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Plain White T’s set to perform at fall CAB concert

Austin Lammers

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Campus Activities Board (CAB) revealed on Twitter Friday that the Plain White T’s will headline the annual fall concert inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m.

The alternative pop group, best known for songs such as “Hey There Delilah,” “Rhythm of Love” and “1234” were picked among a list of potential performers that

include Alessia Cara, All American Rejects, Cage The Elephant, Iggy Azalea, Jermih, Kid Ink, Kyle, Lanco and Lil Baby.

“We’re feeling good with our engagement on social media,” said CAB President Kelsey Berger.

CAB compiled a list of 36 potential artists and sought preferences from the student body last spring. Out of over 300 respondents, Plain White T’s were third on the voting list, according to Cara Olson, CAB advisor.

The first on the list, All American Rejects, backed out after a “personal emergency” on Aug. 26. Second on the list, KYLE., had an asking price that eclipsed CAB’s performance budget.

CAB’s next objective is to ensure the announcement reaches every student, Berger said. They’ll promote the concert through social media and this weekend’s athletic events, in addition to a “Tie-Dye & Tea Party” event (pun intended) on Thursday, Sept. 26.

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“It’s going to be all hands on deck for the next three weeks,” Berger said. “We’re excited to bring a new style of music to campus.”

CAB will announce the concert opener, a Sioux Falls band, within the next three weeks, Olson said.

Tickets are $5 for USD students and $15 for general admission, which can be purchased here.

The first 750 students with a valid USD I.D. will be given floor access.

Fighting the fire:

Firefighters balance work, family, school and dangerous hobby Lexi Kerzman

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When three tornadoes touched down in Sioux Falls last Tuesday, first responders were there to keep community members safe and aware of what was happening.

It wasn’t the first time tornadoes struck southeastern South Dakota. Lieutenant Mike Murra of the Vermillion EMS Fire Department, recalls when he was stuck in the winds of Tornado Tuesday – a large tornado outbreak that produced 125 tornadoes across southeastern South Dakota in 24 hours – in Centerville, S.D. in June 2003.

“There was a great big white funnel cloud that came down and I told the guy that was with me, ‘If that keeps going we’re going to lose Centerville,’” Murra said. “It was huge, I will truly never ever forget that.”

During tornadoes, storms or fires, a firefighters’ main goal, Murra said, is to protect the community.

“Being able to go and make a difference in somebody’s day, is the best part,” Murra said. “The cliche is that we catch people on their worst day and it’s nice to make a difference.”

The same firefighters protecting communities from natural disasters spend the school year responding to fire alarms across campus.

Over the summer, Murra said there was a “quiet time” as far as the numbers of calls the department had. Now, with the return of the students, the department is seeing more and more calls.

Last Tuesday, there were two fire calls to the Burgess-Norton dorms caused by a faulty fire alarm in the first-floor bathroom,

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The Vermillion Fire EMS Department has been in operation since 1892. The team is made up of volunteers from the community who work to serve Clay County. which caused the heat from the showers to set off the alarms.

“It was kind of annoying (having two drills so close together),” Dylan Whelchel, USD Grounds

worker and volunteer firefighter, said. “It is what it is though and it ended up being nothing, which was good. Both times all the students were really coopera-

tive and evacuated the building, which was really good.”

Volunteer firefighters and EMTs make up most of the Vermillion EMS Fire Department.

The team is made up of mechanics, students, groundworkers and a variety of other people.

Murra first became a volunteer firefighter in 2000. He joined the Centerville Fire Department after his boss handed him an application and said, “fill it out.”

Nineteen years later, Murra said he is still learning and enjoying his time as a firefighter.

“If you don’t learn something from each call you should take a step back,” Murra said. “You just have to push through the nerves and think about the end results.”

After 15 years at the Centerville department, Murra transferred to the Vermillion EMS Fire Department in October 2015. One of the first things he told his boss was that he was a firefighter and he would like to continue volunteering here.

Murra said if it wasn’t for understanding bosses, he wouldn’t be able to do what he loves doing.

“There are not a lot of businesses that let you go because they just don’t realize what it takes,” Murra said.

Whelchel is not only allowed to leave work but is paid by the university while he is out on a fire call.

“I’m outstandingly grateful (for USD’s understanding),” Whelchel said. “I am also super grateful that my fiancé is 100% understanding that at any moment I could leave no matter what we’re doing.”

Finding time to balance work, the fire department and family time is the biggest challenge of it all, Murra said.

“Family time is family time.

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University Center revamps into Community College for Sioux Falls Ryan Golden

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The University Center in Sioux Falls has evolved into a threepartner institution, sporting a new name and additional programs.

The USD Community College for Sioux Falls, formerly the University Center, was established in April 2019. The institution, in partnership with South Dakota Board Of Regents (SDBOR), USD, South Dakota State University and Dakota State University, provides secondary education to a diverse student body.

Not every student enrolled is a full-time student, said Adam Strenge, Academic Advisor at the Community College for Sioux Falls.

“It is a pretty diverse demographic. There are some adult learners that are coming back to school to gain certificates,” Strenge said.

Students must choose a home institution, but the partnership between USD, DSU and SDSU allows for an expansive variety of available courses.

USD, DSU and SDSU combined offer 11 Associate, 22 Bachelor, eight Graduate and 15 Certificate

programs.

Carmen Simon, Vice President and Dean for Community College Sioux Falls, said partnering with other colleges and universities throughout the state gives its students advantages over other institutions.

“We are unique as a community college to offer three different offerings onsite,” Simon said. “The most important component is to help our students on the path of success and to build and grow confidence for them.”

Summer courses are offered on a 6 or 12-week basis and, Strenge said, the flexible schedule helps students achieve their educational goals quicker.

The Community College for Sioux Falls doesn’t charge a general activity fee, lowering the price per credit hour by $27 from USD’s main campus. Even with the small reduction, Simon said the college is still looking for ways to make the cost of attendance more reasonable for students.

“We are still fairly expensive. It costs $284.50 (per credit hour) for our students,” Simon said.

Simon said the Community College is striving to create new partnerships with local organizations and student chapters to replicate the same engagement USD’s main campus offers. One of those options is Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S. and one of the earliest collegiate fraternal societies to be formed.

“We are exploring Phi Beta Kappa. This would be the first PBK for us and would be a way to really engage students,” Simon said.

Sustaining a trajectory of growth is one of the Community College’s main goals, Simon said. Its target is 700 new students a year.

“The most important component is to help our students on the path of success and to build and grow confidence for them,” Simon said.

With a unique culture and strong degree offerings, Strenge said he hopes more students will “have an opportunity to get a quality education closer to home.”

“We would love to see more students on campus next spring and early fall to showcase what we are really about,” Strenge said.

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The Community College for Sioux Falls, formerly known as the University Center, offers a wide variety of courses from USD, SDSU and DSU.

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The National Music Museum is one of several campus buildings experiencing a renovation this semester.

Campus building renovations: past, present and future Madilyn Sindelar

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Throughout the fiscal year, the maintenance and repair department oversees nearly 80 renovations annually. Renovations include huge projects like the Dakota Dome to minor fixes, like A/C unit repairs.

The Colton Recital Hall and the Center of Fine Arts Theatre is one of the major projects the maintenance department will undergo beginning in May 2021.

The renovations are set to cost $2.1 million and the plans will bring new seating, lighting and fresh coats of paint.

While most students hear about the bigger projects around campus, maintenance and repair manage smaller renovations as well.

The department of facilities management works on 60-80 smaller renovation projects ev-

ery year. The team of six workers has a tentative ten-year plan for upcoming renovations.

Based on urgency and cost, approved renovations typically take three to four years to get to.

“All projects come into us and then Planning and Construction meet with whoever requested the project, like a department chair,” said Brian Limoges, Assistant Vice President of Facilities Management.

“From there, we have to understand the project and estimate the cost.”

Projects can be delayed because maintenance and repair teams prioritize emergencies, such as broken boilers, roofs, faulty chillers and A/C units going out. These emergencies are addressed immediately, Limoges said.

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USD Intramurals hosted a cornhole tournament on the lawn outside the Muenster University Center on Tuesday afternoon.

City of Vermillion Police Blotter Highlights

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open container citations

Sept. 9 Officers stopped a car for failing to dim its headlights. The driver was found to be intoxicated and was arrested for DUI. Sept. 9 Officers stopped a car for speeding and saw the driver wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. The driver was ticketed for the latter offense.

Sept. 9 Officers stopped a car for speeding in a school zone. The driver was ticketed.

Sept. 10 An officer contacted an intoxicated woman

who was pushing a disabled bike. The officer insured the woman got home safely.

Sept. 12 The School Resource Officer is investigating a report of an assault between students at the middle school. The case is under investigation.

Sept. 12 Officers received information that a man wanted in Sioux Falls for aggravated assault was hiding in Vermillion. Investigation resulted in the officers locating

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report of fraud

the suspect in a local residence. The man was arrested without incident.

Sept. 12 An officer responded to a dispute involving a struggle over a firearm in the County outside the city. The officer secured the scene and stood by until a deputy could respond.

Sept. 12 Officers assisted a South Dakota State Trooper with a DWI arrest.

Sept. 13 Officers responded to a medical call where an elderly person was

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not able to get up and needed to go to the hospital. Officers provided care until the ambulance arrived.

Sept. 14 Officers took a report of damage to city property. Under investigation.

Sept. 14 Officers were called to a business to investigate a report of fraud.

No arrests were made.

Sept. 14 Officers investigated a report of a sexual assault.

Sept. 14 Officers investigated a report of suspected

dispute over firearm

illegal drug use. No arrests were made.

Sept. 14 Officers cited and released one adult male for underage drinking and open container.

Sept. 14 Officers investigated a report of theft from a business. One adult female was cited and released.

Sept. 14 Officers arrested one adult male for false personation, open container and underage drinking.

Sept. 14 Officers cited and

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released three adults for possessing open alcoholic containers in public.

Sept. 14 Officers cited one adult female for possessing an open container of alcohol in public.

Sept. 14 Officers arrested three adults for possessing and ingesting marijuana.

Another adult was cited for underage drinking and released.

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SGA senators conferred about the Dakota Promise Scholarship, a needs-based scholarship for college students, at the weekly SGA meeting on Tuesday night.

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SGA discusses Pierre meeting Nikolas Wilson Nikolas.Wilson@coyotes.usd.edu

Last weekend, Student Government Association (SGA) President Carson Zubke and Vice President Hannah Booth met in Pierre, S.D. with SGA presidents and vice presidents from other regental schools in South Dakota, as well as Dr. Barron, the executive director of the Board of Regents.

One of the main talking points was the Dakota Promise Scholarship, which would be a needsbased scholarship for college students in South Dakota.

“We talked about Dakota Promise a bit, went over some stuff regarding the eligibility requirements.

We’re hoping that that will make a comeback this year,” Zubke said. “South Dakota is the last state in the country who doesn’t have a needs-based scholarship for students, so if we can get that passed this year, that would be huge for South Dakota.”

While SGA met with other student government

associations, they also have future plans for internal discussions. They’re planning a retreat for SGA members to get to know each other better, according to Zubke.

“This year, we’re looking to do some more team-building activities, just have some fun as a group,” Zubke said. “We always have some speakers come in and talk to us about things happening at the university, talk about teamwork, leadership, it’s a professional development opportunity for our team.”

USD President Sheila Gestring spoke at the previous retreat.

Also at the meeting, a group of students spoke and requested to get funding from SGA for a new organization on campus, called “Supporting the Legacy.” This club is meant to raise awareness for children dealing with cystic fibrosis. They requested $795 from SGA for operational costs and supplies.

The club had 30 members at its first meeting and 50 on its mailing list.

SGA members asked

the club representatives various questions regarding the use of the money and how it would be used to make a local impact.

“It’s just something we always want to be sure of, making sure that we’re responsible stewards of students’ money… I think [the senate] was just trying to get some clarification on what that money would be used for,” Zubke said. “We want to make sure that all the money that we give to organizations is really being used to enhance the college experience and providing value for students because the money that we’re giving to organizations is through student fees.”

Zubke said SGA is willing to help people who want to form new organizations.

“We’re always happy to work with them and set things up and help them kind of move through that process, as long as they have the minimum of five people, an advisor and a constitution, they can form a student organization.”

Students petition the Board of Regents to reconsider the expulsion of five football players after they allegedly hazed a freshman.

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FIRE FACTS

The Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department was formed in 1892. The department, now the Vermillion Fire EMS Department, has been serving the Vermillion area for the last 127 years.

They have handled fires big and small. Some of those historical fires include: • April 2, 1953: A fire at Alpha Xi Delta Sorority house caused an estimate of $17,000 of damage.

• April 21, 1972: A large fire at the Co-ED Theatre caused $42,000 in damage. It destroyed the restrooms, lobby and business office.

• March 7, 1979: The Sioux Alfalfa Plant fire hospitalized three firefighters.

• Jan. 1, 1982: A fire at the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity house caused $300,000 in damage. This was the first fire the Vermillion department used the new aerial ladder truck.

For more information on the biggest fires from USD’s history, read the Verve Vault story on page B4.

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to go on a call or stay with your family and it’s tough sometimes,” Murra said.

“But family really is first all

the time.”

Student cooperation in drills is critical, Whelchel said. The quicker students exit the building the faster the fire department can make sure everyone is out and safe.

Even during drills, Whel-

echel said it is important to take it seriously and get out safely.

“This year is a lot better than last year as far as student cooperation. This year if there’s an alarm going off they are way more willing to evacuate the building

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and be helpful,” Whelechel said. “If everybody’s not out we don’t know who’s inside. As they come out and relay information to us so it’s extremely important.”

Sometimes, fire alarms are false alarms pulled as a prank. Anyone caught pulling a fire alarm when there is no fire could face criminal charges if they’re identified. Pulling a fire alarm when there is no fire is a misdemeanor, but it could become a felony if someone gets hurt exiting the building.

Whelechel said it is extremely frustrating when a fire alarm gets pulled as a joke. The fire department takes it seriously and expects others to as well.

“A pulsation generally means someone saw fire and pulled it. There’s usually not a faulty pulsation,” Whelechel said. “The fact that people are immature enough to pull them is upsetting.”

Allaina Howard, a senior health science major, became a volunteer firefighter at the beginning of her junior year. She said she gets excited for calls because she knows she has an opportunity to help

someone in need.

“Sometimes it can be a little difficult just because you never know when you’re going to get a call,” Howard said. “But it’s something I’m really passionate about and when you’re passionate about something you find time for it.”

The three agree the re-

ward and adrenaline rush that comes with being a firefighter outweighs the challenges.

The Vermillion EMS Fire Department is always taking applications for both firefighters and EMTs, Murra said. Applications can be requested on the department Facebook page.

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Erbert and Gerbert’s is offering students a chance to create a new sandwich to add to their menu, the “Howling Hammer.”

Erbert and Gerbert’s hosts ‘Howling Hammer’ sandwich contest Ali Boysen

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Students will get the chance to showcase their culinary creativity in Erbert and Gerbert’s sandwich contest at USD. Erbert and Gerbert’s contest has students creating a unique sandwich that will be named the ‘Howling Hammer’ and will only be available on USD’s campus location.

When Marcus Destin, a junior communication major, came up with the name ‘Howling Hammer’ he wanted something that would evoke emotion and “pack a

punch.”

“I just wanted something that was both aggressive, fulfilling and had mad alliteration,” Destin said. “We want the Howling Hammer to be the go-to for students and the Vermillion community. When students vote we want them to create a timeless sandwich that matches the name.”

After the name of the sandwich was decided, the next step was to get the USD community to send in their sandwich recipes. The submission link is still open but will close on Sep. 22 and the top three submissions will be voted on starting

Oct. 7.

Stacy Kauer, an Aramark employee, said that they’ve only had six sandwich recipes so far.

In an email interview, Kauer also said the price of the new sandwich hasn’t yet been determined.

“We do not know the pricing yet, as it is dependent on what ends up being on the sandwich,” Kauer said.

The winning recipe will be revealed on Nov. 11 and the sandwich will be permanently on the USD Erbert and Gerbert’s menu.

Vermillion businesses are looking to partner with student organizations to craft floats for the Dakota Days Parade on Saturday, Oct. 5.

Deadline to register float with a business: Thursday, Sept. 19.

Deadline to register your organization’s float: Sunday, Sept. 22.

USD creative services are offering consultations for float design.

Contact manager Alison Buckman at Alison.Buckman@usd.edu to schedule a meeting for your group.

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The Native American Cultural Center will soon see updates such as HVAC units, new paint, new windows and keycard access.

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to projects focused on energy efficiency, and then departmental requests.

“Projects range from millions of dollar renovations like the Dakota Dome or adding a new waterfall to East Hall,” Adam Rosheim VP of Finance and Administration said.

Other smaller projects completed over the year include adding new LED lights in Burgess and Norton halls and fixing department requests for new flooring, as well as installing key card readers in Beacom, Neuharth, Belbas, I.D. Weeks, Old Main, Native American Center and Akeley Lawrence.

“Upcoming renovations in upcoming years include a partial renovation of the law school courtroom, adding a new chiller in I.D. Weeks library and Dakota Hall and beginning renovations on North complex, which will include rooms and flooring,” Limoges said.

Limoges said there’s also a renovation plan to completely redo the Native American Center’s exterior –including HVAC units, new paint and windows — to change the appearance to the like of other campus buildings rather than a residential home.

Every summer the maintenance and repair team also fixes three roofs around campus. This year they fixed Slagle, Patterson and the Cook House’s.

Next year’s roof updates

will be on Akley-Lawerence, North Complex and Burgess-Norton.

“When a plan is proposed, it has to be approved by the state legislature and is then heard by the Board of Regents.

We write a proposal with a short justification and request aid from the state,” Rosheim said.

Currently waiting for

approval is a plan to tear down the ground shop by North Complex, as well as Julian Hall. If Julian Hall is torn down, the university plans to build a new Health Sciences building in the Lee Medical Building parking lot. Limoges said he hopes the plans will be approved by May 2020.

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Julian Hall may become a new Health Sciences building in the Lee Medical Building parking lot. Plans for its demolition could be approved as soon as May 2020.

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It’s okay to be selfish

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CECILIA GILLEN is a sophomore majoring in media & journalism Nobody wants to be selfish.

Selfish is one of the lowest of blows, reserved for only the nastiest of nasty people.

We’re taught our whole lives to be selfless but we’re never taught its dangers. When I think of ‘selflessness,’ I picture Mother Teresa, good karma and a fat check from Ellen for remarkable dedication to others. The reality is 18+ hour days, no good karma in sight and far too few ‘thank you’s.’ Not only are you not getting anything in return, but you end up with nothing left to give to yourself.

But I’m here to tell you that not all selfishness is created equal.

Actually, a lot of “selfish” acts are way more productive than the martyrdom you’re carrying on with now.

Obviously, there are bad selfish acts. Cutting in line, littering and stealing other people’s fries are all bad selfish acts (and just plain rude). However, if you’re currently a people pleaser, it’s highly unlikely you’re going to jump to this side of the fence.

You can start implementing healthy selfishness into your life by learning how to say ‘no’ and taking time for yourself.

How often are you asked to do something and your gut thought is, “I would rather dive into a bath of toenail clippings?” If it’s not your responsibility, and nine times out of 10 it’s not, just say no.

Saying ‘no’ stops being complicated when you stop justifying it. None of this “I can’t make it, my cat is throwing up profusely and only my loving touch will soothe her.” No one believes that garbage and the excuse make you seem like more of a jerk than a simple ‘no.’ Just say “No, I can’t” and move on with your life. You’ll be surprised at how little people will question that response.

The thing is, you can say no sometimes and still be a good person, and all the no’s you give will make the yes’s more meaningful. Then you’re able to take the time you collect from turning down unnecessary tasks and events and put it back into yourself. Putting aside moments of selfish me-time is sometimes the most productive thing you can do.

Being selfish doesn’t make you a bad person. If anything, it just means you’re responsible with your resources, and we all know the world could use a little bit more of that.

The deadline for letters is 5 p.m. the Friday prior to publication.

Letters must be typed and fewer than 300 words.

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Residents of Burgess-Norton wait outside after fire alarms went off last week.

From the Opinion Desk: Fire alarm etiquette What’s worse than a freshman pushing the button on Cherry Street? You guessed it: a freshman pulling the fire alarm in the dorms at 2 a.m.

There is nothing worse than waking up from your deep slumber to the shrieking sound of the fire alarm. There are two scenarios. One: someone came back drunk, and uniquely and creatively decided it would be just hilarious to pull the fire alarm. Two: someone is burning ramen in the communal kitchen because they forgot to add water.

Either way, we thought it would benefit the students on campus to share some tips on fire alarm and/or drill etiquette, because these scenarios are inevitable.

Real tip: Don’t pull the alarm if it’s not an emergency The first thing you should know is that you just should refrain from pulling the fire alarm. But assuming someone has already done so, let’s move on to the next one.

Real tip: Hustle outside The next thing you should keep in mind is this: if the fire alarm sounds, get the heck out of your bed. For the sake of the rest of the building, get out of your room and outside. The longer it takes for you to get outside, the longer the rest of the building needs to be outside. And trust us, nobody wants to be outside in the dead of winter at 2 a.m.

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

Fake tip: Loudly keep your floor updated When moving towards the exits, make sure to scream loudly about how this is the “hundredth fire alarm this week.”

The people on your floor who have unfortunately lost count of the fire alarms will thank you for the reminder. They will extend the favor back to you if the same happens to you.

Fake tip: Hold your RAs accountable While you wait outside, make it a point to yell at the Resident Assistants about how you want to enter the building again. Once you have done this, the RAs will re-enter the building and extinguish the fires themselves to ensure that you may re-enter the building in a timely manner.

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Fake tip: Get big mad When everyone has determined it is safe for you to re-enter the building, make sure that you do so as loudly as possible. When walking up the stairs, stomp your feet angrily.

When you get to your floor, make sure you tap your ID in such a way that the card reader can’t read it, forcing you to tap your ID more than three times. And finally, when you re-enter your room, slam the door as loud as possible. All of these steps are imperative in letting everyone else know that you are not happy that you had to wait outside for ten minutes.

Now you know the proper etiquette during a fire alarm. We hope you never have to use it.

All of these steps are imperative in letting everyone know that you are not happy that you had to wait outside.

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THE RANT

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

“Eat the lettuce, don’t yeet the lettuce.”

— The Link

“Nebraska is like purgatory or maybe even hell.”

— Olson/Richardson

“Are you guys going to that white t-shirt concert?”

— Pi Beta Phi

“Are we going on Omegle or what?”

— Stanford Street

Dear people who huddle by MUC Dining waiting for it to open, Nothing irritates me more on a busy Monday morning than not being able to walk through the MUC from my 10 o’clock class to my 11 o’clock class because you are all huddled around the gates of MUC Dining like moths to light waiting for them to open. You’re waiting outside the gate like it’s Black Friday at Best Buy; I’m honestly shocked some of you haven’t started bringing tents and lawn chairs yet. I just don’t understand the purpose. Not only do you have to stand there – wasting precious physical energy – you then have to immediately wait in line with the rest of the herd to swipe your card. Then, when you get inside to get your food, it’s crowded. Instead of forming a mosh pit outside the MUC Dining gate, I suggest that you find yourself a coveted MUC booth and wait there instead.

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Inclusivity in Bachelor Nation

SARAH BECHEN is a junior majoring in media & journalism

Bachelor Nation erupted with viewpoints from all sides when The Bachelor Season 23 contestant Demi Burnett confided in another cast member that she had a female love interest back home. This made Burnett the first openly bisexual contestant in the Bachelor nation. I support Demi and her over-the-top personality in all its glory.

The producers decided to bring Burnett’s girlfriend Kristian

Haggerty onto the show.

Haggerty joining the cast of Bachelor in Paradise made many people upset.

This show is set up to help former contestants of The Bachelor and Bachelorette find love.

Burnett is a former contestant, but Haggerty is not. If the situation arose — which it has in the past — where another contestant decided they love someone back home, who has no connection with the Bachelor franchise, the contestant would then leave the show and Chris Harrison would wish them well on their journey to find love.

By allowing Burnett’s situation to be an

exception defeats the purpose the producers were trying to make.

Inclusivity and equality is what the LGBTQ community is striving for, so making multiple exceptions and selling the dramatics of the first same-sex couple on the show is wrong.

The show was not equipped to take these steps for inclusivity as they have been a heterosexual dating show since the beginning of its existence. Should the Bachelor franchise be taking steps toward inclusivity of all? Yes. But they did it all wrong.

Burnett and Haggerty both identify as she/her,

and now because the show was not ready for a same-sex couple, Burnett stands with the men to give her the rose.

Burnett announcing she is bisexual and leaving the show for her girlfriend back home would have been the drama the producers needed to promote this season.

The Bachelor franchise could have then gone back to the drawing board for the next season, making everything down to the rose ceremony inclusive for all cast members.

Making exceptions defeats the purpose and is active in taking steps back in acceptance.

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We need to embrace the idea of a fully digital world NICKOLAS ZEIMET is a senior majoring in media & journalism

The world is headed to the internet.

This isn’t exactly a new theory, but every day the world gets closer and closer to being fully digital.

We take photos on our phones, we shop on our phones, we get the news from our phones. We even check the weather on our phones. Classes can be taught online -- even USD traded a physical bookstore for an online format.

In 2016, 85 percent of enterprise decisionmakers believed they

had a two year period to make large strides in the direction of online branding before they were to suffer financially.

Now in 2019, we see just how serious the concept of moving more and more onto the digital landscape has infiltrated our culture.

Name a brand that doesn’t have an Instagram or Twitter. Name a brand that isn’t fully accessible online. We live in an age where access to the internet is becoming an integral part of our lives.

People are making careers out of finding ways to influence their followers on social media.

It has become a trend for companies to reach out to popular Instagram pages in order to gain

recognition in a digital landscape.

And the truth is that technology acting as a major facet of our lives will only continue.

In a Pew Research study, a staggering “47% of respondents predict that individuals’ well-being will be more helped than harmed by digital life in the next decade.”

Frankly, there isn’t much we can do about it. The world as we know it is getting more and more wrapped around the technology we hold so near and dear to our pockets and purses and backpacks.

If you take away a person’s phone, they’re suddenly without access to their camera, their

calculator, their GPS and their music. Our whole lives live in our phones.

It’s not always a bad thing. With such powerful technology literally in the palm of our hands, we have access to a number of features beyond simply “telephone” and have access to information that generations before us could only have dreamed of having.

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As 13 percent of the population qualifies as a Digital Native, according to PBS, the world is at a point in its history where it ought to embrace the knowledge and accessibility to information that it has.

Yes, because so much information can be posted online it is our duty to be sure we are media literate, considering however, that

with each passing day people are getting more and more involved in the world of the internet, it is safe to assume that social media literacy will come with time.

In the end, it is important to embrace the exciting, new technology that is being bestowed upon us and simply take the future by the iPhone and get on board.

If you take away a person’s phone, they’re

suddenly without access to their camera, their calculator, their GPS and their music.

Living in the Midwest isn’t all bad KELLI SUSEMIHL is a junior triple majoring in journalism, political science and history “I can’t wait to get the heck out of here.”

When you live in the Midwest, this statement is commonplace when talking about future plans.

I, however, don’t believe living in the Midwest is all that bad.

As a native Iowan, I have lived in the Midwest my entire life. However, I have also done my fair share of traveling; I’ve been to 34 states and nine countries. I’ve been to the beaches of New Zealand, to the cities of Sweden and the villages in Central America, and I spent the

majority of my summer in 2018 living in Seattle.

Traveling is my passion, but there is still something special to me about coming home.

The biggest reason why I believe living in the Midwest isn’t so bad: the cost.

While living in the Midwest isn’t exactly the most exotic experience, you can’t deny that living here is relatively affordable.

According to the U.S. Census, the 12 states that make up the Midwest are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

On average, Midwest dwellers can expect annual savings of $3,098 on rent

and $4,454 on mortgage costs, and the savings would be even more if you were comparing to a highcost region like the West Coast.

In addition, only two of the twelve Midwestern states – Illinois and Minnesota – have an average rent higher than the U.S. average.

The cost of living is a term referring to the amount of money necessary to maintain a certain standard of living. It is calculated by looking at the costs of essential expenses such as accommodation, food, clothing, healthcare and taxes.

The Midwest and the South have the lowest costs of living in the U.S., while Hawaii and the West Coast have the highest.

According to a U.S. News and World Report list ranking affordability, seven of the top ten most affordable states are in the Midwest, with Iowa coming in first.

This is how I think about it – I would rather live in the Midwest for an affordable price and get to go on one trip of my choosing every year than spend all my money living in a big, exotic city and never getting to go anywhere else.

For me, living in rural America doesn’t make me sheltered, it will give me the opportunity to see even more of the world.

A common complaint about the Midwest is that it isn’t pretty, but there are plenty of places to get your “nature fix” in the Midwest. I think

we often discount the beauty around us because we are so used to it. Go check out the Palisades in southeastern South Dakota, the sand dunes of Michigan or the lakes of Minnesota. If you’re looking for city life, look

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no farther than Chicago or Minneapolis. Go take a peek out your window and when you think about it, hills and fields aren’t really that hard on the eyes.

I think we often discount the beauty around us because we are so accustomed to it.

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Aaron Mercado I The Volante A photobooth is set up with props, fans and feather boas at An Evening With the Stars at Grace Baptist Church on Friday night in Vermillion.

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An Evening With the Stars is an annual event designed to give people with disabilities the opportunity to attend prom at any age.

Friday was the fourth year Grace Baptist Church has held the event for the Vermillion Community.

“The smile of each and every individual during the whole night is why I keep coming back,” said Erika Clark, USD occupational therapy student and volunteer. “Everyone is smiling and having a good time. There’s just joy exuded everywhere and it’s very heartwarming.”

An Evening With The Stars, previously known as A Night To Shine, moved away from the Tim Tebow Foundation prior to the event this year. Instead, First Financial Bank in Dakota Dunes and SESDAC, who assist many of those who attended, fundraised for a professional DJ, catering, a photo booth and limo rides.

The group began fundraising their $7,500 budget in June, which was established to keep the event at the same level of quality it has been in the past. They also supply

dresses for women to wear to the social, according to Ellen Margheim, event coordinator.

Over 100 volunteers helped the prom-goers throughout the evening. Margheim said she never has trouble finding enough volunteers to put on the event.

“85%, at least, of our volunteers are from outside the church. A good majority come from the university and from the community, which is really exciting,” Margheim said.

Clark, who has volunteered the last four years, was a buddy this year. She said she made it an emphasis to make the evening fully about her guest.

“When someone gets you, you’re paired up for the evening and spend the whole night hanging out – doing whatever they want,” Clark said, “because it’s their night.”

Margheim said there are nine volunteers who have volunteered all four years and 14 who have been with them for three years.

“That warms my heart,” she said. “(This event has a large) impact on the volunteers, not just the guests.”

Amidst a change of date

and fully funding themselves, the group feels the event was a great success.

“I’m very pleased with where it’s at,” Margheim said.

“The guests enjoyed themselves. So, I don’t have a vision for where it can go because I’m so pleased with where it’s at.”

Margeim said putting on an event like this was stressful, but she does it so other people can experience a night that’s fully about them.

“This is so rewarding,” she said. “It’s so tiring and so much to think about. And every year, I have thought I’m not doing this again, but the day after, I’m thinking about how I want to do it differently next year, how I want to improve it.”

USD and its student play a major role in the success of An Evening With The Stars, Clark said.

“The university has a great impact on the volunteers because when you go, a lot of the volunteers are students,” Clark said. “The USD students are big majorities of their buddies. Just seeing how people interact and how it’s spread over the years means it will only grow.”

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The last time the USD women’s cross country team wasn’t wearing the Summit League crown, Kianna Stewart was a sophomore in high school in Red Wing, Minnesota. It was 2013.

Stewart, now a senior (in college), is one of seven standout returners spearheading the Coyotes on their search for their sixth consecutive conference title. The group has washed its competitors in the first two meets of the season, beating runners-up North Dakota State in the Bison Open and Nebraska at the Augustana Twilight by a combined 48 points.

The graduation of last year’s top two runners — Megan Billington and Madeline Huglen — hasn’t deterred the strength of the pack, Stewart said. It’s only opened the field.

“This year, we don’t know who our best two runners are,” Stewart said. “Each meet, somebody else steps up and takes a new spot.”

One of those somebody-s is junior Abby Ripperda, who, after recovering from injury last winter, carried momentum from a strong spring into the early weeks of this season. Ripperda followed a second-place finish at the Bison Open with a victory at the Twilight meet on Sept. 6.

Ripperda tacked a time of 16:47.07 in the 5,000-meter run, hacking over two minutes off her time at last year’s meet to dethrone Billington of the meet record (during the same race last year).

“It’s been inspiring for us to see,” junior Laura Nelson said.

“When you don’t give up no matter the setbacks, God has a plan and it’s going to happen. If we can all support each other like that, it’s gonna be a really fun season.”

Ripperda embodies the type of culture head coach Dan Fitzsimmons — five-time Summit League Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year — has instilled in arguably the most successful USD athletic program in the last decade.

There’s no “secret to success” outside of effort, Nelson said.

“Fitz is so good at taking ‘pretty good’ athletes and making them great athletes,” Nelson said. “You come in, and that’s just what you do. You can’t look at Iowa State or

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Oklahoma State and think they do something different than us.

Everyone has something different, but the main ingredients are what we have here.”

In the USTFCCA’s Week 1 rankings released on Monday, USD stands tenth in the Midwest Region, four spots above Nebraska and one spot behind Iowa, two Big Ten powerhouses they’ll meet at the Woody Greeno meet in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday.

Regardless of the esteemed track record over the last half-decade, a small school in South Dakota is still stamped with the Underdog label when competing with teams belonging to Power-Five conferences. Nelson said Fitzsimmons erases that pressure come meet-day.

“One thing Fitz mentions to us is approaching meets with a chip on our shoulder,” she said. “Not worrying about what other people think but being the best we can be.

Acknowledging as a team that we belong there.”

The mentality trickles into the younger runners as well, sophomore Maddie Lavin, who was one of seven Coyotes to finish in the top 13 at the Twilight meet, said.

“Last year it was so intimidating at first,” Lavin said. “But then I was like ‘I’m with my team.’ We know how hard we work, and they might not see that, but when we run, you will. We work just as hard as any other Big Ten team, if not harder.”

The Coyotes’ strength quite literally lies in the pack. When a half-dozen runners in red place in the top 20, it’s hard to slip in a meet. According to Stewart, that’s the team’s main goal as they work out the early season kinks: a bigger, “unstoppable” group higher in the standings.

Lavin used last year’s regional tournament, where USD placed sixth, as an example.

“In regionals, you have nothing to lose so going out there is so fun,” Lavin said “If I die, I die. I mean I did, but Kianna passed me so I could. It’s nice. There’s always someone right behind us. Literally.”

“We can give our all and if we do end up metaphorically ‘dying,’ we have three other Yotes right behind us that will pick it up, so we can take those risks,” Stewart said.

As for support beyond the roster, the group was blunt: cross country,

compared to sports like football, basketball and volleyball, isn’t the easiest for the USD fanbase to experience up-close.

USD hasn’t hosted a meet in Vermillion since the 2017 Summit League Championship and their season is spent bouncing around meets across the Midwest.

Nonetheless, the “long-distance relationship,” as Lavin called it, is intact and the team doesn’t feel its successes are overlooked, Nelson said. Anyone at the Twilight meet — which USD has won five consecutive times — could see it.

“Going around campus, people always ask ‘when’s your next race’ or ‘how was this or that’. We cherish that,” Nelson said. “When we don’t have home meets, it’s hard for the student base to see, but people are aware. I wouldn’t say it’s something that’s lacking; it’s unique in its own way.”

Three meets lie ahead USD before the Summit League Championships in Fargo, N.D. on Nov. 2. Nelson said a conference championship is important to USD and Vermillion, but it’s just “a step along the way.”

USD has flirted with a top-5 finish in Regionals every year since 2014.

Compared to the smaller, more intense field of 60 runners at the conference meet, conquering a spread of over 200 runners at Regionals is closer to a crapshoot, junior Kelsi Kearney said. “[During Conference] you can almost score the meet in your head.

If you know you want to win, you have to be right here,” Kearney said.

“In Regionals, you have no idea.

You’re like ‘I’m just gonna pass as many people as I can.’”

Doing so as a pack, both on and off the track, is the way it’s been done at the Lillibridge Complex during USD’s reign over the Summit League, Stewart said. Consistency and companionship is the Coyote way.

“It’s a team. It’s a family. I think we have a really close-knit group of girls and there aren’t any dividers between us,” Stewart said. That’s why we run in a group — we want to push each other and we want to see the best out of each other.”

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Senior defensive specialist Anne Rasmussen (15) and junior outside hitter Sami Slaughter (3) celebrate a point during the win over Wyoming in the Sanford Coyote Sports Complex on Friday.

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The Coyotes (9-1) won all three matches at the South Dakota Classic inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center over the weekend, defeating UC Davis (6-4), Wyoming (4-5) and Iowa (5-3).

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USD welcomed their first-ever Big Ten opponent to the SCSC Saturday as they defeated Iowa in a five-set thriller 25-17, 15-25, 25-18, 21-25, 20-18.

Freshman outside hitter Elizabeth Juhnke led the game with 26 kills, achieving a team-high 152 for the season.

“It was so much fun,” Juhnke said.

“We really connected as a team, we didn’t separate, we really focused on our side, we weren’t worried about who was on the other side, we had a blast.”

Junior outside hitter Sami Slaughter racked 17 kills with Elizabeth Loschen following with 12 to give both women season highs.

“This is a Big Ten team,” Slaughter said.

“We probably weren’t expected to win, but here we are, and we just played our hearts out and we’re dedicated and that’s gonna take us a long way.”

Sophomore setter Madison Jurgens aided the Coyotes with 55 of the 63 assists

and still snuck three kills on the Hawkeyes.

“I thought [Jurgens] put up perfect balls for me to hit all over the court, no matter where the pass was, she was just putting up great balls making it really easy for me,” Juhnke said.

Juhnke was named to the alltournament team following the game, along with Slaughter and tournament MVP Rasmussen.

As a team, the Coyotes managed 70 kills, 11 blocks and 79 digs, 30 of those digs helping Rasmussen reach a seasonhigh and bringing her season total up to 150 digs.

“I think that we can’t get comfortable where we are now,” Juhnke said. “I think we have to go into each game knowing that everybody’s gonna give their best effort to play us and I think just staying disciplined in practice, working to get better every time.”

USD vs UC Davis

USD secured a 3-0 sweep on UC Davis on Friday to open the weekend, taking sets 26-24, 25-22, 25-17.

The Coyotes led in kills (47-33), assists (42-32), and hitting percentage (.317-.168).

Senior outside hitter Elizabeth Loschen and Juhnke led the team in kills with 11 while Slaughter added 10. Jurgens dished out 40 assists in the contest.

Sophomore middle blockers Maddie

Wiedenfeld and Claire Gerdes led the charge defensively, both achieving four blocks.

USD vs Wyoming

After losing the first set 24-26, the Coyotes fired back to beat Wyoming in the team’s second game of the day, winning sets 25-14, 25-15, 25-13.

USD took control after the first set, dominating in hitting percentage at .468 to Wyoming’s .129.

“We were extremely motivated because the only reason we lost the first set was because of our errors on our side of the net. We knew that wasn’t our standard and we needed to clean it up. Therefore we just came out with a lot of fire that second set,” Slaughter said.

With 19 kills and a .484 hitting percentage, Juhnke had a match-high and Jurgens boasted 49 assists.

Slaughter totaled 16 kills and a .600 hitting percentage while Loschen followed with nine kills.

Rasmussen successfully had 22 digs and surpassed the 1,500 career dig mark in the match.

The Coyotes will look to continue their winning ways as they travel to Peoria, Illinois to compete against Northern Iowa and Bradley in the Bradley Classic on Friday, Sept 20.

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The Coyotes dropped their third-straight contest to open the season, losing a shootout to Houston Baptist 53-52 inside the DakotaDome on Saturday.

The two teams combined for 1,238 yards of total offense in a game which saw senior quarterback Austin Simmons throw for 537 yards to break USD’s record for a single game, previously held by Chris Streveler at 520.

“I didn’t really know anything about the record,” Simmons said post-game. “The only thing that matters at the end of the day is that scoreboard. We’re 0-3 right now.”

Down by a touchdown in the fourth quarter, USD’s defense twice contained the high-tempo Husky offense to regain the lead as junior running back Kai Henry rushed for two scores on consecutive drives with just over three minutes to play.

Junior HBU quarterback Bailey Zappe answered with a nine-play, 70-yard drive and junior running back Dreshawn Minnieweather punched the ball in from a yard away with 1:14 remaining. On the two-point attempt, Houston connected on a single reverse halfback pass reminiscent of the famed “Philly Special” from Super Bowl 52 to take the lead.

With just over a minute left in regulation, Simmons attempted to drive into field goal range for junior kicker Mason Lorber, but threw an interception to freshman safety Tra Fluellen to seal the win for HBU. “I probably would have done the same thing in that situation,” head coach Bob Nielson said when asked about the two-point attempt by Houston. “Neither team had done a very good job of stopping the other all day.

If you have a chance to win the game at the end, it’s probably the right decision.”

Following the “really disappointing loss,” Nielson gave credit to Houston Baptist.

“They’re a good offensive football team,” Nielson said.

“They have a very good quarterback; their skill players are talented. Unfortunately, that doesn’t match very well with where we’re at defensively right now.”

Simmons completed 48 of 63 passes for four touchdowns and one interception to go along with his 537 yards. His 63 attempts and 48 completions are also USD records. The team’s 642 yards set a program record as well.

Henry led the team with 83 yards rushing to pair with his three touchdowns on the day. Senior wide receiver Randy Baker tallied 102 yards receiving on 11 catches, while Caleb Vander Esch added 104 yards and a score.

Connor Herrmann totaled 76 yards along with his two touchdowns.

Junior safety Phillip Powell stood out from an otherwise lackluster defensive effort, securing two interceptions and seven tackles. Fellow junior safety Elijah Reed led the team with 13 tackles and added an interception as well. Senior defensive lineman Darin Greenfield tallied the team’s only sack.

Junior linebacker Jack Cochrane said Houston’s hightempo offense didn’t cause the defense problems, it was lack of execution on their part once again.

“We knew they were going to run tempo. It wasn’t the tempo giving us problems so much as it was executing,” Cochrane said. “It sounds cliché and simple, but it’s what really good teams do and we weren’t a really good team today.”

In the first quarter, Lorber broke the scoreless tie eight minutes into the game, converting a 30-yard field goal.

The Coyotes tacked on seven more points on the final play of the first quarter -- Simmons connected with junior tight end Herrmann for his first touchdown catch of the season.

Zappe answered back under two minutes later, throwing a 23-yard touchdown pass to junior receiver Ben Ratzlaff to cut the Coyote lead to three. Five minutes later, Henry punched in a one-yard score, finishing off a ten play, 79-yard drive and extending USD’s lead to 17-7.

With just seven seconds left in the half, Simmons threw a strike to senior receiver Dakari Allen from two yards out to give the Coyotes the lead 24-17 heading into the half.

Simmons completed 23-of-30 passes for 224 yards in the first half while Zappe was 11-of-18 for 134 yards and two interceptions.

Houston Baptist came out with guns blazing from the halftime break, marching down the field using a hurry-up offensive attack. Zappe found Ratzlaff to cap off a six-play, 61-yard drive that ate only one and a half minutes off the clock and tied the game at 24.

USD answered by driving 75 yards in four plays, as Simmons hit junior receiver Vander Esch over the middle to pull within one. However, the Coyotes were unable to tie the game as Lorber’s extra point attempt was blocked.

Zappe extended the lead to eight when he completed his touchdown pass to Ratzlaff, but USD answered with a seven-play, 75-yard touchdown drive capped by Simmons finding Herrmann in the end zone for the second time.

Allen caught the two-point attempt to tie things up at 38 heading into the fourth.

The Coyotes were forced to dig deep into the roster in the secondary as junior defensive back Mark Collins Jr. did not play and junior cornerback Bakhari Goodson and sophomore safety Cameron Tisdale left due to injury.

USD will look to earn their first win of the season on Saturday, Sept. 21 in Greeley Colorado as they take on Northern Colorado.

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USD soccer (2-5) erased a one-goal deficit within the final five minutes of play to secure their second win of the season against Drake (2-5-1) at Cownie Soccer Complex in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday.

With four minutes to play, USD scored in the 87thminute as sophomore Jordan Centino knotted the score 1-1 with a shot from outside the 18-yard box. A minute later, Drake committed a foul inside the penalty box, giving the Coyotes a chance from the spot.

Junior Alexis Mitchell stepped up and buried the penalty kick to give USD the one-point advantage with two minutes remaining. The win snaps a five-game losing streak for the Coyotes.

Drake broke a scoreless tie in the 86th minute as sophomore Libby Helverson

slot home a shot that deflected off a Coyotes defender before grazing past freshman Coyote goalkeeper Bella Alessio’s hand and bouncing off the crossbar into the net.

This was the fourth game in a row that a USD opponent had scored within the last five minutes of regulation or later.

The Coyotes battled back despite trailing Drake in shots (20-9) and committing more fouls (11-6).

Alessio notched four saves in the contest to junior Drake goalkeeper Kelsie Stone’s three.

The Coyotes continue their threegame road trip with a showdown in Gillette, Wyoming against Wyoming on Thursday, Sept 19.

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Completing a 45-mile bike ride may seem like a daunting trek, but margaritas at the finish line are motivation enough for some.

Last Saturday, 84 cyclists from across the region gathered in Vermillion to participate in the 18th annual Margarita Ride. Starting and ending at Carey’s Bar downtown, cyclists chose between a 15, 30 or 45-mile trip around Vermillion and other Clay County communities.

The ride benefits the Welcome

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Table, an organization that provides meals every Monday night for Vermillion community members. It also helps Recycle 605, a group that collects recycled bike materials and gives bikes to those in need.

“The first year was purely for fun, but now it is a way to give back and have fun,” said Kevin Brady, organizer of the Margarita Ride.

Brady has been with the ride since it began in 2001. He said he’s motivated by the progress of the ride’s impact not only in Vermillion but in other cities in South Dakota and Iowa.

“The [Margarita Ride] always brings in a big group from Sioux City and other cities,” Brady said, “We started as a small cycling club and now as charity ride, it’s really great to be able to give back to Vermillion.”

Sioux City cyclists Sarah Fredrickson, Sarah Fryber and Chris Vonvick made their way to Vermillion to take the 30-mile route. The women were a part of the large community of cyclists from Sioux City that frequent the Margarita Ride. The riders make the trek for the margaritas, the

views and to give back, they said.

“The route was very scenic and not too hilly, but we come not only to ride, but to help the charities,” Fryber said.

This year’s 84 cyclists is a higher turnout than the normal 60-70, Brady said. These 84 participants helped bring the Margarita Ride closer to their goal of purchasing a TriShaw for the community.

The TriShaw sits three people, one pedaling and two riding, and would allow for the elderly members of the community to get out and enjoy Vermillion on bikes.

At the end of the ride, riders join together at Carey’s Bar for margaritas and Mexican food for lunch, lining the sidewalks of downtown Vermillion with bikes and helmets.

Brady said he’s already looking forward to next year.

The Margarita Ride is looking to expand its volunteer base and to include some USD clubs in its charity efforts, Brady said. For information about the Margarita Ride, visit margaritaride.org.

New NMM director talks on new home, learning from expert staff

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Peyton Beyers I The Volante The National Music Museum is set to reopen in 2021. New museum director Matt Collinsworth is spearheading efforts toward expansion and updates throughout their building located on Clark Street.

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Despite not having a musical background and a thick Southern accent, Matt Collinsworth has lost nothing in communication since taking over as director for the National Music Museum last March.

Collinsworth previously worked as consultant director for the Lexington Art League. He generally studied literary and visual art but said when a search company called and told him to look at this job, he knew it was the right fit.

“I looked at the collection and even I’m smart enough to know… (the significance of) Johnny Cash’s and Collinsworth Elvis’ guitar

and what those things mean,” Collinsworth said. “I was blown away at the quality of this collection.”

Prior to his job at the Lexington Art League, Collinsworth spent 15 years as the director for the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State University. He said this experience made the move to South Dakota easier.

“Other than every time I talk and someone asking me where I’m from, it’s really similar here,” he said.

Collinsworth grew up on a farm and said he turned down job opportunities in bigger cities, including Nashville, to keep his rural roots.

“I am used to rural areas and rural folks, that’s where I’m comfortable. I think Vermillion is great, I think USD is great,” Collinsworth said. “(My family and I) are very comfortable here.”

Communication is critical for any new director, but

Patricia Bornhofen, manager of communications, said it’s even more vital now as the NMM is under construction.

“When you don’t have a building to speak for you and you don’t have the collection right behind you and you have to communicate a vision abstractly, you really need a person who is emotionally intelligent,” Bornhofen said.

Despite not having a building, Collinsworth has built relationships and connections with the staff simply by asking questions.

Because his background is not music-based, Collinsworth said it is extremely important for him to connect with staff and learn from their expertise.

“It gives you a chance to meet people, to ask questions and to learn from people. As long as you’re comfortable with saying ‘I don’t know that.

I know what I don’t know yet,’

and I’m comfortable with that,” Collinsworth said.

Working at a university similar size of USD has given Collinsworth comfort working with the community as director.

The museum is still fundraising to complete the renovations, which are set to be completed in 2021. Collinsworth has spearheaded fundraising efforts since taking over.

“The museum’s mission is big, to really grow the funding, support and exposure of the museum,” Bornhofen said.

“Matt’s experience made him a good fit because of his ability to tailor his communication to anybody,” Collinsworth left Monday to transport Italian instruments from the National Music Museums collection to Corona, Italy to be shown with their collection of instruments for a year.

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A brief history of USD’s structure fires Kelli Susemihl Kelli.Susemihl@coyotes.usd.edu

A planned arson, an ordinary fire that went horribly wrong and a building that refuses to give up. We know USD is lit, but turns out, the history of its buildings is too.

In its 157 years of existence, USD has had three major fires, according to Michael Seminara, an archivist at the Archives and Special Collections in the I.D. Weeks library.

These fires sparked in West Hall, Old Main and the Pardee Estee Laboratory.

West Hall

West Hall, USD’s men’s dormitory, had a reputation around Vermillion – for being ugly.

The Volante then described the building as “a wellordered stockyard” and “an honor to any state, in West Africa, that is.”

“People thought it was hideous,” Seminara said.

“They just did not like the

way the building was designed. At a time when there were so few buildings on campus, and when you compared it to University Hall, it seemed out of place. That’s why nobody liked it, everyone thought it was sort of an odd building on campus.”

During the summer of 1905, two Vermillion residents took matters into their own hands and started the building on fire, as well as two other local buildings they had deemed unattractive.

“They didn’t like the way the building looked,” Seminara said.

“They thought Vermillion was just full of ugly buildings and they wanted to burn down the ones they didn’t like.”

The two men, Elmer Jordan and Richard Brueschweiler, also planned to burn down the City Hall building with a hidden electrical device but were unsuccessful.

They plead guilty to their crimes, however, a petition was signed by over 50 men in the town asking that

their sentences be as short as possible.

“The one who confessed first and was sort of the mastermind of the plan, as they say, got 10 years, and the other accomplice got five years in the state penitentiary,” Seminara said.

After the fire, the ruins of West Hall were left untouched for over a year. University officials decided not to reconstruct the building and instead allocated the $15,000 collected from insurance to be used on renovations to East Hall, the women’s dormitory at the time.

“They decided not to rebuild it. They thought the boys were a little too loud and a little too rowdy to control within their dormitory,” Seminara said.

Old Main

Old Main, formerly known as University Hall, was the only academic building on campus when it burned on Oct. 15, 1893. “(Campus back then) was just a field and a single building, and that

building was University Hall,” Seminara said. “It housed everything, the music room where the fire started, the second floor was the library. It was a big deal, since it was the only building and it wasn’t that old at the date of the fire.”

The fire was started in the music room on the first floor when the firstmorning fire of the season was being lit. Smoke billowed from the windows and could be seen from across campus.

Over 1,000 spectators gathered on the field surrounding the building to watch University Hall burn.

“The fire department showed up but they couldn’t get enough water out of their hoses; there was no water pressure, they were pulling from wells that were on campus at the time. So people just started gathering around and watched it,” Seminara said.

As University Hall was in flames, faculty, students and the university president Joseph Mauck tried to save the books from the second-

The Volante I volanteonline.com floor library by throwing them out the window onto the lawn. Seminara said the Archives and Special Collections is still home to one of the original books that was thrown from the flames.

During the fire, the central tower and roof both collapsed, and gas explosions caused by the gun powder stored in the armory in the basement echoed in the air.

As the building was still smoking from the fire, Mauck posted a notice to students at the door, announcing that classes would continue as scheduled and stating his expectation for the students to remain loyal to the university.

“The loss of University Hall by fire this morning affords an occasion for the fullest exercise of your ‘Collegiate Spirit,’ and an exhibition of that loyalty which I have from time to time urged as due from you to your State and its university,” the notice read.

The following Tuesday, after a three-day weekend, classes began at 8 a.m., but they were held in the women’s dormitories in East Hall. According to university records, not a single student missed class.

“It was amusing to see how carefully the boys approached the classrooms in East Hall, lest they make a mistake,” the Vermillion Plain Talk reported.

As rumors circled that the university may be shut down, university officials sought to gain funding to the rebuilding of the uninsured University Hall.

Within a month of the fire,

over $10,000 in donations was collected from the Vermillion community. By 1899, University Hall was in full use once again. The reconstructed building came with an enlarged chapel with a balcony, new bell towers, and brick exterior, all iconic features in the building known as Old Main today.

Pardee-Estee Laboratory The Pardee Estee Laboratory, a chemistry building still on campus attached to ChurchillHaines, has been a victim of chemistry fires multiple times throughout its history, Seminara said. The most notable, however, ignited in January 1957.

“The fire happened in the dead of winter, January 25th,” he said. “And the fire department showed up… as soon as they started spraying, icicles started forming on the side, so you’ve got this burntout structure with icicles hanging off of it because it was so cold out.”

Each time the laboratory caught fire, it was rebuilt, and it is still in use for chemistry students today.

In the aftermath of all three of these fires, USD showed its ability to rebuild from the ashes.

“These three main fires are the ones who did real damage and really shaped the look of the campus,” Seminara said.

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University Hall (now Old Main) was the lone building on campus when it caught fire on Oct. 15, 1893. Bystanders watched smoke billow from the windows as others threw books from the second story in attempts to save them.

Roundtable event discusses civil rights issues in South Dakota Sara Cappiello Sara.Cappiello@coyotes.usd.edu

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A panel from representatives from advocacy organizations and scholarly experts convened in the Freedom Forum Thursday to discuss issues such as LGBTQ rights, access to healthcare and workplace equality.

As part of an annual discussion series, the Women, Gender and Sexuality studies department presented a Civil Rights Roundtable last Thursday.

With representatives from advocacy organizations and scholarly experts in attendance, the department designed the event for people to ask questions on civil rights issues.

Sara Lampert, program coordinator for Women, Gender and Sexuality studies, said this was an opportunity for students to learn about issues like LGBTQ rights, access to healthcare and workplace equality.

“I think a lot of times we hear about issues that are nationally important but we don’t always know how they affect us here,” Lampert said.

The topic for this

roundtable discussion was chosen based on the Title VII case hearings, regarding LGBTQ rights, that will take place in October. Lampert said she hopes this case would be a springboard for talking about civil rights issues in South Dakota.

“We want students to know about what people are doing in the state and engaging in civic questions.

We want to always let people know what’s out there,” Lampert said.

Travis Letellier, economics professor and the chair for Equality South Dakota, South Dakota’s only statewide LGBTQ group, was a panelist at the roundtable event.

Letellier said he was excited to see a variety of students and faculty and the event.

“What I hope from the audience’s perspective, is that they got to see that there are a lot of civil rights issues that are affecting many different segments of the South Dakota economy,” Letellier said.

The main purpose of the civil rights roundtable was to introduce them to the conversation about sex and gender discrimination.

“Things aren’t always rosy for everybody,” Letellier said.

“It’s important for us to all be aware that there are a lot of people in South Dakota and the United States who face a lot of uphill battles.”

The conversation about sex, gender civil rights in South Dakota is ongoing, this roundtable was just the beginning. Letellier said he hopes the audience walked away with a better understanding of these issues.

“The more we have these types of conversations, the more people across South Dakota realize that there are gay people in South Dakota, there are transgender people who live in South Dakota,” Letellier said. “We are voters, we are engaged in the political process. We are very active members in our community.”