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Recreational and medical marijuana use may someday be a reality for South Dakotans because of two new ballot initiatives. New Approach South Dakota, an advocacy

group, is trying to get enough signatures to get the measures on the ballot in 2018.

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If it’s passed, the recreational side will be sold in dispensaries, the medicinal side will require a recommendation by your physician.

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egal marijuana use may be a possibility for South Dakotans in the near future if two ballot initiatives aiming at both recreational and medical access are passed.

Melissa Mentele, vice chair of the Hansen County Democrats and a leader for New Approach South Dakota, is working towards compassionate cannabis education, she said.

“We focus on compassionate ballot initiatives and compassionate legislation, so when the legislative session is in effect, we go up to Pierre and we lobby for smart cannabis reform,” she said.

In order for both bills to make it onto the statewide 2018 ballot, they both need to have 13,871 signatures in favor.

Even if one or both of the items makes it onto the ballot, however,

it will not be a sure thing. Governor Dennis Daugaard has said he will veto both of the initiatives.

Attorney General Marty Jackley has said that he favors medicinal marijuana, pending DEA and FDA approval.

Medical and recreational access

As of now, the only access to cannabis in the state is Cannabidiol, or CBD. CBD is a substance that comes from the cannabis plant and, proponents say, can help children with epilepsy and catastrophic seizure disorder.

Daugaard recently signed off on a measure that changes the definition of marijuana not to include CBD in state law.

CBD is different from medical marijuana. Mentele said there are many health benefits for patients that need to access medical marijuana.

“This is an absolute game changer for cancer patients, children with catastrophic seizure disorders, people

with Parkinson’s disease,” she said.

“Cannabis helps all of those better than any pharmaceutical medicine can.”

In other states that have legalized it, medical marijuana requires a recommendation from a physician or healthcare provider, as would be the case here, Mentele said.

“If it’s passed, the recreational side will be sold in dispensaries, the medicinal side will require a recommendation by your physician,” Mentele said. “You will receive a medical card that will, in turn, allow you to go to a dispensary and buy at a lower rate.

Once you have a medical card, it’s a lot cheaper for patients.”

Rep. Ray Ring (D-Clay and Turner Counties), said he supported the CBD measure and would consider supporting full medical access.

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Then Feed Just One member Josie Galles spoke to USD students while tabling in the Muenster University Center about the organization, which is hosting its first packing event Wednesday.

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A new student organization will be shipping food packages to people in need soon.

The group, Then Feed Just One, aims to help families in Central America, South America and Africa.

Then Feed Just One is a non-profit organization based in Le Mars, Iowa, and was brought to USD by first-year students and co-presidents Krayton Schnepf and Josie Galles.

The two have been involved with charity work since they were in elementary school, Galles said.

“We started packing when we were kindergarteners, and we did it throughout all

of elementary, all middle school and all high school,” Galles said. “Then we went to Honduras on a service trip and we saw how much our food packing had impacted those people who literally didn’t eat every day.”

Galles said since that trip they’ve been inspired to help others as much as they can.

This led to Galles and Schnepf to bring Then Feed Just One’s food packing program to USD. “It’ll go all over, especially Africa and then Central America and South America,” Galles said.

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Two USD students are hoping to score $5,000 from the state to help them develop an app.

Sam Hummel, an MBA graduate student, and Tyler Frank, a senior accounting major, are competing in the Governor’s Giant Vision Student Competition. Their app idea is called “The Knack.”

“The Knack is an e-commerce based app focusing on hand-made goods and services,” Hummel said.

The two are competing against nine other projects put forth by college students from all over the state. The other nine projects address several topics, including automatic livestock feeding, energy generators and an open-source robotics platform for education.

The annual competition is held by the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SDCCI).

Mary Anne Boyd, vice president of program services for SDCCI, said the competition was designed to show South Dakota residents and students that it’s a great place to start a business. Contestants’ business ideas will be evaluated by multiple judges.

“For the student competition, (judges) take a close look at completeness of their business plan,” Boyd said. “While not all applicants will become a fully-fledged business, judges look at the feasibility of the company and how realistic it is that it will succeed.”

Funding for the event is provided by private business donations, some of which are matched by the Governor’s Office, Boyd said.

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It’s a way to connect the ideas with the doers and offer something unique...

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Buyers and makers Hummel came up with the idea for The Knack while he was an undergraduate student, he said.

“Multiple people would email me, Facebook me, and say, ‘I found this on Facebook or Pinterest, can you make it for me,” Hummel said. “I had a little side business going and it only grew because of word-of-mouth. I was thinking, ‘There should be an easier way.’

And I decided I’ll create an app that connects buyers of home-made goods and services to those that can actually make or do them.”

The app’s concept is similar to Etsy or Pinterest, but focuses on delivering hand-made and custom products on demand.

“Our app takes what you’ve pinned on Pinterest and send it out to local makers and craftsmen, and they bid on it,” Hummel said.

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City of Vermillion Police Blotter Highlights >> April 9 An officer overheard a woman say a friend had been hit in the face at a bar.

An investigation showed that the “hit” was intended as a friendly gesture, and no one was injured.

April 9 An officer contacted a man who was urinating in public. The man was also intoxicated and underage.

He was cited for underage possession and consumption of alcohol.

April 9 Officers saw a man walking on Prospect Street with an open bottle of alcohol. The man was cited for open container.

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April 9 Officers responded to a report of smoke in a local motel and found the source of the smoke to be an electric outlet.

The fire department responded.

April 9 A caller reported that her former boyfriend left a pistol at her house for more than a month, and a relative, uncomfortable with the gun being there, threw it in a river.

The incident is under investigation.

April 12 While visiting a house for another reason, officers noticed animals under poor living conditions.

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The owner voluntarily gave the animals away to new owners and charges are pending for animal neglect.

April 13 An officer stopped a vehicle for having no brake lights and found that the driver did not have insurance. Three passengers in the vehicle were underage and had been consuming alcohol.

Citations were issued.

April 13 An officer stopped a vehicle for an illegal U-turn. The driver was intoxicated and was arrested for DWI. April 14 Officers saw a man urinating on a sidewalk downtown. The man was cited.

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adult was found to care for him.

He was cited for underage consumption of alcohol.

April 14 A caller reported loud pounding coming from another apartment, which they believed was a couple fighting. Officers contacted the arguing couple.

Both denied any threats or assaults, and the officers saw no indication of criminal behavior.

April 14 An officer contacted a vehicle in Cotton Park after dark. The driver had been smoking marijuana, was intoxicated and in physical control of the vehicle. The driver had been arrested for DWI twice before.

The driver was arrested on multiple charges, including felony DWI.

April 14 A caller reported her neighbor was stumbling around and acting unusual.

Officers responded, and the young man fled into another neighbor’s garage.

Upon finding the young man, officers found he was under 18 and highly intoxicated. He was taken into custody while a responsible

April 15 A caller reported two men arguing loudly outside an apartment building. Officers contacted the two men, one of whom had an open container of alcohol.

The man also had an active warrant from Douglas County and was arrested.

April 15 A caller reported that she had been assaulted by her boyfriend. Officers contacted the parties, and the boyfriend admitted to the assault. He was also in possession of marijuana.

The boyfriend was arrested for domestic assault and possession of marijuana.

April 15 A caller reported that his vehicle had been damaged while at a friend’s apartment. An investigation found the perpetrator, who was charged with hit and run.

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The Vermillion Public School District is teaming up with USD to better focus on elementary students’ strengths.

In 2016, the district was awarded a Bush Foundation grant to establish a professional development partnership between Jolley Elementary and the USD School of Education.

The grant was given through the Bush Foundation’s Teacher Effectiveness Initiative. According to the Bush Foundation website, the initiative’s goal is to prepare and place 25,000 new effective teachers within its service area, which includes Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Jolley Elementary was given $100,000 for the 24-month program to make the school into a “professional development school.”

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teaches Jolley Elementary School students in the newly opened STREAM lab. ment, preparation of new teachers and teacher professional development,” according to a Jolley brochure.

Sue Galvin, Jolley’s principal, said she applied for the grant because the school wanted to improve student achievement.

“We’re pretty good stewards of what kids need,” she said. “Our teachers… would come in and say what they thought were their next professional steps in helping support student learning.”

After teachers discussed ways to support student learning, the grant was applied for.

Robin Wiebers, assistant dean for the USD School of Education, said Jolley is using a strength-based model to achieve its goal of becoming a professional development school.

“We’re developing and contextualizing what (the strength-based model) means,” Wiebers said.

“Using your strengths for instruction, identifying strengths in students’

building capacity, rather than looking at deficits of students and teachers and student teachers. We’re looking at strengths and how to use those strengths in how to develop into an effective teacher, in order to have success as a student and reach different goals.”

The program focuses on the strengths of students, teachers and parents to build better connections among the three groups.

Wiebers said Jolley follows the standards for professional development schools developed by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation.

The partnership allows USD student teachers to work at Jolley for an entire school year, letting them to see how strengthbased teachings are implemented in classrooms, Wiebers said.

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Wiebers said the partnership is great, because it allows both schools figure out what’s best for students.

“We’re looking at the needs of the school district together,” she said.

“We’re using all of our resources that we have combined between us, in order to improve and impact K-12 learning in Vermillion.”

Without the grant, Wiebers said the relationship between the two schools wouldn’t be as strong as it is now.

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bill looked like, but I’d certainly be willing to consider that,” Ring said. “Passing the medical won’t have that much of an effect except some benefits for a fairly new group of people.”

Ring said he can’t support recreational marijuana at this point.

“Passing it at the recreational level would obviously result in more use, assuming the federal government doesn’t come down hard on that,” Ring said. “It’s going to cause more problems for the state in terms of law enforcement, driving under the influence, probably more abuse of drugs.”

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“If the maker backs out, you keep your money,” he said. “If you back out, the maker gets a portion of what you were originally going to pay them. That way, everyone can have a good experience on the app.”

The app isn’t developed yet, but Hummel said it’s expected to launch on Apple iOS and Android this fall.

This isn’t the first time the duo has gone to this competition. Last year, they entered with Frank’s idea for an improved water filtration system.

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ning, Galles said.

Galles said there will be tables set up for participants to put rice, whole grain, vegetables and chicken powder into a bag that will feed up to

fessor, said medical marijuana has a better chance of passing due to certain poll demographics.

“Older populations are more likely to support the medical marijuana,” Hellwege said. “If we’re going to see any support for either of these bills, it’s going to be more than likely the medicinal marijuana rather than the recreational.”

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Hellwege said the issue could move to President Trump’s administration, as the rules of the federal government take precedence over state decisions.

“It could go up to the Supreme Court because it is a matter of a state’s right to legislate on issue areas which are not expressed in the Constitution, and marijuana is certainly one of

those areas,” Hellwege said.

“There’s a question here of whether states are allowed to make their own laws sometimes or whether the federal government.”

Hellwege said the Commerce Clause, which gives Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, could come into effect.

“This is the main clause in the Constitution which has been used to defer power to the federal government on issues similar to marijuana,” Hellwege said.

Hellwege said the few states that have reached full recreational legalization are an “experiment” for the rest of the nation.

“The way that state legislatures see themselves is that they are sort of labs, experimental labs for the rest of the nation,” Hellwege said.

year, Frank said.

“The idea for this year is to really just hit on those criteria to win the big money,” he said. “They’ll highlight your strengths and your weaknesses. Sam and I don’t like any B.S., we’re pretty straightforward.”

Frank said he feels good about the app’s future.

“It’s a way to connect the ideas with the doers and offer something unique and interesting,” he said. “I think it’ll be able to do well when it hits the market.”

Hummel and Frank became business partners after an entrepreneurship meeting at the Beacom School of Business.

“I walked in late and all these people were staring at me and Sam was the only one I knew,” Frank said. “I knew Sam from a class we

took and he would sit in front of me, to the left and he would be Googling all these interesting things... And I would talk with him during class about whatever he was searching.”

Hummel said they work well together.

“We grew a friendship and (Frank) is one of my better friends,” he said.

Frank said the key to success is just going for it.

“If you’re nervous about anything or you have an idea, don’t set any expectations, just do it,” he said.

“The things I learned not just about businesses and start-ups, but about myself are invaluable to me today.

I’m a 100 percent different person because the people I’ve met, the things I’ve experienced. It changed my perspective completely.”

six people.

For the first event, food will be provided by Richard Seivert, a retired teacher from Galles and Schnepf’s former high school, who gets the food through Kids Against Hunger, a partner of Then Feed Just One. Kailyn Mutsch, a firstyear medical biology ma-

jor, said it can be hard to get people to volunteer this time of year because of approaching finals. The group did, however, manage to get students to sign up for Wednesday’s event.

“We wanted it before the end of the semester so that when we start the fall semester we can kick it off with the

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The Volante asked students how they felt about the legalization of recreational marijuana in South Dakota.

There’s such a big population of people in South Dakota that are using it illegally, if they had the education to use it properly, that it might not be as big of an issue.

Lizzy Pirrung, junior

No. I guess there comes a conflict with a lot of work or business related places that have policies in place that would be affected by this use.

Christian Skunk, sophomore

I just feel like people are doing it anyways, we might as well (legalize it).

Emily Wald, sophomore

Honestly, we’ve seen what it can do positively as a medical thing. I don’t know where it got a bad stigma from, but marijuana is a very good stress reliever. It’s also a good way to meet new people.

Dylan Bosch, first-year people that helped out and have those members available,” Galles said.

The time slots for the food packing event are 15 minutes long.

“Seriously, one small action can make such a large effect so those 15 minutes can help so many people,” Mutsch said.

Galles said they want to put together a total of 2,000 to 5,000 food packages during the first event. By next semester, the group is planning to ship a total of 20,000 to 30,000 food packages.

If more people understood the seriousness of poverty and hunger in other countries, Galles said more

would volunteer.

“When we went to Honduras there was a little boy that we were offering food to and he literally said, ‘I can’t because it’s not my day to eat,’” Galles said. “I think that is pretty powerful. So if people keep that in mind, they’d be really interested in this organization.”

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Winter commencement cancellation a huge blow

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MEGAN STREET is a junior majoring in anthropology.

Yesterday, USD released a statement via email announcing they would no longer hold a winter commencement ceremony, which means students set to graduate in December now must wait to walk at graduation until May. While this change may decrease costs, it is little more than a nuisance for students – and in some cases, may crush the dreams some alumni have for themselves.

Yesterday, a good friend of mine told me that she now has to decide between her spring wedding and walking at her own commencement. As a firstgeneration college student, her graduation is one of the most important events her family has celebrated for decades.

If her father can’t switch his vacation time to May, instead of December as he had planned, he won’t be able to watch his own daughter’s graduation. But if he chooses the graduation, he can’t attend her wedding. Which is a parent supposed to pick?

Many relatives plan months, even years, in advance to travel for graduation ceremonies, because many students’ loved

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Marijuana should be decriminalized South Dakota activist groups are organizing efforts to legalize medical and recreational use of marijuana.

This effort doesn’t come without opposition.

Governor Dennis Daugaard has said multiple times he won’t back any initiatives legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana.

While legalization is an ideal goal, a more realistic one is decriminalization.

South Dakota has some of the harshest punishments for possession of the substance in the country, resulting in high law enforcement costs.

With such strict laws in existence, activists need to walk before they can run.

Decriminalization is a more practical starting point.

South Dakota has been dubbed

the third “worst state for stoners”

by Complex magazine. It’s a class one misdemeanor to possess two ounces or less, which means people convicted have the possible punishment of one year in jail and a $2,000 fine.

South Dakota is also the only state with an “internal possession” law. This means ingesting any substance except alcohol for the purpose of becoming intoxicated is a class one misdemeanor. Even if the substance was ingested in a state where it’s legal, it’s still a crime in South Dakota.

The Argus Leader recently reported that law enforcement has been forcing catheterization as a means to collect urine samples for drug tests.

Not only is this inappropriate, but if law enforcement is going to such lengths to get someone in

trouble for something so harmless, there’s a problem.

If the drug isn’t as harmful as other substances, why is the state wasting money on criminal justice costs? There are so many more serious offenses than possession of marijuana.

In 2015, the Argus Leader reported that South Dakota would save about $7.3 million over 10 years of a decriminalization measure, and would mean almost 3,200 fewer convictions for possession and ingestion of marijuana.

Decriminalizing isn’t going to make anyone who’s not already using suddenly start. So why not give citizens that use the drug for recreational use a break — they aren’t harming anyone.

ones aren’t from South Dakota – or even from the United States.

And for even more still, their families may have financial restrictions and cultural barriers that they may have carefully budgeted and prepared for.

Students that graduate in winter must now wait half a year to officially celebrate. Many alumni leave the Vermillion area, causing them to now take time out of their hard-earned careers, time building a family and other obligations to travel back to USD to celebrate for one day.

USD should’ve given at least one year’s warning for students to prepare. Graduation isn’t a moment celebrated on a whim and can be stressful to plan.

For many families, especially those from lower socioeconomic classes who may not often be able to afford higher education, these events are a once-in-alifetime opportunity.

By holding a winter commencement, students are afforded the choice to decide what works best for them, rather than be pigeon-holed into a time slot that may be difficult or even impossible to reach. USD should strive to me more thoughtful and inclusive of varying schedules, or else students and families pay the price.

Street is involved in Spectrum: Gender and Sexuality Alliance, Care for Critters and APES.

Diversity on campus leads to new education, perspective JORDAN SMITH is a sophomore majoring in political science.

I am a straight, white, Lutheran man who grew up in a small South Dakota town where the population of 800 was almost entirely white Protestants.

In Whitewood, diversity meant having French ancestry instead of only German and Norwegian. This reflects a fundamental issue in my life’s education leading to my time in college: I had no familiarity with people of backgrounds that weren’t the white working class of South Dakota.

There are a lot of things that are hard to comprehend when all evidence is removed by hundreds of miles without a connection.

Plato wrote that Socrates was the wisest of all men, and that was

because he knew what he didn’t know.

My little Black Hills bubble made it very difficult to appreciate the breadth of information and experiences I didn’t know.

In elementary school, I was taught that racism died in the ’60s.

Shortly after Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream and the right to vote was more widely expanded, every race pretty much got along.

I saw no reason to think that anything else might be a reality.

With the election of Barack Obama when I was in the sixth grade, it really did seem like there was a solid case that the doors of opportunity were open to all Americans. This wasn’t really evidence, I just couldn’t see what proved the contrary.

I didn’t see anyone acting against minority communities, but it’s really hard to discriminate against someone who isn’t present.

Optimistically, I never saw

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The time since my high school graduation has shown me just how far the world hasn’t come.

someone discriminated against because Whitewood, SD is a place free of prejudice. Realistically, I never saw it because there were no minority groups to hate in our homogeneity.

Perhaps it’s because of the politically polarized time we live in, but the time since my high school graduation has shown me just how far the world hasn’t come.

Being around people of different backgrounds has allowed me to understand what’s meant by concepts not readily apparent in

my hometown, i.e. institutional racism.

Hearing the firsthand experiences of people who’ve been through these things and knowing people who are or will be affected makes the problems of the world so much more real and believable.

There was a time that I was very, very angry at the idea of Affirmative Action. I didn’t see how a more diverse campus could benefit anyone’s education, but I did see money and admission slots not going to me (for whatever

reason). Ignorant, I know, but I didn’t have any way to know I was being ignorant.

Here, my roommate is a Muslim from Sri Lanka, an island nation my mother – who’s spent the whole of her life in Whitewood – wasn’t aware existed.

Perhaps this campus isn’t as diverse as I think it is. Perhaps I really haven’t learned as much as I believe. Perhaps I’m just imagining myself to be more worldly than I really am. But now I know that I have a lot to learn, and, as Alfred North Whitehead said, “Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

If the purpose of education is to promote knowledge, I’ve grown to appreciate the strength of diversity to promote knowledge.

Smith is a member of College Democrats and the Political Science League.

OVERHEARDS

In The Know & In The Dark

“No, something with peyote.”

IN THE KNOW: It’s Pride Week at USD. IN THE DARK: Pride Week only happens once

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

— Muenster University Center

“Just convert it from a PDF to a Word document.”

“I tried and it looked like god damn Egyptian.”

— North Complex

a year.

IN THE KNOW: Track and field coach Derek Miles received his Olympic bronze medal this week.

IN THE DARK: He didn’t get it in the first place.

IN THE KNOW: The spring football game is this Friday.

“Oh great, it’s fart gum.”

— Dakota Street

“Can you see my boobs?”

“No.” “You’re not trying hard enough.”

— Muenster University Center

“I’ve been to some pretty dark places, like the uterus.”

— North Complex

IN THE DARK: The regular season doesn’t start for another five months.

IN THE KNOW: Chris Berman is coming to USD on Monday.

IN THE DARK: Not everyone can get into all the events.

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Fun and advocacy is the theme for this year’s Pride Week. Swag bags, Yote Floats, presenters, Gayme night and GLSEN’s Day of Silence will all be events during the week in the Muenster University Center.

Spectrum: Gender and Sexuality Alliance provides outreach to members of the LGBTQ+ community and allies at USD. The group has been planning Pride Week since January.

The events

Nate Keane, sophomore Spectrum president, said Pride Week showcases what the student organization is about.

“Pride Week (is about) letting students know that we’re an organization on campus and we’re open to everyone, whether you’re in the LGBT community or you’re an ally, or you would like to educate yourself more on other LGBT-related issues and events that are happen-

ing,” Keane said.

Olivia Mann, a junior criminal justice and sociology double major, said talking about LGBTQ+ issues is important.

Some of those issues will be discussed Friday at a panel of Spectrum members at 7 p.m., Mann said.

“We will have seven students on the panel and we will all be covering different topics. Personally, I will be talking about multi-sexuality, which is the sexual orientation where someone is attracted to more than one gender,” Mann, a member of Spectrum and an SGA senator, said.

“I will be talking about what those sexualities are, what some of the unique challenges people in those sexualities face are and kind of what role they traditionally played in the LGBT community.”

That community feeling is what Spectrum hoped to showcase during the first event on Monday, which consisted of tabling in the MUC. Keane said the first 60 people that came to their table received a swag bag, which included a pride

flag and Spectrum’s agenda for next year.

Information on LGBTQ+ issues was provided during Tuesday’s Yote Floats. On Wednesday, Pride Speaks will be held in the Center for Diversity and Community at 7 p.m. Three prominent speakers in the LGBTQ+ community will share their personal stories with attendees. Keane said one speaker is Joe McCully, a USD alumnus who will have a presentation on HIV, STD and PREP protection.

“Thursday we have Gayme night in the CDC, (which is) a social event where people can play games and get to know each other,” Keane said.

Lastly, Friday will be Day of Silence, where Spectrum members won’t converse with anyone out of respect for lives lost in the LGBTQ+ community. This Day of Silence pays tribute to tragedies such as the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting that happened last year.

“We don’t talk to one another out of respect for any tragedy that

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Pride Week showcases perseverance, diversity and strength.

Olivia Mann, junior and Spectrum member

has happened within the LGBT community,” Keane said.

Keane said there will also be a panel where students tell personal stories and answer questions in the CDC on Friday at 7 p.m.

Important discussions

Mann said USD students can learn a lot from Pride Week’s events.

“A lot of people talk about diversity and inclusive excellence, but what people don’t realize is that being competent in inclusive excellence in diversity issues makes you a better person because then you can learn, ‘Hey, I shouldn’t use this slur to refer to this group of peo-

ple,’” Mann said.

Mann said the LGBTQ+ community has a history of perseverance.

“Stonewall is about perseverance because that was the night the LGBT community said, ‘No, you’re not going to sweep us under the rug.’ It was also a night that showed how people could come together,” Mann said. “Pride Week showcases perseverance, diversity and strength.”

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Members of the Black Law Student Association nominated new

executive team members during their final meeting April 12.

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With their final meeting of the year and election of a new executive team complete, the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) is hoping to spread awareness and diversity throughout the law school and USD. BLSA started about three years ago when former president, Alafia Wright, registered the group as a recognized student organization.

“BLSA existed in a purely intramural-type sense within the law school up until about three years ago,” said Billy Coby, former president and third-year law student. “At the time, there was just a few of us, and the programming that we did just focused on getting awareness out about the group and the causes that we wanted to highlight. After the first year, I took over as president and we expanded our reach in terms of the things that the people we wanted to impact, the issues we wanted to highlight and our programming efforts.”

Isaac Bouwman, a first-year law student and the current BLSA president, said the group targets issues pertaining to minorities.

“The whole purpose is to create a place where you can have discussion on lots of issues that are affecting minorities and African Americans,” he said. “And not just negative things — there’s

obviously a lot of great things out there going on, too. We like to keep that out there, too.”

There are about 15 to 30 active members of the group, but Bouwman said there are many participants on BLSA’s Facebook group.

BLSA meets about once a month in the law school and stay connected through group messaging.

“The numbers kind of always fluctuate since we have a lot of events and we don’t really have a numbers count,” he said. “We have seven people on (executive) board (and about) 50 to 60 people on Facebook posting stuff.”

Coby said the group discusses a variety of topics at their meetings.

“When we’re talking about African Americans in the law, we’re talking about things like the relationship between law enforcement and people of color, mainly African Americans,” Coby said. “Some other things that we touched on in programming is voting rights in this country, income equality, social stratification, women’s rights and LGBT rights. Thanks to the intersectionality of all these movements, we’re able to touch on a whole array of different things.”

Tiffany Graham, adviser of BLSA and associate dean of academic affairs, said the club’s mission is important.

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A group of professors and community members are coming together to educate on an overlooked topic — human trafficking.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so professors from the criminal justice and political science departments decided to cover a topic that isn’t normally talked about on campus.

They came up with a three-week event series, which covers a different topic each week.

Bridget Diamond-Welch, a political science professor, said sex trafficking is a more relevant topic than one might think.

“It’s important to know about these issues just because you’re a citizen of this country,” she said. “You’re a citizen of this world and this is an issue that affects millions of people each year and that number is only going to go up. There is going to be more human trafficking as climates shift and populations shift. We’ve had more movement today of the human population than we’ve ever had before, and when you have displacement of people human trafficking is something that becomes likely.”

Three events were planned to discuss the topic. During the first, which was held April 12, participants watched the documentary “Tricked” and listened to a lecture by professor Anna Kosloski from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.

Before taking questions from students, Kosloski discussed five common myths about sex trafficking: • It only happens in other countries • It must involve movement (across borders) • Human trafficking is only sex trafficking • Leaving trafficking is easy • Human trafficking is too big an issue to counter

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It’s important to know about these issues just because you’re a citizen of this country.

Bridget Diamond-Welch, political science professor

Kosloski debunked these myths and talked about how students can educate others on human and sex trafficking and how to notice signs of someone possibly being trafficked.

The remaining events will each have a different focus. The April 19 event, in Farber Hall at 6 p.m., will look at human trafficking closer to home. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Koliner and James Legg of the Fusion Center will be discussing sex trafficking in South Dakota.

At the final event, a representative from the Yazidi organization will talk about forced marriage and sexual slavery under the Islamic State after a screening of the documentary “Escaping ISIS” on April 26 at 6 p.m. in Farber Hall.

Diamond-Welch said this might be the most heartwrenching of the events.

“They are a religious minority group that are being targeted

by ISIS for genocide, so as part of that, ISIS has actually legalized the enslavement of Yazidi people,” she said.

Kaylie Timm, a senior criminal justice major, attended the first event and said events like this impact everyone, not just criminal justice majors.

“I feel like there needs to be more of a presence of other people that maybe aren’t in the criminal justice classes,” she said. “These topics are really important because it has to do with our society and there is going to be laws made that

would connect these topics and people need to know what’s going on in order to vote on the next law.”

Diamond-Welch said it’s a good thing for everyone to participate because of the many misconceptions surrounding sex trafficking.

“A lot of times people have this false misconception,” she said. “They think if they are going to a strip club or they are getting a lap dance or they are watching pornography... it’s someone who has made a decision to participate when often times that participation is coerced, so I think it’s good to be aware of that.”

About 50 people attended the last event, and Diamond-Welch said she hopes numbers will grow as more people hear about the events.

Diamond-Welch said an important takeaway is that someone can come into contact with a victim of trafficking anywhere.

“So just from a humanitarian perspective,” she said, “it’s a really good idea to educate yourself about these things because they can be affecting your neighbors, someone you meet at the park or someone you meet on a plane.”

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Morgan’s Mix: Q&A with NE-HI’s Jason Balla Morgan Matzen

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NE-HI is a band from Chicago comprised of Jason Balla (guitar), Mikey Wells (guitar), James Weir (bass) and Alex Otake (drums).

The band stopped at Total Drag Records on Easter night on their tour promoting their full-length album “Offers.” It was their second time at Total Drag; their first was during a tour with fellow Chicago rockers Twin Peaks over the summer.

“Offers” is an album of epic proportions, with droning guitars and themes of staying young and finding a voice in the music world.

Total Drag co-owners Dan and Liz Nissen also finished renovating their shop just in time for the show, in order to house a stage and a more permanent area for record shopping.

Here’s what guitarist Jason Balla, who Pitchfork described as a “rubber band in flight,” had to say about touring, the new album and the band’s history.

Q: I loved “Offers,” it was a good record. What is it about, overall?

A: I think in really broad terms, it’s just about growing up, rediscovering yourself and where you’re going and how you’re using your time. In a funny way, it’s this offering of, not in a sacrificial way, but it’s like this is our musical offering to the gods,

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justice major Malikai Kayser to join Spectrum, he said.

“Spectrum is a place where I can come and talk to my friends and get to know people better and find a community that fits really well with me,” Kayser said. “Freshman year I didn’t make any friends, so I have

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“I do believe in diversity at the university — in particular in the school of law and in the practice of law,” Graham said. “I like the fact that (the members) talk about issues that are cutting-edge, happening in the news.”

Bouwman said the group tries to recruit through the different events they host, such as trivia nights and during the various Black History Month activities.

“We do a bunch of stuff — post things around the school,” he said. “Most of what we do is having activities posted up, a Facebook page. Black History Month — we’ll have things up all the time in the hallways and posters.”

Recruiting efforts are also targeted towards undergraduate students interested

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NE-HI, a Chicago-based band, played at the newly-renovated Total Drag Records in Sioux Falls Easter night. to the music-listening gods.

It was our first record where we got signed (to Grand Jury Records), and we were trying to figure out what was what, and maybe getting ourselves stressed out a little bit.

Q: What is “Buried on the Moon” about? I feel like it might have something to do with finding a record label, finding a voice.

A: Mikey wrote the lyrics for that, so I can’t really speak too specifically, but I think it’s dealing with the stresses of having all this extra attention and figuring out what you want to say and how you

want to say it and what’s the point of doing it all, which is just to do it and relate and communicate with the world rather than so much worry about all that stuff.

Q: What are the thoughts on Sioux Falls and coming back a second time?

A: I love it. It’s actually been my most lookedforward-to show on tour, because we played here with Twin Peaks in the summer and I met Dan and Liz, and we’re kind of just so taken by them and the shop. I had been mailing records to Dan a lot because he kept selling

been able to make friends through Spectrum.”

Kayser said he hopes Pride Week will provide inclusiveness across campus.

“Pride Week to me is just to get awareness of everybody’s sexualities or genders, that we aren’t this weird in-the-closet kind of thing,” Kayser said. “We are someone that’s a person and wants to be someone more.”

Keane said it’s important

for students to be involved in LGBTQ+ conversations.

“If you haven’t been to any prideful event it’s a good thing to experience,” Keane said. “USD really pushes its diversity, so they try and aim different diverse areas of the world, and while the LGBT community is relevant in every community, it’s also good to know your different communities within your own community.”

in law.

“I feel like the program could be one to where we could help start and feed a pipeline of students who are interested in maybe going to law school and learning more about the law, and people of color to go into our group and use that as a window to what they like to do within the law,” Coby said.

Coby said the group coincides well with USD’s mission statement of diversity and inclusiveness.

“Plainly stated, the mission of our group is to enhance the recruitment, retention and graduation of African American students in USD law school,” Coby said. “I think that lines up pretty squarely with what the diversity mission is.”

Bouwman said he hopes the group continues to grow.

“I hope (BLSA) spreads awareness about diversity, inclusion,” he said. “It’s a

fun group to be a part of — you learn a lot, good connections. I’m excited for next year.”

Graham said she hopes the members gain knowledge through the club.

“I hope that what they take away is a sense that there is a concrete place and a real voice for African Americans in South Dakota generally and in South Dakota’s legal community in particular,” she said.

Though no longer president, Coby said he has high hopes for the club’s future.

“There’s a misconception that BLSA is only a group for African Americans. What we want people to know is that we want to engage everyone,” he said. “Whether it’s social events that we do or more intellectually-engaging events, we want everyone to know that this is a group that you can be part of and find out more about.”

PEOPLE OF THE PACK Jacey Siegfried Year: First-year Major: Kinesiology and sport management

Cheyenne Alexis: Why did you choose your major?

Jacey Siegfried: I like helping people. I’ve had experience with physical therapy and athletic trainers. I like that career, that’s why I chose it.

CA: What are you most passionate about?

JS: I think helping kids being able to continue on with sports and just do stuff that they love — just being able to do that.

CA: What sports do you like?

JS: I like a bunch —

“I like helping people. I’ve had experience with physical therapy.” softball, soccer, football, basketball, volleyball. A lot of them.

CA: Do you play any sports?

JS: I used to play volleyball and basketball and track and field. Now, I just do softball in the summer.

CA: What do you like about USD? JS: I like how it’s open to everybody. There’s a group

for everybody. It’s very spread out and unique and everybody kind of has their place.

CA: What is something interesting about you?

JS: I’m an only child — first one to go to college in my family.

CA: Where are you from?

JS: Watertown, SD.

them, I would send him like five (records) and he would hit me up a week later and I would mail him more, so we’ve been (having) those kinds of conversations. (The renovation) is pretty sick.

Q: How did you guys all form together? I keep reading that you scored a film together. Did that pan out?

A: The three of us met in college. Mikey dropped out and we all stayed connected.

I met Alex separately, and then he and I started playing music. The film thing came together, and that was the reason we were all

in the same room, behind an instrument. We tried to write some songs for it. One of them is the first song we ever wrote — “Since I’ve Been Thinking.” The movie was never made, it just kind of was like a good homework assignment. It snowballed (into NE-HI).

Q: Do you like to talk about genres and influences at all? I know some bands don’t because that’s not really why they make art.

A: People say we’re a garage rock band a lot, and I think that’s not right. That’s my biggest pet peeve. It’s too

easy of a description. We did come out of the garage rock scene in Chicago, so I get it.

Q: Have you ever played in a garage? People always say “Chicago garage rock.”

Maybe like basement rock?

A: We’ve played in a lot of basements. I guess we played in an auto body garage once.

It was on our first tour in Cincinnati and half of the ceiling was collapsed in, so it was half inside, half outside.

You could see the starry sky while you’re playing inside.

It was pretty sick.

Q: What’s been the best show experience and the worst you’ve had?

A: I don’t think we’ve really had a bad show in a long time. The best show... last night was really cool in Minneapolis. Usually, the thing that makes it for me is just having a crowd with a good personality. If people are just in a good mood and nice and friendly, it’s usually the best show.

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Junior and volunteer firefighter Abbey Cerny demonstrates how to properly put on a firefighting uniform.

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Fighting fires is just one more commitment for the 20 full-time students that volunteer for the Vermillion Fire Department.

Vermillion EMS deputy chief Matt Callahan said the volunteers bring a new atmosphere to the department.

“They’re a younger generation of people, so I think it helps with that, helps with the diversity of the department,” he said.

“It also helps us understand the college life by having them on the department.”

Junior Abbey Cerny, who’s also trained in emergency medical services, joined the department a year ago. She said she joined to challenge the negative misconceptions people have towards college students.

“College students kind of have this stereotype that they’re a nuisance to the community,” she said. “So, I figured, I’m here for four years — instead of being seen from the community as a nuisance, I want to put back into the community.”

Dani Portz, a senior volunteer in EMS and firefighting, joined the department in February of last year after previously being in EMS. “I saw through that what a lot of the fire guys got to do and I hated showing up on an ambulance call and having to watch them do stuff and you feel helpless,” she said. “I decided to get trained on both sides of the department.”

Time commitments

Portz said the first part of firefighter training begins with a probation period.

“You are given a book to kind of guide your training and your orientation,” she said. “You have to get signed off on all that minimum criteria and then you get voted on.”

The department has

training nights every Wednesday, where they learn new skills and also stay up-to-date on older skills.

“It kind of just gives you a little tidbit of everything in the department so you can get oriented,” Cerny said. “There’s weekly trainings that we do where we’ll take a tool and go more indepth with it or set up scenarios and work on different things. The six months of training plus the weekly stuff really gives you a wellrounded idea of what goes on there.”

The training period takes a lot of work, Cerny said.

“Training isn’t easy,” she said. “It’s definitely exercise. It’s a lot of physical work and so one of the challenges is we do a lot of training, partially so that we get that physical exercise. It does take up some time.”

Portz said it can be difficult to juggle her responsibilities.

“Someone’s always going to be unhappy,” she said. “My professors are not very understanding that when the pager goes off, it’s my duty to help that person who’s having an emergency, so there’s times when I take point deductions.”

There’s a balancing act Cerny said she goes through as well.

“I’ve definitely blocked out Wednesdays as firefighting days because those are the days we have training,” she said. “It’s really trying to go to as many calls as I can. Blocking out time for training and trying my best to get to calls. When you go out on a call, you don’t know if you’ll be there for a half hour or six hours.”

Portz said being a volunteer is a “sacrifice.”

“It has the potential to create conflict in your family,” she said. “It’s important that your family and friends understand that.

Because I am EMS, I’m on

call every Friday night. I don’t go downtown every Friday night like everyone else — I’m the person who, when those people get really intoxicated, I’m there to help them out. It makes you be a little more mature and grow up quicker.”

An important duty Cerny said the work she does in her volunteer role makes her feel valuable to the community.

“We show up at the worst times for anybody, whether it’s a car accident or a house fire, we are there during people’s worst times,” she said. “I think it’s important to support each other in the community. That’s something the fire department does and I enjoy being a part of that.”

Portz said it’s important to establish her presence in the community as a volunteer.

“When I first came here in college, I feel a lot of students can relate, really, your community is just the university — it doesn’t expand to the city,” she said. “Now that I’ve gotten to know a lot of the firefighters, I consider Vermillion my actual home.”

Cerny said she plans on staying with the department until she graduates.

“I’ve definitely learned something that doesn’t necessarily pertain to what I’m going into in life, so I kind of like being well-rounded,” she said.

Portz said being a volunteer is “very humbling and rewarding.”

“I plan to continue EMS. Fire and EMS go hand-inhand, so I definitely see a future with both sides of those,” she said. “I think a huge part of my life definitely would be missing if I were to stop.”

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USD football to play Oklahoma Chance Mullinix

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The USD football team will be playing national powerhouse Oklahoma University in 2019.

The game, scheduled to take place Sept. 7, will be USD’s second game of the season.

USD will be paid $575,000 to play OU in Norman, OK. These so-called “cupcake games” allow smaller schools, such as those in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), to play bigger schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The games are called cupcake games because bigger schools almost always defeat the smaller schools, and by a large margin, according to the Bleacher Report.

Cupcake games have many pros for the smaller schools, said David Herbster, USD’s athletic director.

“Part of it is monetary,” he said. “If you look at it in this case, $575,000 does help our budget.

That’s part of it. I wouldn’t do it solely for the dollars.”

These games also help put the program and school on a bigger stage by playing teams with bigger TV deals and more fans, Herbster said.

“When you play the schools

from the FBS program, especially in the Midwest, we get a wider audience in, too,” he said.

Herbster said there’s also a recruiting element to these games.

“When you’re recruiting players to come in here and you tell them that we’re going to be playing Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State and Oklahoma, they want to know what type of competition they’re going to be playing,” Herbster said.

Bob Nielson, head coach of USD’s football team, said recruits respond positively when USD plays bigger schools.

“We want to recruit guys that want to play at the highest level, and with the schedule over the next five years and who we’re playing, not only are we playing a very good Missouri Valley Football Conference, we have a very strong flavor of FBS programs,” he said.

USD isn’t always the smaller school in cupcake games. In 2014, USD paid William Penn University to come to Vermillion, Herbster said.

“The last time we paid a team to come here, it was William Penn University,” Herbster said.

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Track and field coach Derek Miles was awarded the Olympic bronze medal Monday at the DakotaDome Club.

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Derek Miles, a USD alumnus and current track and field coach, received a bronze medal Monday for his pole vaulting performance during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Miles placed fourth in the event nine years ago, but after the International Olympic Committee stripped a handful of athletes of their medals for banned substances found during retests of samples from the games, Miles was awarded third place.

The medal presentation occurred in the DakotaDome Club this week. Speakers at the event included John Thune, South Dakota U.S. Senator, Scott Blackmun, U.S. Olympic Committee CEO: and Duffy Mahoney, U.S. Track and Field Chief of Sport Performance.

Blackmun said Miles had great success as a pole vaulting athlete and deserved the bronze medal.

“It is an honor to be here to pay tribute to one of South Dakota’s world-class athletes, he said during the ceremony.

“Derek embodies everything the Olympic movement stands for. He traveled the world representing the university, the state of South Dakota and our country as a proud member of Team USA. He was and continues to be an ambassador for the values and ideals of the Olympic movement.”

Blackmun mentioned several of Miles’ accomplishments, including being a five-time AllAmerican, competing in three Olympic games and competing in six world championships.

Thune also spoke of Miles’ contribution to USD and his success as an individual athlete.

“I have watched Derek as an athlete and as a coach of these young men and women here at the University of South Dakota,” Thune said. “The remarkable success that they’ve had is a clear testimony to how you have been able to impart not only the skills and talents necessary to succeed in the sport, but also the values that are so important in life. Everybody here knows Derek Miles by the title ‘coach.’ Now you’re going to know him by the title

‘Olympic bronze medalist.’”

Miles has been a coach at USD for the past 14 years, and said his time as both an athlete and a coach at USD have been essential to his success.

“When you come to an area with amazing people, there’s always someone there who’s going to help you,” Miles said. “I am truly fortunate to have fallen into this place and you guys are probably stuck with me, as I’m not sure I’m ever going to leave.”

Miles recognized several people for his success, including his parents, his wife, coach Lucky Huber, coach Dave Gottsleben, USD President James Abbott and David Herbster, USD’s athletic director.

Miles and other members of the 2008 Team USA receiving reallocated medals will attend an official ceremony at the 2017 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Assembly in Colorado Springs, Colorado in October.

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USD’s football team will play Oklahoma in the 2019 season.

USD not likely to cut any sports teams Ally Krupinsky

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University of North Dakota’s recent decision to cut its swimming and diving program is unlikely to happen at USD. David Herbster, USD’s athletic director, said the department’s budget and funding model are “solid.”

“I am not an advocate for eliminating sports,” he said. “I would explore every single other option before I would consider eliminating a sport. I think that is the worst case and the last scenario that you should ever act on.”

Herbster said he would know of a budget deficit well in advance.

“We will project out a very modest, small percentage increase,” he said. “Here we are very conservative in how we budget.”

Jason Mahowald, the swimming and diving head coach, said he’s unable to comment if any UND swimmers will be coming to USD next year.

“Nobody’s signed, we have had conversations with some kids from UND and that’s about all I can really say, is that we have recruited some of those kids,” he said.

Signing a student-athlete is usually a long process, starting in July or earlier and ending in November during the first signing period, Mahowald said.

The second signing period started April 12 and lasts until August.

“So those (UND) kids are all on a crunch to find a home, so the process with them moves a lot faster,” he said, adding that he’s been in contact with UND coaches about student-athletes.

UND’s student-athletes will have to make a lot of decisions very quickly, Herbster said.

“Unfortunately for some of those swimmers, they’ve got to go through the recruiting process all over again,” he said.

At this point, Mahowald doesn’t foresee any UND faculty coming to USD. “It’s hard to say,” he said. “You

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Following the recent cuts to several of the University of North Dakota’s athletic programs, USD is unlikely to have a similar fate, David Herbster, USD’s athletic director, said. never know, but at this point I don’t see that.”

Though Mahowald said he knew about UND’s “pretty tight” financial situation, he was still surprised by the announcement.

“Their swim team has got a history of championships and Olympic trial qualifiers and they’ve got a very, very rich tradition up there,” he said. “So I’m very surprised to see a program with that kind of history and po-

tential for success to be cut.”

Mahowald said he’s disappointed that USD won’t be competing against UND in the Summit League next season.

“That’s an old rival for us from the old NCC days, and that’s a familiar face… we know North Dakota, that’s a known entity, and to bring that back as a conference opponent would’ve been awesome,” he said.

Though USD hasn’t lost any-

thing, Herbster said coaches were looking forward to UND enhancing the Summit League.

“It’s been great competition, they’re a very good program, and if you’re going to add teams to your league, you want teams to come in that are going to be competitive,” he said. “And in this case, in swimming and diving, they would’ve been able to come in and be competitive.”

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II teams we played while we transitioned to Division I.” The prices were small, at about $20,000 to $40,000 a game, Herbster said.

Teams in different divisions will have different prices, he added.

“That’s the market price for someone like an Oklahoma, in the BIG 12, paying an FCS team to come in,” Herbster said.

“Now let’s say Oklahoma is playing Louisiana Tech, which is an FBS program.

They’re probably paying Louisiana Tech closer to a million dollars.”

While smaller programs often are beat by a a wide margin, Herbster said that wasn’t the case when USD visited Minnesota in 2010.

The game was close, but USD led the whole game and ruined the Gophers’ home opener, winning the game 41-38.

Nielson said Oklahoma will add to the quality of USD’s football program.

“We play a quality schedule, and adding Oklahoma to the mix gives you the opportunity to play one of the best football programs historically in the country,” he said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity for our young men and something that I’m sure they’ll

look forward to.”

Herbster said to never count on what’s going to happen in these games.

“You could say, ‘Well, we’re supposed to lose,’ but there comes that time when you beat a Minnesota,” he said. “There comes a time when a North Dakota State beats an Iowa. It’s becoming more common, especially in the Missouri Valley (Conference), where we have two or three teams beat FBS teams. On any given day, especially early in the season, it gives you an opportunity to pick one off.”

PLAYER OF THE PACK Josh Hale Year: Junior Major: Sport marketing & media Sport: Football

“Definitely the basketball games. The games against State are easily the best.”

Dustin VanHunnik: What is your favorite sport to watch?

Josh Hale: Football. It’s the only sport I’ve really ever payed attention to.

DV: What is your favorite USD sporting event?

JH: Definitely the basDV: What is your faJH: D-Days is my favorketball games. The games against State are easily vorite USD event outside ite. It’s probably the funthe best. of sports? nest thing I’ve done here.

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Softball takes series 2-1 Dustin VanHunnik

Dustin.VanHunnik@coyotes.usd.edu

The Coyote softball team (15-25, 6-6 Summit) played a three-game set this weekend in a Summit League matchup against the five-time defending champs North Dakota State (18-25, 5-4), they took the series 2-1.

Sophomore right fielder Morgan Vasa said the team was pleased with their performance against a team they had never won a series against at the Division I level.

“We definitely beat a really good team in our conference,” Vasa said. “Just taking that and knowing that we can do it and beat good teams helps us move forward with confidence.”

The first game of day one started slow and finished quickly for the Coyotes. They were shutout in just five innings and dropped the opener 8-0.

Sophomore catcher Jessica Rogers had two of the Coyotes’ three hits in the first game.

Along with the struggle to create any offense against the Bison, the Coyotes failed to execute on a first and third situation with no outs.

Junior pitcher Megan Green took the loss after allowing seven earned runs off of 12 hits with four walks.

The second game of day one was a complete turnaround for the Coyotes.

Senior pitcher Rachel Cue earned her second shutout of the season after allowing just four hits.

Offensively, it was another struggle for the Coyotes, who managed just six hits. The one run scored off of senior shortstop Shelby Keil’s team-leading 10th double of the year was all that was needed to earn the win.

Sophomore third baseman Jamie Holscher also

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USD’s softball team goes through the line high-fiving teammates after a win against Omaha on April 8 in Vermillion. significantly contributed to the win, who went 3-3 with a stolen base and scored the game-winning run.

The Coyotes found their offensive stride during the rubber match on Sunday.

Cue threw another shutout, the 13th of her career, and allowed just three hits and one walk.

The offense took off for the Coyotes, who scored four straight innings, including three runs in the fourth inning alone. The scoreless tie was broken by junior left fielder Christy Warnock’s third home run of the season, which came in the third inning.

The fourth inning rally was kicked off by a walk with full bases to freshman pinch hitter Lauren Slater, followed by freshman center fielder Camille Fowl-

er’s two-run single with two outs.

The Coyotes dropped in two more runs in the fifth inning off of an RBI single

by Vasa.

Rogers gave the Coyotes an extra insurance run in the sixth inning to close the scoring with a sacrifice squeeze bunt.

Warnock said it’s critical for the team to keep their momentum going as the season nears its end.

“It’s going to be really important for us to take these wins and then to keep carrying that momentum as we head toward Conference,” she said.

The Coyotes travel to Indianapolis next weekend to take on IUPUI for their third straight Summit League series.

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