Fall sports fans find specials, reason to celebrate season
Sunday and Monday are the holy days of football, and a few local establishments are kicking in so you can root your team on in style. Check out these local hangouts for weekly football entertainment: Where to go: Skinner’s Pub. Cheering Equipment: Fans can catch the game on a 12-foot, high-definition big screen.
Jacks lasso Cowboys
The memory of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse loss may be quickly fading from the minds of Jackrabbit football players and fans. For the second week in a row, SDSU traveled to Louisiana and defeated a Division I-AA-ranked opponent. The Jacks knocked off no.
Striking with a Vengeance
In only its second year as an SDSU club sport, the bowling club is off and rolling. Success came to the bowling club in a short amount of time. The club currently has 13 members, with nine on the men’s team and seven on the women’s. The women’s team finished in first place at the Oshkosh tournament in Oshkosh, Wis.
Golf season in full swing
The 2006 golf teams are already looking toward the end of their fall seasons. They hope for a strong finish, before the not-so-friendly-to-golf winter season begins. The men’s team is young, with Steve Klock the only senior on the squad. The women’s team lost three valuable seniors from last year’s squad.
Fans boost Jacks on the road
The Jacks aren’t the only ones who get to play when they go on the road. The booster travel group, a group of boosters, parents and guests who travel with the team, spends time not only supporting the team, but sightseeing as well. A group of 40 to 45 people traveled with the team to Lake Charles, La.
Even the dead can teach a lesson
Two little-known teachers inhabit the third floor of Ag Hall 24 hours a day. Some might argue they are more interesting than many other professors on campus. And they aren’t even alive. Students enrolled in anatomy at SDSU must participate in human anatomy lab, where they view the dissection of a cadaver.
Olympian lectures at media symposium
Olympic gold medalist and inspirational speaker Billy Mills will speak to students Oct. 6 as part of the 2006 Native American Media Symposium. The symposium, sponsored by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, is a gathering of many prominent members of the Native American journalism community.
SDSU ranks low on STD awareness study
According to a recent survey, SDSU doesn’t make the grade in safe-sex education. SDSU ranked 82 out of 100 schools surveyed for the Trojan Sexual Health Report Card released Sept. 19 from the makers of Trojan brand condoms and Sperling’s Best Places. SDSU received a D for information on the Web site, an F for condom availability and another F for advice columns and question-and-answer features for sexual issues or relationships.
WebCT contract expires in June
An online staple for SDSU courses will be completely eliminated at the end of this year. The decision was made not to renew the yearly contract with WebCT, a course management system. The contract expired this past June. Campus Edition 4.1, the version currently being used by WebCT, has been dropped.
Students demand more wireless internet, says survey
Most students already have laptops, want more wireless Internet on campus and think the current service and coverage isn’t good enough, according to a survey of 1,942 students just released by the Students’ Association. Armed with the survey results, SA President Alex Halbach said he and other senators recently met with Mike Adelaine, SDSU chief information technology officer, and Mike Reger, executive vice president of administration, to push for expanded coverage.
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