Jacks men take down IUPUI

Most SDSU fans entering the Arena early Saturday night to see the SDSU’s opening-round game saw a potentially huge upset unfolding before them between first-seed Oral Roberts and IPFW. They then saw SDSU take the floor and quiet any IUPUI upset hopes of their own, as the Nate Wolters-led Jackrabbits took home a 77-56 win [...]

Jill Young defends IPFW guard Sarah Haluska in Saturday's first-round Summit League Tournament game at the Arena. Young finished with eight points in SDSU's 80-57 win. - Collegian photo by Aaron Stoneberger

Jacks women dominate Mastodons in quarters

It serves as little surprise that top-seeded SDSU had little trouble finalizing plans to play Monday afternoon in the second round of the Summit League tournament.   SDSU made good on its previous outings in the Summit League quarterfinals, cruising over the bottom-seed IPFW Mastodons in a 80-57 win Saturday afternoon, their 10th-straight win in [...]

Jacks trounced by Kansas State

Jacks trounced by Kansas State

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFhhP8n07QE[/youtube] You can say SDSU lost to a power conference, a Big 12 team with some name recognition. Or, you can take a look at the math and wonder what happened. The Jacks had their poorest performances shooting from the field in more than 10 years in a 63-46 loss, recording just 11 field goals [...]

Members of Equip, an SDSU college ministry, sing Nov. 30. Each week, Equip members eat a meal, discuss Bible passages and form discussion groups. A survey shows students’ religious habits change once beginning college, with the percentage of weekly church attendance dropping nearly in half. -Collegian Photo by Kathy Kroether

Keeping the faith

Chronicling changes in our religious beliefs Most of the congregation filtered in over the last 10 minutes, and a majority of them brought their children in winter coats, avoiding them from the chill frosting the grass on their front lawns and windshields. Soft, acoustic guitar music plays through the sanctuary’s speakers, and at 10:25 a.m. [...]

Scobey mold issue vacate faculty members

Faculty members experiencing mold-related reactions in Scobey Hall are moving out — this time permanently. Two faculty members have moved from the building into a different office said Michael Keller, an English professor in the bottom level of Scobey Hall and vice president of the Faculty Senate. Plans have been made to place air filtration [...]

Air quality questioned

Faculty members blame miscommunication, lack of knowledge in fixing workplace environment problems. Professors and students leave Scobey Hall and the basement of Wagner Hall sometimes feeling sicker than when they entered. SDSU Faculty Senate members hope to improve awareness of this threat and to revamp a policy to improve communication about unsafe work environments. This [...]

Mold problems a concern for faculty

SDSU faculty senate members hope to improve awareness or revamp a policy to improve communication with unsafe work environments after complaints of poor conditions in rooms throughout Scobey Hall. Last week, the senate dedicated a chunk of its agenda to an open discussion on an issue that English professor and Senate Vice President Michael Keller [...]

New faculty member in the Geography Department, Trisha Jackson, traveled the world before landing at SDSU – something she believes prepared her to teach geography to college students. (Collegian photo by Drue Aman)

World traveler now calls SDSU home

Trisha Jackson believes her life experiences from traveling have qualified and prepared her for a space in 242 Scobey Hall. Jackson landed a job in SDSU’s Geography Department this summer, moving her and her family to Brookings. Part of her travels: a combination of a graduate student program in the world’s largest island, Greenland, and [...]

Enrollment figures slide

SDSU’s student enrollment dipped for the first time in more than a decade, a fact with a variety of explanations including a sizable enrollment spike in recent years and a slight reduction in transfer students. South Dakota’s largest university dropped 91 students from last year’s headcount to 12,725 students. Statewide, enrollment fell 337 students, just [...]

SDSU enrollment figures drop