BREAKING: SDSU officials announce actions to balance budget
South Dakota State University officials announced today actions to balance the university’s budget for Fiscal Year 2012 in response to a 10 percent reduction in state appropriations. This is the third consecutive year of substantial cuts in state appropriations to the university, the Cooperative Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station. President David Chicoine, in [...]
Three’s company
Assistant Sports Editor It ends where it began. SDSU lost to Oakland at home on January 24, 57-56 in overtime and the Jackrabbits missed free throws, looked weak defensively and didn’t seem to have that finishing power that they’ve had in the past. SDSU has changed since that. The Jackrabbits toughened up and found a [...]
SDSU to face Xavier in NCAA Tournament
SDSU knows where they are going in the NCAA Tournament and won’t have an easy start. The Jackrabbits drew a 15 seed and will head east to face the second-seeded Xavier Musketeers on their home court in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the lowest the Jackrabbits have been seeded in their three trips to the NCAA [...]
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
Columnist 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 as [...]
Arrest of protestor at Clinton speech means government isn’t practicing what it preaches
Jon Weller Columnist 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 [...]
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 [...]
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