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MARCH 26, 2014
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2:30 a.m. OCTOBER 2, 1997
IT WAS DAKOTA DAYS. Julie and her friend Kaytie had returned home to their trailer after attending a house party in Vermillion. This homecoming, the party invites had found them, putting the juniors in good moods. Intoxicated, Kaytie retreated to her bedroom to sleep off the night. A sober Julie prepared for bed in her usual routine — lock the front door, brush her teeth and turn on three fans to cool the stifling October air. Just after getting into bed, Julie thought she heard a noise — like someone had dropped something — outside her bedroom window. After peering through the pink curtains she had sewn herself and seeing nothing, she crawled back into bed and laid on her side. Her back was to the door. In between consciousness and sleep, Julie heard two doors quietly open and close. Rolling over to look, she saw a large man standing in the doorway. She sat up, but he lunged at her, and placed his hand over her mouth. In a hushed voice, he said,
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Missouri Valley Recycling employees Mitch Lang and Brian Hansen load a company truck with cardboard March 21 outside of the Muenster University Center. The new director of the MUC is making strategic efforts to increase recycling at the MUC.
Nathan Ellenbecker
Nathan.Ellenbecker@coyotes.usd.edu
The staff at the Muenster University Center is making efforts to reinvigorate its recycling program in order to ensure the program reaches its full potential. Despite separate recycling bins being available in the MUC and around USD campus, Kyle Schoenfelder, MUC director since January, said custodians have been mixing recyclable trash with regular trash and not utilizing Vermillion’s recycling resource to have a greater sustainable footprint. “The program will make us more sustainable and leave less of a carbon footprint,” Schoenfelder said. “When I was hired, none of the recycling was being taken out. The custodians would just throw it in the trash and take it out as trash.” Multiple MUC custodians refused comment to The Volante about former recycling practices. Bob Iverson, the City of Vermil-
lion's landfill manager, said he cannot recall a problem with Missouri Valley Recycling receiving or receiving poorly-sorted recyclable items from the MUC. SCHOENFELDER First-year John Ricketts said he never saw recycling as a problem at USD but is glad to hear the MUC is taking the initiative to change any previous wrongdoing or inefficient practices. "Obviously, it's the right thing to do," Ricketts said. "It's something everybody knows needs to be done and needs to be done well." Becky Chamberlin, a secondyear graduate student, is working with Schoenfelder on the recycling program, said the problems were
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Julie Ann sat down on the green couch in her sun- college males experience sexual assault, according room, smoothed out her dress and looked around to reports by the Rape, Abuse and Incest National at the Ankeny, Iowa home she Network. now shares with her husband Universities and colleges and 10-year-old son. It’s been 16 EDITOR'S NOTE: Per the request of Julie Ann, around the nation are attemptyears since her sexual assault at her last name will not appear in this story. ing to lower these statistics. USD the University of South Dakota, However, Julie is her real first name and Ann is is required, along with every but she can still remember her her middle name. Kaytie, Julie's college friend, other post-secondary instituattacker’s bushy eyebrows, his is a real person, but Julie declined to reveal her tion with Title IX financial aid scruffy face and the way she real name for privacy reasons. programs, to make a number of expected to smell alcohol on his changes to an amended Jeanne breath — but could not. Clery Act and meet new require“I don’t know if my first ments established by the Camthought was is he going to kill Video pus Sexual Violence Elimination me or rape me, I don’t know,” of Julie Ann describing her experience with Act, a provision of the Violence Julie said. “I just knew that I sexual assault, a recount of the attack and her Against Women Reauthorization didn’t want him to get on the decision to write a memoir about her time at Act of 2013. USD. Learn about what she's done to put the bed with me.” But for survivors like Julie, Julie’s experience with her experience behind her. new policies at her alma mater attacker, as he fondled her and Get the background will not make the healing proattempted to rape her, is not cess go any faster. She never See the police report and other documents the first time this crime has related to the sexual assault. Find it all at shared the full story of her attack ever occurred — and likely not other than the police for more its last. It’s estimated between than a decade, but the death of one-quarter and one-fifth of college females and six percent of
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Faculty seminars provide students industry insight Cristina Drey
Christina.Drey@coyotes.usd.edu
Every Friday since the fall 2011 semester, faculty and students gather in Lee Med 107 for a presentation given by a visiting scientist as part of the Faculty Seminar Series that the department comes together to provide. Lisa Moore, assistant professor at the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota, organizes a calendar a semester in advance and then opens it up to faculty and graduate students to decide who they want to visit for a specific week. Among reasons such as networking and enriching the scholarly environment, Moore said the exposure to other kinds of science and
ideas are just a few aspects on the list of opportunities the seminar series supplies to those involved. “We constantly want to be thinking about new things and challenging the way we approach our research dayto-day,” Moore said. “So bringing in outside speakers who automatically look at things differently sometimes will spark a new idea and a new way to approach things.” Each Friday’s guest speaker spends the day meeting with faculty and students in addition to the presentation given at noon, Moore said. Additionally, she said the host of the speaker, or the
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Julie Ann reflects on past memories while paging through one of her many memory books she has created. Her memory books contain items such as photos, newspaper articles and memoriabilia, which includes a scrap of fabric from the pink curtains in the trailer house she lived in while attending the University of South Dakota.
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