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SA in brief: Meet the 2021-22 executive team J. MICHAEL BERTSCH Managing Editor (He/Him) The Students’ Association took no breaks after transitioning to a new group of senators during the April 12 meeting. Along with this new Senate body comes new leadership for SA. The executive board is composed of the president, vice president, and four staff appointments: government affairs chair, finance chair, communications chair and chief-of-staff. Name: Anna Shane Job on Senate: Government Affairs Chair Majors: Political Science, Spanish, and Global Studies Year: Sophomore Hometown: Sioux Falls, SD H ow l o n g h ave you been on SA? Since November of 2020 What is your vision for the 2021-22 Senate? I am so inspired by all of the innovative ideas that the recently sworn-in senators are bringing to the table from their plat-

forms. I think that we have another great group of driven, creative senators and with teamwork, I believe every goal can be accomplished in this term. What are your goals for your position? My biggest goal is to effectively lobby for what South Dakota State University students want to see in their university, city and state. I am so excited to voice the needs, wants and positions of students in state and local government! Name: Kordell Feldhaus Job on Senate: Finance Chair Major: Civil Engineering Year: Sophomore Hometown: Britton, SD How long have you been on SA? This is my first year What is your vision for the 2021-22 Senate? My vision for the upcoming senate term is to create an efficient and unified voice to help the students the best way fit. What are your goals for your position? Three goals: I believe that access and transparency around the spending of General

Activity Fee (GAF) dollars need to be increased, I want to make sure that student dollars are being spent effectively and correctly and I want to create a culture of transparency within the finance committee and the student organizations, so they know I am working with their best interest in mind. Name: Blake Pulse Job on Senate: Chief of Staff Majors: Agriculture Communications, Political Science Year: Sophomore Hometown: Salem, SD How long have you been on SA? Second year on Senate What is your vision for the 2021-22 Senate? I envision that the Senate will best represent the interest of the student body and will make a positive difference not only for current Jackrabbits, but generations of Jackrabbits to come. What are your goals for your position? My biggest priority is SA and GAF education for i n c o m i n g f re s h m e n through collaborations with organizations and

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entities on campus to bring in a freshman cheat sheet that will serve as a resource to students. Name: Andrew Rasmussen Job on Senate: President Majors: Journalism, Political Science Year: Junior Hometown: Brookings, SD How long have you been on SA? This will be my 2nd [year] What is your vision for the 2021-22 Senate? I see the 2021-22 Senate taking on the challenges of bringing SDSU and the student experience back to a pre-pandemic environment, or as close as we can get. I really want to create a culture in SA where students who have ideas or concerns feel confident and comfortable coming to SA for assistance. What are your goals for your position? Over the course of this term, our team has a variety of goals that we would like to accomplish. Some of our goals include establishing a syllabus bank, creating an ADA accessibility map and ensuring that our student organizations are supported both financially and through

general advocacy. Name: Rachel Schöön Job on Senate: Vice President Majors: Political Science, Communication Studies Year: Junior Hometown: Sioux Falls, SD How long have you been on SA? Starting my second term What is your vision for the 2021-22 Senate? I think we, as a university, want to see the campus opened up in the fall and for clubs and organizations to have access to as many resources as possible. Also, Andrew and I have already made some headway in making campus more accessible and are looking forward to continuing that eﬀort. What are your goals for your position? As vice president, I want to make sure everyone in the Association feels that they can express their concerns and ideas to the Senate. Name: Lindsey Moser Job on Senate: Communications Chair, Senator At-Large Majors: Agriculture Communications and Public Relations Year: Junior Hometown: Morris, MN How long have you

been on SA? This is my ﬁrst year! What is your vision for the 2021-22 Senate? I’m very excited to see all we do within the upcoming year and what changes Students’ Association will bring to campus. I hope to see progress in ADA accessibility, an increase in GAF education and awareness and the creation of a campus-wide syllabus bank. What are your goals for your position? My goal this year is to increase students’ awareness about what Students’ Association is and how our senators are here to serve them. Two initiatives I have started planning include hosting diﬀerent events throughout the year for senators to easily network with more students and launching senator take-overs on the SA social media platforms. If you haven’t already, follow Students’ Association’s Instagram and Facebook to stay up to date on all that’s happening!

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There was an inaccuracy in the story “Students’ Association swears in new leadership, senate body” released April 14. The story reads: “... The School of Performing Arts, saw an allocation increase of $11,000 for FY22.” This is incorrect. For the FY21 budget, organizations were allowed to carry over remaining funds, making the School of Performing Arts total for FY21 $210,000. The FY22 allocation of $170,000 is a decrease of 19% of last year’s total budget.

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Symposium highlights undergraduate research, achievements J. MICHAEL BERTSCH Managing Editor (He/Him) Ninety students participated in South Dakota State University’s annual undergraduate research symposium this year. The symposium highlighted student research and creative endeavors from 11 different fields of study. The Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Day (URSCAD) is an annual event hosted by the Van D. & Barbara B. Fishback Honors College, traditionally held as an in-person poster presentation event. However, for the past two years, URSCAD has been transformed into a virtual poster presentation, allowing students to record a short presentation of their research poster to be judged by expert SDSU faculty. We met with two award-winning presenters from the 2021 URSCAD to showcase some of the research SDSU undergraduate students are working on. Riley Mounsdon, junior natural resource law enforcement, wildlife and fishery sciences and ecology and environmental science from Osakis, Minnesota Project title: Finding the Sweet Spot for Control: Age and Growth Relationships of Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) in Eastern South Dakota Q: How did you get started with undergraduate research? A: “So I actually got to

know Lan Xu ... through one of my classes. She noticed me out of the class as being one of those people that liked to work hard, so she asked me to do research assistant work for the natural resource management department. I started on our eastern red cedar tree project as a research assistant. Then, a couple months later she said ‘hey, if you wanted to do a project, we’d have a project for you if you want to try.’ So that’s basically how I got started. I went out and met with her and another professor, Alexander Smart and they laid out what I was going to do.” Q: What did you do for your research project? A: Eastern red cedar trees are starting to encroach on a lot of grasslands. So for our study, we’re looking at how eastern red cedar trees affect the environment in the grasslands where they’re encroaching. It was a lot of age and growth rate relationships. We wanted to learn how fast they’re growing and what kind of variables might be good indicators of how fast they’re growing so producers can go out and be like ‘okay, we need to manage these trees now versus in 10 years when the problem is worse.’ So what we did was we went out to a grassland site by Volga, South Dakota, and collected 40 trees from five different size classes, eight trees of each. We measured how tall they were, how wide they were canopy-wise

and a couple other variables like diameter at breast height if they were big enough for that. Then we cut them down, and I took a sample, probably six or eight inches long, oﬀ the trunk and brought it back to the lab to examine. At the lab we took a half-inch wide stem disc, and I sanded it down, wet it down and put it under a microscope to measure and count the rings. That was the majority of the work, then we looked at a couple other variables where we just kind of used what we had … some weather variables and stuﬀ like that.” Q: What did you think of the URSCAD program? A: I thought it was pretty cool. I already had done a poster because I presented at the Society of Range Management National Conference this year, so I already had the poster done. I just had to make a recording. I liked doing it because it felt [like] less pressure than like Society of Range Management. I mean, Range Management, you’re talking to all the professors from all over the country, and there were even a couple of international people there, so you’re going in front of everybody, whereas URSCAD was competing against the people in the college and looking at what they did versus what you did. I thought it was pretty cool, too, how I got to make a recording of how I would explain my poster. Instead of some-

body just walking up and looking at my poster and maybe getting a different impression, I could kind of explain ‘this is why we did this, this is what this means, this is what we recommend in the future,’ stuff like that, so I really enjoyed it. The poster wasn’t the hard part. I mean, making a poster might take a couple of hours … but actually dedicating yourself to the actual research project took a lot more time. So if you’re looking for [something] a little more challenging, something to kind of step up your game, I’d recommend doing URSCAD. Matt Stoel, senior electrical engineering student from Sioux Falls, South Dakota Project title: TechnoEconomic Solar Analysis of Rural Electric Cooperatives Q: How did you get started with undergraduate research? A: Mostly through the Honors College, one of the last requirements that I have to fulfill before the Honors College distinction at graduation is to complete my independent study, which I’ve been discussing with Timothy Hansen since about this time last year. We started thinking about what we wanted to do and started to nail down ideas last fall. We really got started on the project in January. Read full story online at sdsucollegian.com

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Alexander Smart, Lan Xu and Riley Mounsdon conducted research on red cedar trees in Volga, South Dakota

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Social media challenge aimed to minimize food waste

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JORDAN RUSCHE Lifestyles Editor (She/Her) From April 12-18, graduate students from across the country took to social media to create a weeklong challenge meant to inspire people through videos, tips and recipes to minimize food waste. The project, called the “7 Day Food Waste Reduction Challenge,” was created and monitored by the Innovations at the Nexus of Food, E n e rgy a n d Wa te r Systems Educational Resources (INFEWS-ER) Food Waste Cohort, which included seven graduate

students from universities like South Dakota State University, Texas Tech, University of MinnesotaTwin Cities and more. “We decided to do a social media campaign,” said Alex Michels, a wildlife and ﬁsheries sciences graduate student from SDSU and a member of the cohort. “We thought that would be the best way to reach the most people.” Food waste accounts for about 30-40% of t h e Un i te d St a te s ’ food supply and can come from a variety of sources, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Produce can be damaged by animals, molds or bacteria during

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transportation and processing. Retail sellers will throw out food because of storage problems, over-ordering or produce appearances, like damaged fruits and vegetables. At the consumer level, people may throw away extra food they don’t eat or that has gone bad, which was what the challenge focused on addressing. The challenge was spread across three platforms: TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. Each day of the weeklong event covered a diﬀerent strategy to minimize food waste. Day One challenged followers to do a “food waste audit” and take pictures of their meals

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before and after eating to make them aware of their personal food waste. Day Two taught the meaning behind different expiration date labels, as confusion around labels leads to 20% of food waste. “A lot of people don’t know what the difference is between ‘best by’ and ‘use by’ or all those little nuances of expiration dates,” Michels said. “Expiration dates aren’t federally regulated, the food company themselves can make up whatever wording they want.” During Day Three, followers received tips on how to make eﬃcient grocery lists to avoid food waste, and Day Four oﬀered tips for food preparation and storage to make food last longer. Day Five showcased a few zero-waste recipes, like vegetable stock and apple peel chips, and Day Six focused on reusing leftovers to make new dishes. Finally, Day Seven gave examples of ways to repurpose food scraps, like using orange peels to make natural cleaner. By the end of the week, the Instagram account had 179 followers, the Facebook account had 79 and the TikTok account had 30 followers. Tessa Clarizio, a graduate student from the University

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of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and member of the cohort, said though TikTok had the lowest number of followers, most of the videos from that platform were shared to the other two sites. Facebook posts reached an estimated 3,400 people, and TikTok videos had over 2,607 views total. “I think overall our campaign was successful, especially on Facebook and Instagram,” Clarizio said. Michels said talking about and trying to cut back on food waste is important because “if food waste was a country, it would be the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases,” after China and the U.S. “If you think about the millions of people, if not billions … living in poverty and struggling with food security, a lot of people in this world are going hungry,” Michels said. She also stressed that college students can help minimize food waste, as it is up to everyone to do their part to help lessen its impacts. “I think it’s everybody’s responsibility to care about the environment because we’re all living here,” Michels said. Clarizio agreed, saying

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simply being educated about the eﬀects of food waste is a step in the right direction. “College students can improve sustainability at their university through education and taking action,” Clarizio said. “Education can look like taking classes or attending lectures or other events focused on sustainability and sharing this knowledge with others.” Now that the challenge has concluded, the food waste cohort will present their project and how it did at a conference April 21. Michels said she would also like to use what she learned from the project to start food waste initiatives on campus to promote more sustainability. For those interested in learning more about food waste, the TikTok, Facebook and Instagram accounts are still available to view after the challenge. Michels said other resources, like ReFED, a database and nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss, can be helpful, as well. “If you want to reduce food waste, you can,” Michels said. “It just takes that willpower and the dedication to do it.”

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Larson Commons takes first steps in remodel BLAKE PULSE Reporter (He/Him) Larson Commons, South Dakota State University’s long-standing dining hall, is preparing to remodel its dining spaces, and add a study space for students to work. In the time since Larson Commons was constructed, it has seen very few renovations to the kitchen and equipment.

“A lot of the equipment is original to the facility, we have replaced a few things here and there when needed, but a lot of the equipment is original to the construction of Larson’s,” Douglas Wermedal, associate vice president for Student Affairs, said. Members of the Students’ Association S e n ate , C o m mu n i ty Assistants, Residence Hall Association and the University Food Service

Advisory Committee (UFSAC) are set to meet this week to kick off the study space and discuss the future of Larson Commons. There will be opportunities for students to give their input and feedback as this process begins with a study space. “I am excited that student input is going to be so prioritized, because it’s a space that students traditionally use for two years, multiple times a week, so

it is super important that students are involved in the decision-making process,” Anna Shane, the Students’ Association government affairs chair and student representative on the UFSAC Committee, said. During the fall 2021 semester, students will receive a survey where they can give input on what they would like to see included in this renovation. After the survey, a

committee will be formed and tasked with leading the charge on completing the plans for the update. This committee will have the opportunity to visit other institutions and see how their dining halls are set up and operate. “I want to make sure that Larson’s is still accessible, updating equipment that could potentially lead to more food options and just giving Larson’s a nice facelift,” Shane said. The remodel will

include more than just the second-level dining hall. University officials are also looking at upgrades to the C-Store and possibly adding an eSports location that could be housed in Larson, Wermedal said. “We will take this year to plan and can expect construction to begin in the spring of 2022,” Wermedal said.

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Governor’s 9th Biennial art exhibit highlights South Dakota artists GRACIE TERRALL News Editor (She/Her) T h e S o ut h Da ko t a Governor’s 9th Biennial art exhibition has kicked off its yearlong tour at the South Dakota Art Museum (SDAM), which features artwork from artists around the state. “All other shows come from a diﬀerent place of meaning or reason, but [the Biennial] is really all about artists in this state,” Jodi Lundgren, the SDAM exhibition curator, said. The exhibit launched March 19 and will run at South Dakota State University until June 13. This year, 66 artists were selected by a panel of jurors from across the state. Lundgren was the SDAM’s juror for this year’s exhibit. The rest of the jurors are from the other participating South Dakota galleries. A juried system is used to ensure the highest level of quality and diversity amongst the works, Lundgren said. Lundgren stressed that the entries for the Biennial do not all center around South Dakota life, but rather a variety of mediums like painted canvas, pottery and even plastic cans wrapped in grass. “You see a lot of interest in the land amongst us South Dakota artists, but we also have some more urban, contemporary interiors,” Lundgren said. Diana Behl, an SDSU art professor, had her piece, “in ﬁg. (e),” selected for this year’s Biennial. Behl specializes in print

design and created her print by using a transfer relief method on Kitakata paper. She creates images that are transferred onto different materials like copper, linoleum and wood which are then layered, cut and distorted, according to Behl’s biography in the 9th Biennial’s artist catalog. Behl has been cre-

showrunners decided to have the exhibit endorsed by the governor to signify the importance of visual arts in the state. Typically, the governor writes a letter of approval that is featured in the Biennial catalog. “Each Biennial exhibition is a chance to celebrate the talented artists who call South Dakota home,” Gov. Kristi Noem

“Nothing is better than hearing an artist talk about their own work. You really get a sense of humanity coming though.” JODI LUNDGREN SDAM Exhibit Curator ating art professionally since 2000 and has been involved in multiple Biennial exhibits. “I enjoy having the opportunity to share art with the campus and Brookings community and seeing what other artists in the state are making,” Behl said when asked about the Biennial event. After the exhibition leaves the SDAM in June, it will travel to the Washington Pavillion in Sioux Falls for the remainder of the summer and into fall. The John A. Day Gallery in Vermillion will host the show in the fall, with the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City hosting until March 2022. Contrary to the exhibit’s name, the Governor’s Biennial art show has little to do with the sitting governor of South Dakota. When the Biennial was launched in 2003, the

said in her letter. “Our state has a unique cultural heritage and history, and one of the best ways to learn about this history is through our exhibitors’ artwork.” Normally, there is a reception event for the artists and the public to view the works and hear from the artists about their experience with creating their works. To replicate that, the SDAM is hosting weekly cocktail hour live chats with 30 of this year’s artists. These live sessions are every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. and will run until June 8. “You can bring your own glass of wine, just like at the reception, and chat with artists,” Lundgren said. “Nothing is better than hearing an artist talk about their own work. You really get a sense of humanity coming though.”

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Collegian photos by GRACIE TERRALL (She/Her) The South Dakota Governor’s 9th Biennial art exhibit is on display at the South Dakota Art Museum until June 13, when it will move to the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls.

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Music ensembles crescendo into Spring Festival of Music GRIFFIN TONSAGER Copy Editor (He/Him) Continuing a longstanding tradition among students and staﬀ, South Dakota State University’s music department will host their anticipated Spring Festival of Music series April 23-25. The festival will showcase nine separate performances by nine groups in SDSU’s music department. The opera, orchestra, jazz ensembles, Statesmen, Choralia, concert choir, concert band, Wind Symphony and chamber music will all perform in separate time slots this weekend. Every show taking place this weekend will be free of charge to the audience. This is a break from the tradition of previous years. “There is no cost for any of the tickets this year,” Laura Diddle, director of choral activities, said. “The music department has not charged for any of its presentations this year. They have all been free and open to the public. We just have a hard time justifying charging during this time.” This weekend will mark the ﬁrst live performances of the entire year

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for Statesmen, Choralia and the opera. Diddle spoke of her students’ and her own excitement for their showcase. “It truly is that South Dakota spirit, they just weren’t going to let anything hold them back,” she said. “These students were determined that they were going to perform live, and if we have an auditorium of a thousand seats and they say you can have 120 seats, we say that’s ﬁne.” The different groups performing this weekend have prepared a variety of pieces for the public. The women’s choral group, Choralia, will perform a piece called “Music in my Mother’s House” composed by J. David Moore, which will serve as an homage to the students’ mothers. The Wind Symphony will be performing more of their classic repertoire this weekend. “A lot of times, I try to mix things up to try to create more of a sensation of variety in terms of balancing new music with old music,” Jacob Wallace, conductor of the Wind Symphony, said. “But for me, the main priority of this concert, seeing as we haven’t performed all together all year, was for the students to have fun.”

The concert band’s performance will feel closer to normal this year as they play one significant piece all together as one band, titled “The South Dakota State College March,” composed nearly 80 years ago by Karl King, who wrote the piece for then-Director of Bands, Carl Christiansen. “I thought that was a really appropriate way to bring those two bands back together and to end with that mark,” Kevin Kessler, director of the concert band and chamber music, said. The scheduling for this year’s festival will also look different compared to past years. While in previous years one ticket was purchased for the entire festival and all of its concerts, this year, a separate ticket will be delegated for each event. This change in traditional scheduling is mostly due to COVID-19 restrictions prohibiting a full auditorium, the idea being that giving out tickets to specific events will increase parents’ and families’ abilities to see their relatives perform individually this year, without having access to the entire show and possibly restricting others’ access to their family

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members’ performances. Tickets are given to the performing students first. Students who do not know a performer and wish to attend this weekend’s events are encouraged to call the Performing Arts Center and ask about available tickets. Those who are unable to attend in person are encouraged to tune in on Facebook Live where the concerts will be professionally livestreamed. The festival will ultimately serve as a grand showcase of everything the music department has been working up to this year and a display of the department’s endurance through COVID-19. “This event serves as the culmination of a year’s worth of musical development and growth,” David Reynolds, director of the School of Performing Arts, said. “Each of these ensembles will be at their peak during the festival. It is always enjoyable to hear all of these polished performances over the course of the three days.”

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SDSU Foundation raised record-breaking $73 million CARTER SCHMIDT Reporter The South Dakota State University Foundation had a record-breaking year for donations raised in 2020, receiving over $73 million in donations. This is roughly $10 million more than the previous record for money raised in a year, set in 2013. Over 10,000 people donated last year overall. Foundation President and CEO Steve Erpenbach said he was amazed, but not necessarily surprised. “I think it really does speak to the loyalty of donors that we have, and that’s alumni, friends, corporate partners,” he said. “I think, frankly, they saw the need. They knew that there was a need to respond to help students and others, and they certainly showed that.” Campus projects and student scholarships are both set to receive some of this money. Some larger donations helped with the construction of the Raven Precision Agriculture Center, American Indian Student Center and The Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center. “A lot of people responded,” Erpenbach said. “The big gifts are really important, but it’s just as important that we have a lot of people giving and that we’re able to reach people throughout the country that want to give back to South Dakota State, whether it’s $100 or $1 million, all of it’s important to us.” The Ja c k ra b b i t Scholarship Auction also

set a new record with over $1.7 million raised, which was multiplied by a twoto-one match from an anonymous donor. The total included $1.15 million for athletic scholarships, $372,000 for Feeding South Dakota and $207,000 for highneed scholarships. The “One Day for State” fundraising event brought in over $1.6 million, and that total was not contributed by only alumni. “We did have 484 current students at SDSU give back to their university, and so that was really cool to see,” graduate assistant Danielle Gottsleben said. “Students still give back to the university that they pay to go to as well and that shows how impactful SDSU is.” But that reach extends far beyond SDSU’s campus. “We raised donations from all 50 states, which we’ve never done before either, so we made history there, and then we had record breaking dollars and donors. It was a really successful year,” Gottsleben said. Erpenbach attributes the record number of donations to the cause and memories associated with the donation events. “That’s the day where people kind of get reconnected, they feel they can be a part of something big and almost 5,000 donors in a single day, which again is just remarkable,” Erpenbach said. “It’s the power of social media, but it’s also the power of this place, how people have

such a strong affinity for their experience at South Dakota State.” Gottsleben, who is administrative assistant in loyalty giving for the SDSU Foundation, says part of her job is managing the Jackrabbits Philanthropy Center. “There is still a wide range of donors who still look forward to that call from the students, because they get to hear about what life is like on campus since they’ve left, and especially due to the pandemic, a lot of these alumni can’t get back to SDSU and see what’s going on here, so talking with the students is a good first-hand approach to hear about what’s going on here,” Gottsleben said. T h e c a l l ce nte r attributed a little under $300,000 to the total donation amount last year. “It’s awesome to see, especially working for this organization, you see the impact that it truly makes for these students and the university,” Gottsleben said. “Just seeing it firsthand and being able to work for the place here at SDSU that helps raise those funds, it’s really amazing to be a part of it.”

FILE PHOTO One Day for State raised $1,617,648 during the single day event Sept. 10 in 2020. This event raised a small fraction of the $73 million raised by the SDSU Foundation during the 2020-2021 school year.

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One gift every 15 seconds All 50 states, 19 countries 4,888 donors Raised $1,617,648 from 5656 gifts

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Issue: The verdict is only the beginning of a powerful movement The world was watching yesterday as the jury delivered the verdict of Derek Chauvin, the police officer that killed George Floyd in May of 2020. Chauvin was found guilty on all accounts for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. While this news is a brief reprieve from the year of protests, pain and worry amongst the Black community, there is still work to be done. Americans have already made their outrage clear, taking to the streets and protesting Floyd’s death over the last summer. South Dakotans joined them, with protests occurring in Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Pierre, Mitchell and right

here in Brookings. We wanted justice, and yesterday some justice was served. Floyd should still be alive today, and at the end of the day, this verdict does not bring him back to life. However, it is a testament to the year’s work on anti-racism and the Black Lives Matter movement that went into making Floyd’s death a nationwide issue. This is accountability, but it is only the start. Chauvin is only the second police officer in Minnesota history that has been convicted of murdering a civilian while on active duty. Police brutality still runs rampant through the streets in America. Only 10

days ago, Daunte Wright, another Black man from Minnesota, was killed by a female officer who mistook her gun for a taser. There are too many officers who have killed Black people in this country. Accountability needs to be taken for each and every one of them, starting with J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, the officers assisting Chauvin in Floyd’s death. Racism in our law enforcement is not the only place we need to look to for change; our universities must be held accountable when incidents like the racist message found on campus this past January occur.

It’s important that we hold everyone —our police officers, government and even university and school officials— accountable, and though this trial will hopefully begin to change things for the better, our fight isn’t over yet. In the end, we can’t bring George Floyd back to life. We can only honor his legacy and stand behind the Black community as the fight for justice continues. 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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Key information to understand retirement savings LORNA SABOEWOUNDED HEAD Family Resource Management Field Specialist, SDSU Extension (She/Her) You have not finished college, so why do you need to learn anything about retirement? Understanding key terms about retirement planning will help you make decisions once you do graduate. Compounding interest will make $500 saved now mean much more than $5,000 20 years from now. Retirement savings is not as simple as putting

money in a bank and forgetting about it. Below are two terms related to workplace retirement. 401(k) - This is likely a term that a Human Resources manager will mention when you get hired. Very simply, a 401(k) is a retirement account you can put money into to use after you turn 59.5. If a company provides a 401(k), they will often provide a match - they will put in the same amount of money as you up to a certain percent, eﬀectively raising how much you get paid. Target, Walmart, Sam’s Club and likely many

other companies offer these to employees, even if they are not full time. Vested - You always get to keep the money you put into a 401(k), regardless of whether you leave the company or not. That money is yours. However, the money the company matches is not yours to keep until you are vested. That simply means that until you have been with, the company for a year, ﬁve, or 10, you will not get all the money the company matched. For some companies, they may have you partially vested at 50% when you reach a year, and then you get fully vested at the

three-year mark. The earlier you start, the less money you have to put in to reach the same goal. It is often a small percentage of your paycheck (under 6%) and comes out automatically. The easiest money to save is the money you forget that you have to spend. Retirement is scary, and seems way too far oﬀ to worry about right now, but a simple form to sign up that takes five minutes could get you a lot of money out of the deal if you are willing to look into it.

What you should know 401(k)

 A retirement account that you can put money into at a workplace, oftentimes a company will contribute to this.

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 What you have to be for your workplace to completely match your 401(k). The amount of time you have to be employed to be vested varies.

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Jacks upset NDSU for Dakota Marker and Valley title SKYLER JACKSON Sports Reporter (He/Him) A share of the Missouri Valley Conference title and the Dakota Marker were on the line Saturday when the South Dakota State Jackrabbits defeated North Dakota State 27-17 in Fargo, North Dakota. The fourth-ranked Jackrabbits broke No. 2 NDSU’s 32-home-game winning streak, securing an automatic bid to the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoﬀs and a top-2 seed. The Jacks got it done with a dominant rushing attack, along with a defense that was able to

stop the run. Claiming the Dakota Marker for the first time since 2017 was a big deal to the Jackrabbit players. “2018, we played them close in the regular season, then losing in the playoffs really hurt,” senior linebacker Logan Backhaus said. “Ever since then, it’s kind of lit a fire under our butts. To come back here and take what they took from us. Man, it feels good to get that rock.” This was the Jacks’ first game action since March 20, when they beat Southern Illinois, and after nearly a month away from the field, coach John Stiegelmeier was con-

cerned about rust heading into the game. But the time away didn’t seem to hurt the Jackrabbits. It allowed the team to prepare longer for the Bison, and players were even more excited and ready to play again. “When the ball is snapped, guys have got to do their job, and they did it today,” Stiegelmeier said. “We did have some mix-ups where they got some plays, but I thought, for the most part, we played Jackrabbit football.” It was another big day for the Jackrabbit running game, totaling 305 yards on the ground. Quarterback Mark Gronowski ran for

126 yards to add to his 146 passing yards on 10-14 completions and a touchdown. Pierre Strong Jr. ran for 95 yards and a touchdown, while Isaiah Davis totaled 84 yards and a score. Overall, it was an efficient day for SDSU’s offense as they did not commit a single turnover. Gronowski credits the time oﬀ as a reason for the team’s performance. “I think the time off was actually great for us,” Gronowski said. “It gave us a chance to be healthy, have our guys get some rest and improve on the things that we’ve had mistakes on throughout our games.”

It was also yet another successful defensive performance from the Jackrabbits, holding the No. 1 rushing attack in the Missouri Valley to under 100 yards. Adam Bock led the team with a career-high 13 tackles, with Preston Tatzlaff adding seven. Cornerback Michael Griffin secured the win with an interception in the ﬁnal minute of the game. For the Bison, the loss was a tough one. They will now have to rely on an at-large bid to get into the postseason. Offensively, NDSU quarterback Cam Miller finished with 149 yards passing on 9-16. Hunter

Luepke was their leading rusher with 43 yards on 14 attempts. Defensively, James Kaczor led with 10 tackles. With the regular season coming to a close, SDSU (5-1) now looks ahead to the postseason, clinching home-field advantage throughout the playoffs as the No. 1 overall seed. They will host Holy Cross at 2 p.m. next Saturday. The Bison (6-2) received an at-large bid and will host Eastern Washington at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

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