Tony Gorder
Pepsi products available on campus soon
The cola war is on at SDSU. A new soda contract allows both Pepsi and Coca-Cola vending machines on campus, according to a post on InsideState, an online communication site for faculty and staff. The new machines will start showing up on campus Aug. 1. Before the new contract, SDSU was a Coke-exclusive campus. Check the [...]
COLUMN UPDATE: @SDHouseDems run damage control, delete 244 tweets
June 29 UPDATE: @SDHouseDems have deleted 13 more tweets. They deleted 257 tweets total so far. That’s 95 percent of their updates that have been deleted. —- Just like a lot of politicians these days, South Dakota politicians may be headed for their own Twitter scandal. It’s been two weeks since I ran my column [...]
COLUMN: @SDHouseDems makes S.D. House Democrats look like idiots
UPDATE: Check out the follow-up HERE. Politicians are often viewed as out of touch. A bunch of old (mostly) men with gray hair in a big room wondering how they can solve people’s problem, whether that means less government, more government, or less salt. One thing you can count on is that, no matter [...]
Three things I hate about Internet classes
Summer classes are right around the corner for some, including me. At SDSU, many summer courses are offered online. Online classes have their advantages, like being able to work at your own pace (which, for me, involves doing a week’s worth of work in a long and stressful afternoon). However, there are things that happen [...]
Two days, two fires: Dumpster outside Hansen Hall feels the heat of finals week
For the second day in a row, the Brookings Fire Department made a late-night trip to Hansen Hall. The same dumpster outside Hansen Hall was ablaze for the second time this finals week—and it was only Tuesday. Again, students were evacuated from the residence hall. By around 10:45 p.m., the fire was put [...]
Hansen Hall dumpster fire causes late-night evacuation
Students burning the midnight oil studying for finals got more than they bargained for with an apparent fire in a Hansen Hall dumpster shortly after midnight on May 2. Students were evacuated from the residence hall and were standing outside the residence hall. “We were sleeping and the damn fire alarm went off,” Alex Hohertz, a [...]
Officials announce final cuts
SDSU faced harsh realities last week when university officials announced an onslaught of upcoming cuts and changes made to balance the university’s budget for fiscal year 2012 in response to a 10 percent reduction in state appropriations. The mood on campus “reflects the weather,” SDSU President David Chicoine said during a conference call on a [...]
The Collegian launches new website and smartphone application
Hello and welcome to The Collegian’s new and improved website. We’ve been hard at work over the past months preparing this new site and our smartphone app. We are excited to give you — our readers — a site that offers unfiltered and accurate coverage of SDSU in a way that’s easy to navigate, mobile [...]
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