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Vandalism was reported in the early morning of April 22 by a USD professor after he had been criticized for a April 21 letter to the editor in support of a political group on campus. Robert Swan, associate professor of political science and advisor to Students Against the State, said he woke up Thursday to find his gate fence kicked in and his garbage cans knocked over behind his house.
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Sioux Falls has elected a new mayor. Mike Huether beat Kermit Staggers with 18,264 votes over Staggers 13,968 votes in a run-off election Tuesday. With six mayoral candidates receiving less than a majority vote in the general election April 13, Huether and Staggers went heat-to-head ending the election process last night.
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A South Dakota bar bouncer lost a finger in an altercation with a customer this weekend.
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South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds will celebrate Arbor Day a few days early on Tuesday with a tree planting event at the Governor’s Residence near Capitol Lake in Pierre, S.D.
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USD’s plans to remove 200 parking spaces in front of I.D. Weeks Library this summer to allow for more green space on campus has students concerned that finding parking will be a problem next fall. Sophomore Tyler Olsen said he thinks the project will create more problems with parking.
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The Students Against the State protest became the hot topic for discussion at Monday’s First Amendment Forum sponsored by the Cross Media Council and Political Science League. The forum was sparked by the T-shirt ban controversy in February, but the focus was quickly redirected to the SATS protest April 20 at the Veterans Club memorial.
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After a successful two-week pilot program and a survey of how students reacted to having the paper, Student Government Association President Tim Carr said the national newspaper USA Today, which was started by USD alumni Al Neuharth, will be at USD for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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Terry Robertson is hoping for clear skies this week so his Earth Day event, which brings awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment, can go off without a hitch. Robertson, IdEA director, is facilitating the student-run event, which brings awareness and appreciation for Earth’s environment, taking place April 22 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. in front of Old Main.
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Student Government Association senator Trevor Christiansen proposed a resolution for USD to build a new permanent veteran’s memorial on campus during this week’s SGA meeting. “There are other universities which have veteran’s memorials,” Christiansen said. “I think there’s been a greater awareness of the sacrifices World War II veterans and veterans of all the other generations have made.”
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Monday night’s first-ever W.O. Farber Public Affairs Lecture Series at the Muenster University Center was both entertaining and intriguing, said students and faculty who were in attendance.
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Sentencing for one of three USD students convicted of burning down the Pressbox Bar and Grill Sept. 29, 2008, was handed down Friday. Senior Nate Thomas, 20, of Sioux Falls, was given 90 days in jail and 10 years of probation after a jury found him guilty at a two-day trial Feb. 18 and 19 for reckless burning and exploding, a class 4 felony that carries a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
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South Dakota’s anti-death penalty movement needs to unite before any change can happen in the state, said Travis Schulze, Amnesty International South Dakota’s Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator. Schulze was the keynote speaker for USD’s Amnesty International Chapter, a group which has been active in lobbying against the death penalty.
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Zombies swarmed the USD campus last weekend. The invasion was part of an event called Humans Versus Zombies, an elaborate game of tag organized by junior Elyse Taylor. “I think it went really well,” Taylor said. “Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun.”
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