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SDSYou Video Contest Returns to Campus

On March 29 at 8 pm, South Dakota State University will be taken to Hollywood thanks to the University Programs Council. The SDSYou Video Contest will be displaying the works of SDSU students in the Fishback Theatre in the PAC. The night will also be an awards ceremony with five entries winning $75 and one [...]

Even ?dirtbags? have right to free speech

Allen FalkenColumnist Recently, the Supreme Court upheld the rights of the Westboro Baptist Church to protest outside the funerals of soldiers. They say that god is killing soldiers because of the United States’ “acceptance” of homosexuals. Apparently to them “acceptance” involves passing laws against gay people’s right to marry the ones they love. As far [...]

Arrest of protestor at Clinton speech means government isn?t practicing what it preaches

Jon WellerColumnist History is happening all around us. What began in Algeria, spread to Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Libya. Revolution, the People’s Revolution, has now etched itself into history as a time when the people threw off their shackles of oppression and peacefully ousted tyrannical dictators. The exceptions being Libya, but the rebels [...]

Fund preventative care

The newly elected leaders in the House of Representatives, including Rep. Kristi Noem, have launched the most devastating legislative assault on preventative health care in American history. Just over a week ago they voted to eliminate the national family program called Title X, which has provided millions of people with preventive care since 1970. At [...]