Gift cards sales at record levels
Finding a present for a loved one can be hard. In response, American consumers are buying gift cards at record levels, replacing older gift certificate methods. However, with ease of use come fees and charges levied against unknowing customers. According to Bankrate.
New actors and monsters with a tilt
It’s Godzilla meets Blair Witch Project, but better, much better. “I saw it! It’s alive! It’s huge!” I was already so into the movie and anxious with anticipation from the unrevealing trailers and television commercials that I literally leaned left and right in my theater seat to get a better look at the creature.
College Connoisseur
I hate my friends. This week, I was going to be responsible. For this column, my plan was to properly taste six beers scientifically. With poise, I prepared to quietly enjoy some delicious beer without bias. By bias, I mean systemically destroying a pick-a-six under a half hour and scrawl my idiot comments on a dirty napkin.
Actors get HOT on stage this week
“? A man’s grapefruit fell out his costume and rolled across the stage,” said Doug Sahr, a junior agricultural education major and president of Alpha Psi Omega (APO). The grapefruit incident was recalled from Sahr’s first year doing Capers. One way to describe the experience of Capers dance practice is like Mad TV, Animal House and an old school Ricky Martin concert wrapped in a flour tortilla of insanity.
Folk festival regular singing for students
“Ellis’s voice is powerful, beautiful, intimidating and charming? mixed in with the songs’ acoustic guitar driven music, sung with the passion that Ani Difranco and Suzanne Vega once exuded?” said Celeste Tabora of Pulse of the Twin Cities. “I saw her at the NACA conference that University Program Council went on, and she was fantastic.
Jackrabbits found themselves in first place midway through Summit League
Midway through their first season in the Summit League, the SDSU women’s basketball team finds itself near the top of the conference standings. The big story early in the season was the injury bug that bit pre-season Summit League second team all-conference forward Jennifer Warkenthien and sophomore center Laura Nielsen.
The Blades out-skate the Jackrabbits 4-3 in a heavily penalized match-up
The Dordt men’s hockey team defeated SDSU 4-3 on Jan. 25. The Jackrabbits and Blades fought to a 3-3 tie at the end of the second period, but a third period goal by Dordt forward Todd Bakker sealed the win over the Jackrabbits. The game was very aggressive; both teams combined for 30 total penalties along with many hard hits.
NDSU Bison stampede over Jackrabbits 90-63
The first Summit League men’s basketball game between former North Central Conference rivals North Dakota State and SDSU turned into a rout early on, and the Jacks could not recover in a 90-63 win by the Bison at the Bison Sports Arena in Fargo, N.D., Jan.
Dance closes early because of alcohol
Over 600 students were sent into the cold early at the Black Light Dance on Jan. 24. After the ambulance was called to the Volstorff Ballroom three times and one student was arrested for resisting arrest, the University Police Department told Sigma Phi Epsilon to end the dance at 12:30 a.
Possible Opportunity for scholarship
The South Dakota Legislature is looking at making changes to a scholarship program that might affect 1,166 students at SDSU. The state is looking at making these changes to the Opportunity Scholarship program because of an increase in interest being earned on a trust fund, according to Governor Mike Rounds.
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