Jacks fall to conference elite
Drue AmanSports Editor Looks like the path through the Summit League begins and ends with black-and-gold. Oakland (13-8, 8-0) could not be contained on the offensive end while SDSU (12-7, 4-4) simply had no answer in a 97-88 loss at Frost Arena Jan. 20. This Golden Grizzlies win had record-setting significance. Just one season after [...]
Kriens defines a rivalry and breaks down some of sports? best
Travis KriensSDSU Psychic What makes a rivalry? It’s that one team that you hate the most. The team that you look forward to playing each season and immediately check the schedule when it comes out to see when another chapter to the rivalry will be written. If your team loses that week, you can at [...]
Oakland tops Jacks in overtime
Marcus TraxlerAssistant Sports Editor For the second night in a row, the Jackrabbit women dropped a close overtime affair. Add free throw shooting to the long list of letdowns for the SDSU women’s basketball team this season. The Jackrabbits – normally steadfast from the free throw line – shot 52 percent for the game and [...]
University to see cuts as result of 2012 proposal
Kristine YoungNews Editor Only one day after Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced his budget proposal, SDSU President David Chicoine addressed how a possible loss of nearly $4.7 million would affect the university. “What will happen this year, we don’t know,” Chicoine said, speaking at the Jan. 20 town hall event in SDSU’s Agriculture Engineering building. Daugaard’s [...]
Busy staff made quick work of water mess
Corey WackelNews Editor University Bookstore employees were busy the morning of Jan. 24 after a sprinkler malfunction on the main floor of the bookstore caused extensive water damage. Around 7:45 a.m., a main floor sprinkler was set off, damaging much of the merchandise in the bookstore. The water was shut down around 8:20 a.m. and [...]
RAPE: A victim?s mother speaks out
Emma DejongManaging Editor It does not take much to trigger a mother’s protective nature. Drugs, murder, rape and other extremes may not always seem realistic, but they definitely cross her mind once a child leaves her safety. For one SDSU student’s mother, rape became more than an unrealistic possibility. “You worry about those things as [...]
Daugaard outlines plan to reduce state deficit
Elizabeth “Sam” GroszCommunity News Service Gov. Dennis Daugaard unveiled his budget proposal Jan. 19, confirming what had been rumored: a 10 percent cut was requested in every department. The governor said cuts were necessary to end the continuing deficit in the next fiscal year, so that South Dakota can continue to build the economy. Having [...]
Digital materials great, but first better delivery needed
The Collegian Editorial Board Issue: SDSU continues to go paperless with plans to make the course catalog completely digital. Though no date has been set, SDSU’s undergraduate catalog will eventually cease physical publication and move completely digital. This will save the university nearly $25,000, according to the Office of Academic Affairs. We support this move [...]
Paper catalogs may be eliminated
Katie HillReporter The Academic Affairs office has been discussing future possibilities to offer SDSU undergraduate catalogs exclusively online. “There are a variety of possible strategies,” said Mary Kay Helling, associate provost and interim dean of the graduate college. “One option is to present a PDF format which would allow students to print the entire catalog [...]
Boiler upgrades will increase energy conservation
Briana DorrenNews Editor Energy conservation is becoming increasingly more important, and SDSU plans to keep up with the changes, as funds are being put to use renovating the facility’s equipment. Last month, the South Dakota Board of Regents approved plans to move towards being a greener campus here at SDSU. “SDSU’s Preliminary Facility Statement and [...]
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