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Brookings City Council mandates masks in public places ANDREW RASMUSSEN Reporter The Brookings City Council voted to mandate masks in public where 6-foot social distancing is not possible during Tuesday’s city council meeting. The 5-2 vote comes after more than three hours of public input from both sides of the issue. The meeting took place at the Swiftel Center to accommodate proper social distancing after roughly 250 Brookings residents attended the first reading in the City Council chambers. “Within the City of Brookings, all persons … must wear a face mask/ face covering in indoor businesses and indoor public places where six foot social distancing

cannot be achieved or maintained,” the ordinance read. There are several exemptions to the mandate including: “Children five and under, private vehicles and residences, eating and drinking when seated, educational institutions that have implemented protections, places of worship,” according to the ordinance. South Dakota State University and the Brookings School District are exempt from the ordinance due to their COVID-19 restrictions already implemented. University administration supported the ordinance at both its ﬁrst and second readings. “This virus behaves differently than the

common cold,” Mary Anne Krogh, SDSU dean of nursing, said. “I wear a mask to protect others.” Also speaking in favor of the ordinance was Daniel Scholl, vice president for the Division of Research and Economic Development at SDSU. President Barry Dunn also spoke in favor at the ﬁrst reading. “I want to make it clear that masks make a diﬀerence,” Dr. Sarah Smith, a family medicine doctor at Avera in Brookings, said. “I urge the Brookings City Council to listen to science and do what is right for our community.” Councilors Leah Brink and Joey Collins cast the dissenting votes. “If the mask mandate passes tonight, I encourage you to follow

it,” Brink said. She then added she does not support the mandate but will follow it if it passes. Both Brink and Collins echoed the sentiments of the many speakers citing personal freedom and choice as the reasoning for their votes. “I happen to think mask-wearing is a path to normalcy,” Councilor Nick Wendell said. Campus policies regarding COVID-19 were much of the discussion from both residents and councilors. “SDSU and the Brookings school systems are requiring masks and so should we,” City Councilor Ope Niemeyer said.

Collegian photo by ANDREW RASMUSSEN Brookings City Council met to discuss and vote on an addendum to the COVID-19 restrictions Sept. 8.

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Hobo Day canceled then and now World War II and a pandemic cause breaks in tradition GRACIE TERRALL & MAGGIE MOLITOR News Editor & Reporter

Collegian photo by FRANKIE HERRERA In 2019, Farmhouse Fraternity won the “Most Hobo Float” pennant for the Hobo Day parade.

For the first time in over 75 years, the South Dakota State University Hobo Day Parade- one of the largest events in the Dakotas- has been canceled. There will be no vintage cars on the road, no people lining the streets of downtown and no children running for candy this year. The parade, along with many events this year, was canceled due to the gathering restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The parade is a public event,” Marie Robbins, assistant pooba for the parade committee, said. “You can’t force them to wear a mask outside. You can’t force them to stand six feet apart. There is no way to control the crowds.” The Hobo Day committee did explore alternative options, such as a longer parade route to disperse people over a greater distance and a possible live streamed event. However, in the end those options were not feasible. “How do you stop people from standing on the edge of the street?” Robbins said, in rebuttal to a live-streamed parade. The popularity of the parade has been an annual staple in the Brookings community for over 75 years. The last time the parade was forced to cancel was in 1942, during

the midst of World War II. Due to the amount of young men enlisted in the draft, lack of resources and of homecoming spirit, the Hobo Day Parade was canceled. Chuck Cecil, author of “Here and Far Away: Brookings County and World War II,” is an alumnus of SDSU and local expert on the histories of Brookings. “It was a tough life,” Cecil said. “Everything was rationed: meat, sugar and gas. People were forced to make sacrifices.” According to Cecil, people were forced to quarantine– much like we have been now– because of the abundance of resources taken for the war effort. The air of uncertainty and extreme loss circulates between both of these times. “They impacted millions upon millions of people and that’s the same thing with this pandemic. Millions of people are affected and people are just trying to stay safe,” Robbins said. Although there are many similarities between Brookings life now and during the second World War, Cecil made it apparent that the atmosphere and “psychological happenings” surrounding WWII were heavier, and sacrifices were far more extreme than they are now. The sadness correlating with the absence of South Dakota’s largest parade is not the only

thing keeping Brookings citizens down. Many local businesses around Brookings typically expect a large customer turnout during the parade. Nick’s Hamburger Shop, a burger joint like the name suggests, has been located in downtown Brookings since 1929 and has a large fan base, particularly SDSU alumni. “Hobo Day is usually an enormous event for us,” Todd Fergan, owner of Nick’s, said. “We usually open up early and have the carry-out window open until two in the morning. It is pretty much non-stop for everybody at every position, all day long.” After an already strenuous year for business, Nick’s and plenty of other restaurants and shops in Brookings are sure to feel the impact of the parade cancelation. Without having a parade, The Hobo Day Parade committee is ironing out details of what this year’s Hobo Days celebrations will look like. Virtual events and activities are being explored. “To me, the parade is where students and the Brookings community are able to interact with each other, and not having it will be a great loss for both campus and the community this year,” said Robbins.

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Study abroad moves closer to home with new program

MEGAN BERTSCH Copy Editor In spring of 2020, the Office of International Affairs worked around the clock to keep students studying abroad safe as COVID-19 rapidly swept across the globe. Ultimately this meant last minute flights home, cutting programs short and canceling those to come. Now, in the middle of the global pandemic, a question looms in the air for the OIA, as well as many other organizations on campus: now what? “We want everyone to be safe and everyone

to be comfortable, and throwing people into the middle of a pandemic, it’s just not the right thing to do,” Dr. Jon Stauff, assistant vice president for International Affairs, said. “How can we provide for students who want to have that type of international experience, how can we work together with faculty to make it happen?” Though South Dakota State University isn’t sending students overseas anytime in the near future, the OIA has brainstormed several creative alternatives for students looking for an international experience right at

home. They are currently working with businesses and organizations across the globe to create virtual internship opportunities. “We’ve found that to provide some type of global experience while not traveling per se, but through Zoom and other media, we are able to communicate in different languages and cultural competency issues, helping students grow,” Stauff said. With these new programs, students can still perform internship duties with diverse organizations abroad. This way students can build their resumes

and intercultural skills in a more accessible way than ever before. “We want to build up the virtual experience, so that it is something that a student that might not have been willing to travel can have an interactive, in real-time connection with something or somebody abroad,” Stauff said. Stauff also mentioned virtual programs in the works for summer 2021, focusing on the study of the COVID-19 pandemic on a global scale. They are calling the proposal “Confronting a Coronavirus: Imagining South Dakota and the Upper Midwest in a PostPandemic World.” “The Office of International Affairs proposes a year-long project that will allow students and faculty to study COVID-19’s impact locally, collaborate with global partners to explore new approaches in the post-pandemic world and create sustained ‘glocal’ relationships into the next generation,” the official statement said. The summer program

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will collaborate with speakers from international organizations and intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations and European Union, as well as national government agencies and officials from around the world, to create a wide context study of pandemic issues in weekly sessions across disciplines. SDSU faculty teams plan on creating programs that will touch on different areas of study such as Culture and Technology of Food, H e a l t h , L e a d e rs h i p, Design and the Built Environment, and Being “Human” in Times of Crisis. “We’d like to get a group of faculty together to explore how our experience in South Dakota has fit into the global pandemic experience,” Stauff said. “It might be a way for the students who don’t have the opportunity to travel to participate in something significant with international flavor.” For students who would like more information on these oppor-

tunities to come, the OIA is hosting their annual study abroad fair on Zoom this year, calling it the Virtual Education Abroad Fair, scheduled for Oct. 8-9, 2020. They say their office is also busier than ever with first year students interested in studying abroad and encourage scheduling a virtual meeting to discuss future study abroad opportunities. Though these new virtual opportunities were born out of cancelations and travel restrictions, the OIA is excited to offer a wider variety of study abroad options to students. The OIA has high hopes that these new accessible opportunities will complement the traditional study abroad experience and will far outlive the current pandemic. “I’m hoping at the end of this pandemic, we will be back on planes and traveling, but we’re also gonna have opportunities to have meaningful global experiences without leaving home,” Stauff said.

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How campus events have been reinvented JORDAN RUSCHE Lifestyles Editor Many student organizations and activities have changed the way they run this year, but students will be happy to see that most of these staples of college life are still alive and well. Despite guidelines like social distancing and limited gatherings making meetings and events difficult, the Office of Student Activities, University Program Council (UPC) and various organizations throughout campus have utilized different means of promoting themselves– setting up tables outside the Union, as tabling inside is prohibited this year– or meeting in smaller groups and using Zoom for those who can’t attend. “There are a lot of stu-

dent organizations and other activities being put on by departments or colleges and other entities that are … trying to find a way,” Matilyn Kerr, the Hobo Day Committee advisor and program advisor for university traditions said. She also helped prepare a plan for what activities and organizations would look like this fall. To help facilitate events and meetings on campus during the pandemic, the JacksRBack team has established new protocols on their website. These include providing maximum capacities for spaces like Jack’s Place and the Volstorff Ballroom in the Union, giving priority to certain groups over others and requiring management plans for events exceeding the maximum capacity and a

list of attendees, among others. For new students who wish to get involved with student organizations but are unsure how due to new guidelines, Assistant Director of Student Activities Kate Stock says there are a few ways to make connections through the Office of Student Activities. “Jacks Club Hub, we’re really trying to push students there, and student activities’ social media,” she said. Students can also contact her office for more information. According to Kerr, there were some challenges in planning for student organizations this year, primarily the uncertainty of what to expect. Discussions about these changes began in March, long before anyone could know exactly what the fall

semester would bring. “Look at how much changed between March and August,” she said. “There was no way at that time we could have made a plan, even March that would have been the same one we used three weeks later at the beginning of April.” Another issue was finding alternatives for organizations that deal heavily with community service, volunteering and overall involvement with the Brookings community. Kerr said that in the case of Hobo Day, many activities that usually take place during the week had to be completely redesigned. These obstacles did not slow down the planning team, however, and new events were soon created to fill the gaps left by those that were no longer possible with the

new safety precautions. Stock said that the new guidelines have opened up many new possibilities. “We wanted to focus on what we can do instead of what we cannot,” Stock said. Some of these new events, mostly sponsored by UPC, include more outdoor activities like an upcoming drive-in movie in Lot 159, music and lectures, comedians, outdoor movies and virtual games. Stock added that they are looking to add more indoor events in the future if possible. Student organizations have also adapted to the changes implemented. Of the 250 current organizations, about 85 signed up as part of the virtual organization fair that occurred earlier in August, replacing the typical event held inside

the Union during the first week of the fall semester. Both Kerr and Stock are grateful to students and faculty for their “grace and patience” during this time, and believe that it’s up to the students to decide whether they want to participate in any events taking place. “Taking time to own your college experience is important,” Stock said. Students who would like to branch out are encouraged to step out of their comfort zone and find others on campus who share their interests and beliefs. “I think we all have a bit of ownership in this to really provide that experience too,” Kerr said. “ultimately, those students, it’s up to them to try.”

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Behind the closed doors of QIH J. MICHAEL BERTSCH Managing Editor DISCLAIMER: Sarah Johnson is a South Dakota State University student and employee. Her name has been changed to ensure her privacy and job security. Quarantine and isolation housing (QIH) is being offered for any student who has potentially contracted or been exposed to COVID-19. However, the facilities and care provided for students in QIH fall short of the promises made by the university. Sarah Johnson spent 14 days in QIH. This story describes her first-hand experiences.

“Why don’t you leave your laundry on the street?”

Johnson had to leave her dorm immediately. She didn’t have two weeks worth of clothes to take with her. “They told me ‘You don’t have time to do laundry, you need to get over there as soon as you can. If you do laundry, you’re going to expose people,’” she said. After continuing to negotiate a way to get clean clothes to her room, she was oﬀered one possible solution from administration. “She told me, ‘Why don’t you leave your laundry on the street by one of your friends’ houses, they can grab it and then they can bring it

to housing? When they’re done with it, we will drop it oﬀ on Monday for you,’” Johnson said. “I just had someone drop it off for me. I wasn’t going to mess with that.”

“$21 a day for Larsons Leftovers”

Food for students in QIH is transported from Larson Commons and placed in a communal refrigerator shared by everyone staying on each ﬂoor. “If I have (COVID-19), and I accidentally touch someone else’s food then they touch it and touch their face? It’s that easy [to spread],” Johnson said. “Once I had my [negative] test results, I felt a lot better about being there. But before I knew I thought, ‘I could literally be spreading this to anybody else who’s living here right now.’” Though sharing a refrigerator was showing potential problems, it did not prove to be the most damaging issue the residents faced. “I got there Friday, and we didn’t get more food again ‘til Monday,” Johnson said. “For the whole weekend, we got three of those styrofoam boxes.” Each styrofoam box contained one meal worth of food from the Larson Commons cafeteria. Due to the material of the boxes, the students were unable to microwave the food. In addition to the

boxed meal, the residents were given pre packaged cereal bowls and granola bars for breakfast. “They brought a case of water in for the weekend, but when there’s nine or 10 people, a case of water is not enough. Especially people who might be sick,” Johnson said. “We didn’t know if we had it yet either, so I was really trying to stay ahead on my water in case I did have it.” After direct complaints to administrators, styrofoam boxes were replaced with microwavable paper

boxes and food portions increased from one box a day to two. The students in QIH

portions were slim for all, some were forced to cut a portion of their meal due to unmet dietary needs.

“I just want it to change for other people’s sake and the fact that I might have to go back there. I can’t go back there if it stays how it was.” *SARAH JOHNSON Former QIH resident are preparing to potentially combat a debilitating disease, and though

“We just got what we got. I’m not a picky person, but the people there with

me had dietary restrictions, and those were not respected at all,” Johnson said. “One of the people staying with me had a dairy allergy, and they got dairy in every single one of their meals, so they just did not eat most of their meals.” Though staying in QIH is free of charge to the student, the meals they receive are not. “Oh, and we were getting charged $21 a day for this food that we barely even ate,” she said. “It was $21 a day for Larson’s left-

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overs. You know, (Larson Commons) says ‘Taco Tuesday.’ Here, it’s taco Wednesday.”

“You can’t threaten me with behavioral probation because I’m exercising without a mask then make me share a bathroom with other girls.”

Days of isolation obviously lack many traditional comforts, but for students in QIH with Johnson, it lacked basic necessities. “For the first three

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days we didn’t even have shower curtains,” Johnson said. “Luckily I knew some of the girls on my floor so I could text them ‘Hey, I’m going to shower. Please don’t come in because I’m gonna be frickin’ naked in the shower.’” In addition to a lack of shower curtains, students reported not receiving any bedding, masks or thermometers. Another student could not fit between the concrete walls on either end of their mattress due to their height and was required to put their mattress on the floor to sleep. “We ran out of toilet paper on Saturday and we didn’t get any more till Monday,” Johnson said. According to those in QIH, the administration was holding the students to a higher standard than the space they were housing them in. They received an email from the university stating that, if they did not abide by the strict mask policy, they would be subject to behavioral probation. “It’s just not effective. It can’t be effective if you’re sharing a space like the bathroom with people,” she said. “You can’t threaten me with behavioral probation because I’m exercising without a mask, then make me share a bathroom with other girls. That doesn’t make sense.”

“I got my first call five days after they told me I’d be getting a counselor call every single day” According to the JacksRBack COVID-19 Monitoring, Symptoms,

Tests and Protocols, unless one is referred to be tested by a medical professional, they are required to pay SDSU for a COVID-19 test. If referred, SDSU will pay for their test using Federal CARES Act funds. “I had to pay $140 for mine out of my insurance deductible,” Johnson said. “And two people couldn’t even get tested because they couldn’t afford it and they don’t have health insurance.” Ad d i t i o n a l l y, t h e JacksRBack Quarantine and Isolation Housing Procedure lists several protocols for both the student and the university. During Johnson’s stay, several of these procedures were not fulfilled and put excess strain on the students. “I got a call on Friday and they said, ‘a counselor will be reaching out to you every day to check in.’ I thought that was fantastic because I know I’m going to need it,” Johnson said. “I didn’t get a call until Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. I got my first call five days after they told me I’d be getting a counselor call every single day.” Jo h n s o n’s m e n t a l health was not prioritized by the university, and neither was the physical health of another student, who reportedly incurred a severe head laceration after accidentally running into a piece of bedroom furniture. “He was still COVID pending, so he couldn’t just go (to the hospital),” Johnson said. “He has to call an ambulance or he has to wait in his car while he’s dripping blood from his head. So we didn’t have

SUBMITTED In the Wacota Annex, the rooms have a window air-conditioning unit, a fridge and microwave combination and bed linens. The residents of QIH receive food from Larson Commons in to-go containers with disproportioned, unbalanced meals. Photos were submitted by Sarah Johnson.

access to medical help if we needed it besides literally calling 911.” According to Riez Mohad, a student currently staying in QIH, the issues regarding bedroom sinks, shared bathrooms, communal refrigerators and delays in communication with the student health center have not

been resolved. Luckily, Mohad was able to speak to the Student Health Center during his second full day in QIH. In the interest of protecting her family and keeping other students safe, Johnson decided to stay on campus. But after her experience in QIH, she doesn’t think she

could go back. “I just want it to change for other people’s sake and the fact that I might have to go back there,” she said. “I can’t go back there if it stays how it was.”

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BSA breaking down stereotypes with key speaker JORDAN RUSCHE Lifestyles Editor The Black Student Alliance’s (BSA) recent event, “From Prison to Ph.D.” brought in a wide audience Thursday, Sept. 3, both in person in Jacks’ Place and over Zoom. Presented by Dr. Jason Sole, an activist, criminal justice educator and former felon, he discussed his experiences growing up in Chicago surrounded by poverty and gang activity, and how he eventually joined a gang in his early teens. “Those situations change you, and they were changing me and I didn’t know it,” he said during the event. After more hardships through his high school years, including being denied entrance into the Air Force due to a childhood illness, Sole moved to Minnesota and became involved in more gang-related activity and selling drugs, for which he was eventually arrested and spent two years in jail. He described his struggles afterwards to find housing and a job, as well as his treatment from Minneapolis police, who continued to harass and profile him based on his status as a former felon. “That’s the new Jim Crow,” he said, referring to these issues. He described different instances of being harassed, including at one point being pulled over and having property damaged by police officers. He began attending

Collegian photo by FRANKIE HERRERA Dr. Jason Sole, a criminal justice educator and author, speaking to students about breaking down stereotypes at a Black Student Alliance presentation in Jack’s Place Sept. 3. Metro State University in St. Paul, Minnesota at 25, where he studied criminal justice and eventually received his bachelor’s degree. He started working for universities like MSU and Hamline University in St. Paul teaching criminal justice studies. Meanwhile, he explained that some of his students were the same police officers who stereotyped him. Along with teaching, S o l e b e c a m e m o re involved in activism starting at MSU, and eventually became the president of the Minneapolis branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He also began the movement “Humanize My Hoodie” with his

long-time friend Andre Wright. It started when he wore hoodies to class for an entire semester to raise awareness of negative stereotypes projected onto black men wearing such clothing. The pair now use the idea to train nonblack allies in avoiding stereotypes and working towards racial justice. The BSA reached out to Sole and asked him to speak about his experiences largely due to the recent protests and activity of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. “He’s really good at answering questions,” said Adonai Ghebrekidan, the vice president of BSA. “He likes when people like to ask the questions that are kind of hard.” Sole spent the latter half of the event discussing

those recent events and his own experiences with police violence and protests, like witnessing protests for Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 and for Philando Castile in Minnesota in 2016. Currently, he is researching more about abolishing the police and alternatives to prison sentences. “I want to change the conditions, I want to change the way we think about other people,” he said. Ghebrekidan disclosed that people like Sole sharing their experiences can help break down the beliefs many people have about those who have gone through the justice system, specifically that they are not expected to succeed.

“You can’t base things off of stereotypes, you have to base them on situations,” he said. BSA Advisor Alex Wood also believes that Sole’s insights into how to address those issues can push students to begin thinking about how to rectify those problems themselves. “It’s not just about saying, ‘Hey, something’s wrong, I’m going to be mad about it or upset about it,’” he said, “It’s what are you going to do next and how are you going to take on the challenge of saying, ‘what can we do to change things?’” The event gave students the chance to ask Sole questions about his experiences and what they could do to be better allies to the BLM

movement, which Wood believes can help students on predominantly nonblack campuses like South Dakota State University grow more comfortable with asking questions and having conversations about similar topics. “To have the discussions, to have that focal point of what’s going on is to give everyone a better understanding,” Sole said. Hattie Seten, president of the Students’ Association and an attendee of the event, explained what she took away from the event, as well. “I thought it was really interesting to hear about his resilience in being in prison and making it all the way to becoming a professor, and being able to work in criminal justice and teach students about criminal justice from his own personal experience,” she said. The BSA has plans for future events that further address these issues, and hopes that they can help students at SDSU begin understanding the situations they discuss. “Being able to have conversations on college campuses I think are increasingly more fruitful in the sense that this is the ground in which ideas are freely and openly out there,” Wood said. “It can also give you an opportunity to really address and look at just what’s happening out in life in general.”

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OPINION

EDITORIAL Issue: Why are SDSU COVID rates falling? When South Dakota State University released the campus COVID-19 Dashboard Aug. 26, students and staff presumed they could now somewhat measure the amount of cases on campus, to decipher the risks and the state Brookings is in. However, the current numbers depicted on the Dashboard suggest a different, disheartening story. SDSU’s peak hit Sept. 1 with 102 reported active positive cases. Within a matter of days, that number dropped to only 32 cases. These numbers would falsely lead people to assume the trying times of COVID-19 were behind and things would start getting better. But, based on state trends, the virus is

nowhere near slowing down. According to NPR’s Coronavirus Update, as of Sept. 7, South Dakota has unchecked community spread and has almost tripled the number of average daily cases from three weeks ago. South Dakota, compared to other states, is one of the highest risked places to live. Why then, does this dramatic drop in reported cases not reflect the state average? Isn’t it obvious? Students, afflicted with COVID-19 or not, are refusing to self-report. Their fear, stemming from staying a few nights in the dreaded quarantine and isolation housing (QIH), may end up affecting SDSU’s decisions about

reverting back to a full time online schedule. We get it, the quarantine housing is not ideal. The isolation and the food is preferable to no one. The promises the university made to provide adequate conditions for students are going largely unkept. But nevertheless, students known to have the virus will be roaming the sidewalks, the dorms and the classrooms of campus in their feeble attempt of self preservation, both from the notorious quarantine dorms and being flagged as tainted by their acquaintances. You can be assured, neither your merit nor your image will be tainted if

you’re keeping yourself and others safe from further exposure. Students’ reckless behavior and keeping hush about their health is becoming a catalyst for the virus to accelerate even more rapidly through South Dakota. If QIH is the reasoning for reservations of reporting, we at the Collegian urge you to return home, away from campus, to attempt to preserve the health of those not yet exposed, however trivial that attempt may be. The Collegian Editorial Board meets weekly and agrees on the issue of the editorial. The editorial represents the opinion of The Collegian.

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OPINION

A cinematic politician ANDRE GARY-MACK Opinion Editor When I think of our current political climate, I often reminisce on my time spent reading the Divergent and Hunger Games series. The female political leaders in both books were strong willed, ambitious and much reaching to attain a greater goal, much like our own South Dakota State University alumna and fearless leader of the great state of South Dakota, Kristi Noem.

So what about Noem is similar to that of President Alma Coin of the Hunger Games story, or Jeanine Matthews, leader of the faction Erudite in Divergent? Well, let’s first start with Noem, a devout Republican who in May of 2010 voted yes on the banning of government issued health coverage, which includes abortion. Yes, a heavy topic, especially in today’s political climate. While some would argue that we do not have the right to tell

women what to do with their bodies, she indeed b e l i eve s o t h e r w i s e . Jeanine Matthews displayed such behavior when hunting Divergents. For those not familiar with the term from the movie, in a nutshell it meant people who do not conform to societal constructs. While the topic of abortion never rears its head in the movie or books, the thought process between how people should be compliant with government standards does have a strong

founding fathers’ ideals or we will lose our freedom, paraphrased from the actual quote stated in July 2011 and found in ontheissues.org. Are you trying to make South Dakota better? Because from the seat of a millennial college student with some life experience under his belt, or, I don’t know, the Midwestern fresh-out-of-high-school academic who cares about the issues and this country, you are only in it for self gain, trying to advance your career politically.

resemblance between the ﬁctional character of Matthews and the rather naive Noem. What is it about female Republicans that feel as though they can speak on behalf of the entire female population? A nyo n e w h o i s as much of a Hunger Games fan as myself would remember the blood thirsty ambitions of Alma Coin, who for lack of a better term, sought to “Make Panem Great Again.” It seems as though that is what Noem is saying with her quote about remembering the

And we get it, being a woman in power has a level of seduction that men are all too familiar with. It has become the real mistress of our government. But will Noem see the light and redirect her gaze to issues that have a major effect on South Dakota, or will she, like our current administration, forget about what matters and think only of herself while leaving her constituents in the dust? Only time will tell.

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eSports Club transitions into one of the only active sports teams SKYLER JACKSON Sports Beat Reporter While it’s not the traditional sport people normally think of, esports has become a fast-growing industry, and even in the middle of a pandemic, esports teams are still managing to compete. Esports is competitive, organized video gaming for spectators; the sport has been growing signiﬁcantly, with millions of viewers tuning in to watch professional competitions. The eSports Club at South Dakota State University is a relatively new club playing several different games, both competitively and recreationally. “Our club is made up of a bunch of different things,” Vice President Makenzie Turpin said. “We have the club part of it, where it’s just a bunch of people playing random games, and then we have the competitive side of things where we have competitive teams.” According to the Jacks Club Hub, there are about 100 total members. The club actively recruits for their diﬀerent teams, who play in brackets against other schools every week during their season. Unlike other sports, the pandemic has had less of an effect on the club. Players have still been able to play online through their Discord server. “It really hasn’t slowed the club down,” President Hayley Reed said. “If anything, I feel like it actually helped us, because it has pushed everybody on to our Discord that wasn’t as active before.”

T h e h i g h e r - l eve l teams, however, are not able to travel to some of their competitions due to COVID-19 restrictions. Other than still being able to compete during a pandemic, esports has many other benefits. Both Reed and Turpin agreed that esports is a great way to meet new people, create more relationships and get more comfortable with SDSU. Both also mentioned how esports may not be treated like traditional sports, but it does create opportunities for people who like to compete. “While we don’t have the physical aspect that a lot of other sports require, we still are very much a sports team,” Turpin said. “The competitive esports team is definitely fast-growing.” Reed added that esports players could be recruited to play professionally after college. “If you can compete and show yourself competing successfully at the collegiate level, you can be recruited to a professional esports team,” she said. Esports provides many different opportunities for people looking for a good community on campus. Reed said esports is also for people who play the most basic game or even for people who have never played any video games and want some experience. “It’s just fun, I’m not gonna lie,” said Reed. “The club is all encompassing, and if you’re looking for something like that on campus, it is right here at the eSports Club.”

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