Students fast for charity
A group of students will be fasting for a day in order to raise funds to feed the hungry. As a project for the class ABS 310, Leadership for Families and the Food System, the students have decided to help raise awareness of world hunger. During Hunger Awareness Week, April 10-13, the group will be speaking on the local campus radio station and fliers will be put up around campus.
Godfather’s Pizza closes its doors, disappoints hungry students
Freshman Brendan Smith was shocked to hear the news that his favorite pizza place closed last week. “What? That’s ridiculous. That’s where half my money goes,” said Smith, an electrical engineering technology major. On Friday, April 6, Godfather’s closed for business.
Campus to host Relay for Life
The American Cancer Society hosts Relay For Life events all over the nation. Now for the first time, SDSU will host one. SDSU’s Chapter of the American Cancer Society Colleges Against Cancer is hosting a Relay For Life event on April 20-21 at Sexauer Field on campus.
Fire destroys frat house
Greek organizations across campus have pulled together to help some of their own in the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the Sigma Phi Delta house. The SPD house, located just south of Crothers Engineering Hall on 11th Avenue, burned down early on the morning of March 31.
Pricey insurance slams int’l students
Chenchaiah Marella came to SDSU from India in 2005 to study food and bioprocesses engineering as a graduate student. His wife and their two children stayed behind. The reason? Marella can’t afford the cost of the health insurance required by the South Dakota Board of Regents for his family.
Popular book inspires columnist to wake from hallucination
I pondered how God has viewed our being individuals, whose moment of stillness has not been so apparently fulfilled. The line in the Bible that says “Be still, and know that I am God,” really means, in its complete contemporary biblical setting, “Cease, relax and shut up! Spare time for me and know that I am God.
Tuition bump to fund repairs
South Dakota State University students will pitch in $1.12 per credit hour for much-needed repairs to campus buildings, according to the South Dakota Board of Regents. The money will help cover the cost of $4.8 million in bonds issued by the state to pay for building repairs, said Dean Kattelmann, director of the SDSU physical plant.
Google your next date
Dating used to be largely a matter of spending time with a love interest, discovering the good, the bad and the ugly in person. If you were lucky, friends helped fill in some of the blanks. These days, the Internet – and the ability to check people out before they ever meet up – has forever changed the rules.
State continues to funnel money toward more research resources
South Dakota campuses are playing catch-up, higher education officials say, even though almost one in four new dollars and about 60 percent of new positions in the state budget since 2003 have landed in the public university system. The money – from state and federal funds, student tuition and private sources – and positions have helped the universities recover from cuts in full-time equivalent positions – or FTEs, a measure of the funding to support a 40-hour-a-week position for a year – that started in 1999, a Board of Regents official says.
Buchanan talks beliefs, Bush failure at Griffith lecture
Speaking against current trends in American culture and politics he feels are marred with “hubris,” Pat Buchanan called the Bush presidency’s condition “critical, if not grave.” A former presidential candidate, adviser to President Nixon, author and commentator, Buchanan lectured about the failures of the current federal administration April 4.
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