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The Tiospaye Student Council held their 46th annual Wacipi Saturday and Sunday. The event featured traditional Native American singing, dancing and drumming. The

theme of the event was “Wherever you walk, you’re not alone,” to bring attention to sexual assault awareness month.

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The sound of jingle dresses, drumming and singing filled the arena of the Sanford Coyote Sports Center for the 46th annual Wacipi on Saturday and Sunday.

Jessilyn Bean, president of Tiospaye Student Council, said the Wacipi is a chance for people to get together to celebrate the Native American culture.

“Traditionally not all tribes would participate in these (pow wows), but because of how the times have changed, we’re evolving and adapting just like every other group,” Bean said. “As our culture, we’ve adapted these ways to celebrate who we are.”

The theme for this year’s Wacipi was “wherever you walk, you are not alone.” Bean said

the theme holds a few different interpretations, such as a reminder for Native students that they are not alone on their journey through college. The theme was also relevant to April as sexual assault awareness month, and the theme color for the event was teal.

“That’s a big problem in Indian country.

Here in the United States and Canada, our women and our men are sexually assaulted at higher rates than any other race,” Bean said.

“In conjunction with that, we have the missing and murdered indigenous women, and a lot of times there’s sex trafficking or they’re taken because of that so we wanted to bring awareness to hopefully work to stop that in Indian country.”

Sydney Schad, a junior health sciences major and student advisor for Tiospaye Stu-

dent Council, said the Wacipi brings a positive light to the Native community.

“It’s not just a group of students at USD, there’s the Wase Wakpa community here in Vermillion and then it really unites the nine different tribes in South Dakota and we have people coming from Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming,” Schad said. “All these different places and we come here under one passion and just being a community.”

The Wacipi featured singers, dancers and drummers as well as food and craft vendors.

“This year, we’re lucky enough we had the Lakota women warriors as part of our color guard,” she said. “They’re a group of all women veterans.”

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TKE Fight Night canceled Devin Martin

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Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) has canceled their philanthropy event TKE Fight Night for the second year in a row.

In a press release from the Theta Eta chapter, TKE said they’ve been in contact with their international headquarters

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Thomas Geu has been dean of the law school for 29 years. In that

time he’s been involved in budget allocation, student recruiting, turnover of staff and upgrading the library.

Law dean looks back at ‘magnificent challenge’ Devin Martin

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The university is starting the search for a new law school dean as dean Thomas Geu recently announced he will be stepping down from the position. Geu will serve as dean of the law school until a new dean is hired.

Geu has been a member of the law school faculty for 29 years, first becoming interim dean of the law school in 2011 and then dean of the law school in 2013.

Challenges and successes

While the law school has discussed changes in the last year, Geu said there have been many ups and downs over his 29 years in the law school, making his job a “magnificent challenge.”

“I think we’ve turned a cor-

ner this year,” Geu said. “I think that things are looking up, and it’s a good time to transition to a new leader.”

Most recently, after the law school relocation task force decided not to move the law school to Sioux Falls and to keep the law school on campus in Vermillion, the South Dakota Legislature approved $3,000,000 of funding to the USD law school’s operations fund.

Geu said the funding will go towards new programming in distance education and law students in Sioux Falls.

“The new programming will be in distance education but also in a new legal compliance program for law students first in Sioux Falls,” Geu said.

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regarding the event.

“On March 27, 2018, we were informed that the event did not meet TKE’s Risk Management Guidelines,” the press release said.

The TKE International Headquarters expressed concerns about insurance liability and registration with USA Boxing.

The event was scheduled for April 19. TKE members “regret to inform our participants on short notice and are deeply saddened to have this event canceled,” the release said.

The release said they look forward to hosting another fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the future.

New preferred name petition seeks to address ‘urgent issue’ Lexi Kerzman

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A petition advocating for legitimization of students’ preferred names has been circulating the USD campus for the last month in an effort to change the university’s name policy.

This petition will allow students to change their legal names to their preferred name on their myUSD portals including on their emails and Desire2Learn accounts, their identification cards and other important documents.

USD policy mandates that students and faculty must have a legal name change in order to change their name in the school systems.

Forming the petition

Olivia Mann, senior criminal justice and sociology double major, worked on starting the petition with Jae Puckett, assistant psychology professor, and other concerned students and faculty.

PREFERRED NAME POLIC Y PETITION WHAT IS IT?

A preferred name policy at USD would allow students to list a preferred name to go by on services like D2L, WebAdvisor and class rosters. As of now, to acquire a name change the student must legally change their name.

THIS POLICY WOULD BE USED FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS: Individuals who are transgender who have not changed their name legally International students who do not wish to use their legal name People who are concerned about their safety, such as stalking Those who use a shortened form of their name Leah Dusterhoft I The Volante

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USD faculty members debate which field should be allowed to survive a nuclear apocalypse at the 2018 Lifeboat Lecture Monday night. The annual event featured professors from math, philosophy, sociology, political science and history departments. Zoli Filotas (right), an assistant professor of philosophy, was voted the winner by the students who attended.

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April 1 Officers investigated a report of a fist fight outside of a bar.

No arrests were made.

April 2 Officers responded to a report of a possible domestic assault in progress.

Officers arrested a man for assaulting his girlfriend, interfering with emergency communication and intentional damage to property.

April 3 Officers investigated a chaotic situation involving multiple intoxicated

people. One of them attempted to steal a patrol car at the scene.

She was a juvenile.

She was arrested and charged with motor vehicle theft, disorderly conduct and assault.

April 3 Officers responded to a report of a fight at a local restaurant.

Investigation resulted in the arrest of one man for domestic simple assault and an outstanding Yankton County Arrest Warrant.

April 5 An officer stopped two people who appeared to

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Further investigation showed she was in fact under 21 and was intoxicated. She was arrested.

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to a medical emergency.

One adult man was transported to a regional medical facility with chest pains.

April 7 An officer stopped a vehicle that was speeding 46 mph in a 35 mph zone.

The driver was cited.

April 7 A caller reported a group of intoxicated men who appeared to be throwing traffic cones.

Officers searched the area but weren’t able to locate the men in question.

April 7 While conducting a bar check, officers found two women who were in the bar drinking underage. Both had provided fake identification to get into the bar and be served.

One provided the officer with real identification and admitted the earlier deception. She was cited.

The other provided the fake identification to the officer and lied about her identity. She was arrested.

USD NSAC places second Devin Martin

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USD’s National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) team took second place at this year’s competition hosted by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) from April 6 to 7 at the University of Minnesota.

The theme for this year’s regional competition was for students from District 8 to create a marketing campaign for Ocean Spray. USD’s NSAC team chose “Create a Ripple” as their theme.

Kenzie Holton, a senior strategic communication major and research analyst for NSAC, said once the team receives a brand to promote, they develop an advertising campaign.

“We research, we develop insights, we then create a tagline based on that and then we build the whole campaign around that tagline,” she said.

The team put together numerous commercials for Ocean Spray, Holton said.

“We had four different commercials made this year, one of them being a

30-second spot and three of the other ones being YouTube preroll, magazine ads, potential billboards, retail activation, event planning,” she said.

Holton said even though the team placed second, she felt very strongly about the “campaign we put forth.”

“I thought the tagline resonated with the brand and it fit into what the brand already has as an image,” she said. “Everything we did was researchbacked and I stand by every single thing we did.”

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Cash-only business practice affects local bars Molly Sperlich

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Many of the popular bars in downtown Vermillion have a cash-only policy, even though local bar owners said carrying cash is less common with younger people.

Of all the downtown bars, six will take cards: Vermillion Eagles Club, Leo's Sports Bar & Grill, Maya Jane's, Old Lumber Company, Dakota Brick House and Main Street Pub. However of those six bars, five have a food menu, so their average ticket is higher.

Maya Jane's, Vermillion Eagles Club and Main Street Pub all require a $10 minimum for card use. Old Lumber company has a $20 minimum for alcohol purchases. In some cases, these policies are negatively affecting the bar's income. But on the contrary, cash-only policies create ease for bartenders and can keep bar tab totals lower for consumers.

William Mart, manager at the Charcoal Lounge, has been working there

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“That’s where the externships are in those areas. It’ll be in health law, banking law and trust law.

We’ll start up one of those next spring semester.”

Geu said finding funding for certain law school students was a challenge and that the task force found a solution to provide more funding to out-of-state students with the 15×15 scholarship program. This program allocates $15,000 of scholarship a year for all three years of law school, for a total of $45,000 provided to that student.

“Being a dean’s a journey. Coming in, we knew we needed to do,” Geu said.

“I’m pleased with the faculty, with the students and the staff and their adapt-

for three years. His jobs include making the schedule, placing orders for the bar and bartending when needed.

Mart said the Charcoal Lounge doesn’t take cards, but have recently been looking into it. He said being a cash-only bar is easier on his bartenders.

“We are obviously a late-night bar where we might have 300 people in two hours,” he said. “So, it’s easier on us. We have an ATM on the premises.”

Mart said being a cash-only bar has its pros and cons.

“I have looked into a card machine recently because I think the new trend these days is that kids don’t carry cash," he said.

Mart said he’s unsure if the Charcoal Lounge will ever get a card machine because it requires purchasing an all new system, but he said it might happen in the next few years.

Sean Callahan, a junior psychology major, said he would like it if all the bars took cards.

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Of all the bars in downtown Vermillion, six will take cards: Vermillion Eagles Club,

Leo’s Sports Bar & Grill, Maya Jane’s, Old Lumber Company, Dakota Brick House and Main Street Pub. me and I don’t like going to take cash out,” Callahan said. “But I do see how that might slow up business.”

Callahan said it would be nice if more bars did tabs, but he said that leads to him spending more money than he intended.

“Every time I open up a tab, it is always so much more than I expected at the end of the night,” he said.

Mart said another issue with not taking cards is drinks end up being wasted, leading to profit loss.

“There are people who

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(Geu) fights for opportunities for students and he works with our state bar to incorporate the vision of graduates and the vision of students.

Morgan Nelson, third-year law student

ability and willingness to help make a few changes that modernized the law school.”

Student perspective

Morgan Nelson, thirdyear law school student and outgoing Student Bar Association president, said Geu faced a “very difficult situation in his position.” “(Geu) fights for opportunities for students and he works with our state bar to incorporate the vision of graduates and the vision of students,” Nelson said.

“Unfortunately sometimes

it’s hard to do that as part of, from my perspective, it would be hard to (do) that in a greater university.”

Nelson said that Geu “does what he can to make (things) happen.”

“I would say that this past year with the culmination of the task force, (Geu) makes everybody feel welcome. He walks the halls a lot and says hi when he gets a chance,” Nelson said.

“He’s very approachable, he’s very genuine.”

Garrett Keegan, firstyear law school student and SGA senator, said Geu’s

approachable personality stands out.

“He’s just an approachable individual, and I think that has driven a lot more students specifically from South Dakota State, they want to go to law school at USD,” Keegan said.

Starting a search

USD President James Abbott said the first step of the search committee for a new dean of the law school was to hire a chair of the committee.

“I have Sheila Gestring, vice president of finance, as

will come up and order six drinks and we tell them we don't take cards and they walk away, so it can be quite a waste,” Mart said.

Even though the Charcoal Lounge has never accepted cards, Mart said many students still try to chair of the committee so she will pull it all together.

Faculty need to be heavily involved in the search process and in the interviewing,” Abbott said. “It will have a little period of time where not much will seem to be happening but I’ve asked law school faculty members to indicate whether they would like to be a member of the search committee” Abbott appointed a search consultant who specializes in law school dean searches to assist with the hiring.

Looking back

Abbott said Geu is a “great leader” and the school needs to hire someone adaptable.

“I think we need a great leader, I think we need somebody who can review the legal education landscape because there

use their cards.

“We see the same people who come back week after week and will still try and pay with a card,” he said. “By the time they are at Char, I think they have had plenty to drink. Where even if we tell them every time they aren’t going to remember.”

Diane Wirth, manager at The Varsity Pub, said she also loses some business by not taking cards; however, she doesn’t feel like waste is a big issue.

“Since our prices are so low, I think people at least have that amount of cash on them,” Wirth said.

Wirth said if she were to have a card machine, she would have to raise prices to meet the minimum.

“We don’t serve food, and we only have beer and wine, so since the average price per sale is pretty low in order to afford using a machine, we would have to have a high minimum,” Wirth said.

The Varsity has an ATM on site for customers to use.

are a lot of changes going on the legal profession,” Abbott said.

Abbott said Geu is interactive with many students.

“I think Dean Geu is a good thinker, I think he interacted quite a bit with students and I also think he’s a good teacher,” Abbott said. “My sense is that he’s opened other worlds in many ways.”

Geu said the next person who takes on the role of dean of the law school has an important position.

“We have such a supportive state bar and such a supportive judiciary.

Being the only law school in the state, we have a very special relationship that hardly any law school in the state has,” Geu said.

“I guess the real piece of advice I would give (them) other than ‘have fun’ would be to continue to nurture those relationships.”

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Attitude, not aptitude, leads to success in math

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SETH GERBERDING is a sophomore majoring in math and philosophy.

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Todd Lee, a USD alumnus, was hired as the new men’s basketball coach. He replaces Craig Smith, who left USD for Utah State in March.

Editorial: Coyote community ought to embrace Coach Lee The Coyotes men’s basketball team has a new leader of the pack. Craig Smith, head coach for the last four years, has left for Utah State. It wasn’t long after when Todd Lee was named as Smith’s replacement. Lee is a rather unique hire for USD. For starters, Lee is a USD graduate.

Not only is Lee already a member of our community, but he brings with him a legacy of success. When coaching for California State University, Lee won the NCAA Division II national championship.

At Kentucky Wesleyan, he took his team to the Sweet Sixteen. And at Grand Canyon University, Lee set a record by winning the most games in a school’s transition to Division I. The record is clear: Todd Lee knows how to win.

If the record is not convincing, then consider what the experts have to say.

Mike Brown, assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors, said “I have known Todd for almost 30 years and wherever he has gone, programs have gotten better.

He is a high-character guy with a wide range of contacts with great knowledge of the game.”

The head coach of Nevada

(yes, the Nevada that broke brackets with its run to the Sweet Sixteen in this year’s NCAA tournament) Eric Musselman said, “Todd Lee is known in the coaching fraternity as a star. He is an incredible X and O coach, as well as having a magnetic personality. He has a unique background having coached both at a collegiate and professional level. He will have tremendous success at South Dakota. He is one of the best coaches I have ever been around.”

For USD, the combination could not have been much better. It’s always good for morale to have one of your own leading the team. It’s even better when that person has a record of victory on the court.

We have a lot to look forward to. It might be a few years before the team becomes consistent again.

Losing a coach is always a hard thing to go through.

Changing to a new coach, a new attitude, a new system and a new mentality will take some time.

If next year doesn’t go our way, we should be patient. Lee is a coach, not a magician and we should not forget our role in success.

Coaches, whether it be

football, men’s or women’s basketball or volleyball, always talk about the need for a strong fan base. In the past, students have not always been the strongest in this department.

With a Yote as the coach, the team really is made up of Coyotes from top to bottom, so Coyotes everywhere should unify behind their team more than ever.

Coach Lee has expressed the desire to not just win the Summit League Tournament, but to win games in the NCAA national tournament. To do so, he wants to build home court advantage and bring more people to the games.

He wants to be a member of the community and help out with events and other activities so people know who he and the team are and what they stand for.

We have great potential with the new coach. But, as always, if we want to succeed on the basketball court, we all need to be there to back up the team.

Now we have a stronger need and a stronger reason to support the team. With a Yote leading the pack, the Coyote nation needs to come together and pull through, for the coach and the team.

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We all can read. We’re expected to. We wouldn’t accept it if someone came to class and said, “I can’t read, I’m not good at it, I’m just not a reading person.” A person who said that would get an earful about how reading is important and how they can become better by practice. Reading is a requirement for living life, so why isn’t math?

Why do we accept the excuse, “I’m not a math person?” I think it’s fairly obvious. It’s because we think math is related to genes, to parents or some other outside factor.

We think mathematical ability is something we’re born with, and if you’re not born with it, then there’s no chance of ever being capable.

It’s a great shame we think this way. We don’t approach reading, writing, speaking or how many other skills this way. It’s about time math is treated the same way. Enough of this attitude. Enough of the excuses and self-pity. It’s factually false that people are born doomed to fail at math.

Hard work and dedication is what leads to success. And the attitude only harms students.

For starters, the idea that math is related to genetics, as if there was a math gene, is wrong.

Hard work does pay off. But more importantly, the belief that one can change their intelligence is essential.

Research conducted at Purdue University found that “incremental orientation (intelligence) is a malleable quality that increases with effort.

Students with an entity orientation believe ability to be nonmalleable, a fixed quality of self that does not increase with effort.”

Simply put, if you think you can, you can. If you don’t think you can, then you won’t. Our current culture reinforces the second.

Research has found that students who believe they can improve their intelligence can also improve their grades.

Telling students math is a matter of genetics and that hard work won’t fix it only

holds them back. I myself know how hard work is the key to strong math skills.

If we want students to improve their math abilities, we need to stop letting them make excuses.

We should raise those standards and teach our students well, and encourage students to pursue math instead of accepting excuses and allowing them to feel discouraged about STEM fields.

I’m a math major, but I’m not a “math person.”

My worst recorded grade is in math. Was algebra hard? Yes, as was calculus, trigonometry and the rest.

My notes nor my homework was good, mostly scribblings and chicken scratch.

But I realized that it didn’t matter: if I wanted to be successful, I would have to change my mentality.

I couldn’t give myself the luxury of excuses. I had to look myself in the mirror and demand more from myself.

I put my nose to grindstone. First, I changed the way I studied. My concern was no longer just about getting the correct answer. Rather, I made sure I understood why it was the answer.

I also had to change the way I took notes. I didn’t just copy what the teacher or professor put on board: I made side notes to clarify confusion I knew I would see later.

There was some immediate progress.

Stronger test performances and higher grade averages were encouraging. It wasn’t my parents, or my educational circumstances, that got me through classes like Algebra 2. It was because I stopped making excuses for myself and held myself to a higher standard.

I told myself I could do better, and I did.

If we want USD and education in general to improve, we must abandon this mentality of “math people.” I’m not demanding everyone be a mathematician.

But we require everyone be able to read, not that they get Ph.D.s in English.

We should do the same for math.

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

“Catholic school is where I learned to be bad.”

—The Varsity Pub

“Models walk like crippled turkeys.”

— Arts and Sciences

“I don’t want to be sad over a penis.”

— Charcoal Lounge

“No, I’m not wearing the same underwear that I crapped my pants in.”

— Al Neuharth Media Center

“Do you wear your uniform without any underwear?”

— Dakota Street

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Head-to-head: free college tuition

With rising tuition and costs for higher education, some are wondering how to reduce the cost. Some prominent figures, including Senator Bernie Sanders, have proposed making public universities tuition free to students.

A valuable investment JORDAN SMITH is a junior majoring in political science and history.

I am an in-state student at what is considered to be an affordable college, and yet, I will spend many, many years paying off the debt. I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t it also be more efficient to shift the cost off of college students?

The cost of higher education has exploded in the last generation.

As a demonstration, NPR crunched the numbers about rising cost of higher education and found that where a student in the 1980s could pay for college working a minimumwage, roughly-full time job during the summer, their children, who are now in college, would have to work the same conditions for just over 153 hours a week. There are 168 hours in a week.

That ridiculous cost is not achievable by everyone. A 2009 article from the Washington Post shows that about 70 percent of dropouts are for financial reasons.

Reporting from USA Today finds business administration, psychology, nursing, biology, education and criminal justice

are six of the most popular majors studied at the undergraduate level. Even some oftmaligned majors, such as philosophy, prepare students like Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel and Carly Fiorina to become important and wealthy individuals.

Yes, education is an investment for an individual, but it’s also an investment in society and in the future.

I understand the desire for fiscal prudence, but a program to provide free public tuition is not as expensive as some might think. Data from the Department of Education found that in 2012, students spent about $63 billion on tuition to public institutions through loans, grants, etc.

Obviously, that’s a lot of money, but it’s actually less than the federal government spent the following year. To put things in perspective, Time magazine reports that development of the F-35 jet has cost $1.45 trillion — enough to cancel out all student debt in America with billions to spare. We are giving all that money to Lockheed-Martin for a plane that still can’t fly rather than educating the populace, to see how raw of a deal that is.

College is expensive for the individual

vs. Free tuition isn’t really free

who has yet to get the education or skills for a well-paying job, but split among a society that cost becomes very manageable. Given the recent $1.5 trillion tax cut mostly benefiting the wealthiest part of society, I’d say with some shifting of priorities, we can still afford free public tuition now.

At the end of the day, education is a fundamentally American value. Don’t get me wrong, not everyone needs to seek a higher education, and plenty of people will be perfectly successful with a high school diploma. I say good for them; however, in an increasingly competitive, globalized economy, we need to acknowledge that there are a lot of careers which require higher education.

No one should be forced into higher education, barring young people from education or else shackling them to extreme debt is not only morally wrong, it is a massive missed opportunity. Ultimately, I will look to a letter from Thomas Jefferson reading, “It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life.”

The idea of a free higher education system is not the best approach to fixing rising college costs. First, it infringes on the autonomy of the taxpayer. Second, technical and trade schools should have higher value in society.

Third, public high school needs to be improved first.

First, as soon as a system of anything free is implemented, the taxpayer suffers.

Free does not really mean free, and higher education is no exception, as it leaves taxpayers footing the bill. This leads to less of a choice as to where their money goes, and they have less money available from each paycheck.

Every taxpayer pays to send someone to college, whether or not they choose to go themselves. Even a progressive tax does more long-term harm than good, because it restricts what the high tax brackets can do with innovation.

Second, trade and technical schools need to be viewed in a more positive light. Technical schools allow people more opportunity to pursue their passions, natural talents, and offer more of a handson approach. Not everyone will excel in a university setting

because they learn differently and have different passions and strengths. As a society, we must change how we talk about technical schools because “blue collar” does not have to be a dirty word.

The manufacturing sector can provide lucrative employment opportunities with on the job or vocational training. Students are able to take courses specific to their career paths that prepare them for the workforce.

Technical schools allow students to get the training they need without the cost.

College should not be the only option for high school graduates.

Furthermore, forcing college only devalues the degree.

Third, we must improve our high school education system first, before we attempt to offer free public tuition.

We are falling behind other countries, and our public high schools are not preparing its students to enter the workforce.

The United States is ranked 38 in math and 24 in science out of 71 countries, and our test scores continue to fall.

It’s clear that there’s a problem here. A few ways we can improve K-12 education are by integrating technology into the class room,

JORDAN HANSON is a senior majoring in political science. developing critical thinking and writing skills and encouraging access to experiential learning.

Technology in the classroom is crucial because it will prepare students to use it properly and effectively in the real world. It allows students to find the original documents in history class or practice more problems in math. And the fact that only 6 percent of 12th graders have critical thinking skills should be a red flag.

Engaging students through internships or apprenticeships shows students the importance of their education and allows students to use it while they’re still in school. Implementing a program that allows high school students to intern or apprentice in a career they want to pursue after high school gives them that opportunity.

Free higher education is appealing at first glance, but once you look at the details, it’s too idealistic for this moment in U.S. history.

Despite the pressure, keep moving forward as semester ends SARAH JONES is a senior majoring in English.

The final stretch of the semester means that students are tired of school, homework, quizzes, tests and the overload of homework that arrives once spring break is over.

While students don’t have control of how instructors manage the workload that’s doled out to them, they do have control over one thing: themselves.

Students need to keep in mind that during crunch time, when school gets right down to the wire and the thought of finals

becomes more haunting, this is the time when they need to work their hardest.

Oftentimes due to the weight of assignments and projects students receive, or from feelings of exhaustion or an opportunity to squeeze in extra study time, students will skip class.

Not going to class will hurt students in the long run.

Now is the time, more than before, for students to budget their time and keep a strict schedule.

Students forget, amidst the turmoil of the end of the semester, why they’re in college in the first place.

This is the time for students to remember their long-term goals.

The whole point of college isn’t to just get an education, but to

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out for some alcohol and ignoring Netflix will also

Oftentimes due to the weight of assignments and projects students receive, or from feelings of exhaustion or an opportunity to squeeze in extra study time, students will skip class. Not going to class will hurt students in the long run.

help increase productivity at this point in the semester.

Doing what’s right for one’s education is hard for students and will only benefit them in the long run.

do something with that education so that students can achieve their dreams and have a bright future.

Students, it’s time to remember the initial motivation for even wanting to go to college, to obtain a gateway for that dream job which is only attainable with a college degree.

Now is not the time to give up just because classes are hard.

Life is hard, and that’s going to increase with time, not the other way around.

Going to class, doing the assignments and not giving up is what’s going to carry students to that next step in their lives.

In order to achieve their dreams, students need to be willing to work hard for what they want, not just scrape by and hope for the best.

All of the students near the end of the semester are tired.

No one is alone in this, so it’s important that students help one another out if they can.

Study groups are a solution to both the need for social interaction while stressed, and a productive way to get work done and learn from your peers.

Saying no when a friend brings up the idea of going

However, doing what’s easy and taking what appears to be short cuts, such as skipping class, will damage students’ futures in the long run.

Moving forward, students need to remember to pace themselves and view the rest of the semester and their future as a marathon, not a sprint.

Money can’t buy us happiness, but it can buy us stress XAVIER PINEX is a first-year majoring in kinesiology and computer science.

“Cash rules everything around me.”

These lyrics from the Wu Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” speak volumes to the way that society is, and has been for years.

The fact about money is that it doesn’t need to rule everything in the world, especially not everything in everyday life.

Economics isn’t actually about money at all. Economics is about scarcity, the idea that we have limited resources to suit our unlimited

human desires. The key word in that sentence is desired; the fact that as humans, we don’t really need that much, but we desire a lot.

Humans only truly need food, water, shelter and a sense of belonging and community, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. One thing absent from that list is money.

Money isn’t really a fundamental human need, rather, it’s a tool used for making life easier, which, while nice, oftentimes ends up making life harder in the end.

As humans in America, our average life expectancy is roughly 79 years. Of those 79 years, the average American

spends roughly 16 of them in school when counting time spent in university, and another 40 in the workforce trying to get money both to live off of, and to retire with. This leads to the conclusion that we spend over half of our lives wasting away, working to get money, rather than actually enjoying our lives.

We are so obsessed with money, that ultimately people make their lives harder in attempts to make it easier or better by getting money.

According to USAToday, money is the top cause of stress for Americans.

This is a problem that we throw ourselves

into blindly without realizing the reality of the situation. There is a base level of money that we as humans do need, enough to ensure that we have adequate food, water and shelter.

Beyond that amount of money, we venture into the idea of living more and more lavishly.

It’s important that we maintain the idea of what we truly need and what we simply want.

We spend so much time trying to get money that we lose track of the important things in life: actually enjoying life, creating meaningful relationships, creating memories.

These meaningful pursuits are the actual important things in

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The fact about money is that it doesn’t need to rule everything in the world, especially not everything in everyday life.

life, not working to get money.

Though, this isn’t to say that there isn’t pleasure to be had in working. Some people make it a goal in life to find work that they enjoy because they do realize that life, and everything in it, should be enjoyed. People find jobs and career paths that are enjoyable and meaningful to them for intrinsic happiness.

At the end of the day, it’s about finding that

enjoyment and pleasure that matters.

We live in a world where cash rules everything around us, where every day is about getting money or doing things that will allow us to get money.

When your life becomes solely about money, that’s when it becomes a stressful mess, something that isn’t worth how bad it can be.

To use a cliché, money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy stress.

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Clothing stolen from PAVE exhibit Morgan Matzen

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A piece of clothing from the “What We Were Wearing” art exhibit hosted

by PAVE and ICARE was recently stolen twice by an unknown thief.

In place of the stolen piece is now a sign that reads “the underwear illustrating this story has been stolen twice. Stealing objects from a sexual assault survivor art installation IS rape culture.”

The first time the garment was stolen was the day after the exhibit’s opening. Alyssa Fothergill, PAVE president, notified Sara Lampert, ICARE member, that the garment was missing from its display, and they decided just to buy another pair to replace it.

On Monday, PAVE and ICARE members noticed the underwear missing again, so they decided to put the sign in its place in order to send a message to the thief, and to other exhibit observers. Lampert said the theft was “deeply disrespectful.”

“Stealing from an exhibit that is built around the experiences of survivors of sexual assault is a flagrant act of disrespect, and trivialization of a really important issue, but also of the voices and experiences captured in that exhibit,” Lampert said.

Claire Litzen, PAVE awareness chair, said this theft is frustrating for the group, who worked on finding participants for the exhibit, and also frustrating for the survivor whose story is on display.

“We were really frustrated because people probably thought they were being funny, but we all kind of thought it was disrespectful towards the exhibit and specifically that survivor’s story,” Litzen said.

Litzen said whoever stole the garment doesn’t understand rape culture or take it seriously.

“You probably didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings and you thought that it was funny, but it’s actually very disrespectful towards the exhibit and towards that survivor’s story,” she said. “They may not understand what rape culture is considered, and it’s kind of mocking the exhibit in a way. That’s why that sign is out there now. It just adds fuel to rape culture, and that’s just not okay.”

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Senator Matt Yetter proposed a resolution expressing SGA’s displeasure with USD’s

lack of response to student complaints about parking at the weekly SGA meeting Tuesday evening.

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Matt Yetter, Student Government Association senator, proposed a resolution expressing SGA’s displeasure with the university’s lack of action in regards to campus parking at the weekly SGA meeting Tuesday evening.

The resolution requested that the university take “rigorous and holistic analysis of the availability of student parking on campus.” It also requested that the chair of the university parking committee attend an upcoming SGA meeting to address questions and concerns.

Yetter said problems have risen with the university’s parking policies, specifically with availability and accessibility. He said it’s important for SGA to respond to student dissatisfaction.

“We are the Student Government Association, and they elect us to make the hard decisions and to provide a voice for the student body so that we can seek change and better policies and better outcomes for students here on campus,” Yetter said.

Also at the meeting, a resolution was proposed to appropriate funds to pay a student director to broadcast SGA meetings live. This broadcast would move the weekly meetings to the Freedom Forum in the Al Neuharth Media Center, instead of in the Muenster University Center room 216.

The meetings would be broadcasted live on Channel 21, as well as livestreamed on the Coyote News YouTube channel and Volante Facebook page.

Senator Riley Paulsen, a member of the Student Media Board, sponsored the resolution, which he said would increase SGA’s transparency.

“I think having not only a live recording, but also a recorded archive of our meetings would allow students to not only follow up with us real time, but also after the fact,” Paulsen said.

“I think it holds us more accountable as senators.”

Although other senators raised concerns that the broadcasting may cause students to shy away from expressing their concerns, Paulsen said SGA meetings are already public and are able to be recorded.

“Also, I think that if students want to give us feedback, I think they want to have an impact and I think this allows them to extend their reach, as well as allow us to extend our reach,” Paulsen said. “If students are hesitant to come forward when it’s televised, then they can certainly approach their senator, and we will be more than happy to raise those concerns on their behalf.”

SGA president Josh Sorbe said although he supports the resolution, he understands both of the perspectives.

“I’m hoping that they vote to move to Freedom Forum,” Sorbe said. “I think it would be a great opportunity not only for SGA, but also for the university and the student that gets to run it.”

Also at the meeting, small organization, large organization and club sports budget allocation bills were sent to the finance committee for further review. A resolution recommending that the I.T. department allow USD graduates to continue to access their university email was also unanimously passed.

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until the new computer systems were brought in, which isn’t expected to happen until the fall of 2019.

Mann said although some policy elements cannot be used until the computer systems can support them, she would like to see USD clarify its stance on the preferred name.

“The petition requests that USD implement an official preferred name policy in a timely manner rather than waiting to discuss such a policy until new computer systems have been implemented,” Mann said. “Until now the university has largely seemed content to wait on new computer systems to be implemented before a name policy is created.”

Petition organizers are not required to collect a minimum number of signatures. Mann said the purpose of the petition is to show the USD administration that this is an issue students care about.

“We are simply aiming to demonstrate to the USD administration that this is an issue that students, faculty, and community members would like to see addressed and resolved,” she said.

Mann said she believes this petition will benefit more than just the LGBT+ community on campus.

“In reality this petition seeks to benefit any student who wishes to use a preferred name that is not their legal name,” she said. “International students, LGBTQIAP+ people, people who need to use a changed name for personal security reasons and others in similar situations could have a much more positive time at USD if a preferred name policy is in place.”

Next steps

The petitioning is now over and Puckett is working on counting all the names acquired. The current count is more than 300 signatures. Next steps are to write a letter to university administrators, bring the issue to the attention of Student Government Association and deliver the petitions to both SGA and university administrators.

“We want to say ‘this is all the people that it

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International students, LGBTQIAP+ people, people who need to use a changed name for personal security reasons and others in similar situations could have a much more positive time at USD if a preferred name policy is in place.

Olivia Mann, senior criminal justice and sociology

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is important to, there are probably others too and we would like you to do something sooner than fall of 2019,’” Puckett said. “It really is an urgent issue.”

Puckett said acquiring a legal name change is a difficult process.

“It costs altogether a couple hundred dollars to change your name legally,” Puckett said.

“You have to petition the court to change your name, you have to live in the county you request the name change for at least six months and you have to publish it in the paper for two weeks when you change your name legally.”

Puckett said students and faculty shouldn’t have to go through the entire process of a legal name change in order to use their preferred name.

“You should be able to have preferred name show up to everything that is public-facing,” they said.

“You should be able to have preferred name show up on a class roster so students don’t get called the wrong name, you should be able to have preferred name show up for faculty at the bookstore and you should be able to have preferred name show up on Coyote Connections.”

Positive effects

Megan Street, a senior anthropology major and former Volante staff member, helped collect signatures said. Street even though the preferred name policy may not seem like a big deal, it would have a great impact.

“Even something as seemingly small as this can mean the world to somebody who is gender nonconforming or transgender. It definitely fits into USD’s policy of inclu-

Belbas-Larson teaching awards announced Devin Martin

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The winners of the 2018 Belbas-Larson Awards for Excellence in Teaching were announced last Thursday.

Chaya Gordon-Bland, associate professor of theatre, was honored for the tenured category, and Paul Lombardi, associate professor of music, was honored in the tenuretrack category.

According to an email from Kim Grieve, dean of

students and vice president of student services, recipients are chosen by a faculty committee based upon their review of portfolios submitted in support of the nominations received by students and colleagues.

In addition to the award, Belbas-Larson awardees will be recognized in a commencement ceremony in May and will each receive a framed certificate, commemorative medal and a

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Danielle Whirlwind Horse, a fancy dancer and former USD student, said she started dancing before she could even walk.

“I had two role models growing up and one was my Auntie,” Whirlwind Horse said. “I’d always watch her dance and she’d always take me out in the middle with her and I guess that’s how I got my love for dancing fancy.”

Whirlwind Horse said “fancy dancing” means the dancer is out there free and “floating like a butterfly.”

“It’s just you and yourself and that drum,” she said.

Whirlwind Horse said dancing is a getaway for her.

“I just like to dance for the elders and the one’s who can’t dance,” she said.

“It’s fun to dance and it’s

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The Wacipi featured singers, dancers and drummers as well as food and craft vendors from around the region. like my getaway.”

As soon as this year’s Wacipi is over, Tiospaye Student Council will

start planning next year’s event. Bean said other Native American groups on campus also help plan

sive excellence as far as embracing diversity and making sure everybody here has a comfortable learning and living environment,” they said. “We are spending so many months away from home and really this should feel like a home away from home while we are trying to get a higher education.”

Mann said students’ experiences will improve if the preferred name policy is in place.

“Every person at USD can benefit from being part of a campus community that is actively seeking to support all of its community members through policies like these,” Mann said. “Supporting students in using their preferred names is a way of affirming their identities and making them truly welcome in our community, and we should be doing everything we can to achieve that end.”

Puckett noted a recent article from the Journal of Adolescent Health titled “Chosen Name Use Is Linked to Reduced Depressive Symptoms, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicidal Behavior Among Transgender Youth.”

Puckett said the article is important in stating the tie between using students’ preferred names and lowered cases of depression and suicidal thought in transgender and gendernonconforming youth.

“In this article, they talk about the importance of preferred name and the way that it affirms people’s identities and creates less risk of depression issues.

I think (the preferred name policy) will create a place that students will feel more welcomed and accepted,” Puckett said.

“I think this will create more safety to students on campus.”

the event.

“It’s a lot of work for us, but just to see everybody’s happy reaction and

the love that they have for the event, it’s just really rewarding to see the people’s smiles and hear the

$5,000 tribute.

Gordon-Bland said in an email with The Volante that she’s “deeply honored” to be recognized.

“I feel tremendous gratitude towards my colleagues, peers and most of all my students, for creating a teaching and learning environment that continues to challenge and inspire me to deeper depths and greater heights in my work as a teacher and theatre artist,” Gordon-Bland said.

laughter,” Bean said.

Schad said one of her favorite parts of the Wacipi is the sense of relief that comes during it.

“There’s a time where everything feels like you can just take a breath and you can just sit down and watch it,” Shad said. “It really puts into perspective all the hard work and all the meetings and emails and fundraising. It’s relieving and it brings so many emotions to see it all in action.”

Bean said she wants people to know that her culture is still here.

“We still have a beautiful and vibrant culture, we practice our culture all the time,” she said.

“We encourage people to ask questions and talk to people and just learn. It (Wacipi) does provide a time for them to sit and ask questions and experience our culture in a setting that they’re not used to.”

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Coming home

USD hires alumnus Todd Lee as 18th men’s head basketball coach

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Todd Lee, a USD alumnus, speaks at a press conference Friday afternoon in the DakotaDome. Lee was named the 18th men’s head basketball coach April 4 after former head coach Craig Smith left for Utah State.

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USD officially welcomed Todd Lee, the 18th men’s head basketball coach, in the DakotaDome Friday afternoon after announcing his hiring April 4.

Lee, a USD alumnus, was announced as the new men’s head basketball coach last Wednesday following the departure of Craig Smith.

President James Abbott said there were many applicants for the job, but he’s confident the university made the right choice.

“As it turned out, we were able to choose the person that not only everyone wanted as their first choice, but also somebody who is a graduate of USD,” he said. “It’s always great to come home.”

Lee graduated from USD in 1986 with a business administra-

tion degree, and received his master’s in education at Azusa Pacific in 2003.

Lee said he was honored to accept a coaching position at his alma mater, and his goal is to win championships.

“This program has a long tradition of winning and that’s going to continue. We’re just going to take the next step,” he said. “Every year, we’re going to have a goal of winning the regular season championship, the tournament championship and we’re going to have a goal of getting to the NCAA tournament and winning games in the NCAA tournament. I’m not going to shy away from that — that’s going to be our goal.”

David Herbster, USD’s athletic director, said Lee fits the qualities the university looks for in a coach. “(Lee is) an exceptional coach, person, leader, teacher,” he said.

“Those were really big key qualities that we were looking for.”

Lee said this would be accomplished by hard work, preparation and teamwork. He also said it’s important to focus on creating strong men within the program.

Considering junior Matt Mooney tweeted last Wednesday that he’s been released from his contract with the university, Lee said he’s encouraging everyone to stay in the program, and the team will keep moving.

“I want everybody to stay. I don’t want anybody to leave,” he said. “If you decide you want to leave, good luck, I’ll support you and we’ll find somebody else and we’re going to win.”

The coach also touched on getting more students at games and said he would do what he could to get more students invested in the program.

“Everybody watches college basketball and enjoys it when the students are going crazy. That’s when they have the most fun. So whatever I can do to get our students out to the game,” he said. “To have our team to connect to our student body, I think that would help. If we can get a student section who are passionate about it and they are coming to every game.

The season ticket holders and the people that show up are going to have a lot more fun.”

Lee said he’s excited to get started with the team and figure out his players and his staff moving into the next year.

Lee was previously associate head coach at Grand Canyon University, garnering a 103-58 record.

According to GoYotes, GCU’s 81 wins after its transition to Division I are the most in their program’s history. The Lopes won 22 games

this past season and advanced to the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The team also earned the top three spot of the WAC in the five seasons with Lee. Lee was also head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan, compiling a 15481 record and also competing in five National Collegiate Athletic Association tournaments. He led the team to 14-0 starts in consecutive seasons, a no. 1 seed rank and a run to the Sweet 16 in 2012. Lee finished his final seasons with a 22-win average and .736 percentage.

Lee coached at UC-Irvine, CSU Bakersfield, San Diego and Southwest Junior College. Lee won the NCAA Division II national Championship at Bakersfield and won two Big West Conference Championships with UC Irvine.

Throwing a fitting choice for former USD soccer player went out on the field and threw a hammer and I just really enjoyed it.”

A.G. Kruger, the assistant coach for throws, said he was confident in Boman walking on.

“I kind of just started that way, giving her a chance to be able to keep doing athletics in college with having to go get surgery on her hip and keep on playing soccer and she didn’t want to do that, she wanted to keep on training and doing some fun things,” he said.

Brooke Ireland, a senior sprinter and Boman’s roommate, said she had high hopes for Boman as a thrower.

“I kind of brought up what throwing is and encouraged her to meet with Meghan,” she said. “I knew she would fit in well with who A.G. is and what the program is.”

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Lara Boman, a junior thrower on the track and field team, throws the

shot put at the DakotaDome Friday afternoon at practice. Boman broke the school hammer throw record by almost three feet at the Baldy Castillo Invitational March 16.

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Junior thrower Lara Boman’s switch from her 16-year soccer career to throwing for track and field has been a successful transition, after making nationals and breaking the USD hammer throw record her first meet of the outdoor season.

Starting from scratch

Boman played soccer at USD for three years before having to sit out due to a hip injury.

From then, Boman decided to

give up her 16-year soccer career.

“I really enjoyed the experience I had, I mean, I learned a ton, I grew a ton as a person,” she said. “I’m really, really happy it happened, so I have a lot of positive things to say about that. Just really enjoyable, really great memories and I made a lot of friends.”

Boman was approached by alumna thrower Meghan Dennis about her future as a USD athlete.

“One day she came up and was like, ‘Have you ever thought about being a thrower?’ and I was like, ‘No, but why not?’” she said. “So, she took me out in November and

Boman said her favorite event is throwing the hammer.

“It’s very rewarding when you can figure something out and feel like what your body’s doing to make the ball go farther, because you can’t really force it and muscle it, you have to do things the right way,” she said.

Boman threw the hammer 194 feet, 10 inches at the Baldy Castillo Invitational in Arizona on March 16, breaking the school record by almost three feet.

“It almost didn’t happen,” she said. “I kind of went off and I was pretty frustrated. Watching second flight, I ended up making finals by like, not a lot of centimeters, so I was like, ‘Whoa I have another chance.’ It really helped me calm down and relax a lot more and then kind of just did what A.G. told me to do, which was just try to relax and let it happen, and I was able to get a good throw after that, so that was exciting.”

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Helen Falda, a sophomore pole vaulter, gets ready to vault at the Jim Emmerich Alumni Invitational in Brookings, SD Jan. 20.

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Two USD pole vaulters have sprung to the top of the program.

Sophomores Chris Nilsen and Helen Falda garnered multiple Summit League honors this year, including the Summit League Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Year award.

First season success

In her first season at USD after transferring from University of Texas Arlington, Falda became the third woman pole vaulter to jump over 14 feet at USD. She also claimed the first place spot at the Summit League Championships.

Originally from Torino, Italy, Falda said she knew she wanted

to come to USD because of the big names.

“I picked this (school) because that’s where I wanted to be since the beginning,” she said. “And knowing that names like Emily Grove or Bethany (Buell) or Chris are here, were here and jumped that high, helped me to make this choice.”

Falda said she was thankful for being recognized as Summit League Indoor Athlete of the Year.

“I think it just represents how good we are doing as a team and especially in the pole vault crew,” she said.

Falda said she attributes her success this year to her coach, Derek Miles.

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Runners return to hometown for Sioux City Relays Ali Boysen

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Two Sioux City natives are looking forward to returning to participate in the Sioux City Relays Thursday and Friday.

Both athletes previously ran at Elwood Olsen Stadium at Morningside College throughout their high school careers.

Senior distance runner Lindsay Joyce said it’s like going home for her.

“When like we pull in and I’m like, ‘Yep, this is where we would park in high school and like this is where our team camp would be in high school,’ and so I know Olsen Stadium so well,” Joyce said.

Joyce said it’s easier than competing at larger meets because she knows exactly where to go.

“Sometimes when we go to those bigger meets it gets a little nerve-wracking, like, ‘Where do I warm up?’ versus ‘Where do I check in?’ but I know this like the back of my hand here, so that makes it a little bit easier for me at least,” Joyce said.

Joyce said preparing for the Sioux City Relays isn’t much different than other competitions, but she finds it more enjoyable than others.

“Preparation-wise, it’s pretty much the same; you want to go out there and

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It’s a lot of fun going home because my family has to travel 10 minutes instead of sometimes two hours to watch me race, so I get to have all my family there.

Lindsay Joyce, senior distance runner compete, and usually our coach says when you compete, then the times will come,” she said. “This one is always just fun for me because I raced there every Thursday in high school, so mentally it’s more low-key because I’m so familiar with the scenery.”

Noah Weeter, freshman hurdler, said he believes previously running in the relays and having more support will be an advantage.

“I think being at a venue that I’m familiar with is definitely something I can take an advantage of, and I’ll have a lot of family there and my former high school will be running at the same time that I’ll be there so… I have a lot of people supporting me, so it’s really cool,” Weeter said.

Joyce will have much of her family supporting her at the relays. She said it makes

this meet more exciting.

“It’s a lot of fun going home because my family has to travel 10 minutes instead of sometimes two hours to watch me race, so I get to have all my family there,” Joyce said.

Going home gives a chance to reconnect with their high schools, which will both be at the meet this weekend.

Joyce said she hopes to be an “inspiration” for those still in high school, while Weeter said he wants to set an example of how his work as a track athlete in high school has lead him to the collegiate level.

“I want to change the culture of how my high school’s been,” Weeter said. “Track hasn’t always been a big sport (at North High School), but I want people to see that I worked hard in order to kind of get where I am.”

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Noah Weeter, freshman hurdler, practices hurdles at the DakotaDome Monday afternoon.

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Kruger said he told Boman at the meet to “have fun and throw far.”

“She’s still got more in the tank and more to go the rest of the year so it’s going to be a lot of fun,” he said. “Her biggest thing is just being able to relax and let the throw come to her.”

Ireland said Boman was able to break the record because of her dedication to throws.

“I think she’s the most dedicated female athlete I think I’ve ever met just because she has a passion for always improving and always never settling for anything less,” she said. “I didn’t think she thought (she) was going to (break) the school record or going to nationals the first round, but that’s where it’s going, which is amazing.”

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Chris Nilsen, sophomore pole vaulter, practices his jumps in the DakotaDome Monday

afternoon. Nilsen was named the Summit League Indoor Athlete of the Year and the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s Athlete of the Week this season.

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“I’m really thankful because when I got here I didn’t even have any poles to jump on and just Derek just provided me with what I needed,” she said. “He just helped me a lot, he follows me through every detail and that’s what it takes to jump higher.”

Along with her successful season, Falda also participated in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Indoor Championships, placing in 14th and earning All-American second team honors.

“For me, probably the meet didn’t go like I wanted, but I think we’re figuring out what I missed to perform well,” she said. “It was awesome because when I was there, I realized I was with the best in the nation...

Being there this year was really awesome because it’s something that I couldn’t do last year And I made it this year with Derek.”

Falda said she reflects on advice from Miles when preparing for a meet.

“As Derek says during a meet, ‘Instead of jumping because you have expectations, you need to jump because you have goals,’” she said. “So, to reach my goals, I just think, ‘What makes my jump work and what I do during practice to make the jump work?’ And it usually works.”

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to work on breaking her personal record (PR) in upcoming seasons at USD. “(I want to try) solving some technical things that I’ve been working on,” she said. “I know that if I do this, I’m going to PR and I’m gonna jump high.”

Setting the bar high

Nilsen remains the top male pole vaulter in USD history, and became USD’s first NCAA Division I men’s champion last year.

Along with being an indoor athlete of the year, Nilsen was named the Summit March Athlete of the Month and the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s Athlete of the Week on April 3.

Nilsen said the award reminds him that he’s representing USD and the track and field team.

“It’s fun to be recognized as Summit League Athletes of the Year,” he said.

Nilsen said Miles and the team members were the main reasons he decided to pole vault at USD. “I went to four other schools on official visits during my senior year when they were recruiting athletes, and he was kind of the coach that stood out and also the team were the people that stood out,” he said. “They were the only ones that didn’t ask me or try to take me out to parties, so when I got here I realized this was the most dedicated team I could be part of. So, if I wanted to be successful, this was the place where I

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Growing as a thrower

Boman said she was thankful Kruger allowed her to walk on.

needed to come.”

Nilsen placed second at the NCAA Championships this year, vaulting 18 feet 4 1/2 inches on his first attempt.

The championships made Nilsen want to work harder to place in first.

“Going to the NCAA Championships, that’s where all the big dogs come to play,” he said. “You go there and you have a bunch of people you have to compete against.”

Nilsen said there’s a lot of professionalism that goes into his mind when competing.

“Not that I’m trying to be a professional, but that I’m representing not only myself but the people that I’m wearing on my chest—South Dakota,” he said. “When I’m in practice I can goof off, mess around and just have fun, but when I’m in a competition I have to remember, ‘I’m here to compete, I’m here to do my job and if I don’t do my job, I’m doing something wrong.’”

Consistency is something Nilsen said he wants to work on the rest of the season and years to come.

“Right now I’m consistent in a certain area but maybe if I can raise that consistency up six or eight inches and start shooting at higher bars I haven’t jumped at yet, I think that’ll be a goal,” he said. “And just being a good teammate, being a good person, always increasing on that.”

A.G. Kruger, assistant track and field coach - throws “I don’t think (any other) coach would have said yes, because I didn’t have any background, but he gave me a chance and he really does that with a lot of us,” she said.

Ireland said Boman has many strengths as an athlete.

“Definitely I think the strongest woman at USD physically and mentally, emotionally. Even though she doesn’t usually see herself like that, everyone else does,” she said. “Even though she’s new to the sport and new to the team, that she’s still one of the leaders. She’s leading on the scoreboard, but also leading at practice as a person.”

Kruger said Boman is an “absolutely amazing” thrower and teammate.

“She’s one that comes in every morning and does extra drills to be able to make sure she keeps on learning,” he said. “She’s absolutely amazing to be part of this team and we just love that she’s a part of this team here.”

Since her first few meets and practices, Boman said she’s improved a lot.

“As a thrower, I have the video of me coming out there my first day, and it’s pretty funny because I had no idea what I was doing,” she said.

“I still a lot of the time don’t really know what I’m doing sometimes, but just trying whatever it is you’re trying to work on every day and just trust that the next day you’ll be a little better.”

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Ali Boysen: What made you want to transfer to USD? Taylor Wilson: I wanted an atmosphere that cared about their players not only as athletes but created a relationship with them. I think this program really had that. And my coaches had left Stony Brook so I was ready to get out of there. I also wanted to go to a competitive conference and the Summit League is a really good conference that is

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She’s absolutely amazing to be part of this team and we just love that she’s a part of this team here.

The Coyote women lost 4-5 the first game and won 7-0 the second game. The Coyotes outhit SDSU 21-14 in the second game.

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really competitive.

AB: What do you love most about volleyball?

TW: I love how you have to be competitive every second of the game. I think we saw in the game against Oral Roberts that you have to be competitive the entire game. It doesn’t matter if you’re two points ahead, if you don’t stay competitive you might not come out on top. I’m

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very competitive when it comes to volleyball.

AB: What are you looking forward to now that regular season is over?

TW: I think I’m looking forward to having a spring season, because my sophomore spring season I was injured and after I transferred I had to sit out, so I didn’t have a (junior) spring season.

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“Cabaret” is a musical production highlighting new art, new music and new expressions of sexuality set in 1930 Berlin. The USD Theater Department will perform their version of the famous musical on April 12 through April 22.

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The USD Theater Department is putting its own twist on the wellknown musical “Cabaret” thanks to help from Broadway choreographer Chet Walker April 12 through April 22.

The play takes place in 1930s Berlin in between the two World Wars. Joe Stollenwerk, “Cabaret” director and assistant professor of directing, said this production covers an interesting part of history.

The play follows an American writer, Clifford Bradshaw, who arrives in Berlin and gets involved with the glamorous lifestyle filled with new music, new art and new expressions of sexuality.

Stollenwerk said it’s an “interesting mix” because this is the time when the Nazi party started gaining power in Europe.

“I think that sets up this really interesting mix of the musical,” he said. “It has all of these glitzy song and dance numbers, but then the story really shows the lives of these people and the hard choices they had to make. It is a really interesting musical.”

Brett Ries, a sophomore political science and criminal justice major, plays Bradshaw in the show. It’s his first production since the fall of 2016 and he said he was excited to get back on the stage.

“I love the story of ‘Cabaret’ and the critiques it has on society,” Ries said. “I also really wanted to play the role of Cliff, so I am very grateful I was given that opportunity.”

Stollenwerk said this produc-

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The production featured the choreography of Chet Walker, a well-known Broadway choreographer. Walker led rehearsals for 10 days, in order to utilize his time, the cast only rehearsed the dancing numbers. Walker is well-known for his rendition of the popular musical “Pippin.” tion offers an interesting perspective on political history. “‘Cabaret’ is this really profound piece of theater, especially in this really interesting political history we live in,” he said. “We have so much division in our country and in some ways, some of the things that were happening in Berlin are not totally unlike what is happening now.”

Stollenwerk said he hopes audience members leave the show not

only feeling entertained, but also inspired to think about the deeper meaning of the play.

“I think that political commentary will make people leave the theater feeling like they really got their entertainment buck, but they will also leave thinking about the ideas that were discussed during the play,” Stollenwerk said. “I love that.

I love mashing together entertainment and making people think.”

Patricia Downey, associate pro-

fessor of theater, worked as assistant to the choreographer under Walker, renowned Broadway choreographer. Walker has choreographed many different productions. Some of his most famous works are the 1999 Tony-Awardwinning musical “Fosse” and his rendition of “Pippin” which was nominated for 10 Tony Awards.

Downey said in 2013, Walker’s agent sent the department a random email, which led to Walker’s

first visit to USD when he gave a three-day master’s workshop for the department.

Walker reached out to Downey last spring to see if the department would be willing to host another set of workshops.

“In our conversation, I mentioned that we were doing ‘Cabaret’ and he said that is his favorite show to choreograph,” she said.

“He said, ‘Is there any way I could come choreograph that for you?’

We were able to bring him in for an 11-day residency at which he created the dances and taught it to the dancers.”

Ries said working with Walker was “nothing short of amazing.”

“His wit, humor and skills made the whole experience very enjoyable,” Ries said. “It was also very entertaining to hear his stories and experiences in the professional world. The best part about working with Chet was just conversing with him and hearing his stories and advice. He is a well-known choreographer, but he’s also just an outstanding, relatable human as well.”

For Stollenwerk, he said the best part of having Walker work on the production was seeing his students grow as dancers and expand their confidence.

“He gave them so much in terms of helping them learn how to learn, how to learn choreography really quickly,” Stollenwork said. “The confidence that they have now is just thrilling to see. I am a teacher, so I love to see people grow and learn.”

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Mark Sweeney, earth science professor, and wife Kelly Dilliard travel around the world to research and gain experience he can bring to his classroom.

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For USD earth science professor Mark Sweeney, the study of Earth isn’t only an occupation, it’s a passion that extends beyond campus.

Sweeney and his wife, who is also an earth science professor at Wayne State College, have traveled to multiple locations in the United States to attend conferences, conduct research and see nature.

Sweeney said some of his favorite trips have been to Canada, Northern China and Israel, although most of his research trips are taken locally and to the American Southwest deserts.

“A lot of my research is within the United States,” Sweeney said.

“I have long-standing projects in the Southwest deserts, in the Mojave Desert and the Sonoran

desert, and I have some research projects going on more locally along the Missouri River.”

Sweeney’s research focuses mainly on dust, and how it can affect the climate and cause traffic accidents. “(Dust is) my expertise,” Sweeney said. “I look at the erosion, transportation and deposition of dust. It mostly takes me to dry, desert areas.”

In the classroom

Zachary Dibbern, a sophomore conservation biology major, said Sweeney’s experience has helped him and other students.

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Tracelyn Gesteland’s spring studio showcase gives USD vocal students an opportunity to practice performing, which Gesteland believes is important.

Gesteland, associate professor of voice and opera, has hosted an annual showcase ever since she began teaching at USD. “I wanted literally to ‘showcase’ the hard work that my students put in throughout the year for the public, and particularly, for their families to see,” Gesteland said in an email. “There are opportunities to hear these singers in the opera and in various choir concerts, but those venues don’t always feature everyone as soloists. At the showcase, everyone gets to be heard as a soloist.”

Every student in Gesteland’s studio performed in the showcase. The students in the showcase ranged from freshman to graduate students.

Abby Beach, a sophomore music education major, said students are chosen for a studio when they audition for a music scholarship.

“Dr. Holdhusen (chair of the music department) saw me at a competition and I came to USD for a visit and I had a lesson with her,” Beach said. “Tracelyn kind of recruited all the students that are in her showcase; she emailed us in high school and invited us for a lesson.”

Beach started singing at a young age. Her piano teacher heard her singing in church and told her to audition for choir.

“My mom always jokes that I could sing before I could talk,” she said.

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Tracelyn Gesteland (middle) poses with vocal students Mikayla Trenhaile (left) and Abby Beach (right) at the Gesteland showcase.

At the beginning of each semester, music students sit down with their teacher and pick three to five songs to work on throughout the semester.

“She will ask us what song we want to sing at the showcase, but at the beginning of the year she kind of tells us what songs she thinks we would sound the strongest singing,” Beach said.

In the showcase on Sunday, Beach sang “Pulled” from the Addams Family. Beach said Gesteland has taught her to come out of her shell when she is performing.

“When I first came to college I just stood and sang a piece, I wouldn’t show what the piece was about or emote,” Beach said. “She really broke me out of my shell.”

Mikayla Trenhaile, a sophomore vocal performance major, said she

hopes to perform for a while after graduating before teaching voice lessons at a university.

“I strongly believe in order to teach voice you have to have a lot of practice performing,” Trenhaile said.

Trenhaile said David Holdhusen, chair of the music department, “discovered” her in high school.

“Holdhusen was judging my contest in high school and he introduced himself to me and suggested I visited USD music’s camp,” she said. “I took private lessons with Gesteland at camp. They were a huge reason I decided to come here.”

Trenhaile said when she chooses a piece of music to sing, the story behind the piece is important to her.

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“Taking what the composer has written and transforming it into something I want to perform for others, story for me is very important,” she said.

In the showcase, Trenhaile performed “Ridente la calma” an Italian piece by Mozart.

Trenhaile said when vocal students are assigned

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those things for yourself really helps you to visually be able to physically see and have that hands-on experience, which has helped us and helped him be able to classify.”

Sweeney said his research and traveling has made his teaching more authentic and inspiring for students.

“I do incorporate my research experiences into my teachings, so that wherever I go, whether it’s for research or for vacation, I take a lot of photographs, and then I incorporate the photographs of those geological features that I see into my lectures,” Sweeney said.

“I think students appreciate that I have this experience to draw upon.”

Sweeney said having hands-on experience creates more passionate teaching than a textbook lecture.

“You can read about things in a book and try to convey to students what those are, but I don’t know that you can as accurately or as passionately talk about those things,” Sweeney said.

“But if you’ve actually experienced them, then you have a different perspective, and that comes a passion in teaching that the students catch on to.”

Collaborative teaching

Sweeney and his wife, Kelly Dilliard, met at Washington State University, where they both received

a piece that is not in English, they must learn translations to better understand their piece.

“We look up poetic translations and we are also required to learn the wordfor-word translations,” she said. “As the learning process goes on, we are still reflecting on what the text actually means.”

Seventeen students performed in the showcase on Sunday.

The students also performed a medley of Broadway favorites selected by Gesteland, followed by a

grand finale piece with light choreography. This year’s finale was “You Will Be Found” from the musical “Dear Evan Hansen.”

Gesteland’s students said they appreciate her constant guidance and how she inspires them.

“In addition to being my mentor, she also encourages me with everything we do I feel like I improve tremendously. She is always there if you have a problem she is someone I look up to and I hope one day I can be as inspiring as her,” Trenhaile said.

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But if you’ve actually experienced them, then you have a different perspective, and I think with that comes a passion in teaching that the students catch on to.

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their Ph.Ds. They were married in 2007.

Dilliard said she also tries to bring their research and travel experiences to students in her classroom at WSC. “You can’t always take them to the place because it’s so far away and remote, but you can bring that experience back by being in the pictures,” Dilliard said.

“Mark is often a scale in a lot of my pictures, so they can kind of get the idea that we were there. It makes it more real than if it was just a static picture you took out of a textbook.”

Dilliard said having personal experiences helps students relate to the material.

“That personal story just helps a lot. I’ve been teaching about earthquakes for about 15 years, but I’ve never experienced one, so I can’t really tell you what it feels like,” Dilliard said. “I spend a lot of time trying to bring up those personal experiences that they’ve had as well because then they can really relate to the content.”

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Sweeney said although he has never been able to plan a trip to experience an event such as an earthquake, he and his wife’s trip to the Yellowstone super volcano was a geological thrill.

“You’re going to a place that you know has been geologically active in the past, and even though there isn’t a threat of impending eruption now, just sitting in the caldera of that super volcano makes you think twice about where you’re at,” Sweeney said.

Sweeney also said he and his wife aren’t scared to take risks.

“You only live once. Our curiosity of these things really drives us to go and see and experience nature and just because you don’t know when an earthquake is going to happen or when a volcano is going to erupt shouldn’t stop a person from traveling and experiencing nature,” Sweeney said. “I don’t want to live my life in fear, if we want to go explore and see things then we will.”

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If I had a turntable, I’d be running to the record store to buy Hinds’ latest album “I Don’t Run.” Hinds, a Spanish lo-fi band, have made their way from demos in 2014 to sunny lo-fi chords in 2016 with the release of “Leave Me Alone,” and now they’ve found a whole new brand of indie rock with their latest release “I Don’t Run,” released April 6.

I started listening to Hinds in 2016 with “Leave Me Alone,” and I found their sunny sound relatable and beautiful, but now the band has turned another corner.

I was hyped for the release of “I Don’t Run” ever since Hinds dropped the single “New For You” in January. The song’s hooks were stuck in my head for weeks, and it’s still one of my favorites on the record, along with “The Club.”

Who can’t relate to the lovely lyrics: “I want to be somebody new for you…

I only want to dream if you’re by my side.”

Hinds stopped my heart when they dropped “The Club,” a song band members referenced in an interview with Consequence of Sound as “more Hinds than Hinds themselves.”

They said they couldn’t believe they hadn’t written a song like this before this album. It is the essence of the band in a song: dual guitars, subliminal bass, Amber Grimbergen’s jubilant drums and romantic, adventurous lyrics from both lead singers Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote.

Just weeks before the album’s release, Hinds finally let fans hear “Finally Floating.”

This electric song showcased advanced instrumentation from the

band before the album’s release and nodded to what fans could expect from the album.

The most exciting change to Hinds’ sound comes from the sixth song, “Tester.” “Tester” sounds like a rough cut of audio at first, but by the time I got to the chorus of the song, I knew this could be the soundtrack of my summer. It’s so energetic, a pop song infused with bits of feminine punk energy.

I love the grittier sounds Hinds get on both their guitars and Ade Martin’s bass at around three minutes into the song. I can tell this is something new for them, and I hope they keep pursuing the darker sounds like these, too. They repeat in the song “should I’ve known you were banging her?” and we know this is a song about a cheater, but Hinds keeps it light and sing from the heart.

Delicious second song “Soberland” showcases Hinds’ candid songwriting. In the COS interview, Hinds said it’s about falling in love with funny characters in life.

Listeners can hear the love and heartbreak in the lyrics, and a reflection of those emotions in each chord.

“Linda” is the light and chill, but still very intimate and emotional song the album needed after the intensely romantic “Soberland.”

One can almost hear the tears in Cosial’s and Perrote’s voices as they sing.

Faint echoes of earlier releases from the band, like “Chili Town” and “Castigadas En El Granero,” can be heard on tracks like “Echoing My Name,” which is a fun love song, and “To The Morning Light,” which exudes Hinds’ feelings of frustrations.

Both great songs,

“I Feel Cold But I Feel More,” is a somber lullaby, and “Ma Nuit” is a cold acoustic track.

“Rookie” starts off with lively, luminous chords, and I could predict Hinds ending a live set with this kind of song for its energetic nature.

Since I’ve been so connected to this band through my young adulthood, it feels like I really know Cosials, Perrote, drummer Amber Grimbergen and Martin. For this reason, I’m so proud of them for achieving this new sound.

Hinds are proud of themselves too. In many videos and posts on their social media pages, they talk about how they’re doing something new.

Martin found a new way to strum on her bass, much like that of a guitar. Grimbergen realizes they’ve taken a big step. Cosials expresses how happy she is with the band, and how hard they’ve had to fight to be respected as artists, and as female artists, in the male-dominated world of indie-rock.

As a fan of indie music, it’s relatable to me to hear their songs and hear myself and my own experiences reflected in their lyrics. It’s also relatable to hear Perrote explain that music isn’t just a phase in a woman’s life.

Again, Hinds are crushing it. I hope they keep staying true to themselves and their craft. Hinds are artists who push themselves in their sound, playing with their instrumentation and more raw, relatable themes in their music.

Hinds have also pushed themselves in the indie music industry and made a name for themselves, and their success is evident. Rock on!

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Molly Sperlich: Why did you choose USD? Jeff Chang: Everyone said USD is affordable and I think that’s like the biggest reason I chose here. Or my parents chose here since I am not financially independent. The first time I came here it was a small town and I was kind of disappointed. But the people are very friendly and the climate is welcoming.

MS: So where you lived in Taiwan, was it a pretty large town?

JC: We will call it a small town, but it is still more populated than here.

MS: What was the biggest adjustment you had coming from Taiwan to here?

JC: Well it’s not the first city I have been to in the United States and they had a lot more bus systems. So being here, I have to walk everywhere.

MS: What are your summer plans?

JC: This summer I will go back to Taiwan. I am still looking for my internship.

TAIWAN MS: What sort of internships are you hoping to get?

JC: Since I am a math major, I will probably get some sort of data analysis, but I am still looking for it. I have applied for a few places but they have all rejected me so far.

MS: What are your plans after graduation?

JC: After I graduate from here, I will probably serve in the military. Then just like I said some sort of job in data analysis. Then I will probably work for two or three years and see if it is necessary to pursue a master’s degree.

MS: Have you always liked math or why did you choose it as your major?

JC: So the thing is, our education system in Taiwan is not very functional or complete. So the traditional subjects we have human and social sciences but I don’t know anything about business. If I knew before I would probably have chosen to do business, but math has always been an intriguing subject.