Letters to the Editor
Budget cuts will continue without more taxes
Dear Editor: The April 13 edition of The Collegian includes excellent coverage on the budget cuts being made at South Dakota State University, thanks to the legislature. It is worth noting that South Dakota has neither a state personal income tax nor a corporate income tax. It also does not tax sales made in the [...]
Editor should apologize for unfunny JFK joke
I always look forward to reading each issue of The Collegian. I feel the reporters and columnists put a lot of thought and hard work into their writings. However, my heart sank as I came across an entry in the special edition entitled The Collagen with the March 30, 2011 issue. This issue was in [...]
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 [...]
An open letter to ResLife
A page on Facebook based on this letter formed a few weeks ago. Check out the April 13 issue of The Collegian for the full story. Here’s the letter, which was sent to us. To whom it may concern: I am writing this letter on behalf of the majority of students residing in the residential [...]
Make birth control available at no cost
A little over a year ago, on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This law made a major difference in young people’s ability to access reproductive health care. While it guaranteed that preventive care, including lifesaving screenings for breast and cervical cancer, be available at no [...]
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