Professors want people to visit home country
Engineering professors Alfred and Madeleine Andrawis will lead an upcoming tour of “Modern and Historic Egypt” May 12- 30. Along with the SDSU community, this year’s tour offers a great opportunity to another audience: the public. Interested SDSU students, faculty and Brookings community members are encouraged to participate.
Uniting education, industry
From Feb. 14 to 16, students from Lake Area Technical Institute, Mitchell Technical Institute and SDSU will be competing at the Postsecondary Agricultural Students (PAS) State Conference on SDSU’s campus. Approximately 71 agricultural students, including about 39 members of the SDSU PAS chapter, will participate in contests throughout the conference for a chance at a state title and the opportunity to go to nationals in Dallas on March 12 through 15.
State politician shares ideas, knowledge with classroom
Governor Mike Rounds took a break from his legislative schedule to come talk with SDSU students in Robert Burns’ American Political Issues (POLS 102) class on Feb. 5. Rounds said that he wanted to come speak in Burns’ class for a few years now, but he had never done it.
Student lobbyists flock to the state capital for SHED
A balcony of theatre-style seats known as the Gallery surrounds the Senate floor. On Feb. 4, students from all six regental universities filled these chairs after a morning of testifying in committee meetings and speaking with state lawmakers at Students for Higher Education Day.
BOR working to upgrade facilities
Governor Rounds’ son went to North Dakota State University; the reason, according to Rounds, was that SDSU was not even close to NDSU in regard to laboratory facilities. There have been a number of large donations to SDSU recently to help increase research capabilities; however, there are also a number of existing buildings that are in need of repairs.
Prime Minister or President?
Cha-cha has come out in the news again. Charter change, that is. Opposing Philippine politicians are in a brawl once more, debating the need to shift from a presidential, bicameral system to a unicameral, parliamentary form of government. So, which is preferable? Should the Filipino people retain this current presidential form of government or should we try the parliamentary system? Here is my viewpoint on the issue, which the press people, either print or TV, have been feasting on for so long now.
Student government impedes First Amendment for paper’s criticisms
Can you name all five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment? Go ahead, try. It’s okay if you can’t-most people can’t. I know I couldn’t before I began working as the editor of The Collegian. Give up? The correct answer is: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom to petition the government and freedom of the press.
Use Black History Month to prepare
The Issue: SDSU is a predominantly white campus with very little exposure to other cultures. The Stance: Events like African-American Step Show are a chance to expand your horizons. A mere 44 years ago, segregation was still a perfectly legal part of life in the United States.
SDSU un-midas the Golden Grizz 64-63
It took overtime, but at the end of the game, the SDSU women’s basketball team took one more step toward a return trip to the WNIT and a regular season conference championship as they defeated the Oakland Golden Grizzlies 64-63 on Feb. 2. SDSU senior Andrea Verdegan’s last-second bucket sent the game into overtime.
House passes bill allowing guns on campus
Students will be allowed to carry firearms on public college campuses under a bill that passed, 63-3, on the House floor Feb. 4. House Bill 1261 is designed to give college students their second amendment rights, according to the bill’s sponsor Rep. Thomas Brunner, R-Nisland.
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