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Minimal injuries in bus crash involving 30 students Rachel Newville
Rachel.Newville@coyotes.usd.edu
A Vermillion School District bus carrying approximately 30 USD students collided with a vehicle on Tuesday morning. There were minimal injuries, according to the South Dakota State Highway Patrol. The bus was heading east on Cherry Street at about 9:46 a.m. when a 2005 Cadillac DeVille heading north on Stanford Street ran a stop sign, colliding with the bus. Denise Poncelet, the 45-yearold driver of the Cadillac DeVille, was wearing her seat belt and suffered minor injuries. She was taken by ambulance to Sanford Health Vermillion. No school bus passengers were injured. The Patrol is investigating the crash and charges are pending, said Tony Mangan, a public information officer for the South Dakota State Highway Patrol. Yankton EMS and Vermillion Fire and EMS responded to the scene. The students were part of a first-year HARALDSON experience class and were taking a tour of the city, according to Tena Haraldson, director of marketing, communications & university relations. The first-year course familiarizes students with Vermillion and USD. USD Dean of Students Kim Grieve told South Dakota Public Broadcasting that it seems like all students are doing well. The station reported that at least one student complained of neck pain after the incident. Grieve could not be reached for further comment on this story. The crash left the bus with some door windows broken and a large dent. The Associated contributed to report.
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Charlie’s, a downtown store being launched by the USD marketing department later this week, will carry a variety of sizes and
styles to accommodate all Coyote fans.
PAINTING THE TOWN RED
Marketing Department hopes Coyote pride, ‘Red Fridays’ go city-wide with addition of new downtown store By Rachel Newville
Rachel.Newville@coyotes.usd.edu
Students and community members will soon be able to purchase USD apparel and merchandise from a new downtown store. The USD Marketing Department has been working throughout the month to get the store, named Charlie’s after USD’s mascot, open for business. Tena Haraldson, director of marketing, communications & university relations, said the store’s goals are to reach more USD fans and to generate funding for scholarships. “It’s kind of to appeal to all our fans and supporters — President Abbott is really committed to wearing red on Fridays and he loves seeing a lot of people wearing red at games,” she said. “So part of this is to make red Coyote wear more available to more people and part of it is all the sales and royalty goes into an account for student scholarships. We’ve guaranteed that we will put in the same percentage that Barnes and Noble does and if we do very well we will give more.”
The Vermillion Chamber and Development Company purchased the building and signed a lease with the USD on Aug. 1 and the store is scheduled to open within the next week. While the store will benefit students financially, students aren’t Charlie’s main focus, said Scott Pohlson, the vice president of marketing, enrollment & university relations at USD. “I’m a community member myself and, for me, because I have lived in other college towns, I’ve always seen that town and gown relationship and I’ve always felt it’s been a missing component,” he said. “It’s our way to show the town we’re invested in them as well. We know as USD grows, the town has to grow with us and we have to reinvest back into the town and make sure we are supportive of the town and this is one way of doing it. That’s the most exciting part.” While the store will be stocked with students in mind, the focus will be much larger, according to Pohlson and Haraldson.
“We feel like our students are serviced well by Barnes and Noble, but what about those people who are alums or friends or just longtime Yotes that don’t get back to campus every day or every week?” Pohlson said. Haraldson added that catering to a larger audience means more sizes and variety when stocking shelves. “We know we have a lot of fans and alums that are maybe in that Sioux Falls area that don’t get to Vermillion as much, so we’ve had a lot of requests for more adult sizes in things because a lot of the things in the bookstore are sized for students because that’s where students shop,” Haraldson said. In June, USD announced it would be collaborating with South Dakota State University to open a Jack and Charlie’s store in the Empire Mall. The 3,000-square-foot store opened in July and carries apparel, gifts, souvenirs and more from both USD and SDSU. The downtown Vermillion store spans 3,000 square feet and will be
stocked with all sizes, styles and types of clothing, Haraldson said. The store has options ranging from 3XL in men’s and 2XL in women’s, to baby clothes and pet accessories, along with Yote home decor. Jack and Charlie’s clearance merchandise will also be sold at Charlie’s. There will also be items not offered at the bookstore and lower cost items such as $10 t-shirts. “It’s a very nice bookstore. We’re lucky we have a bookstore like that in the student center. But we don’t think it takes care of all the customers,” Haraldson said. “...We think there’s potential for more customers.” Hours haven’t been decided upon, but Haraldson hopes they’ll be open six days a week. “It’s the relationship building at the joy and the pride of people that come in and they see all this red in one place and they get goofy. It’s just a good feeling,” Haraldson said. “It’s us telling Vermillion that we care about you, too, and want you to wear red and share Coyote pride.”
University-wide chalk policy still in the works
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Devin Martin
Devin.Martin@coyotes.usd.edu
University administrators and students alike are continuing to debate the USD campus chalking policy — an issue which has continued for more than a year. Many student organizations take to the sidewalks with chalk during welcome week to recruit more members while still others chalk to exercise their right of free speech. Juniors Emily Massey and Megan Dundas were walking to the Wellness Center last semester when they saw messages supporting Presidential Candidate Donald Trump by North Complex. “Initially I thought that it was funny because it’s just so dumb and petty,” Dundas said. As much as students use chalking for beneficial purposes at USD, some were still offended by the Donald Trump rhetoric, which included sayings such as “Build a Wall” and “#StopIslam.” A few months earlier, the student group Yotes for Life wrote sayings such as, “peace begins in the womb” and “love them both” on campus sidewalks. These messages prompted students to start marking up campus sidewalks with comments in retaliation, some of which included obscene messages and images. “Everyone is entitled to their
The challenge is writing a rule that allows chalking by the majority of responsible people and discouraging bad behavior by a few.”
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when completed, the chalking policy shouldn’t infringe on students’ rights. SGA Vice President Michelle Novak also wants to keep student organizations’ voices heard while providing solutions if another chalking incident were to happen again. “I think the biggest thing that we can do is to get Facilities to wash
it off, and last year we were fortunate enough that it rained and washed off on its own. We (also) do not want to restrict the chalking on campus because it is a way that student organizations use to promote (their clubs),” Novak said. “We (also) do handle their budgets, so by not allowing them to promote their events, they are also hurting SGA in the process.”
A message that was written in chalk on the sidewalk between the I.D. Weeks Library and the Beacom School of Business last semester read “Trump Maga #StopIslam.” own opinion,” Massey said. “Sometimes you have to keep things to yourself even if you’re strongly opinionated like that.” After the Donald Trump and Yotes for Life sayings were chalked, talk of a policy began. Tena Haraldson, director of marketing communications & university relations, said creating such a policy is a balancing act.
“USD is a free speech campus and we encourage expression while protecting university property, observing the law and respecting the rights of others,” Haraldson said. “The challenge is writing a rule that allows chalking by the majority of responsible people and discouraging bad behavior by a few.” Haraldson added that
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