Eyes were opened’ by tourism conference

Eighteen SDSU students and one faculty member recently traveled to Pierre to participate in this year’s Governor’s Conference on Tourism. The two-day event, held Jan. 21 and 22, consisted of a number of sessions, presentations and speakers, including an address by Gov.

How to properly take trash that is not garbage and find treasure

To the rest of Brookings it is known as the Brookings Regional Landfill Spring Clean Up. To college students in the know, however, it can be Christmas in April. But time is running short as all objects will be picked up by the end of this week. The premise of this most wonderful time of the year is that any Brookings resident can clean out their garages, basements or back closets and just dump the “junk” out on the curb for the city to pick up and haul off to the landfill.

Newbie looks forward to his first Pub Crawl

The illusive Pub Crawl: minors dream about it, those of age brag about it and everyone has heard stories about it. Officially, it is known as St. Patrick’s Day Pub Parade. As an “of-age” newbie, I have not personally experienced Pub Crawl for myself, but I have experienced the aftermath, and boy have I heard some stories.

Cover band plays all music genres

Scores of people dusted off their cowboy hats, polished their boots and practiced their jitterbugging moves for the Johnny Holm concert at the Swiftel on Feb 21. Before going on stage, Holm walked through the crowd of people waiting for the sound check to get finished.