. on Saturday.

Senior Ben Hammer and junior Habib Jallow both secured two victories over the weekend. Hammer took the shot put with a mark of 60 feet, 1 ¾ in., which places him in ninth place in the NCAA for the season. This mark also lands Hammer with Kyle McKelvey as the only two Coyotes to throw past 60 feet in both indoor and outdoor competitions, according to GoYotes. Hammer also secured first in discus with a throw of 179-8.

“My coach and I have been working on it for a while,” said Hammer. “It wasn’t like I had to force anything. It just suddenly clicked. It was pretty exciting to get into a rhythm and just knock one out that was a little better than I expected to.”

Jallow swept the 110 and 400-meter hurdle races, winning the 110-meter in 15.14 seconds and the 400meter in 55.07 seconds.

Senior Deshonn Brown and freshman Jack Durst both cleared 6-8 ¼, sharing the men’s high jump title with equal misses. Junior Abdinasir Abdi was victorious in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, clocking 10:02.43.

The women captured nearly every running event between 100 and 1,500 meters. Sophomore Josie

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Sophomore Callie Henrich throws the shot put in a meet earlier this season.

Kroger placed first in the 100-meter in 12.86 seconds.

Fellow sophomore Danielle Thompson won the 200 title in 25.73 seconds. Junior Ellie Wilson won the 800-meter in 2:18.41 and sophomore Morgan Lawler finished first in the 1,500-meter with a time of 4:50.74.

The sophomores continued their winning ways as Callie Henrich took home the women’s shot put title by throwing 46-9, falling just two inches shy of her best outdoor mark. Henrich, along with Hammer, won Summit League athletes of the week for their performances.

Redshirt-freshman

MARCH 22

Women’s Basketball @ Starkville, Mississippi Coyotes lose in opening round of NCAA Tournament

USD lost to Clemson 79-66 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Allison Arens, in her final game with USD, scored 15 points.

Madason Tessier finished first in the 100-meter hurdles, clocking 15.01, while sophomore Holly Gerberding took first in the 400-meter hurdles, clocking 1:05.15.

“I think hitting marks like we did early in the season is really good,” Hammer said.

“Getting some good marks out of the way early is a great way to get the ball rolling for the whole team.”

USD will head to Texas this weekend, splitting time between the 2019 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin and the Bobcat Invitational in San Marcos.

MARCH 22 & 24

Women’s soccer @ Vermillion, S.D. Coyotes take on three teams over the weekend

The Coyotes played three games at First Bank and Trust Soccer Complex.

Friday they played Southwest Minnesota State, and Sunday they played at Augustana and Wayne State.

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USD defeated Western Illinois in two of three games to open Summit League play in Macomb, Ill over the weekend.

Games one and two were played in Mary Ellen Stadium on Saturday, the Coyotes taking both matches in extra innings: 4-3 in 12 innings and then 3-2 in eight innings.

“Our team is very gritty and has been prepared to deal with long games,” said Sarah Lisko. “Our first game of the season went into extra innings and we had great energy the whole series.”

The Leathernecks took game three, defeating the

Coyotes 6-3 in their final match of the series on Sunday.

“Opening weekend was something we’ve been talking about and working for since the beginning,” said Alyssa Fernandez, who went 3-for-6 in the series opener. “The team was very excited and pumped for our games against Western.

Last year, we were swept by them in the series and this year we were out for revenge.”

Dustie Durham pitched eight innings and won Summit League Player of the Week for the third time this season. Durham tallied multiple hits in each game, including a two-run homer that proved to be the

MARCH 22 & 23

Track and Field @ Wayne State Coyotes win 15 of 35 events at Wildcat Classic

Callie Henrich and Ben Hammer won Summit League Athlete of the Week after their performances.

difference in series opener.

Sophomore shortstop Lauren Eamiguel went 3-for-9 over the weekend.

“I struggled at the plate for the most part throughout the weekend, but my teammates were able to pick me up,” said Eamiguel. “The first two games came out to be longer than what we had expected but the one thing we had to keep up in order to win those games was to not give up and fight on.

The Coyotes have already surpassed their win total of last season and are currently 19-16. They return to action Wednesday at Creighton and hold their home opener this Saturday against Purdue-Fort Wayne

MARCH 23 & 24

Softball @ Macomb, Ill. Women’s softball wins two of three against Western Illinois The Coyotes swept the double header Saturday but dropped the final game Sunday. Jamie Holscher won Summit League Player of the Week after her performance in the series.

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DiME Fest expresses diversity through music Ali Boysen

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Flashing lights and music reverberated through the Vermillion Theater Friday night, as DiME Fest hosted seven musical acts to promote diversity in music.

DiME, or Diversity in Media and Entertainment, held the music festival that consisted mostly of indie rock and punk. The setlist included Free Truman, Vanity Plate, Plumslugger, Her Grace, Arlinda Peacock, Soleil and Marcus Destin.

The exception was Destin, a sophomore communications major and co-owner of the music label Never Offended Always Humble (N.O.A.H.). Destin was the only rapper at the event and shared a story that inspired one of his songs.

“When I first moved to South Dakota I was working at a Subway,” Destin said. “I was moving up in

the ranks as a sandwich artist, and I was evolving. One day, a nice, older white gentleman came in and I asked him, ‘Hey sir, what kind of cheese can I get you today?’ And he said, ‘the only cheese that matters; white American.’”

Another performer, Plumslugger, spoke about the importance of seeing oneself in the media.

“It’s super important to see people who look like you who play music,” they said. “It makes you want to play music.”

DiME also conducted a book fundraiser to purchase books about diversity for local childcare providers. In an email interview with The Volante, DiME president Shekendra Morgan said the mission of the event was to bring attention to diversity.

“Teaching and bringing awareness to diversity begins with our children and giving them the resources to feel visible

and important is key to changing the conversation surrounding representation and diversity issues,” Morgan said.

Morgan also said DiME grew inspiration for this event after 1BlueString, another music festival that occurred earlier this year.

Morgan Matzen, a senior majoring in media and journalism, helped organize that event and got DiME Fest started as well.

Matzen, current staff writer for The Volante and member of DiME, booked all of the talents for the festival. She said the festival highlighted multiple kinds of diversity, and a very important factor was making sure the performers reflected more than white male artists.

“I think it’s important to have that racial diversity present because a lot of times…especially in punk music there’s hardly any non-white people, and non-men playing music.” Matzen said.

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Students and community members come together to enjoy DiME Fest, a music festival that highlighted diversity in many ways.

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Grace Claeys, from Her Grace, uses multiple instruments during her performances.

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Semehar Ghebrekidan, international students advisor, gives an introduction speech at Festival of Nations in the Muenster University Ballroom on Saturday.

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International Club hosts multiple events throughout the year, but the Festival of Nations is often the largest; this year it saw over 400 individuals alone.

Naivetya Patle, a sophomore international studies, political science and economics triple major, served as the emcee for the second year at the festival and said it’s the organization’s largest because it’s also its most diverse.

“The reason it is the biggest event is that not only does it involve one country, it’s the celebrations of all nations,” Patle said. “Although you are away from home, you are here in America and this is your home now. Here you can celebrate that. You will see people not only from one place, you see people from all over. It is something that gives you a broad perspective in one place.”

To accompany the food, the Festival of Nations featured dancing, games and competitions. Shrestha said they decided to include competitions this year to improve audience engagement.

“We still had the food as the

theme, but instead of having performances like we always have we wanted to make something different,” Shrestha said. “We had different activities and competition related to food. We had to make crazy burgers or having a cake making contest without using your hands.”

This year was Ghebrekidan’s first time attending the Festival of Nations event. She said she initially expected this event to run similar to International Night, the fall event put on

by International Club which is typically more relaxed.

However, she said the Festival of Nations’ moving parts added excitement to the program.

“The end result is really pretty. There is a lot of good food and there is a lot of diversity and inclusive event to have all kinds of foods which is amazing,” Ghebrekidan said. “It is important because when we talk about inclusive excellence, we’ve got to remember there are so many international students who unfortunately don’t always have access to the foods they eat back home,” she said. “It is like going to that place and experiencing their food without having to pay for it.”

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Ashmita Ghosh, a member of the International Club, prepares food for guests attending Festival of Nations. The event boasted cuisine from all over the world that attendees sampled.

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Photos by Molly: Almost ‘Insta’ famous Molly Schiermeyer

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Have you ever scrolled along your Instagram feed and— BOOM— a girl in a swimsuit pops up, looking like a Cheeto by the ocean?

Or a guy posting about he and his girlfriend’s threeyear anniversary, but it’s the same photo he’s posted for every other anniversary just cropped with a new filter? Well, I’m here to save all Instagram feeds. I

know what it takes to make an award-winning photo AND what people like on Instagram.

First, you need to know how to take a great photo (make sure your boyfriends and besties hear this too).

Then, once you have a stellar photo, pop that sucker into an editing program,(I love VSCO and Lightroom).

To ensure maximum Instagram likes, make your page a “business” account

and check the best time of day to post.

How to take a great photo There are three easy steps to creating a unique, likable and aesthetically pleasing photo. If you can create a perfect recipe for lighting, angles and mood— even haters will have to like the photo.

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Lighting This is by far the most important piece of the puzzle, it can make or break a good angle or mood. My go-to lighting for any sort of image is natural lighting.

I think the sun puts out perfect, buttery rays that highlight our good features and soften our not-so-great ones.

I’m sure you’ve all heard of the photogasmic phenomenon called Golden Hour (cue Kasey Musgraves’ album) when light makes you look like you fell from

heaven during sunrise or sunset. With this kind of lighting, you can have your back to the sun, which is called back-lighting, or face the sun to soak up that gorgeous light.

This direct lighting can be dangerous if the sun is too intense, though, causing squinting and frown-y lines.

Sometimes, you aren’t available during Golden Hour or you’re trying to take a super cute tailgate pic with your girls at 1 p.m.

FIND SHADE. Shade is your best friend in midday light.

Or stay inside and use a big window to light your photo.

Colors will pop around you and your eyes will look like jewels.

So now you’re like, ‘MOLLY, what do we do when it’s 10 p.m. outside of Char, dark as heck, and we’re celebrating our successful Tinder match?’

Dark means artificial light, a.k.a. FLASH, could be your worst enemy if you don’t know how to use it.

A quick fix I do is to have a friend who’s off-camera hold up their flashlight, too.

That way, you have at least two-point lighting, which adds depth to the photo.

This tip can make you look bigger or smaller. If you’re a Welly Bro, shoot photos at an upward angle so you look jacked and larger than life. To look wider, angle your body slightly and bend forward towards the camera.

All of my best guy friends are constantly trying to “out-angle” each other; it doesn’t matter how strong

Editing. Less is more.

Mood This is the most fun part about taking a photo. Create a vibe about what you want to portray in the photo.

Are you looking to be flirty, funny, dramatic, tough, or emotional?

I love to play music when

I have a photo shoot with my friends. I try to relax my introverted besties by making them laugh when I take their photo.

Gas them up! If someone is in front of your lens, you should absolutely tell them they look FINE and fill their cup with positive

affirmations. Use stellar lighting (see tip no. 1) to make the image moody, light, happy or dark. Test your creativity every time a friend asks you to take their photo. When in group situations, have your friends squish, look at each other, and tell inside jokes.

USD alumnus turns 100 Austin Lammers

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One of USD’s oldest living alumni celebrated her 100th birthday at the Wakonda Heritage Manor on March 19th.

Ruth Engman (formerly Ruth Pollman) graduated from USD in 1941 with a degree in education.

After graduation, Engman taught school for 34 years in South Dakota towns including Hoven, Lennox, Wakonda and Centerville.

Between school years, Engman returned to USD each summer to grow as a learner and teacher. She earned her Master’s Degree in German in 1971.

“I like teaching. I like to help the students,” she said. “They always

said, ‘well we don’t mind asking you a question because you’ll stop and explain it to me.’ I said, ‘well I thought that’s what a teacher was supposed to do.’”

Engman said typing and bookkeeping classes were her favorites to teach. The Smith Corona manual typewriter was her tool of choice.

“They talked about computers, but in my mind I had no concept of what they were talking about,” she said.

Engman said she chose USD because of the close proximity of her hometown of Freeman, S.D., where she was born on March 19, 1919.

“I liked it (at USD). It was so close, and during the summer I didn’t want to sit around,” she

said.

She said she remembers watching football games, but not the rules.

“I didn’t know anything about football,” Engman said.

“I just watched them play and throw the ball around.”

Gov. Kristi Noem issued an executive proclamation declaring March 19 “Ruth Engman Day” in South Dakota.

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I am a huge supporter of photo editing. I believe it refines the raw image you’ve taken. But that’s all it should do— refine and perfect— not completely alter the integrity of the image.

Sorry guys, but there is no way I could ever support FaceTune. Just take a better photo in the first place. Use good angles and lighting to look good and edit LESS. My two favorite iPhone photo editing softwares are VSCO and Adobe Lightroom. They are highquality services where you can do basic photo editing, create presets and cultivate your Instagram brand. The first step I take when editing any photo is fixing any

you really are or if you do more curls with Busch Light than dumbbells, as long as you know how to angle.

When trying to look skinny or smaller, have photos taken of you from a higher position or right even with you. Use your arms to your advantage— create flattering angles or artistic movements through the photo by positioning your arms in different ways.

When framing a photo,

using the Rule-of-Thirds is my autopilot. I hate seeing things centered because it’s BORING. It’s hard for viewers’ eyes to move through the photo, because it’s laid in front of them dead center. The Rule-ofThirds looks like a grid in your brain, you can also set your phone to have a grid when you open the camera app, this puts subjects on a hot spot and creates composition.

lighting issue and increasing my contrast. I love high contrast, moody photos.

After my core settings are correct, I play around and pick a preset on VSCO or Lightroom. I love to warm up photos by picking a preset with yellows and oranges, but I always try to make sure that I don’t look like an Oompa Loompa.

It’s a fine line to ride, but asking my close friends what they think of the image before I post always helps.

When photos look too orange or yellow, change the white balance and add more blue. My aesthetic avoids blues and green hues slapped on my photo because I know my skin will look garish, but I try to respect those colors in my photo all the same. Presets

should be a dash of extra pizazz.

Post it!

Now post the masterpiece!

You have all of the tools to make pretty images that are reflect you. Remember that you can make your Instagram anything you want it to be. You don’t have to follow a certain preset, brand or any certain rules.

Post for yourself and feel good about the images.

My photography business Instagram is structured with a certain aesthetic, where my personal account is all over the place, full of colors and strictly for myself. Find the balance that makes you happy, and take photos that highlight how amazing you are.