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Week-long activities build on sustainable perspectives Trent Opstedahl

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A student signs her name to a banner at the Sustainability Fair April 21 in the Muenster University. By signing the banner, students pledged to cut down on their usage of plastic water bottles.

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It's for the University of South Dakota and for the community of Vermillion.

It's a voice of advocacy to promote a more sustainable Earth, but at the end of the day, it's for a better tomorrow.

As the week-long "earth (every) day" campaign event heads into the second half of activities, the Sustainable Vermillion committee, comprised of USD Sustainability Club members, USD Sustainability program members Vermillion community members, is hoping the more than 15 events held throughout the week in celebration of Earth Day — April 22 — will lead to a more sustainable lifestyle in the area.

Maggie Pettersen, a member of the Sustainable Vermillion committee, said the amount of planning that has gone into this week's activities is an indication that the community is ready to move forward with a sustainable mindset.

"I feel very positive about the future of sustainability in Vermillion, and I don't think it's going to be hard to continue it," Pettersen said.

"I think there are people just waiting to be asked (to help promote sustainability)."

Pettersen is the coordinator of the Downtown Sustainability Fair, which is scheduled for Thursday, April 24 at the Ratingen Platz from 5-7 p.m. The event will feature various exhibits themed around sustainability, with vendors such as Missouri Valley Recycling and Land-

Students have played an active role in the planning of a new multicultural center at the University of South Dakota.

After the USD executive committee approved the proposal for the center, plans for a location, name and purpose are to be decided with the help of consultants and students so it can be opened in fall 2014.

Kimberly Grieve, vice president for Student Services and Dean of Students, said she and Jesus Trevino, associate vice president for diversity, along with others on the committee, have been collaborating as the school year comes to an end and

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A full schedule Emily Roberson, co-president of the Sustainability Club, rides her bicycle April 21 to class. Bike/walk to class/work day is one of the activities planned throughout the week for the "earth (every) day" campaign event.

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Multicultural center location, name nears final recommendation

of the "earth (every) day" events.

plans need to be finished.

"We’ve worked in a lot of different ways with outside specialists as well as with students, but students have really been pushing for it for a couple of years so we are GRIEVE really, really excited," Grieve said.

An open forum between a total of 15 USD students and Trevino Dec. 5 allowed them to express their opinions and concerns for the center after a proposal presentation.

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Student lobbies for statute to improve USD Greek housing Nathan Ellenbecker

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Anna Hyronimus, a senior member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at the University of South Dakota, will lobby in Washington, D.C., April 30 for the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act (CHIA), which would reduce the costs for students living in Greek houses across the country, including those at USD. The act encourages charitable donations and improving costs of living for not-forprofit student housing entities such as Greek fraternity and sorority houses and will be presented to the nation's Congress this session.

“In order to combat the rising tuition costs for students, CHIA aims to create more affordable housing for stu-

dents by continuing to encourage tax-deductible charitable giving,” Hyronimus said.

Support for CHIA would allow donations made to notfor-profit university organizations to be tax-exempt if the money donated improves the safety and infrastructure of the houses.

CHIA would present an opportunity for more donations to improve houses and improve living costs. Donations would be made toward additions such as safety features and basic utilities.

Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity installed a new fire sprinkler system that runs throughout the house two years ago — a charitable donation to TKE for

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New app provides voters with tools to better prepare for upcoming election Michael Geheren

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The South Dakota Secretary of State’s office released a new iOS and Android app called Vote605 this month to help South Dakota residents, including students, get voter information for the midterm election.

After logging in with voter’s name and zip code, information for the upcoming election appears.

The app shows a map of

the poll location. The app also has a sample ballot for voters to look at prior to voting. The selections made in the sample ballot are not transmitted to or tracked by the state.

Information that is considered private such as a social security number or full birthdate is not in the application. The voter record is also not tied to the address of the voter to further protect the voter, according to

"Eighteen to 24 year olds make up close to 20 percent of the voting population, and they have the lowest turnout by far."

-Rachelle Norberg, member of College Democrats

the Secretary of State’s office.

South Dakota’s primaries will be June 3. The ballot in Vermillion will cover United States senate, governor and Clay County commissioner primaries. Voters will also select the mayor of Vermillion and candidates for alderman in select wards.

"Eighteen to 24 year olds make up close to 20 percent of the voting age population, and they have the lowest turnout by far," said Rachelle Norberg, a member of College Democrats.

Norberg believes it is important for students to voice their opinion with their vote.

"For as big of population as college students make up, they are very underrepresented in the issues and

in the people they send off, simply because they don't vote," Norberg said.

Register to vote There are three different types of voting students.

If the student is a permanent resident of Clay SEE VOTE, PAGE A6

ONLINE ONLY Register to vote by printing off a PDF of a voter registration form.

See the districts of Clay County to better understand what area candidates are running for.

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Senior Anna Hyronimus will travel to Washington, D.C., April 30 to lobby for the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act.

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CAMPUS & CITYDigest Documents link state-sponsored company, pipeline Jonathan Ellis Argus Leader

A state-sponsored company that directed millions of dollars from foreign investors to the idled Northern Beef Packers plant and other projects in South Dakota before running afoul of authorities also attempted to help finance the now-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, documents show.

Aberdeen-based SDRC Inc. submitted an application to federal immigration authorities to list the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, as a qualifying business under the federal EB-5 visa program, the Argus Leader ( ) reported on Sunday. The program allows foreign investors to secure permanent residency in the U.S. for investing at least $500,000 in qualifying projects.

The newspaper obtained copies of the application the company submitted to the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services and other documents through a Freedom of Informa-

tion Act request.

The South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development for years contracted with SDRC to administer the EB-5 program. The program helped fund several large projects in the state and was used to secure funding for the plant. But the company's contract was cancelled in September, months after state officials learned that a federal grand jury was investigating South Dakota's EB-5 program.

A state audit also found that more than half of a $1 million state grant to the beef plant was improperly diverted to SDRC. The newspaper reported that SDRC's founder, Joop Bollen, in May 2011 applied to USCIS for permission to add Calgary-based TransCanada Corp., which has proposed the controversial pipeline, as a qualifying business under the federal visa program. The same application asked to expand the company's coverage area to Montana and Nebraska, in a

bid to provide financing to the pipeline.

According to the contract that the company had with the state, its management of the EB-5 program was supposed to be "for the benefit of South Dakota."

The director of policy and communications for Gov. Dennis Daugaard, Tony Venhuizen, told the newspaper that state officials didn't learn until last summer of SDRC's application to provide EB-5 financing to the pipeline's operator. By then, the state's program was facing state and federal probes.

Venhuizen, however, said the state didn't know until last week under questioning by the newspaper that SDRC's was planning on expanding its services to Montana and Nebraska.

"That was not a detail that he (Bollen) mentioned," Venhuizen said.

Bollen did not respond to a request for comment from the newspaper.

A spokesman for the pipe-

line operator, Davis Sheremata, said Bollen contacted TransCanada.

"SDRC contacted us on an unsolicited basis offering to initiate an application for EB-5 funding," Sheremata said in a statement. "We shared with SDRC publicly available information on estimated costs for the project but opted not to pursue funding through the EB-5 program. Keystone XL is a $5.3 billion project that is completely privately funded."

The 1,179-mile pipeline is awaiting approval from the president. The Obama administration last week announced it is putting off its decision on the politically heated project, likely until after the November elections, by extending indefinitely its review of the project. The pipeline would travel through Montana and South Dakota to a hub in Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines to carry more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day to refineries in Texas.

Vermillion police blotter >> April 16 - April 22 For more information about the crimes featured below or for an interactive map with all of their locations, go to

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traffic incidents

April 16 A two-vehicle accident took place on East Cherry Street.

Reports indicated one of the drivers fled on foot from the scene.

Following investigation, police learned the woman had panicked after the collision and was cited for causing the crash. No injuries were reported.

April 17 Police arrested and charged

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a man with possession of a controlled substance and ingestion after police pulled over his vehicle on Elm Street. When the officer approached the car, the man reportedly attempted to hide something. He was searched and police found alcohol. The driver and his passenger were underage.

In addition, the driver was in possession of prescription pills which were not his.

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A man was killed in a two-vehicle car accident at the intersection of Highway. 50 and Highway. 19 Thursday evening when his SUV struck a semi-truck while traveling southbound on Highway 19.

His vehicle struck the side of the trailer. The man was pronounced dead on the scene and the driver of the truck was uninjured.

April 18 An officer pulled over a driver

DWI

for texting while driving along North Dakota Street. The driver admitted to the offense and was cited.

April 19 Police are investigating a car theft along Forest Avenue. The caller contacted police about someone entering their vehicle while parked in their driveway and stole a purse. The purse was located with cash missing.

This week in Coyote History

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1976 South Dakota Senator George McGovern addressed the University of South Dakota Student History Conference. His lecture topic was "Measuring America's Strength, Food Not Fire Power." He reported on the role of the United States after his travels throughout the world with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He was confident in the national security but said the U.S. could play a constructive role in world affairs.

He said the government needed to reflect the tradition of caring for fellow human beings.

2000 A proposal to charge a fee of $2 for parking at the USD DakotaDome was shot down. The fee would be for anyone who did not have a parking pass of any kind and would provide the athletic fund the money for a new Dome roof.

The proposed parking fee did not make it to the University Executive Council to be passed officially, simply because there had not been a fee in the past. It was found that it would be best to let the proposal "sit for a while."

Coyote Media Weekly Update LIVE AT 5 • Watch Coyote News tonight on channel 21 to find out more about newly hired coach Craig Smith.

TUNE IN AT NOON • Tune in to KAOR 91.1 FM today at noon to hear about the Red and White spring football game April 26.

Corrections To submit a correction, please email Emily.K.Niebrugge@usd. edu.

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1. Vermillion teens died in a car crash, cold case closed 2. Pageant contestants prepare for Miss South Dakota 3. Out-of-state students see 7 percent tuition increase, in-state students experience tuition freeze 4. Wonnenberg Princeton bound 5. University works to expand its brand

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Construction workers tear off old shingles from East Hall April 21. The building was originally constructed in 1888.

CAMPUS Human rights expert to talk about drones The University of South Dakota will host a human rights expert courtesy of the International Studies program April 24 at 7 p.m. in Farber Hall, Old Main Building.

Rafia Zakaria is the first speaker in the annual lecture series and will speak about human rights concerns related to drone warfare, including civilian casualties caused by drone strikes.

Zakaria is a Pakistani American who is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University, where she

earned her Juris Doctorate.

She was awarded the John Edwards Fellow for 20072008 during her graduate work and was recognized by the Indiana Congress for work on behalf of South Asian women.

The first Pakistani American woman to serve as a Director for Amnesty International, she serves on the Board of Directors for Amnesty International.

She also chairs the Planning and Priority Committee for Amnesty International and maintains a broad portfolio of published journalistic and scholarly work.

USD political science professor and director of the International Studies program Timothy Schorn said in a press release many

Americans are unaware of human rights violations around the world and that Zakaria will speak about a relevant and important issue.

The lecture is open to the public and admission is free.

The event hosted several chapters which could compete to test member’s sales and management skills.

Workshops and speakers offered advice, including how to improve themselves or help with resumes and interviewing.

Five of the members participated in a real world case study competition.

Students were given information on a company and had to offer an analysis and advice.

PSE member Bruce Biegler was named as a Future Leader and Jarrad Emery was named as a Finalist for PSE’s Tope Salesperson of the Year award.

Other members who attended the 58th annual event were Rachael Byrd, Anna Duxbury, Caitlin Heyl, Elizabeth Kendall, Brooke Burgeson, Dawson Deming, Sheldon Moysis and Matthew Trammel.

and Development Company (VCDC) President Gerry Tracy accepted the award on behalf of the community at the Governor’s Economic Development Conference in Sioux Falls.

Vermillion has seen economic growth due to partnerships between the City of Vermillion, Clay County, the VCDC, USD, Vermillion School District and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development along with public and private entities in the community.

The VCDC has broken ground on a new housing development, Bliss Pointe, which is set to offer low to moderately priced lots for new home construction.

The VCDC is working on housing and community enhancement and is addressing the real estate and workforce training needs of companies.

A 32,000 square foot office facility to house Eagle Creek Software Services is under construction.

Trip to Florida earns Pi STATE Sigma Epsilon award Gov. Daugaard names Survey finds educated Vermillion 2014 large students earn more The University of South Dakota’s co-ed sales community of the year Over a 10-day period and marketing business fraternity received a top award at nationals in Miami, Fl. USD’s Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE) Delta Mu chapter received the honor of Top Amethyst Chapter at the awards banquet.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard named Vermillion as Large Community of the Year.

Mayor Jack Powell, University of South Dakota President James Abbott and Vermillion Area Chamber

in Feb. 2014, the “Dakota Poll” surveyed 400 South Dakotans between the ages of 18 and 35. The margin of error was +/-4 percent.

The survey found young adults to be actively religious, value their

education and consider “quality of life” and “a good place to raise a family” as the primary reasons to live in South Dakota, even with its low wage economy.

They deemed work/job oppor tunities/employment/career opportunities and better pay/more money as the primary reasons to vacate the state.

Of the respondents, 71 percent said receiving a college education would make a “big difference” in their lives. Others in the survey said a college education was “over-rated or doesn’t really count for all that much any more” agreed by 21 percent.

Of those surveyed, fiftyone percent had a four-year college degree by the age of 35.

Of those polled, 29 percent have student loan debt, 25 percent have more than $30,000 and 59 percent of those with debt owe more than $10,000.

It was found young adults with a four-year college degree are much more likely to earn higher incomes: 79 percent of those earning less than $20,000 have no college degree and 60 percent of those earning more than $50,000 a year have a fouryear college degree.

Topline results and extensive crosstabs are available at DakotaPoll. com.

USD PROPERTY SURPLUS SALE The University will sell miscellaneous items including bicycles, chairs, shelving-disassembled and assembled, file cabinets and other items.

Friday, May 2, from 9 am to 3pm.

Located at the quonset north of the DakotaDome across highway 50, next to the Vucurevich Day Care Center.

Any questions call 605-677-5669.

Terms of Sale: Cash Only

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Job Blitz April 24

Flexible Hours t o fit your ne eds!

1PM - 7PM 1314 E Cherry St. Vermillion, SD (605) 624-4419

Walk-in interviews will be conducted on a first come first serve basis.

SESDAC is looking to hire Direct Support Professionals (DSP) for Day, Evening, and Overnight positions.

As a DSP you will support adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to work and live in Vermillion. Every day is filled ith variety, fun, excitement, and rewarding experiences.

Please bring a completed application to the interview.

For more information visit www.sesdac.org

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Get out and vote Whether you belong to the Independent, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, Constitutional or Republican party, there’s one time when your voice counts the most — when you cast your vote for an election.

Young people have a particularly big responsibility to make it out to the election: We’re the ones affected by the decisions in the long run.

The people elected to these legislative positions represent you. They represent how your tax money should be spent, what jobs look like in the state, decisions on healthcare, your social security, crime prevention and the children in our state.

When you choose not to vote, you’ve put the decisions into someone else’s hands. Voting day leaves every person as an equal, so take advantage of that opportunity.

Even if you have no intention of ever being a political science major, it’s still your responsibility to take some time and make an educated decision for who you will vote for.

Take the time to attend the political speakers the university brings in. Check out the University of South Dakota’s College Republicans, College Democrats or College Libertarians.

This summer the primary elections will be held June 3, with a general election Nov. 4.

On the 2014 ballot: U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state executives, state senate, state house, statewide ballot measures and school boards.

In the upcoming 2014 election, students at the University of South Dakota have the distinct opportunity to play a role in the way the Vermillion and South Dakota community shapes out.

Becoming educated on the issues on the ballot this year in South Dakota and Vermillion will not only lead to a smarter decision when it comes to voting, but could help improve your community in the immediate future.

Becoming educated on the issues on the ballot this year in

South Dakota, Clay County and Vermillion is not only essential to improving the immediate future in the community, but setting up better times for those who attend USD afterward.

In South Dakota, the senatorial race, as outlined in the four letters to the editor included on A5, will control the indefinite future of students and citizens of South Dakota.

The winner of the 2014 race will undoubtedly hold weight for current and incoming students on issues involving tuition increases, university funding and almost any issue faced on a college campus.

So, get out there USD. Support your community by voting in this year’s election.

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Grasp the opportunity to impact a life: Become an organ donor Hannah nagy is a sophomore majoring in English.

Watching the news the other night, one story in particular caught my attention. A 21-year-old nursing student had died in an accident back in September.

Such news is typical, but this one stood out among the

usual stories. Kristina Chesterman was an organ donor, and upon her death two infants, a family friend and a 64 year-old woman received a second chance. The woman, Susan Vieira, who happens to be a registered nurse, received Kristina’s heart.

After meeting Kristina’s mother, Vieira decided to fulfill Kristina’s bucket list, which included skydiving and travelling to all of the continents.

The story brought tears to my eyes as I contemplated the ironies life has to offer. As a college student, watching this tale unveiled the reality of living.

We happen to be in the prime of our lives and have the potential to achieve greatness. On the other hand, time may not be on our side.

Life seems to enjoy throwing curveballs at unsuspecting victims. Sometimes, it may not end with our happiness, but we have the opportunity to influence another person’s life, simply by checking “yes” to becoming an organ donor.

With a simple checkmark it is within our power to improve another’s life, perhaps even save one. One thing I have always known is that if I was ever offered the opportunity to save someone

and didn’t, the guilt would linger in my mind until the end of my days. By becoming an organ donor, one has the chance to do exactly that.

According to www.organdonor.gov “Each day, an average of 79 people receive organ transplants. However, an average of 18 people die each day waiting for transplants that can’t take place because of the shortage of donated organs.”

In 2011, the site for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated the number of people who had died that year was 2,513,171. Divide that by 365 and the outcome was 6,885.4 deaths per day

in the United States alone, yet we can’t save the 18 on a transplant list who are merely waiting for a second chance at life?

Each person can make a difference. University of South Dakota sophomore Samantha Johnson, an organ donor, said being an organ donor is very important.

“When you pass away you don’t need your organs and someone else in need can live because of you. You can live on through them,” Johnson said.

Granted, not all organ transplants go accordingly, and I understand people have

their reasons for saying no, but, I would have rather tried to save someone’s life than not try at all.

You can become a little boy’s hero, an elderly woman’s inspiration, a young woman’s dream come true after much time spent suffering. I’m not asking anyone to give up their life, all I’m asking for is to consider that a simple “yes” to becoming an organ donor may, someday (hopefully in the far off future), improve or save someone else’s life.

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Print journalism isn’t dead, despite increase in online coverage Malachi Petersen is a first-year majoring in contemporary media and journalism, and political science.

“Print journalism is dead” is a terrible misconception often heard by journalists such as myself.

In an era where more people consume their news from the television rather than print or radio, it might seem print journalism is going the way of the dinosaurs and

coming to an end. The truth of the matter, however, is that print journalism isn’t dead. In fact, it’s very much alive.

While the circulation of actual print editions of newspapers has decreased in recent years, the subscription to digital editions to papers has increased.

This increase in digital consumption is stemming from the increased use of mobile devices for news consumption. According to a Pew Research Center article entitled “12 trends shaping digital news” 50 percent of Americans now get their news online, and about 60 percent of both smartphone users and tablet users get news from

their devices.

With the increase in the use of mobile devices to consume news, the industry of print journalism has taken notice and has started to adapt to the preferences of their readership. Newspapers across the country are starting to move online to keep up with their readers.

One example of this new online-oriented mindset is the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Covering the largest city in South Dakota, the Argus Leader still maintains a daily print edition but has also created a large online presence.

Just last month the Argus Leader launched a new website, one that displays

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contact us The Volante welcomes letters to the editor in regards to campus, local, state and national issues. Letters will be edited for clarity and length and will be printed as space allows. Please limit letters to 300 words or fewer. The Volante reserves the right to hold letters for publication in a later issue.

Submissions must include the author’s name, address, telephone number, year in school and major or job title. Letters must be exclusively for The Volante.

We will not publish anonymous letters.

Send letters to: Letters, The Volante Al Neuharth Media Center 555 Dakota St. Vermillion, S.D. 57069 Fax to: 605.677.5105 E-mail to: Volante@coyotes.usd.edu Via our Web site: VolanteOnline.com The deadline for letters is 5 p.m. the Friday prior to publication.

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news cleanly and in a timely manner. Using a pay wall for its online edition the newspaper allows non-subcribers to browse a couple articles for free every day.

Once the article limit is reached the viewer is partially shut out from reading and is asked to pay a subscription fee. For just online news coverage, unlimited access is priced at $9 a month, which allows the paper to generate revenue from online news consumers.

Another example of the jump to online oriented newswriting is the paper you’re reading right now. After seeing that most of our readership was coming from the Internet

and mobile devices, journalists at The Volante decided something needed to be done.

Over the course of three months we slowly built a new website under the direction of our Online Content Editor Megan Card, Online Design Editor Michael Geheren and Editor and Chief Emily Niebrugge.

The new Volante website is clean and easy to navigate. The best part about it?

It’s accessible on all types of devices.

Just because we have a new website doesn’t mean we’ve completely forgotten about the print edition though.

There will still be an actual paper every week, but now

readers will be getting news updates daily on the website.

There’s going to be stories, opinion pieces like this one, videos and photo galleries.

Newspapers have seen that in order to survive in the world of social media and instataneous news they have to be online oriented. The print editions of papers are still going to be around.

The important thing to take away from the shift to online reporting at newspapers is that print journalism isn’t going away anytime soon.

Print’s not dead–it’s just evolving.

Follow Malachi Petersen on Twitter @malachi111493

Opinion Poll

Every week The Volante will pose a question for students to voice their opinion. Go to volanteonline.com to answer the poll question. We will post the results in the next issue.

what change are you most excited for in the fall 2014 semester?

1. Housing renovations

3. Changes to academic catalogs

2. Adjusted meal plans

4. Papa John’s in the Beede Bump

April 9 results How do you feel about out-of-state students’ tuition being raised?

Editors note: Please visit the poll at volanteonline. com and see the results printed in each week’s issue of The Volante.

It should be equal.

24%

It should only cost a little more.

It is unfair.

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Commentary Letter to the Editor South Dakota senatorial candidates give their voice to the students in regards to the election. All candidates were contacted with the possiblity to send in a letter to the editor.

USD alumnus, Larry Pressler Rick Weiland urges citizens encourages students to vote to take back the government Julian Hall — that was my home when I attended the University of South Dakota from 1960 to 1964. I am now an Independent candidate for the US Senate, having already served three terms in the Senate.

It was my privilege to be President of the Student Body, and to be elected a Rhodes scholar to Oxford England in 1964.

During my previous years in the Senate, I did a lot of work on Pell Grants and Stafford loans for students, as I felt like we should be investing in our own people here at home.

I am a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, which I consider now a waste of time and a waste of our nation’s blood and treasure. We should have spent that money on education here in the United States.

I am opposed to most of our foreign military interventions — in that sense I am a Libertarian. I want us to have a strong national defense, but not to get involved in all sorts of needless foreign wars.

We need to pay down our deficit and help our own people, especially students.

Our universities have become very high-cost to students. We need to allocate more resources to students, not necessarily to university administrator’s salaries or to new buildings or to grandiose projects, but to the basic educational needs of students.

Since leaving the Senate I

have been a Fulbright Professor abroad to a number of different universities. I have always kept a foot in South Dakota, and have Larry Pressler taught at four South Dakota universities, including the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

I am very grateful to Professor Richardson and others who helped me teach that semester. I am still in touch with many of my students from that class.

In the 18 years since I left the Senate, I have devoted myself to students, and I would like to continue to do that in the US Senate if I were to return. I have been disappointed at the low number of students who have registered to vote.

Wake up, students — and help me get back into the US Senate where I can work for you.

My wife Harriet and I just attended a “red tie” fundraiser for the University of South Dakota in Sioux Falls the other night. I remain very loyal to USD, and although I have degrees from Oxford University, England and two graduate degrees from Harvard, including a Harvard Law degree, I

Larry pressler Pressler is a 71-year-old Republican from Humboldt, SD. He is a former three-term senator, and served as South Dakota’s GOP from 1979 to 1997 for 18 years.

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always proudly say the University of South Dakota when people ask me where I went to college, because that is where my basic loyalty lies.

The University of South Dakota helped me with a parttime job as I was struggling to stay in Julian Hall and to get through my four years at USD. I did not join a fraternity while at USD, but later, as an adult, was named to Sigma Alpha Epsilon by my nephews at South Dakota State. I did not have enough money to join a fraternity, and in fact I did not have enough money to go to the movies very often when I was at USD. But I had great support from Dr. Farber and others, as well as many other students who helped me become student body President, with strong support from Julian Hall. I have so many memories of USD. I will be speaking frequently at USD at different classes and meetings this campaign, so I look forward to seeing you. Thank you all for your help.

Larry Pressler

It is fashionable these days to dump on politics and on government — fashionable, but very stupid.

The alternative to politics is on display on the news every night. It comes to you from places like Syria, Afghanistan and the Ukraine. It is called war.

Our politics may get a little noisy at times, noisier than it has to or should.

But at its very worst politics in our democracy is infinitely preferable to the only alternative that exists, the settling of public policy differences with bombs and young lives.

And so far as the trendy trashing of government goes, think about it.

All those “fools” down in Washington — all those clowns who bring us huge deficits and endless programs that seem to help everyone but us — they were all sent there by our votes, or by our failure to vote or to pay attention to what or who we were voting for.

I am running for the United States Senate because I respect politics, and I deeply believe the government of the United States of America, the government created by us through our democracy, once was, and can again become, the finest government ever created by humankind.

All that is missing is us.

What is wrong with our

democracy is that we have allowed selfish interests, inspired by personal greed and love of power, Rick weiland to take control of what used to be our government.

Instead of the impartial referee that kept the powerful in check so each one of us had the opportunity to go as far as drive and determination could take us, they have turned government into a cheerleader for privilege and unearned profit of unimaginable size.

Government is not the problem. When it is OUR government it busts trusts, defeats tyrants, authors GI Bills and referees the healthy competition that once made our economy the envy of the world.

But when we let huge contributions from the owners of gigantic, often ill gotten fortunes, buy off what used to be our representatives, how can we be surprised that they get what they pay for?

I am running for Senate to try to take back our government.

Step one in that fight will be to reverse the perverse

Rick weiland

Weiland is a 55-year-old Democrat from Madison, SD. He is an alumnus of the University of South Dakota who ran for Congress in 2002.

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decision of the Supreme Court that said money has the right to speech, and thus the billionaire can speak a billion times louder than the rest of us.

Step two will be to fight to put the interests of ordinary folks in ordinary things, like jobs and health, affordable education and a livable world, above the special interests of big money in huge profits created through insider favors from the government they have bought.

This, in my view, is a fight for the future of America. If we get into it, if we take the democracy Jefferson gave us and use it, we will win because we are the majority, and they are not.

But if we throw up our hands in disgust at the government we now have, if we give up on politics, and government, and democracy, then we will lose, and America will continue turning into the land of the insider deal and the quick, unearned buck.

The choice is ours.

Rick Weiland

Nelson vouches for less spending, less government

Republican? Liberal?

Independent? Moderate?

Democrat? Libertarian?

Conservative? Constitutionalist? These terms have an impact on whether we will either fix or exacerbate the pressing issue of the $17 Trillion in national debt that is doing to our economy, and your futures, as to what a wet blanket does to a party.

Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of your country. Regardless of where most stand on that political spectrum, most agree we must do something about our economy.

The first step to doing something about it is to get you registered to vote.

Never before in the history of our country has it been more important for you, the voter, to be educated on the issues Stace Nelson facing you, the difference in political beliefs, and to take action by voting in your public elections.

We are at a cross-road in our history. The pressing questions before you today are: Do we make dramatic course corrections and return to the path our coun-

try previously embraced of free-market capitalism, limited government, and personal responsibility, that exploded the success of our country?

Or, do we double down, and continue down the doomed path of the unholy mixture of crony-capitalism, nanny-statism, and socialism, perpetuated by moderate Republicans and furthered by liberal Democrats, that has depressed our economy and indebted your generation?

For your consideration: The Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate race advocates more of the same path. All five Republican candidates (including myself ) claim they will go

to DC and cut government and get us back on the path of limited government. Two of my moderate Republican opponents though did the opposite while in state government, and exploded spending, debt and government.

My other two opponents claim they will fight to cut government, oppose tax/ spending/government increases, but have never bothered to advocate for such at the state level. I am the only candidate in the U.S. Senate race that has a voting record of actually cutting the size of government, reduced spending, consistently opposing tax/ fee/government/spending increases and fought crony-

capitalism and corruption in our state government.

For the last four years I have served you in your South Dakota House of Representatives where I have proven I am a conservative Republican (with a mean Libertarian and Constitutionalist streak).

For 23.5 years before that, I served you as a U.S. Marine and as an NCIS agent, where I proved every day that up to and including my life, I would give my last breath for you and this country we all love.

I offer myself up to you once more to serve as your dedicated public servant, to go to DC and fight to cut government, cut spending, rein in a federal govern-

stace nelson Nelson is an 46-year-old Independent from Salem, SD. He was a former Marine. In 2010, Nelson represented District 19 as a State Representative.

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ment and strive to take our country back to the future to that shining city on the hill where all things are possible for all Americans.

God bless and Semper Fidelis.

Respectfully, your servant, Stace Nelson

Mike Rounds: ‘Federal government needs to be reined in’ Mike rounds

Out of control spending, bureaucratic overreach and a president with far too much power — it’s federal government run amok and it needs to be stopped before it’s too late.

Congress has surrendered its constitutional authority to the White House as well as the bureaucracies under Barrack Obama’s control.

Congress has the ability to take back that authority, but many members don’t want to do the hard work it takes to restore the balance of power that our founding fathers intended.

Some members of con-

gress, including Sen. John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem are willing to fight for what’s best for all Americans by signing on to the REINS Act and I wholeheartedly support the REINS Act as well.

The full bill title is Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny, but simply put, it gives congress the ability to stop harmful, job killing policies before they go into effect. Right now, the president can direct his agencies to make and enforce rules with little or no oversight from the house or senate.

The REINS Act would require Congress to approve

every major rule proposed by the Executive Branch, which has an annual economic impact of $100 million or more.

The facts show more mike rounds than 130 separate regulatory burdens were implemented at the direction of the president in his first term alone, adding an estimated $70 billion in new

annual costs to the American economy.

The most harmful and most expensive example of this bureaucratic nightmare is Obamacare. Nancy Pelosi’s comment that “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it” is exactly why congress needs to play a greater role in making sure these policies are right for America. The president’s agencies continue to create additional rules and regulations increasing its multi-trillion dollar cost.

We have to end Obamacare before it breaks us.

Here in South Dakota, the president has delayed the

Keystone XL pipeline, the EPA blocked the Big Stone II coal plant and the IRS is invading our private lives. There’s no doubt that this government overreach is harming our economy, taking money out of our pockets and limiting our freedoms.

This is unacceptable and I believe such wasteful, bureaucratic overreach can be stopped if the REINS Act is put in place.

The REINS Act was passed in the US House but now it’s currently sitting in a Senate committee at the direction of Harry Reid where it will likely die. A Republican majority

United states senate election in south dakota, 2014

When are the elections?

-Republican Party

-Democratic Party

The Primary election will be June 10, 2014 with the General Election Nov. 4, 2014.

Mike Rounds

Rick Weiland

Who is able to vote in which election?

What is the register deadline?

Stace Nelson

-Independent

Who are the candidates?

Annette Bosworth

Larry Pressler

The parties decide who may vote. For the Democratic primary, registered Democratics and unaffiliated voters may vote. Only registered Republicans may vote in the Republican primary.

In order to vote in the primary elections, voters must register by May 19, 2014. Voters must register before Oct. 20, 2014 to be eligible to vote for the general election in Nov.

The election will be held to replace Incumbent Democratic Senator Tim Johnson. Johnson was first elected in 1996, and announced March 25, 2013 he would not run for another term in the current election.

The candidate filing deadline was March 25, 2014. There are seven candidates running for the Senate position.

Larry Rhoden

Jason Ravensborg

Rounds is a 59-year-old Republican from Huron, SD. He was a senator from 1991 to 2001. Rounds was the 31 Govenor from 2003 to 2011.

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in the US Senate would pass the REINS Act, just as the US House did.

This is another example of why we need more South Dakota common sense in Washington and less Washington in South Dakota.

Mike Rounds

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Students live with sewage smell in Coyote Village Austin Ashlock

Austin.Ashlock@coyotes.usd.edu

When sophomore Elizabeth Oden and her roommate sophomore Sam Heard entered their Coyote Village apartment three weeks ago, they noticed a notso-pleasant smell.

"I walked into the room and the smell of sewage just hit me," Oden said. "It filled the whole room, and we weren't sure why."

The smell, while it lasted for just two weeks, had its effects on Oden and Heard.

"When you walked in the room it smelled bad, but after like two minutes you got used to it," Oden said. "We didn't like having people over with it — we didn't want people thinking we are slobs or anything."

Todd Tucker, USD interim director of housing, said this issue is something the university is aware of.

"We do actually hear about those pretty frequently," Tucker said. "With the building and because every suite and apartment has their own individual

heating and cooling units in it, sometimes those need to be released and have water put down the drain so that sewer smell doesn't come up."

USD Facilities Management did not respond to The Volante after multiple phone calls and emails for more specifics behind the sewer smell.

Oden later realized she could run all the water in the room for approximately two minutes, and that helped subside the problem.

Tucker said the problem can be temporarily resolved.

"Anytime we hear about it we can get it resolved in that same day as long as students are letting us know that it's happening," Tucker said. "Our facilities folks can go in that area in their apartment and run some water and it'll go away."

Oden and Heard aren't alone, however.

Erica Erickson lives on the third floor of Coyote Village and said she, too, has been experiencing the smell of sewage in her room on and off for the entire year.

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"I don't want to live in a place that smells like sewer."

-Erica Erickson, student

"It started about a month after I moved in, when it started to cool down. It was especially bad over Christmas break," she said. "It was absolutely horrible."

Erickson said the smell has

been less of an issue as-of-late, but was frequent from November 2013 to February.

Just like Oden and her roommate, Erickson said the smell was not strong enough to cause a problem, and did not report

a look at the way Coyote Village functions. Something is obviously going wrong."

Tucker said the sewer smell is concerning to him and to the university, however, he isn't certain if there is a long-term fix.

"I don't know if that's something that happens in all the apartments and if it happens frequently," Tucker said. "We do track those things when we do come up, so we know about them and we can work with facilities management if it's in an area that continues to happen and that we do something about it."

In addition, Tucker encourages any and all feedback regarding problems and issues with student housing.

"There is nothing wrong with complaining or letting their CA know and talking about the issues that are happening. We can fix it, or if there isn't a fix we can let them know this is what they need to do so we can get it taken care of for you," he said.

the issue to housing.

"I figured it would go away eventually. I didn't feel the need to let anyone know because it only lasted a couple days," she said. "If it would have lasted longer, I would have told the front desk."

The issue has been much more severe for residents living below Erickson, she said.

"My best friend lives (on the first floor) and she had to report it because the smell lasted for more than a week," she said.

While neither made any official reports to the university, Oden and her roommate were told the issue was solvable by facility workers.

The smell, among other issues, has played a serious role in choosing where to live in 2014-15 for Erickson.

"I don't want to live in a place that smells like sewer," she said.

Instead, she hopes to live in McFadden by the time the fall semester rolls around.

"If there is something that can be done to fix it, why are they not doing it?" Erickson said. "They really need to take

Follow reporter Austin Ashlock on Twitter @A_Ashlock33

USD students aim to 'create a positive climate' surrounding diversity through Facebook Sophie Johnson

Sophie.Johnson@coyotes.usd.edu

University of South Dakota Health Science students are working to bring about campus diversity awareness through the Internet.

After participating in 10 hours of the Voices of Discovery program, Dean of Health Sciences Laurie Lind said she wanted her students to take what they learned and disseminate that information, which is how the idea of a Facebook page — Voices of Discovery: Supporting Unity was born.

Because the Facebook page had never been done before, Lind elicited the help of her students and Jesus Trevino, associate vice president for diversity, to get the ball rolling.

"We had discussion in class on what we wanted to do with the page," she said. "We asked ourselves what it should be called, what was our philosophy."

Lind teaches Pre-Professional Communication and Relationship Centered Care. Per graduation requirements, Health Science majors are required to complete 68 hours of community service. Out of the 20 hours required for Lind's class, 10 of them came from the Voices of Discovery program.

Trevino was responsible for organizing the Voices of Discovery events.

As result of uncharted territory, HSC 305 was scouting out help Lind said. Lind said she noticed initial resistance from a few of her students to begin the project.

"With this project the students were not given rigid guidelines or rubrics, which was hard for some personalities that liked to have everything laid out," Lind said.

Spencor Luze, a student in HSC 305 admitted to being hesitant at first.

"At first everyone was kind

WHAT IS VOICES OF DISCOVERY?

Voices of Discovery: An Intergroup Dialogue Program was started by Jesus Trevino, associate vice president for diversity, in spring 2013 to create a safe space for students to talk across their differences. A program to increase diversity dialogue between University of South Dakota students, its membership more than doubled this semester. of hesitant, but once we started going along everyone started to enjoy the page a lot more. Everyone got a lot more involved then I think we were expecting," Luze said.

However, with time, the feeling of ownership swayed the students opinion of the page, Lind said.

"The students started to feel good about being the first ones to create this page," she said.

"When students started to feel some ownership is when they really started to get on board with it."

Trevino praises the Facebook page because he said it expands the Voices of Discovery inter-dialogue by executing an "essential piece to the puzzle."

"What professor Lind's students are doing is really awesome. It's the important action piece — taking what they have learned and turning it into an action of, 'What can I do to make this a better place?'" Trevino said.

One of the projects students added to the page included an

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the system would be encouraged and tax-exempt through CHIA. Lucas Peterson, sophomore and vice-president of TKE, said the fraternity is always looking at inspection of house and grounds to make an easier living experience for the entire house.

“Every year we have the fire

inspector come in and tell us if there’s something we need fixed,” Peterson said. “The sprinkler system was huge and helped us get up to code. We try to keep costs low in general with rent and utilities.”

Peterson said the official costs of living in TKE go through an alumni board.

The alumni board control is common for all Greek houses, Hyronimus said.

“There are usually facility corporation boards that dictate where money will be spent

iMovie with the concept of being born a certain way.

"Two HSC 305 students went to the MUC with Trevino and they asked other students how they felt they were born a certain way," Lind said. "They wrote down how they are different and how they were unified and then the HSC students took their picture. An example would be, 'I was born Lebanese but am through and through a Coyote.'"

Everybody from HSC 305 took part in creating the Facebook page, Luze said.

"Everybody in the class was made an administrator to the page so we could add and delete stuff," he said. "We posted on the page what we have completed from the list of 50 actions Dr. Trevino gave us to help spread the idea."

Luze complete action No. 1 on the list of suggested actions to practice inclusive excellence at USD. "I did action No. 1 which was to participate in a course on diversity. I participate in Voices of Discovery. I like Voices of Discover because it opened up my mind to the view of different cultures and how we think about each other," Luze said.

The HSC 305 students plan to put all the pictures together to create the movie and upload it to the Facebook page. Other actions that are on the page or will be added to the page in the near future include brochures, posters, a list of hotlines and interviews.

Lind said she hopes to see the page grow, going from a campuswide page to a page the general public interacts with.

"We hope that people will ask their friends to like it and share it, and we are going to keep adding to it with projects," Lind said.

"The Facebook page is really awesome to be able to see students take the initiative to create a positive climate here at the university."

Luze said he hopes other classes will continue the page.

"As a class we discussed removing ourselves as administrators from the page, leaving only Professor Lind as the administrator. Our hope is that the new classes continue our goal to reach around the campus, community and beyond that," Luze said.

Voices of Discovery: Supporting Unity was founded March 19 and is open to the public.

on,” Hyronimus said. “The funds they receive are usually given by generous alumni, not charitable organizations.”

Hyronimus said creating a more open lane for donors is the ultimate goal of CHIA. She will present statistics in favor of off-campus Greek housing, USD student government resolution in favor of CHIA and photos of infrastructure needs to South Dakota's three representatives in Congress.

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Vermillion community member Barbara Wilson (left) gets her book signed by author and sustainability activist Frances Moore Lappe (right) at an Earth Week lecture April 22 in the Muenster University Center Ballroom.

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fill, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and Red Earth Cooperative in attendance.

Other scheduled activities include face painting, a rainfall simulator demonstrating what healthy soil looks like and food served

by Red Steakhouse Cafe Brule.

The first of its kind in terms of longevity, the "earth (every) day" campaign in Vermillion has been in the works for several months.

Meghann Jarchow, adviser of the Sustainability Club and head of the Sustainability department, first organized a meeting in January to discuss the possibility hosting a series of events during the week of Earth day because of the Frances Moore Lappe speaker visit her department was planning.

Lappe, an internationally-renowned sustainability activist, delivered a lecture at USD April 22 in the Muenster University Center ballroom. She emphasized that society is locked in a mental map that is based on separateness, stasis and scarcity. This failing framework, she said, leads to a "spiral of powerlessness" that perpetuates unsustain-

able practices.

"What becomes possible is we can begin to develop a vision which can create the three conditions that can bring out the best in us, a living democracy," she said.

"It’s not what we have, but what we do."

Jarchow said Lappe's visit to campus served as a way for other event possibilities to take root.

"This was a nice spark to say 'Hey, let's provide diverse opportunities during Earth week,'" she said.

Pettersen, who attended the January meeting, said the response to Jarchow's proposal was great and is evident in the week's planned events.

"The ideas and commitments just kept pouring out," Pettersen said.

With events interspersed between Vermillion and USD locations, both Jarchow and Pettersen said "earth (every) day" provides opportunity for the Vermillion community and the USD community to interact with each other — something they said doesn't happen enough.

"There definitely are differences between the student community and the town," Pettersen said. "I always thought we needed to bring people together a whole lot more than we do."

The Sustainability Club has been one of the primary

student groups involved in organizing the week's sustainability events. Emily Roberson, sophomore and co-president of the Sustainability Club, is the coordinator for the "Face Your Waste Campaign" at USD. Designed to put into perspective how much waste students can accumulate over the course of a week, an area of the Muenster University Center has been designated to collect recyclables.

"We're really trying to get people to recycle on campus," Roberson said. "The big thing that we are doing over Earth week is installing a visual piece telling about waste."

To conclude the week, the Sustainable Vermillion committee has planned an open forum to discuss Vermillion's future in sustainable and reflect on this year's "earth (every) day" campaign.

Roberson said one of the ultimate messages she hopes the week's events convey is that a sustainable lifestyle can be practical.

"We want people to realize taking care of the Earth and being good stewards to the Earth is something we should think about every day, not just one day a year," she said.

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"We want people to realize taking care of the Earth and being good stewards to the Earth is something we should think about every day, not just one day a year."

-Emily Roberson, Sustainability Club co-president berg said the act would certainly help the Greek system first, but there is potential for CHIA expanding its impact to other groups. Norberg said she is under the impression it could have nationwide and campus-wide impact as well.

Norberg used the example of Habitat for Humanity. If Habitat for Humanity wished to house its members, it would be able to receive donations that are tax-exempt.

“It would mainly affect the Greek community on cam-

pus, but it has the potential to affect other organizations if they were to purchase property and establish the same type of living system as the Greek system,” she said.

SGA approved a resolution April 15 in support of CHIA and Hyronimus' lobbying efforts.

“The large majority of the funds within sorority and fraternity life are through dedicated alumni and their charitable giving,” Hyronimus said.

“USD's Greek students will

benefit if our three state representatives become supporters of CHIA.” Follow reporter Nathan Ellenbecker on Twitter @NJE13

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The University of South Dakota doesn’t halt all work once classes come to an end and students return home May 9.

Almost immediately, work begins on improving USD for the upcoming fall 2014 semester. This summer, the university will undergo 23 projects, some as large as the groundbreaking of the new arena south of the DakotaDome all the way to small changes like classroom renovations.

These changes will change both the infrastructure of spots all around campus, but physical appearances and landscapes, as well.

Here are the 23 projects as listed in the upcoming faculty/staff newsletter, but check back to our website for the full details as The Volante staff works on this developing story.

DakotaDome Arena Consists of a basketball/volleyball arena with practice courts, locker rooms and strength training facility adjacent to new clinic, research, classroom and office space for Athletic Administration, Sports Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Kinesiology Sports Science programs. Also included in the project is an outdoor track and soccer complex including bleachers and press box.

Construction is anticipated to begin summer 2014.

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County, they will not need to reregister.

If a student is from another county in South Dakota, students have the option to vote in their home county or Clay County. If students decide to vote in Clay County, they need to fill out a voter registration form at the Clay County auditors to request the change.

If a student is from another state, students can either vote in their home state or South Dakota. Students who want to vote in South Dakota’s election can fill out the voter registration form.

“We always want to see students come out and vote,” said Carri Crum, Clay County auditor. “It is completely up to them whether they stay registered at home or here.”

University of South Dakota College Democrats, Republicans and the Political Science League will host a voter registration drive in the Muenster University Center Wednesday and Thursday during lunchtime.

"My experience doing (the registration drive) in the past with College Democrats, if a student doesn't want to register as a Democrat then they are afraid we won't register them," Norberg said.

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Trevino and Grieve have been working with Joe Bilotta, the space consultant for USD from JBA Incorporated, and recently met with him to discuss more ideas and provide a better vision of what they would like to have in the center.

Trevino said the old temporary student union was the last location to be discussed. The options have been narrowed down to two different spots, Grieve said, but she would not disclose them. "(Those locations) would displace other people and so they don’t know about it, so I’m not trying to hold something back but I don’t want it to be announced when other people may have those offices," Grieve said.

Grieve did give factors that were taken into consideration with the location-deciding process.

The committee would like the center to be in a high traffic area, have smaller spaces to be available to smaller group meetings and a larger space made for collaboration between various groups.

East Hall Roof Consists of the replacement of the roofs, gutters and downspouts.

Construction began mid-April and will be completed by mid-August 2014.

Beede Bump Renovation The project will provide a new convenience store and Papa John's pizza retail location. The work has already begun and is expected to be complete in fall 2014.

Danforth Chapel Roof The project will replace the shingles and add insulation to the roof. The project began in early April and will be complete by early May.

DakotaDome Student Bleachers The existing wood bleachers in the DakotaDome will be replaced with new aluminum telescoping bleachers, designed to provide better access and egress. The bleachers will have more access aisles and better sightlines for fans. The project is scheduled to begin in early May and is scheduled for completion at the end of August.

DakotaDome Swim Team Lockers The projects will include the installation of new lockers. The project is scheduled to begin in May and will be complete by the end of August.

Softball Field Scoreboard A new softball scoreboard will be installed this summer at Nygaard Field. Scheduled to begin in May, the project will be complete by the end of June.

To not have that issue arise, the three organizations combine before elections to encourage students to register to vote.

Absentee voting has started for the June primaries.

Crum said voters can come into the Auditor’s office between 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Clay County courthouse to vote early.

“Any time students can get out there to vote, that’s great,” Crum said.

Preview to November Voters in the general election this fall will choose a U.S. senator, U.S. representative and governor.

Also on the ballot across the state will be Initiated Measure 18 to raise South Dakota’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 an hour with increases as the cost of living goes up.

“Year after year the state and federal minimum wage levels stall in front of special interest opposition,” Zach Crago, executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party, said.

“We have got minimum wage on our ballot in South Dakota this fall. I think that’s a perfect way to handle this — let the people decide,” said U.S. Representative Kristi Noem in an interview with MSNBC.

DakotaDome Women’s Soccer Lockers New wood lockers will replace the existing metal lockers. The project is scheduled to be complete by the end of July.

Fine Arts Kiln Replacement The Fine Arts ceramics room will have a second gas-fired kiln installed. The project is scheduled to begin in May and will be complete by August.

Lee Medical School Nursing Simulation Remodel Construction will provide three nursing simulation labs with adjacent debrief and storage/ preparation rooms on the basement level. The project is set to be complete June 2014.

Lee Medical School Room 31 Upgrade New overhead exam lights, surgical lights and tablet arms will be added over each exam table, as well as electrical upgrades to the room. Construction is scheduled to begin in May, and the project will be complete by the end of July.

Norton Basement Ventilation System The Norton basement ventilation system will upgrade the cooling and humidity control capabilities in the basement area of the Norton building.

Olson Hall Window Project Olson Hall will receive new energy

Olson and Richardson Hall Apartments The apartments will be remodeled this summer to update the kitchen and bathroom areas. Construction is scheduled to begin in May, and the project will be complete by August.

Davidson Building UPS Installation An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) battery unit will be installed in the Davidson Building to back up security camera systems and radio communications used by the University Police Department to ensure there is no interruption of these functions in the event of a power failure. Work is scheduled for construction during the summer/fall 2014.

Mechanical Infrastructure Upgrade The mechanical infrastructure upgrade will improve the utility systems in two areas of campus: the north campus area, from Cherry Street to the softball fields and the southwest corner of main campus, Clark Street to the Al Neuharth building. This large project includes steam line and tunnel repairs and upgrading sanitary and storm sewer, water mains, fiber communications, irrigation, sidewalks and landscaping.

Patterson Hall Infrastructure Upgrade (Design Only) The design for Patterson Hall

United states senate

SD State house district 17

Republican

Republican

Mike Rounds

Jamie M. Boomgarden

Stace Nelson

Nancy Rasmussen (incumbent)

Annette Bosworth

Democrat

Jason Ravnsborg

Ray Ring (incumbent)

Larry Rhoden

Marion Sorlien

Democrat Rick Weiland

Clay County

Independent

Commissioner At Large

Gordon Howie

Ray A. Hofman (Democrat)

Larry Pressler

Phyllis W. Packard (Democrat)

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mechanical and electrical systems will begin this summer with the construction scheduled for summer 2015.

Old Main Roof and Wood Trim Replacement (Design Only) The design for the replacement of the Old Main roof, exterior wood trim and metal flashings will begin this summer with the construction scheduled for summer 2015.

Churchill Haines Research Mechanical Infrastructure Upgrade Updates and replacement of mechanical, electrical and plumbing are currently under construction in rooms 135, 136 and suite 139. The project also includes new interior paint and ceilings for those rooms.

The project is scheduled to be complete summer 2014.

Churchill-Haines Room 118 The work will include installing a new upgraded electrical system and lighting, new carpet, acoustical wall treatments and new auditorium seating with tablet arms, along with new handicap-accessible seating and tables. The IT classroom technology for the auditoriums will include new projection systems, updated audio/visual equipment and high-definition lecture capture equipment.

Physical Plant Shop Roof The roof on the southwest storage area at facilities management shop #1 on East Cherry Street will be replaced in summer 2014.

Mesocosm Area An area to be used to study various ecosystems will be built on the north side of the old Vermillion golf course property.

Parking Lots Parking lots across campus are currently being evaluated for needed repairs. Construction is scheduled to begin in June and be complete by August 2014.

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"It's very important to us that they’ll not only have a space but they’ll also have a collaborative space and that all students will be welcome, not just under-served, minority communities," Grieve said.

Once Bilotta comes up with a recommendation for a location, set to come in the next few weeks, according to Grieve, he will present it to the executive council. Depending on what the executive council says, the plans will move forward.

In the fall, when the center is in place, an official name will be decided after collaboration with students. Trevino said potential names could be "The Center for Community and Diversity" or "The Center for Inclusive Excellence."

Trevino said a director for the space is to be decided by the fall as well. He said the

efficient windows, as mechanical black-out roller shades will replace vertical blinds throughout.

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person to hold this position needs to be someone who has an open mind while working with different communities.

"It's a person that actually thinks of diversity very broadly because that's what we're doing here at the university that's different from other universities," Trevino said.

"A lot of universities are only looking at it from the perspective that diversity is race and ethnicity only."

The space will be open to all students, with some of the space being used by larger minority organizations, Grieve said.

"We're trying to create a center that is for the entire campus and that any student, coming from a small town in South Dakota, will say, 'That's a center for me, I want to go there and I want to explore issues of diversity,'" Trevino

"We're trying to create a center that is for the entire campus and that any student, coming from a small town in South Dakota, will say, 'That's a center for me, I want to go there and explore issues of diversity."

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said.

He said the purpose of the center would be to ensure that not only students but members of the community, are engaged in diversity through projects or discussion.

USD Student Government Association President Tyler Tordsen sees the center as an excellent step in the right direction for the campus, a place that will be allencompassing.

He envisions the center serving as a place for students to study, a fun atmosphere for different activities and engagement and a learning site.

"I think that this place is going to be a welcoming environment for everybody, for the entire university, and I hope everybody embraces it and enjoys it and utilizes it," Tordsen said.

He said the center is something most people have not thought of and it will create multiple opportunities for students on campus.

"We're really, really excited to have this space identified and begin to be used," Grieve said.

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“First, Patterson — that building is horrible.

It looks like a 1920s classroom. I think the library needs more seating. More housing."

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“A bigger wellness center. Better food, to be honest. More parking, just because there's not a lot of places for 'B' parking."

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“Remove the gym — sock stench from the link lab. Do better on maintaining the grass."

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Before USD head football coach Joe Glenn takes the field for the annual Red vs. White game Saturday afternoon, he will hit the gridiron with a much different group of players.

The USD football staff, as well as Glenn and his wife Michelle, will play host to a women’s football clinic Friday.

G l e n n glenn has put on w o m e n’s clinics at his previous schools.

“It’s something we’ve all been involved in at other schools, and we thought it would be an entertaining event,” Glenn said.

Director of Football Operations Luke Groth has put together the event hoping to give women a basic knowledge of football.

“We really want to reach out to women in our fan base — moms of our players, incoming freshmen we have and especially Howling Pack members and season ticket holders,” Groth said.

“Some women don’t necessarily know the x’s and o’s part of football, so we want to get some basic football knowledge to these women and also give them a behind-the-scenes look of what our players go through on a daily basis.”

All women are invited to attend the event to learn all about football or expand their knowledge on the sport.

“It is a fun moment for the women to get together and do something maybe outside of their comfort zone and have a little fun with it,” Glenn said.

“Some of them might know more about football than we do.”

Glenn said if men want to learn about football, they can go talk to him in his office any day.

The clinic will give women an opportunity to go behind the scenes of Coyote football and give them an idea of a day in the life of the players. The women will be shown the weight room and given a presentation and workout by head strength and conditioning coach Jevon Bowman as well as player demonstrations. They will also head to the classroom where they will learn the basics of offense and defense as well as simple plays.

Glenn said he hopes the women will maybe pick up

an idea of what an idea or philosophy of football is.

“We are not going to get into how to run a draw play against a split defense. We’re going to try and cover some things we feel you need to know to be knowledgeable about the game of football,” Glenn said. “Be able to sit down, watch a game on TV and know exactly what’s happening and have a basic understanding of the rules.”

Groth said he is excited the plans went through to run the event this year and hopes to expand the event in the coming years. This is the first time the Coyotes will host an event like this.

“When this becomes a good event, I think it will grow to 100150 people,” Groth said. “We’ve had a lot of positive feedback from women on campus. We do a lot of work with admissions and financial aid and student services — the areas we use — and we invited all the women who work there. We want to be able to give back.”

Groth also said in the future he would like to connect with a sponsor to run the event or get together with a local charity and give back to the community.

He also hopes to get the event attendance up to 150 people in the next couple of years.

Students are still in school so they can attend if they so choose.

The team invited somen on campus they work with such as admissions and financial aid to give back to the USD community.

Redshirt sophomore Kelly Stewart; member of the Coyote Women’s basketball team, said what Coyote football is doing is great.

“It is a good learning experience for women to get a real life experience with drills and give them a better relation with the sport,” Stewart said.

The event starts at 6 p.m.

April 25 at the DakotaDome.

Groth said he is excited for the event and said Glenn and his wife, Michelle, who will be a big part of the event, are extremely excited.

“Coach Glenn’s personality and passion for coaching is incredible. He just bleeds Coyote red and loves this place,” Groth said. “He wants our coaching staff to take away from coaching our players and to be able to reach out to some of our fan base that might not know a lot about football and try to help and encourage them.”

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The offensive line of the USD football team practices in the DakotaDome April 21. The Coyotes will host their annual spring game April 26 at the DakotaDome.

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This Saturday at 1 p.m. the University of South Dakota football team will put its offseason preparations into action at the annual RedWhite Spring Game.

Head coach Joe Glenn said the team still has plenty of aspects of the game that need work, but the last month of practice has been productive.

“It’ll be interesting to see how everyone is working together this Saturday,” Glenn said. “We just put in a lot of work this past month to get to this point. It’s been a grind.”

The offense is returning several key starters, including junior quarterback Kevin Earl, sophomore wide receiver Riley Donovan and sophomore running back Trevor Bouma.

On the other side, the defense is trying to replace

former standout linebacker Tyler Starr, who holds the school record for sacks, and all four defensive backs of a group that gave up only 171.1 yards per game through the air, the ninth best in the FCS. Glenn said his team needs to improve everywhere.

“Both sides of the ball have shown flashes, but neither is there yet,” he said. “The best teams show flashes all the time.”

This was Earl’s first offseason as the starting quarterback and he said he’s been meticulous about improving every aspect of his game. After throwing nine touchdowns and nine interceptions last year, he said he believes he’s ready to take the next step.

“We don’t have a game for quite awhile yet, so I have been treating every practice scrimmage like a game situation,” Earl said. “My over-

all comfort in the pocket is immensely improved from where I was last year during this time.”

Earl said the single biggest thing to being a successful quarterback is feeling comfortable in it, which he now believes he is. That also means he has to have a strong group of offensive linemen who give him the amount of time he needs to pick apart the defense, he said.

“Our offensive line is an area that could surprise people this year,” Earl said. “They all have a few years under their belt and that’s huge.”

Junior offensive guard Derek Chancellor said he’s excited for the team to put the work its achieved on full display this Saturday.

“This will be the first edition of the 2014 Coyote football team,” Chancellor said.

“Personally, I’ve put in so

much work this offseason, and this game kind of signifies a new chapter for the upcoming season.”

Two players who were thought to be shoe-ins as starters for the team, wide receiver Terrance Terry and cornerback Tevin Foster, decided to leave the team over the offseason. Glenn said Terry graduated and decided against playing his senior year and Foster wanted to go back home to Oklahoma and play basketball.

“I’m always excited to see what guys can stand out and make some plays,” Glenn said.

“There’s plays to be made and the Spring Game is an opportunity to show your game. The team isn’t anywhere near there yet, but I’m excited to see how far we’ve come.”

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Junior infielder Matley Jones, right, prepares to make a run to third base during the USD home game vs IUPUI April 21.

After going 1-2 at home, the University of South Dakota softball team traveled to Ames, Iowa to improve its record in a doubleheader split against the Iowa State Cyclones.

Over the weekend, the 40 mph winds made for a hitting craze at Nygaard Field, but the Coyote softball team was unable to pull out a win in a Summit League series against Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Head coach Amy Klyse said the outcome isn’t what the team was hoping for.

“We’ve been spending time going over what we did well rather than dwelling on those losses,” she said. “This past weekend wasn’t our strongest outing for our pitchers, but if get back on track there, our game will improve.”

The two teams combined for 62 hits and 48 runs during the three games.

Sophomore left fielder Katie Cochran hit a three-run home run, and senior third baseman Lindsey Boyd blasted a grand

slam in game one. It was the first home run of the season for Cochran and second of the year for Boyd.

First-year pitcher Rachel Cue said offensively, the team showed up.

“The batters just kept fighting on both sides of the field,” she said. “We just didn’t show up defensively.”

The Coyotes won the opener 13-5 in five innings, while IUPUi took the nightcap 8-7.

Junior catcher Allie Daly said the lacking defense was unusual for their team.

“We had a lot of home runs,” she said. “That had the biggest effect on the scores of the games.”

Despite last weekend’s losses, Klyse said the team is remaining positive.

“Obviously, we can hit the ball, play defense and pitch well enough to win, but we’ve just got to combine all three,” Klyse said.

With that mentality, the women managed to improve their record to 25-17 after a doubleheader with Iowa State.

Klyse could not be reached for comment regarding the

games against Iowa State.

Junior Matley Jones scored the first run of the game in the second inning and the two teams kept close in scoring until the eighth inning when the Coyotes failed to bring in any runs and the Cyclones added two. USD lost the first game 5-6.

The team remained scoreless until the fourth inning of the second game when three runs were brought in. USD kept the lead for the remainder of the game scoring in every remaining inning and only allowing Iowa State to score once. The game ended with a score of 12-3 and a win for the Coyotes.

Between the two games, USD brought in four home runs.

With the Summit League Championships right around the corner, Klyse said she’s not exactly sure where the Coyotes stand.

“It’s really hard to tell,” she said. “Anybody could still win.”

Klyse said the team’s experience on the field with SEE SOFTBALL, PAGE B3

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Recap:The Coyote women’s softball team hosted IUPUI April 18-19 where they went 1-2. In the first game of the series the Coyotes won 13-5 in five innings. Senior Lindsey Boyd led the team in the first game with four RBIs, two runs and one hit. Sophomore Katie Cochran also had three RBIs, three runs and one hit. IUPUI took game two winning 8-7 April 18. Cochran also had two runs, hits and an RBI during game two. During game three of the series, IUPUI hit four solo home runs in the third inning including three in a row en route to another 8-7 win April 19. Redshirt senior Kassie Loe hit a grand slam in the bottom of the third inning to tie the game at five, but the Coyotes fell short.

Key Players: Loe hit a homerun in game three and finished the series with five runs. Loe has 15 RBIs, two homeruns and 16 runs scored on the season. She has a .200 batting average as well.

Player to Watch: Junior Katie Dinning leads the Coyotes with a .376 batting average and in hits with 53. Dinning has 26 RBIs, 25 runs scored and a home run on the season.

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Junior Marissa Miller shows 12-year-old Billy Radigan an easier path to follow while cliimbing the minature climbing wall April 22 in the Wellness Center. Both the minature rockwall and the 380foot-tall rockwall can be climbed every afternoon.

Record: 25-17 overall, 6-5 conference

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Up Next: April 25-26 at SDSU and April 29 at North Dakota.

Women’s Tennis

Recap: The Coyote women’s tennis team traveled to Denver April 18-20 where they faced IUPUI, IPFW and Western Illinois. April 18 the team faced IUPUI where they won a close match 4-3.

In the singles competition, USD finished 4-2 and in the doubles competition lost 2-1. April 19 the Coyotes faced IPFW where they fell short, winning only two singles competitions and no doubles.

Sophomore Milica Pavlovic and first year Yuliya Sidenko are the only two to win their matches.

April 20 the Coyotes swept Western Illinois winning 7-0.

Key Players: Pavlovic won all three of her single match competitions. In her third set against Fort Wayne she was down 9-1 and defended eight consecutive points to win 12-10 and win the match in her third game. Pavlovic finished the season with a 10-13 record. Sidenko finished the season leading the team with a 16-7 record.

Firsick won the pole vault at the Long Beach Invitational April 19

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Cleared 13-5 ¾ inches in her first outdoor meet of the season

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Had best vault in the nation with the height of 14-7 1/2 inches at Texas Relays

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End of semester brings push for championships

Up Next: Summit League Championship April 25 where the No. 4 seeded Coyotes will face No. 5 seed IUPUI.

Key Players: After two rounds of play, Alex Kline was T7, shooting rounds of 71-78 for the men. On the women’s side, Janice Baumberger was T11, after shooting rounds of 80-79. Brenna Lervick fell from fifth place after round one to T19, after shooting rounds of 76-88.

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Year: Senior

Record: 11-12 overall, 2-4 conference

Recap: The men’s and women’s golf teams competed in the first two rounds of the Summit League Championship April 21-22. At the end of the second round, the men were in fifth place, with a team score of 614. IUPUI was in first. On the women’s side, the Coyotes were in seventh place, with a score of 667. Denver was in first.

Career Achievements

With just a week and a half left of classes before finals week, students at the University of South Dakota are busy finishing final projects and papers.

For student-athletes in tennis, golf, track and field and softball, the next month will also focus on bringing home Summit League Championships.

The first sport to wrap up its season with the conference championship is golf April 23. After the second day of competition, the women were in seventh in a field of seven teams, while the men were fifth in a field of eight teams.

While there were no major expectations from the women’s golf team, all season, in interviews with The Volante,

members of the men’s golf team talked about winning the conference championship after placing second at the 2013 conference meet. With no seniors on last year’s runnerup team, the team placed the Summit League Championship as its main goal for the season.

The women’s tennis team will conclude its season April 25-26. The women wrapped up their regular season April 18-20 with three Summit League matches. The team beat Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Western Illinois and lost to Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. These final three matches solidified the team’s seeding for the Summit League Championship.

The women head into the conference tournament with an 11-12 overall record and 2-4 conference record. The Coyotes are currently fifth in conference rankings.

The women’s softball team will wrap up its season at the Summit League tournament May 7-10. After going 1-2 against IUPUI in a three-game series

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April 18-19 and 1-1 against Iowa State, the women are 25-17 overall and 6-5 in the conference.

The team currently sits at fourth in conference rankings.

Throughout the season, in interviews with The Volante, the women have talked constantly about how winning the conference championship is the team’s main goal for the season.

Not only does the team want to win the Summit League title, but it is also focusing on heading into the conference tournament with the best seeding possible, head coach Amy Klyse said earlier this season. The top two teams receive a bye in early-round play, which Klyse said would be key to strong tournament play.

Finally, the men’s and women’s track and field teams will wrap up their conference season May 15-17 with the Summit League Championship.

The men won the indoor conference title earlier this semester and have repeatedly told The Volante their goal is to win the outdoor title as well. The women placed second in the indoor championship behind North Dakota State, a team that

has dominated the Summit League for the last six years.

The focus right now for both the men’s and women’s teams is to get back to full health, head coaches Lucky Huber and Dave Gottsleben said this week. With the Summit League Championship just a month away, it should give the Coyotes time to get the teams back to full health and in top shape for championship season.

So that’s how the spring conference tournament season is shaping up for the Coyotes, but some may be wondering why it’s such a big deal for USD. With a men’s indoor track and field title and a women’s basketball title already in our name this year, the university has received a certain amount of recognition.

As the university settles into Division I play, winning conference titles is what matters at this point. No more excuses.

If our athletic programs can’t consistently win conference championships, then perhaps it’s time to make some changes.

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Players must make decisions on draft

Alabama coaches let down at spring game

Pryor, Jackson sign new Seahawks deals

ESPN announces plan to air wildcard game

New York Knicks search for new coaching staff

After Alabama’s spring football game Alabama coaches have found they were not impressed with their play.

AJ McCarron was at the game, only to be inducted into the Walk of Fame.

Quarterback Alec Morris showed the most impressive turnout for the QBs; the only problem was that his best performance was when he in as a punter.

The quarterbacks were inconsistent throughout the entire game. Coach Nick Saben said he is not quite concerned as quarterback Jacob Coker is to enroll at Alabama later this month. He backed Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston last season.

After winning the 2014 Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks have signed quarterback Terrelle Pryor to a one-year deal.

Pryor will make $705,000 in the 2014 season.

Back up quarterback Tavaris Jackson signed a oneyear deal at $1.25 million.

Super Bowl champion Russell Wilson, however, is still on his rookie contract and has a base salary of $662,000 this year. Wilson cannot do anything about it until the end of the season when he can command over $20 million dollars.

The two quarterbacks who are competing to be a back up are getting paid more than the Super Bowl Champion.

ESPN has announced that it will broadcast their first NFL playoff game in 2015.

The game being broadcast will be a wild-card game .

This will be the first telecast NFL Playoff game in the network’s 35-year history.

It was also announced that the 2015 Pro Bowl, which will be held at the University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, Ariz., will also air on ESPN. It is part of the network’s new rights agreement.

Along with that, ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” broadcast team will announce the Pro Bowl and the Wild card game.

The team consists of Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden and sideline reporter Lisa Salters.

Phil Jackson, owner of the New York Knicks, announced April 21 the firing of head coach Mike Woodson along with his entire coaching staff.

Woodson’s job speculation was being constantly watched as this season was rough for the team.

After signing J.R. Smith to an extension and having him out with knee surgery as well as being suspended for four games and Jason Kidd retiring to become and coach.

The Knicks finished the season 35-47 one game out of the playoffs spot.

Jackson made a statement that there was no individual to blame, it was just time for some changes.

The search for a new head coach has began immediately.

Former South Dakota football coach and athletic director Bernard Cooper died Sunday at the age of 86 in Sioux City.

Cooper coached the Coyotes from 1975-1978.

He also coached the 1978 Coyotes to the school’s first North Central Conference Championship in 27 years.

He achieved an 18-24 record as head coach.

Cooper became the athletic director from 1976-1981. He oversaw the Coyotes’ move into the Dakota Dome as well as helping women’s athletics.

After leaving USD Cooper was the athletic director at Indiana State in 1981. He retired from athletics in 1991.

He was entered into USD’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.

With the NBA draft approaching, many college men’s basketball players have to make the decision to either continue their college careers or move forward with the draft.

The nation patiently waits to hear from top prospects in the NCAA. Duke star first year Jabari Parker declared he is going to enter the draft along with teammate forward Rodney Hood.

Kentucky, a Final Four team, has two first year players to declare for the draft. The first players to declare they were leaving Kentucky for the draft was Julius Randle and James Young.

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Once the game comes to an end this weekend, the players will have most of the summer off. Chancellor said it’s vital

to stay mentally focused and not get complacent during the time off.

“We need to continue making strides in the weight room by getting bigger, faster and

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Junior Yamini Reddy waits at the net for her doubles partner, first-year Dragana Brankovic, to serve at the USD home tennis meet April 12.

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A loss to the defending Summit League champions and an easy win wrapped up the University of South Dakota’s women’s tennis team’s regular season play last weekend.

The women beat Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis 4-3 Friday, before losing to Indiana UniversityPurdue University Fort Wayne 5-2 Saturday. The Coyotes (11-12, 2-4) wrapped up the weekend by beating Western Illinois 7-0 Sunday.

The Coyotes went into the match against IUPUI knowing it would be a close one, head coach Malcolm Gilreath said.

“It was very competitive,” he said. “We knew it would be close. We lost the the doubles point but showed our strength in singles.”

Sophomore Milica Pavlovic, who won all three of her singles matches over the weekend, made easy work of her singles match against IUPUI. “I played really well in that match,” she said. “I didn’t give my opponent a chance to play at all. I finished it up in 45 minutes.”

First-year Yulia Sidenko said she had a good weekend of play.

“My first match was hard, but I did my job and won all my singles matches,” Sidenko said.

In USD’s 4-3 win over IUPUI, Pavlovic, Sidenko, first-year Dragana Brankovic and junior Nina Barudzic won their singles matches for the Coyotes. In doubles play, the team of Sidenko and junior Rymma Maslova won its match.

While the women lost to the defending Summit League champion IPFW, Gilreath said his team played well. He said he was especially impressed with Pavlovic’s play.

Pavlovic won her first set 6-3 before dropping the second set 2-6. Then, rather than play a traditional third set, she played a superbreaker — the first one to 10 and up by 2 wins — because IPFW had already won the match.

Pavlovic was down 1-9 in the superbreaker before coming back to win 12-10.

“I played really well in the first set, but I just didn’t feel it in the second set,” Pavlovic said. “By that point, all the other matches had finished and everyone was watching, and I kept missing balls. Then it started raining, and I was losing and I figured that was it. Then I told myself if she can win 9 points in a row, so can I.” Pavlovic said when she started coming back she still didn’t think she’d have a chance to win.

“Then all of a sudden I had my match point, and I won it,” Pavlovic said. “I couldn’t believe it. Something in my

head just told me I could do it.”

In addition to Pavlovic’s win, Sidenko won the Coyotes other point against IPFW. In the match against Western Illinois, Gilreath said the women stayed focused and played their games. The Coyotes didn’t lose a game in three doubles matches and dropped just two games on the way to winning all six singles matches.

Now the women are looking ahead to the Summit League Championship this weekend.

The Coyotes head into the tournament as the No. 4 seed.

They will play No. 5 IUPUI Friday.

“We’re focusing on doubles which is more important because we lost more in doubles than singles last weekend,” Sidenko said.

“We’re just preparing for this weekend’s important matches.”

Gilreath said in addition to focusing on doubles, the team just has to get its job done this weekend.

“In the rematch with IUPUI, every point will be important,” he said. “It’s difficult to beat a team twice.”

The winner will play top-seeded Denver, who is currently ranked No. 69 nationally, Saturday in Denver.

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The offensive and defensive lines of the University of South Dakota football team faceoff at spring practice April 21 in the DakotaDome.

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captains and leadership at this level of competition is one of

its strengths.

“Last year we went in with some nerves, but hopefully this year those nerves will be just pure adrennaline,” Klyse said.

The Coyotes will next travel

to Brookings to take on the South Dakota State Jackrabbits for conference-play April 25-26.

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Members of the USD softball team celebrate as red-shirt senior Kassie Loe returns to homeplate after hitting a grandslam against IUPUI April 19.

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Junior Erik Hill, left, competes in the110m hurdles at the South Dakota Snowbird competition in Yankton April 5.

In a program already holding high expectations, mid-April and early May is a crucial time of the year for the University of South Dakota track and field teams.

Runners, jumpers, vaulters and throwers are riding through a bumpy stretch of constant meets and end-ofthe-semester school work, trying to keep their eyes on a conference prize.

“This is kind of our time to grind right now and get ready for conference,” sophomore pole vaulter Madison Mills said. “It’s really fun for us because track’s an individual sport, but conference is a fun time where we do get to be a team and compete as a team.”

Over the weekend, some athletes took strides toward conference in California with strong performances at the Mt. Sac Relays and the Bryan Clay Invitational.

Junior Kyle McKelvey finished third in shot put at Mt. Sac. First-year Dustin Valind finished second in discus at Bryan Clay and threw the second farthest throw in USD history. Senior Jeff Mettler finished with a Summit League best 5,000-meter run.

After an indoor championship this winter, men’s head coach Dave Gottsleben knows where his program stands and where expectations are.

However, he said, his team

has run into a road block of injuries.

“We’ve had some injuries that have affected our depth incredibly,” Gottsleben said.

“We need some kids to get fired up and get healthy. I got a little bit of this and a little bit of that, nick here and nick there. We need these guys to say ‘I’m just going to go for it.’”

The same has happened for the women, women’s head coach Lucky Huber said.

Despite a first place in pole vault at Mt. Sac from senior Bethany Firsick, the team is not where it would like to be, he said.

“Right now, we’re sitting at about fourth in the conference, and we’ve never finished that low,” Huber said. “We’re getting a little nervous about that.

We need to get a little more confidence, and we need a little bit of luck with some of the injuries we are having.”

Huber said there are good things happening throughout the program — personal bests, school records and impressive performances. At the beginning of the spring season, Huber said he was looking at field events to come up big for his team.

First-year Danielle Waldner finished second in shot put, and Mills also finished sixth in pole vault.

Collectively, Huber said, the team needs more, and the Coyotes need to stay healthy.

“We have to head in the direction of some of our top performers and get better in

the next couple weeks,” he said.

Mills said all the athletes have something difficult on their plate to get through.

The team returned from a trip to California Sunday night, then had a meet in Yankton April 22 at the Mount Marty Twilight Meet.

Senior Denton Stephens won the men’s hammerthrow, while McKelvey won shot put Tuesday evening. Competing unattached, senior Cody Snyder won the discus and sophomore Teivaskie Lewin won the 110-meter hurdles.

Redshirt first-year Ashley Thompson won women’s 100-meter hurdles and junior Amber Ewers won the 200meter dash.

Senior Megan Glisar, competing unattched, won women’s high jump.

Sophomore Kayla Johnson won shot put and Mills won pole vault.

Mills said it’s a different kind of demand this time of year.

“There’s a lot of little maintenance things we all have to do,” she said. “In the fall we’re running every day, lifting everyday. Now it’s the little things that matter.

Rehabbing your injuries, icing after practice, getting sleep, eating right.”

The Coyotes will head to the Drake Relays for three days beginning Thursday.

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Emily Grode’s character “Berthe” (left) gives Pippin life advice during rehearsal April 21.

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The title character of Pippin, played by junior Lukas Ptacek, is crowned king during rehearsal” April 21 in the Wayne S. Knutson Theatre.

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The University of South Dakota Theater Department’s production of ‘Pippin’ will entice an audience because it is “compelling, relatable and the audience will realize how special they are,” Director Raimondo Genna said.

‘Pippin’ tells the story of the son of Charlemagne, Pippin and his quest to find himself, his relationships and experiments with war, sex and politics.

Genna said he selected this show because it has been enjoyed for many years, it breaks the fourth wall and it has the interest of a play within a play, or a metatheatre.

Lead actor and junior

Lukas Ptacek plays Pippin, while junior Cecilia Quintero plays Leading Player.

The actors said they joined the cast of the play because they liked the show for it’s uniqueness, fun and interactiveness.

Ptacek said he liked the play within a play.

“I enjoyed the fun aspect of Pippin being a metatheatre production,” he said.

Genna said the metatheatre made the show more interesting to him.

To Genna, the characters interactions are vital to the play within a play, and really makes the production unique.

These interactions include a sing-a-long song, karaoke, tumbling and physical feats and magic to

entertaining the audience.

Ptacek said he grew up listening to the music from the production and his general interest in the theater made him want to join this production. His audition song for entering the department was “Corner of the Sky” from the show.

Quintero said she wanted to be part of the production because she enjoyed the fact that the show is dark, funny and overall entertaining with the music.

Both actors said the student body should attend to support their fellow students and the members of the theater department, but also because the show is relatable.

“Everyone is trying to

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In the play “Pippin” the character of Pippin kills his father in order to become king.

find their ‘corner of the sky’ in their lives. Pippin is an extraordinary person and is trying to find the extraordinary in his everyday life,” Ptacek said. “College students need to come see this because college students are told that they need to go to college to determine their futures but are always questioning the meaning of being in college. They need to see what feels right, even if it is unplanned. It is OK to try new things.”

Ptacek said he continues to relate to Pippin because his character is an everyman.

Quintero said she likes her character because she gets to be bossy and order characters around. She said she feels the Lead Player is

different from any character she has played before.

However, she said, her character is not as relatable as Pippin — she likes to see people mess up.

Both of the actors also enjoy the acrobatics involved with ‘Pippin.’

‘Pippin’ will be performed April 24-26 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. and April 27 at 2 p.m. in the Wayne S. Knutson Theater in the Warren M. Lee Fine Arts Building.

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Acapella group ‘gets involved on campus’ Cristina Drey

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Instead of a piece of playground equipment, Swing Set at the University of South Dakota means the collection of 10 students majoring in everything from music to medical biology coming together to form the university’s student-run acapella group.

Hannah Lambertz, a junior vocal performance major and co-director of the group, said this was Swing Set’s first year of being a student organization, despite being formed a few years ago.

The organization has helped with several fundraisers, including the recent Dakotathon, but does not have any actual funds of its own.

“We don’t get funding (from the Student Government Association) because we have an audition process,” Lambertz said.

With the help of the music department and the efforts of Lambertz and the members, the organization hasn’t had a demand for money yet.

“We haven’t needed funds,” Lambertz said. “We have a library we can pull from, and since I arrange a lot of things it doesn’t cost anything.”

Each year, members of the

group are selected through an audition process, including a song of choice, sightreading and the checking of the applicant’s range.

Along with Swing Set’s first year as a student organization, Lambertz said this is the first year the group tried to get involved on campus. That idea shined through the number of student applicants at the audition process, she said.

“It was a really big turn out this year, which was really exciting,” Lambertz said. “We had to turn away about a third of the people that auditioned.”

David Holdhusen, an associate music professor and faculty adviser of Swing Set said the dedicated students do the work by themselves.

From being involved in the group, Holdhusen said many good qualities are worked on including leadership and, especially for co-directors Lambertz and Sarah Schmidt, a chance to start doing administrative duties.

Lambertz’s favorite part of the organization’s year came from the performance at Dakotathon, and “being able to brighten somebody else’s day with something we love to do”.

Sophomore Haley Naasz has been involved in music since she was little, playing

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Members of the acapella group “Swing Set” serenade Miracle Child Emma Bader during Dakotathon April 5.

piano and being involved in band and choir before college. Naasz still plays piano, but said she tried out for Swing Set because she missed the feel of an ensemble.

“I missed being with people and having a sense of community and belonging in the music you make

together,” she said. “It’s so wonderful to look at each other at the end of the piece and be like, ‘We did good, guys.’”

With music as a passion of hers, Naasz said she enjoys being in the organization.

“I do it because it’s fun,” she said. “It’s fun to sing with

such talented people, and music is wonderful.

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Take heed to prevent an injury JACKIE HENDRY is a junior majoring in contemporary media and journalism and Native Studies.

When I was a young firstyear waiting to take my Earth Science final, I overheard a fascinating tale.

One girl was telling another about a guy she knew who had been walking home from a house party the night before.

He was substantially inebriated, and his altered state coupled with the cover of night made him a tragic victim of the ditch by the side of the road. The unfortunate party guest then crawled back up to the side of the road, where a Good Samaritan in a pickup truck drove him to the hospital. That morning he was nursing a broken ankle.

At the time, I marveled at how quickly a night could go so wrong — especially a Wednesday night. Since then I’ve learned that even (and often) without alcohol’s help, we young folks discover we are not invincible.

I’ve had my share of weird injuries since I started college.

That same first year, I bummed the first of many rides to Sanford Clinic off of a friend when my big toe started hurting so much I could hardly walk to class. As a healthy 18-year-old I thought perhaps I’d broken my toe in my sleep somehow.

The doctor instead informed me I had tendonitis in my foot and prescribed rest.

Luckily I was diagnosed with strep throat soon afterward, so this wasn’t much of a problem.

Earlier this year, however, I had a bit more trouble following doctor’s orders. I was enjoying my first year in an apartment with a room to myself, so I was spending less and less time in the library.

Rather than sitting slumped in bed while I cranked out paper after paper, I thought I’d save my somewhat fragile back and sit at my desk — never mind the fact it had been clearly meant for writing and not typing.

Around October, first one wrist and then the other started hurting. This didn’t mean much to me until I couldn’t hold a pen long enough to take notes in class. Soon typing was so painful I had to factor regular cry breaks into my paperwriting.

Finally, I uncomfortably biked to the doctor. He deduced that I, at the ripe old age of 20, had the early stages of carpal tunnel in both wrists.

This time the prescription was two weeks in wrist splints and better typing posture, lest I face corrective surgery. It was a challenge, but much more palatable than the alternative.

With these experiences in mind, you’d think I’d have gotten the message that young people are not immune to basic wear and tear. You’d think I’d take to heart the little pearls of wisdom we so often hear, like “lift with your knees.” Yet the debilitating back pain that has characterized these days following a weekend of filming would prove you wrong.

Youth does not equal invincibility, but it typically bodes well for adaptation. So take these as my end-of-semester keys to success: Bring a flashlight to the house party, wear shoes with good arch support and mind your typing posture.

And for the love of all things bright and beautiful, lift with your knees.

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Human Rights Expert Rafia Zakaria Location: Farber Hall

Wednesday, april 23, 2014

Summer is fast approaching, and for those who have an internship or new job it may be difficult to discern between what to wear and what not to wear on a first day or throughout the summer.

If the position requires business casual, be wary of the

many variations on the term.

Ask the employer for a written dress code if available to see if any clothing or accessories are off-limits so you don’t show up to work just to become embarrassed the first day.

If an item is questionable or borderline inappropriate, it is best to leave it home.

There is a chance a person could be overly dressed up for the job. Do not do that. Maybe play it safe the first day, see what others in the workplace are wearing, and proceed with that in mind.

Some places will allow blue jeans to be worn, perhaps on certain days of the week.

This summer I will be lean-

ing on pairs of brightly-colored jeans for those days I want to be comfortable throughout a long day of work. They allow a person to have fun with color while still looking put-together.

This season, floral prints will be a big go-to. Tribal can mix things up a bit too, in the form of a blazer or a scarf. A person cannot go wrong with a pattern of polka dots or stripes.

While it may seem daunting, it is possible to incorporate touches of personal style into a business casual look. Thinking wishfully, employers would want to get to know their staffers a little bit while they work the job.

Earrings and bracelets are

small hints that can add a piece of you to the look and make it more interesting.

Reflect in style what you want to get out of the time at the internship or job. Prove you are ready, willing and able to be there to get the best out of each experience.

Dressing professionally while keeping personal style and summer in mind will help gain respect from fellow workers.

It will also act as a confidence booster.

After all, if you look good, you feel good.

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Sophomore Alexa Harris combines a summer-colored tank with a printed scarf and layers of bracelets, and finishes the outfit with floral cowgirl boots.

Guest column: ‘Examine your privilege’ Morgan Appley is a junior and co-president of USD’s Sustainability Club.

Last month I had the privilege of attending the White Privilege Conference in Madison, Wis. I was offered the last minute opportunity to attend this conference when another attendee backed out.

I had no idea what to expect but I knew that this would be an important conference which would quite possibly change my perspective on life and the future.

The WPC was an amazing experience, giving participants a chance to examine white privilege through a new lens while learning how to have difficult conversations about race, power, sex and intersecting identities.

In society, we’re often taught to be “color blind,” ignoring

other people’s races and cultural identities. Unfortunately, while this may lead to a more diverse friend base and workplace, it ignores extremely important aspects of people’s unique identities and experiences.

Also, color blindness is perhaps a privilege solely available to white people, as we have not had to experience much of the discrimination and potential exclusion felt by people of other races. Further, many of the white friends I have believe that as long as they are not actively racist, they are not contributing to the problems created by racism.

This conference helped me to see that if we are not actively engaged in the fight against racism, we are either directly or indirectly contributing to it.

Another important take

home from the conference was an opportunity to update my version of “sustainability.” Most of the people in the USD Sustainability program are interested in environmental sustainability.

An aspect often neglected is that of social justice, or social sustainability. There is a very interesting correlation between social justice and environmentalism, known as “environmental racism.”

Often people are either more specifically concerned with environmental issues or social justice issues without realizing that the two are heavily related.

To see the correlation, we need only look to recent history, to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina or to multiple dam sites where American Indians were removed from their homes

for little or no compensation in order to flood the land and build the dams. Environmental racism is happening all around us, all of the time, we are often just blind to it or don’t realize that it’s happening.

These are reminders to us that we cannot just look at one aspect of a problem, especially a problem as complex as sustainability. We need to work on every level so that we can work toward a world of equality, environmental respect and a general respect and compassion for human kind.

Take a minute to examine your place of privilege and determine whether there may be something you can do to contribute toward that equality or respect. I’m pretty sure there are things we all can do, and we’ve got to work together.

Craftsmanship art show combines mediums, artists Braley Dodson

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Five students are turning class jargon it into art.

Seniors Molly Buum, Kelsie Carter, Ryan Huber, Erica Wergin and Joey Vaughn collaborated together for the ‘Craftsmanship’ exhibit at the John A. Day Gallery.

The exhibit was part of a graduation requirement for the students.

Ryan Huber, whose work in the exhibit featured his photographs of bands, including the band Imagine Dragons, said the theme for the exhibit came from a group brainstorming session.

“A few of the girls were yelling out words we hear a lot,” Huber said.

Huber said the group originally wanted to incorporate comedy into the exhibit for a different look at a term they hear constantly in class.

One part of the exhibit included ripping apart pieces of paper as part of a collage tech-

nique.

“It was refreshing to do it by hand instead of using a computer,” Huber said. “It gives you more freedom.”

Huber’s section of the exhibit included photos from touring bands, maps and descriptions of the bands. He originally planned to hang the photos on the walls of the exhibit, but had them hang from the ceiling instead.

Huber said working with the other seniors came naturally.

“We are used to feeding off one another for ideas,” Huber said.

Erica Wergin said the time the group has spent together completing their degrees made the collaboration easy.

“It’s just like working with your best friends,” Wergin said.

For her, the best part of the exhibit was the reception where friends and families of the artists came to support them and view their artwork.

The group learned several lessons from the exhibit.

“Always have a backup plan b and c,” Huber said. “It’s not always going to work out the first time.”

Wergin said she learned to trust her intuition in regards to design feedback and to trust herself even though others may not see the full vision.

“Follow what your instinct tells you,” Wergin said.

Wergin used the opportunity to develop her skills with the commercial side of graphic design, specifically branding.

Wergin designed an art deco logo for a textile company for the exhibit. While researching art deco design for the project, she discovered art deco design was inspired by designs made by the ancient Egyptians. To honor the history of the design, she snuck a hieroglyphic into the logo.

“You can’t tell unless you’re really looking,” Wergin said.

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Attendees at the Craftsmanship Graphic Design exhibition look at art work by senior Ryan Huber April 11 in the John Day Gallery located in the Warren M. Lee Center for Performing Arts.

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