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HOMECOMING COMMITTEE ASKS FOR T-SHIRTS, AFB APPROVES BUDGETS Senate swears in new senators and new justice.

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CSC FOOTBALL TEAM TRIUMPHS OVER BLACK HILLS

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ROTC students Mason Marsh, junior of Bridgeport (left) and Colton Alexander, senior of Gering unfold and begin to suspend the U.S flag on the morning of Sept. 11 during their annual memorial ceremony. Dozens of community members, students and faculty attended the commemorative event to honor those who perished on 9/11.

Freshman sets new record at season-opening meet Eagle Golfers shoot lowest 18hole score ever in Pueblo, Colorado invitational

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Brooke Kramer

In her first meet as an Eagle, freshman Brooke Kramer set a new CSC record and helped the women’s golf team achieve a new record-low 18-hole score.

In the first round of the Samuel Proal Invitational at Pueblo Country Club, in Pueblo, Colorado, Monday, the CSC women carded 317, the team’s lowest 18-hole score ever. Kramer shot 73 on day one of

the invite, one-stroke better than Ally Malzahn’s previous single-round record set in 2007 which current Eagle sophomore Alpine Hickstein tied last season.

After round two was complete on Tuesday the CSC women had earned a two-day score of 317-331-648 and tied for seventh place with defending Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference champions and invite hosts Colorado State University-Pueblo.

“We had a really good first day and we

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MHC holds panel on suicide prevention u By Aubrie Lawrence News Editor

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Damien Zuniga, sophomore of Colorado Springs, Colorado, dashes through large puddles en route to his class during a thunderstorm, Wednesday at CSC.

Students gathered in the Scottsbluff room of the Student Center Tuesday night for a screening of “13 Reasons Why” presented by the Mental Health Club. The screening was presented on National Suicide Awareness day.

After everyone grabbed a slice of pizza and a drink, the final episode of season 1 of “13 Reasons Why” was started. The show highlights a young girl who commits suicide and leaves behind 13 tapes that tell why she did it and who caused it.

During the screening, students were to send in anonymous questions about the show that would help spark the discussion panel lead

by CSC faculty members Dr. Susan Schaeffer, Dr. MaryJo Carnot, and Dr. Laura Gaudet.

The questions covered a variety

of topics such as: what went wrong with the situations of the show, how to help someone through depression or suicidal thoughts, how to find ways to help and how to cope with the loss of someone who decided to end their own life.

The panel offered advice for students that are looking to enter counseling later in life and have a passion to help people struggling with mental illness.

“Hopelessness. The one word that goes across is hopelessness; loss of hope. As in the show it’s the feeling of ‘I feel nothing and I don’t see anywhere to go’ and that is what, as a counselor, you need to help instill hope for people,” Dr. Schaeffer said.

“Finding those few people that a person feels comfortable with that they can begin to share, have a sense that they are safe, and then begin to share a little more and continue that process,” Dr. Gaudet said.

The questions later developed into a conversation on why students aren’t required to take a course on suicide prevention as well as mental illness.

President of the Mental Health Club Dinema Mate spoke of some of the hopes she had about this event.

“I hope that they learned that it’s okay to talk about it, that they’re not alone, everybody is going through something. But most importantly, it’s important to talk about it. It is important to talk about suicide and depression.”

“So many people are like: ‘why should I join the Mental Health club, I’m okay.’ If you’re okay join so you can help someone who’s not okay.”

Mate said.

Mate also pointed out that there are a variety of help outlets available on campus. Counselors and faculty are available to talk, residence advisors, and the peer mentor program.

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Senate discusses budgets for homecoming CAB questions low attendance u By Aubrie Lawrence News Editor

At this week’s senate meeting, several club budgets were approved, and new members of the senate were sworn in.

War Eagles requested $2,703.00 for their annual trip to Washington D.C., senate approved this request in full.

Homecoming committee requested $1,754.90 to help pay for drop cloths and 35 t-shirts for the students on the committee. The AFB board recommended $1,515.80, stating that the unused bed sheets from last homecoming could be used as drop clothes and that the committee only needed 20 t-shirts.

The senate approved a budget of $1, 528.71, deciding to approve the drop cloths but keep the number of t-shirts at 20.

After further explanation from members of the committee on why they needed 35 shirts, the previous

budget was amended, and it was decided by vote to approve the original request of $1,754.90.

The Big Event also request a budget of $8,928 for next year’s event.

This request was approved in full by senate.

There is still $61,025.03 in unallocated funds.

Because of their allocation to the track, senate members were given passes to the hospitality room of the Chicoine center for the first home football game against Colorado State University Pueblo.

There were 246 responses to the fall elections. Three new senators and one student justice were sworn in and one returning senator assumed a new position.

Isioma Akwanamnye, a returning senator, was appointed as senator of Andrews Hall, Jacob Jenson was appointed as senator for Edna Hall, Natalie Boyd was appointed as senator for Kent Hall, and Meron Ameha was appointed as BMS sena-

tor. Carter Thiele was appointed as the new student justice.

“The ability to lead in my community is really important to me,” Jacob Jenson, freshman of Tekamah said.

Senate and CAB will be holding a general assembly at 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 23. This meeting will take the place of both the Senate and CAB meetings for that week.

A list of businesses that are available for homecoming is available at the desk in the Pit. The Board of Trustees will be visiting campus on Sept. 12 and 13.

“You’re going to be seeing a lot of people walking around in nice clothes so if you see them please say hello and welcome them to our campus,” Student Trustee Samuel Klammer said.

Condoms are now located in both the men’s and women’s bathroom of the Student Center and will later be located in the library bathrooms.

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CAB called clubs to action at this week’s meeting after free bowling night had low attendance records.

After 16 people attended last week’s free bowling night, Travis Mills called for better advertisement around campus for CAB events and more club involvement. The next free movie night will be on Sept. 22 and the next free bowling night will be on Oct. 6.

“If you guys know that it’s happening and you’re not seeing advertising about it, or you’re not seeing enough about it in the dorms, let us know. We can’t know if we’re not getting that feedback,” Mills said.

There will be a financial meet-

ing at 4:30 p.m., Monday, Sept.

30, at the Scottsbluff Room in the Student Center to discuss event planning, food orders, and other club affairs instead of the normal CAB meeting. A makeup meeting will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, October 3. Club presidents and treasurers are required to attend.

Student Activities Coordinator Megan Northrup urged CAB members to use attendance forms at every event for evaluation.

Northrup also urged for CAB Members to be present and active during meetings.

Homecoming week is Sept.

23-28 with coronation being held on Sept. 25.

CAB still has a remaining balance of $94, 888.12.

Rob Price announced The Pit is hosting a kickball tournament with registration at 7 p.m. and competition at 8 p.m., tonight at the NPAC.

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Newman House celebrates 50 years u By Chase Vialpando Editor

The sound of chatter and cups clattering filled the room. Laughter echoed across dining tables at the Newman House as students introduced each other and ate. Mass just ended, and students were treated to dinner afterwards, as they are every week.

As of this year, the Newman House, which sits just a block away from campus on Main Street, has served as a religious haven for Chadron State College students for 50 years. Before the house became the center of the CSC Newman Ministries Club in fall of 1969, students either met for weekly mass at St. Patrick’s Parish, the local catholic church associated with the club, or at any open spot on campus, according to third-year Newman House Director Amy Graham.

“Coming to college, and having to make your own life choices for the first time, you don’t have mom and dad there saying you need to be home at this time, you can’t do these things, you’re off on your own for the first time. It can be really intimidating and really challenging,” Graham said.

In order to be constantly available and reliable for students, Graham lives in the Newman House, as have the past directors. Senior Aaron Wood of Ogallala, is a member of Newman House, and was the club’s president last year.

“Newman House is meant to be a home-away-from-home for a lot of new college students, and transfer students as well. There’s a lot of community events that get students interactive with their community and meet new people,” he said, “it sets up a new friend group for new people around here and let’s them open up to the college life while still practicing their faith. And it’s open to anybody and everybody, they don’t have to be Catholic.”

In honor of their 50-year anniversary, the Newman House is hosting an all-day open house Sept. 28 during homecoming. Graham explained that all are welcome at the event, including parents of club members; and past directors, sisters, and pastors associated with Newman House. The open house will include coffee and donuts, along with a brunch in the late morning.

“The biggest thing I’ve seen in Newman Ministries is just giving students that home away from home feel. Even if they don’t want to be active in church, it’s still a safe place to just hang out and be around safe people,” Graham said.

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President of the Newman House Joseph Keating senior of Casper, Wyoming, reads a prayer during one of the group’s Wednesday night Mass.

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The Newman House, located at 907 Main Street, has been a CSC club for 50 years since the college began it in Fall of 1969.

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Newman House Director Amy Graham (far left) meets freshman (from left) Phillip Soto, 18, of Morrill, Emma Stewart, 18, of Sutherland, Gavin Harold, 18, of Sutherland and Kenzey Kanno, 18, of Morrill while eating dinner at the house.

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Rememberence through differing perspectives

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eptember 11, 2001 is a day permaRegardless, most of the CSC student nently stamped in our memories. The body experienced 9/11 through parents or tragedy that struck teachers providing a histhe New York World tory lesson. Therefore, Trade Center changed these students have a Most of our student body different emotional and America forever as 2,977 grew up in an environlives were taken. Though social response to the ment wracked by the we will always remember tragedy than non-tradiseemingly never-ending those who suffered, the tional students, faculty tragedy affects us all in and professors. war on terror” different ways.

Many older, non-tra- Editorial Staff At CSC, we all ditional students were in come from different high school during 9/11, age groups, so we have different perspecand watched their friends decide if life after tives on the tragedy. For many freshmen graduation would be spent fighting in war here, 9/11 happened the same year they rather than attending college. were born. Many sophomores and juniors The day touched everyone differently were also too young to remember what and the landscape of our society changed happened. Most of the seniors were just forever. Most of our student body grew up entering school, be it pre-K or kindergarin an environment wracked by the seemten, and may have faint memories of the ingly never-ending war on terror. These tragedy, if any. students aren’t familiar with life before the

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war. While this demographic has possibly grown accustomed to seeing destruction and terrorism invade the news, non-traditional students and professors may watch this and wonder: When will the fighting end?

However, the changes to our society are complex and have different affects on us all. We can’t assume all students of a certain age-group feel the same way about the tragedy, nor that they have felt the same ramifications. But on this day of grieving, it is our duty to remember the repercussions of 9/11. We lost the World Trade Center in New York, but, more importantly, we lost 2,977 American brothers and sisters.

We should also never forget that, after the calamity, we as a country were united for a brief time. We are all different, with different perspectives. As we remember, we must share these views with one another, and allow them to bring us even closer.

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Kesha Degroff 19, freshman, Broken Bow

Kevin Parish 19, freshman, Torrington, Wyoming

Maddisen Hoyda 18, freshman, Idalia, Colorado

Ben Jones 18, freshman, Doniphan

Anna Fisher 18, freshman, Beaver City

“I went to the first game already. I plan to continue going to every game and bringing my friends with me.”

“I’m campus security. So I’ll be doing that.”

“For the Black Hills game, I actually listened to it on the radio, cheered over the radio while I was driving. With games here, I will go to them, deck out in my Chadron gear, and be supportive.”

“I’m in the band, so that’s what I’ll be doing.”

“For home games, I’ll try my best to be there if I’m not working. For last week’s game, I watched the live stream while I was at work.”

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Opinion STEPPING UP WITH ABIGAIL

Learn to deal with your bad moods u By Abigail Swanson Columnist

You don’t need to smile all the time. For some of you this isn’t a struggle, when you are having problems your face shows how you feel.

I am not one of those people, and some of you, like me, will just paste a smile over whatever mood you are actually in; partly because it is easier, and partly because you are expected to smile.

The happiness of the group does not depend on you. You can’t be sunshiny all the time— sometimes you need to curl up like a hedgehog and hide beneath

your spines.

Taking time to be by myself helps me put whatever is bothering me into perspective. Take an hour or 20 minutes to sit and mope somewhere beautiful, write in a journal or go for a walk and belt out “On my Own” from Les Misérables where no one can judge how off-key you are.

Just take a minute to breath somewhere you are not surrounded by homework. But don’t let yourself stay in a dismal mood, find the person or thing that will put a smile on your face again (for me, this week it was baby hedgehogs). Making someone else smile makes me feel a bit better myself.

Abigail Swanson A while back, I got knocked hard in the face while playing a game. Sitting on the ground, holding my nose, I took a moment to congratulate the other person on how solid their hand was.

Making the situation into a

little bit of a joke took my mind off my nose and assured the bystanders that I was not mortally wounded.

When I talk to my friends, I usually end up in a better mood.

Laughing over the unique events that happened over the week makes my week a little better.

Stop focusing on how bad your week was and check if you can help someone else. When I have the time, I will call my parents and see how life is going back home. You can be in a bad mood, but that doesn’t mean you have to stay there. Do what you need to get back to being yourself.

There are times when you must paste a smile over your

mood (working with small children, or just work in general), and practicing the portrayal of a good mood is important.

There will always be times when you must do a thing no matter what you feel like. Sometimes, after a few minutes of yanking the corners of my mouth up by the sheer force of will, the smile starts to be genuine.

Smiling when you don’t feel like it can improve your mood.

Whatever the situation, open yourself up to the possibility of a good day.

Nothing is ever too bad that you can’t laugh at something.

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There’s more to life after college u By Rachel Mitchell Columnist

One thing that is going to happen to all of us is getting older. Right now, people are going to tell you these very years you are living in are the best years of your life. People say “enjoy everything in college, make lots of friends, and take lots of pictures.”

But I question if this is giving us the wrong mentality on lifesaying that this time we are living in, our late teens and early 20’s, is going to be as good as it gets.

Are we saying that life after college is not good, it isn’t exciting? Why do we stop celebrating our life after college? Is it because of the “milestones” we have to accomplish?

I believe once we hop off the

hamster wheel of dreading the future, the better off we will be.

We cannot keep dreading the future simply because we are afraid it is not going to be the best time of our lives. You’ve had trials and have struggles already.

You are bound to have some in the future. Because that is life.

There is plenty to look forward to in life. Not everything happens at a young age. Even if our lives right now are our sports that we take part in or the social spheres we are stuck to.

There is a lot of other things to look forward to and accomplish when we are older. One figure we all know and probably all love is Morgan Freeman, the exceptional actor and activist.

He still works in films and fights for what he believes is

Rachel Mitchell right. If you’re anything like me, you enjoy seeing him appear in films. He is 82 years old and is still making his dreams come true and working on the things he loves.

When we have a problem or we are concerned about something going on in our lives who do we call? Who do we talk to?

Personally, I talk to my dad,

teachers, or grandpa. The “older” people. Because I am aware they have so much more knowledge on problems then I do. They can help me because they’ve lived longer and know how to handle things that I didn’t even know I would have to deal with.

The social stigma around ageism is detrimental. Did you know people in nursing homes can range in 40 years of age? When we see “older” people we just call them old.

We put them all in one group when they each are of a different age and we discriminate against people simply because of age.

Aging is not a problem or a disease. Aging is living.

Yes, these years are really amazing and hold so many opportunities. But you’ll also have

plenty of opportunities in 10 or 15 years.

Thinking that our life is already over before it begins is poisonous to ourselves, others, and the community.

We need to be more accepting as a whole towards people of all ages and to not put a stigma around certain times in our lives.

Your life isn’t over because you don’t know what you’re doing after college. You have the rest of your life ahead of you. You aren’t old just because you’re in your early 30’s and still don’t have kids.

We need to accept that some things will happen now and some will happen later, and age is nothing to be afraid of.

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Anxiety needs our strict attention u By Devin Fulton Opinion Editor

In the ideal life, we would never have to deal with stress, anxiety, depression or whatever negative feelings come our way. Whether we like it or not, a purposeful life is filled with deadlines, expectations and unfortunate events like let-downs.

But we are problem solvers, so we should stick by America’s “Take a pill” philosophy to negate any problem, right? I don’t believe so (although if someone feels helpless and absolutely needs the help, then who am I to discourage them).

We need to start asking ourselves if we can solve and deal with our own worries, or if we are just depending on a solution to come from someone else.

According to childhealthdata. org, anxiety disorders in children

and teens rose by 20 percent from 2007-2012. It is a heartbreaking statistic, but we should also know from 2006-2015, pharmaceutical revenue sales increased by $241 billion, according to gao.gov.

These statistics tell me there is money to be made off the feelings of people who are worried. There are many arguments that younger generations are depressed because there is no opportunity to flourish. Devin Fulton But I think that we are responsible for all the success and misfortunes of doom. If you never felt worried that come our way, we just only about anything, then I would have a hard time believing you are huwant the good.

Why feel anxious about taking man.

It is scary thinking about a responsibility to ensure a bright future when you can instead take future where nobody is worried about anything and is instead a pill and feel nothing?

I don’t think it’s fair to un- conveniently happy all the time. derplay what someone is going Without worry, we would ignore through, but literally everyone in many issues that could use our atthe world deals with anxiety. It’s tention. What would we even acnatural for anyone to feel worried complish if nobody felt any presabout the future, nervous about a sure to achieve anything?

Maybe we should get to know situation or any impending sense

ourselves again and figure out what’s got us worried to the point of prescribing a false solution.

Who knows, these anxieties are just the intuition inside us yelling at us to do better.

I am willing to bet Margaret Hamilton felt all sorts of pressure when writing the code that sent us to the moon. Imagine if instead, she went on Twitter saying, “I just can’t do it, the world is unfair, and I don’t even want to get out of bed”.

We probably wouldn’t have any great advancements or achievements if the great ones in history didn’t react to their anxious feelings properly.

The feelings we are dealt with are given to us because they make us human, they make us who we are. The impending sense of doom you are feeling is just a feeling, but it’s up to you how you use it.

Will you let this uncertain feeling derail you from becoming better, or will you view it as a

roadblock that you are more than capable of getting over?

We all have a story as complicated as the next and the beauty of it all is that you have the chance to make things better for yourself.

The easiest and quickest solution won’t get you anywhere, discomfort will. Fight these inner battles and show yourself just how strong you truly are.

I want to conclude this argument by saying that there are many excellent resources for help around you. CSC has four licensed professional counselors on campus who can assist with getting someone the help they need. If you or someone you know is fighting a never-ending struggle, please seek out these resources.

Lastly, catch up with your friends and even include a stranger in a conversation every chance you get. The world could benefit from us connecting with each other again.

The United States isn’t so perfect after all u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Contributor

Ever since the United States first became a country, it was a hot spot for most people and families. It was a place to start over, to get a new life.

As the country gets older, students and even adults in the country have a tendency to be blinded by the truth. Throughout K-12, we are taught in history class that the U.S. was a step ahead of every single country when it came to their rights.

We learned about freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and every other freedom­. These benefits gave most people a reason to immediately buy a ticket to the U.S. America has done horrendous things that most people know

about. Things like introducing the world to nuclear warfare by bombing two different cities, falling into a Civil War less than 100 years into being a country, and completely taking advantage of their French Ally. Not everything the U.S. has done is bad, but the fact that we never focus on them could be mean the demise of the country itself.

The U.S. also has the tendency to point the blame at other countries, much like a little toddler wiggling a finger at a friend.

The number one example is the fact that the U.S. has a holocaust museum in D.C. to show people Germany’s faults, even though I’ve talked to people that knew nothing about America’s mistakes like the Trail of Tears, or the use of Japanese Internment Camps during WW11.

According to history.com,

Japanese Internment camps were started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. These camps were claimed to be established because of the Pearl Harbor bombing.

Anytime between 1942 and 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government to inter any person that was of Japanese descent. It is said that the internment camps were the harshest violations of civil rights in the U.S. in the 1900s.

Executive Order 9066, signed

by Franklin Roosevelt to try and prevent espionage in the U.S. affected 117,000 people’s lives, the majority actually being U.S. citizens.

Due to many people not knowing about the internment camps in the United States, people don’t know that both Canada and Mexico followed the U.S. in relocation of Japanese residents to camps.

Japanese internment camps

were placed closer to the West coast, the first camp operating in Manzanar, California. Between the years that the policy was in use, there were 10 camps opened in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas. To state that the U.S. is better than Nazi Germany wouldn’t necessarily be wrong, but you should know everything before you rate how much better the United States is.

The truth? It’s hard to say. The U.S. isn’t a terrible country, but people in our country have to start realizing that citizens and generations have made mistakes, every one has.

Those mistakes are to be taken and learned from, so we don’t fall into a repetitive, horrific trend.

Citizens should also learn from other countries. There isn’t anything wrong with having things like the Holocaust museum in the

U.S., the problem comes when citizens know more about bad things other counties have done instead of the few faults the U.S. has had in the past.

In Germany, they are taught about the Holocaust in Elementary school so that children realize their country isn’t perfect, and that the nation doesn’t want to repeat something like that.

If they incorporated that in the U.S., patriotism would be diminished, but not completely gone.

We shouldn’t think the world revolves around the U.S. That is a good thing to learn and know, because we simply don’t.

The U.S. is still a good country, with great rights and opportunities, but we need to be aware of our faults so we can make the future better. Most importantly, we need to make sure we don’t repeat the past.

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CSC’s Shelby Schouten, left, senior of Alton, Iowa, attacks through the block of South Dakota Mines’ Dana Thomson, sophomore of Fruita, Colorado, Friday at the Chicoine Center. The Eagles won the match in five sets.

he Chadron State volleyball team got off to a good start last weekend going 3-1 at their own Best Western West Hills Inn Classic at Chicoine Center.

Friday, the Eagles earned a five-set (25-18, 20-25, 20-25, 25-20, 18-16) win over South Dakota Mines then swept Fort Hays State University in three sets (25-21, 25-14, 25-23). Saturday, the Eagles fell to University of Sioux Falls, the highest ranked team at the Classic.

Chadron was swept by the Cougars 25-16, 25-18 and 25-22, but bounced back from the loss by battling Montana State University Billings to another five-set win (25-23, 25-16, 20-25, 23-25, 15-13).

Sioux Falls did not lose a set in their three matches.

In their first match of the season the Eagles took an early lead after winning the first, but fell 25-2 in the next two. On the brink of their first loss they bounced back with a 25-20 win of their own.

In the fifth set, Mines ran out to a 5-1 lead but the Eagles battled to keep things close and eventually tied the set at 12-12 on the strength of a pair of ace serves from freshmen Tori Strickbine, of Stillwell, Kansas.

The set went back and forth from there with the Eagles unable to grab a lead until an ace from Karli Noble, a junior of Cheyenne, Wyoming, put them ahead 17-16 and an attack error from Mines’ Dana Thomson, a sophomore of Fruita, Colorado, ended the match in CSC’s favor.

“Our effort, resilience and energy was key this weekend, I thought we improved set by set,” Chadron Head Coach Jennifer Stadler said to CSC Sports Information following the Classic. “There are still a few things that I would like to see cleaned up on our end but overall I think we had a great start to the season.”

The Eagles attack was led by Shelby Schouten, senior of Alton, Iowa, and freshman Rylee Greiman, of Windsor, Colorado, who each had 29 kills.

Aracely Hernandez, sophomore of Greeley, Colorado, Strickbine and sophomore Chandler Hageman, of Chadron, each had 18.

Greiman was on the attack more than any other Eagle, directing 106 attempts toward CSC’s opponents. She had 16 errors in the team’s three matches and maintained a hitting percentage of .123. Schouten had nine errors on 81 attempts for a hitting percentage of .247.

Hageman led the Eagles with a hitting percentage of .310 on 42 attempts.

The only other CSC player to hit above .300 was Timmi Keisel, senior of Fleming, Colorado, who hit .303 on 33 attempts. As a team the Eagles hit .166.

Strickbine made her Eagle debut with 95 sets in three matches, an average of 8.64 assists per set. Against Montana State, the freshman had 40 assists.

Libero Ashton Burditt, senior of Spearfish, South Dakota, had 76 digs and maintained a .941 reception percentage in the Eagles three games. In 85 receptions, Burditt had five errors.

Hageman led the team with 8 blocks. Schouten had six.

This weekend the Eagles travel to Hays Kansas for the FHSU Fall Tournament. There they’ll face the Tigers and Newman University on Friday, and Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Southern Arkansas.

The Eagles celebrate a point during Saturday night’

CSC Volleyball Head Coach Jennifer Stadler talks wi Greiman, of Windsor, Colorado, during the Eagles m Mines, Friday at the Chicoine Center. The Eagles wo

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’s game against Montana State University, Billings.

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Our effort, resilience and energy was key this weekend, I thought we improved set by set.”

-Chadron Head Coach Jennifer Stadler

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Outside hitter Kassidy Nelson, freshman of Mountain View, Wyoming waits for a serve during Saturday night’s game against Montana State University, Billings.

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ith freshman Rylee match with South Dakota on the match in five sets.

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Hey kiddo, you should read this book u By Aubrie Lawrence News Editor

At the beginning of the year each freshman was given the book “Hey Kiddo” by Jarrett Krosoczka as a part of the Common Reading Experience. The book was supposed to open a gateway for discussions among peers based on similar experiences.

Well I sat down and read through the graphic novel this past weekend and found that I made a quick, but false judgment when I received it.

To be honest, the book was surprisingly good. I went into the experience thinking that it was going to be about a typical, quirky teenage boy going through the typical struggles that come along with life nowadays and lecture me on how I can

avoid going through the same thing. Boy was I wrong. Krosoczka actually wrote about his own life experiences and how they affected him. He never lectured, never said that he had it easy, and made it easy for the reader to find something to relate to; even if they had never faced all the same struggles.

The book easily navigates through the difficulties in life and keeps everything as upbeat as possible.

Krosoczka never heavily focuses on the dark parts of his life but, instead, balances them out with the good.

He finds a way to keep the conversation light but still have purpose behind it.

Krosoczka does one thing well and that’s highlight the meaning of his life. Ever since was little he loved to draw. Over the development of his story you can see the way art becomes his safe haven. He easily teaches the lesson that whatever you’re passionate about or whatever dream you have, will get you through any struggle you go through. You just have to work hard and push through the struggle.

The book truly holds up to what the CRE is all about. It gave me insight to the struggles that shape so many people’s lives and gave me the opportunity to understand them better.

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Sure, it is definitely not a book I would have picked up from a shelf for a leisurely read, but I still found a way to find purpose out of it. It taught me a lesson in empathy and opened a space for conversation.

While it may seem dorky to read the book assigned to you by the school, I advise that you do if you are looking for a way to connect to the people around you. It’ll make starting conversation much easier.

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...I found out that I made a quick, but false, judgment when I received it. To be honest, the book was surprisingly good.

-Aubrie Lawrence

CSC Alum speaks about sleep habits u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Reporter

Students gathered bright eyed and busy tailed Thursday morning in the ballroom for “The Importance of Sleep” lecture by Dr. Brittany Meyer. As a CSC graduate, Meyer presented a topic to the student body that isn’t covered during most informative presentations. Her lecture brought in more students than event coordinators expected.

As a result, audience tables were quickly filled. Information on the stages of sleep, different medical complications from a lack of sleep, and even showing other doctors’ research.

“Sleep also allows you to sort, filter, evaluate, consolidate, and integrate information taken during the day. Which is really important for classes, the information that you’re learning you’re actually then changing it from short term memory into long term memory,” Meyer said.

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This was one of the few examples she gave, as to why everyone should get more than eight hours of sleep a night.

“Lack of sleep interrupts the brain’s ability to learn, and your decision-making and judgment are also impaired with it,” Meyer said.

Refreshments were provided throughout the presentation. Students were also given the opportunity to ask questions and speak to Meyer about topics on sleep and other medical conditions related to not getting enough.

Dr. Brittany Meyer, a CSC graduate, presents “The importance of Sleep” to students Thursday, in the student center ballroom.

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Students get a new look with clothing Up-cycle u By Yen Nguyen Reporter

The “Up-cycle Your Clothes” event drew 45 people to the Hub Monday. The event allowed participants to revamp their old clothes and breathe new life into them.

Resident Adviser Sara Taggart, 22, senior of Harrisburg, stated she wanted people to get out of their dorms and be happy with the new look they made with their own clothing.

“I just know a lot of people who are not happy with their clothes,”

she said, “oh, let’s just do something where they can keep their clothes but make them look new.”

The participants also contended with decorating their old pieces of clothes to make them look more creative.

“I like this event because I have done this before with one of my shirts. It then became my favorite one,” Sarah Peek, 20, junior of Colorado Springs, said.

RLA events will continue next week with Adulting 101 Laundry Tuesday 3 p.m. and a Kahoot night Wednesday 7 p.m.. Both will be in the Hub.

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Rylie Cole, 19, sophomore of Minden, decorates a pair of her own pants at RLA’s Up-cycle Your Clothes event. The event featured different ways to decorate old or recycled clothing, including iron-on patches and markers.

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NPAC offers sandy competition for students u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Reporter

Sand flew into the air every so often as players dove to try and keep the volleyball in the air. Even when the sky became cloudy and the air colder, the games continued with no complications.

The Backyard was sent into a welcoming atmosphere Friday, Sept. 6 as NPAC hosted a two-versus-two intramural sand volleyball tournament.

Students paired up to participate in the noncompetitive, twoversus-two tournament starting at 5 p.m. Teams had to sign up at

the NPAC beforehand to enjoy the laid-back competition. The matches consisted of best two out of three sets, and each set went tilla team scored 15 points. When a set was won, the pairs would switch sides before starting the next set.

If students didn’t want to participate in the actual tournament, they could still get involved from the sidelines. Groups of students gathered around to watch players, supporting them by cheers and music.

The tournament saw Associate Director of Residence Life Taylor Osmotherly and Ruben Nolasco, of Chadron, win the tournament.

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Sophomore Kelsey Crock of Cheyenne, Wyoming scurries to strike a volleyball while teammate Brock Voth, sophomore of Berthoud, Colorado, rushes to her side for support. Teams of two competed in the NPAC sand volleyball tournament Friday.

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2019 PRE-SEASON

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1. CHADRON STATE 2. Colorado Mesa 3. Colorado Mines 4. CSU-Pueblo 5. Fort Lewis 6. New Mexico Highlands 7. Western 8. Adams State 9. Black Hills State 10. Dixie State 11. South Dakota Mines

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CSC’s Elijah Myles, sophomore of Hawthorne, California, celebrates as he crosses the goal line during the Eagles’ 48-31 road win over Black Hills State University, Saturday.

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A tale of two halves

Tovar tears up CSC in the first half, but the Eagles get payback in the second u By Brandon Davenport Sports Editor

Redshirt freshman quarterback Andrew Tovar, of South El Monte, California, and Black Hills State University came to play against the Chadron State Eagles, dictating play in the first half, Saturday in Spearfish. But the Yellow Jackets couldn’t keep control of the game as the Eagles flipped the script in the second half, scoring

on each of their seven possessions to earn a 48-31 win.

The Yellow Jackets defense had no trouble containing the Eagles in the first half and Tovar and the offense at times picked apart Chadron’s defense to the tune of a 17-0 lead after thirty minutes of play.

Chadron State Head Coach Jay Long had a simple explanation.

“Black Hills came out to play and we didn’t,” he said.

“When you looked at us in the first half, we were loaded with penalties, false starts, we had an unsportsmanlike, we had a dropped snap, our punter slipped, it was just a real messy first half.”

One long-time fan of the team commented at halftime that it might have been the worst the Eagles had played.

That all changed with the opening kickoff of the second half.

After a touch back, the Eagles began to move the ball out from their own 25-yard line, using seven plays to drive to the Yellow Jackets’ 30. From there, sophomore Elijah Myles, of Hawthorne, California, broke free for an 18-yard touchdown run to get CSC on the board.

Still down 17-7, it looked as if the CSC defense’s woes weren’t over as the

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Yellow Jackets drove down field and Tovar hit tight end Jarett Jenson, sophomore of Ralph, South Dakota, for a 5-yard TD to extend BHSU’s lead to 24-7.

From there it was all Eagles.

“We just started executing better,” Long said. “We came out rough and I want to say that I’m really proud of our team for stepping up in the second half and finding something that worked.”

The Eagles went on to score 41 unanswered points.

CSC quarterback Dalton Holst, junior of Gillette, Wyoming, found his form, completing 22 of 30 passes for 337 yards and four touchdowns. He threw for only 58 yards on seven completions in the first half. On Monday he was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference’s offensive player of the week.

The Eagles also found their running game after Myles began to see consistent carries.

“The second half felt great coming in knowing that I was going to be the starting back and getting most of the reps instead of having to rotate, making it hard to find a rhythm,” Myles said. “I came in trusting the o-line and they led the way.”

After just 33 yards in the first half, Myles carried the ball 19 times in the second, going for 138 yards and scoring three touchdowns.

By the final whistle, the Eagles had rushed for 176 yards and Holst had passed for 327, spreading completions across his receiving corps, but hitting returning starters Tevon Wright, senior of Miami and Jackson Dickerson, senior of Chadron, most often.

Wright and Dickerson each caught five passes. Wright led with 86 yards and two touchdowns while Dickerson had 63 yards and one TD. Senior Brandon Fullerton, of Riverton, Wyoming, had three receptions for 55 yards including a TD when Holst deftly placed a ball over his shoulder and into his arms to make it 24-19 in favor of the Yellow Jackets.

Fullerton’s TD was set up by an interception by Demetrius McFadden, senior of Pahokee, Florida, at the Yellow Jackets’ 36-yard line.

Though BHSU controlled play in the first half, Chadron’s defense was able to keep the game from getting out of hand and kept the Eagles in a position to get back into the game in the second half. After the Yellow Jackets scored in the third to make it 24-7, the CSC defense found its game, stifling BHSU’s offense and providing timely turnovers.

Following McFadden’s pick to help get the Eagles within striking distance of the lead, the CSC defense forced the Yellow Jackets to punt on their next three possessions and their fourth ended with an interception by senior Eagle linebacker Tyler Lewis, senior of Arvada, Colorado.

Fellow linebacker Travis Wilson, junior of Fresno, California, had 16 tackles to lead the Eagles while safety Tyree Fryar, senior of Burlington, New Jersey, was next-best with 13. Defensive tackle Alex Mai, sophomore of Fort Morgan, Colorado, was credited with a sack for a loss of five yards and teammates Noah Kerchal and Wilson each earned half a sack.

In his first game as a starter, Tovar completed 22 of 35 passes for 264 yards and two touchdowns. He was picked off three times and sacked twice. Running back Peyton Gilmore carried the ball 22 times for 87 yards and one TD. Nolan Susel, redshirt-freshman of Florence, Arizona, had the Yellow Jackets other rushing touchdown. He carried the ball just three times for 41 yards.

Tovar went to wide-receiver Kieler Harpham, junior Fort Collins, Colorado, nine times for a total of 147 yards and one touchdown.

BHSU defensive back Josh Gurnaby, senior of Rocklin, California, had 17 tackles for the Yellow Jackets. Fellow DB Sam Garcia, junior of Colorado Springs, Colorado, had 10.

Both Chadron State and Black Hills face tough opponents this week.

The Yellow Jackets will make their first road appearance of the season against Colorado School of Mines on Saturday in Golden, Colorado. Mines was ranked second in the RMAC’s Preseason Coaches Poll and are coming off a 41-10 win over eighth-ranked Adams State University in week one.

Chadron will play its first home game of the season on Saturday night when it hosts the RMAC’s top team, Colorado State University - Pueblo.

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Black Hills State University redshirt freshman Nolan Susel, of Florence, Arizona, looks for the referree’s call after pushing across the goal line, Saturday, in Spearfish. The Yellow Jackets led 17-0 after two quarters but ultimately lost to the Eagles 48-31.

Wide receiver Cole Thurness, junior of Rapid City, South Dakota, sheds Yellow Jacket defender Josh Gurnaby, senior of Rocklin, California, during the Eagles’ 48-31 road win over Black Hills State University, Saturday.

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Women win, men third at Rapid City cross country meet Junior Madi Watson takes second, former Eagle runner Dylan Stansbury takes first at Hardrocker Classic u By CSC Sports Information

CSC junior Madi Watson (6), of Mitchell, runs during the 2019 Hardrocker Cross Country Classic at Robbinsdale Park in Rapid City on Saturday. She’s trailed by South Dakota Mines’ Adeline Wilson (31), of Aurora, Colorado.

The Chadron State College women’s cross country team finished atop the team standings at the 2019 Hardrocker Cross Country Classic, held in Robbinsdale Park at Rapid City on Saturday morning.

Junior Madi Watson, crossing the finish line in a time of 21:30.74 after traversing a 5,000 meter course, was second overall in the race to lead the Eagles’ women, finishing only behind Montana State-Billings’ Nikki Aiden by little more than five seconds.

Another junior, Emma Willadsen, was fourth individually, while true freshman Jordan Jones rounded out the top five.

The Chadron State men were third, behind host South

Dakota School of Mines & Technology and Billings, led

by Jesse Jaramillo who was fourth in the collegiate individual standings with a finish of 28:28.08.

The overall winner in the men’s race was former Eagles runner Dylan Stansbury, who won by exactly 27 seconds in a time of 27:50.74, competing independently of the team race, in the open meet.

The Eagles had not won the women’s competition at the South Dakota Mines race since 2015, when Rebecca Volf took top honors overall and the ladies swept the top four places.

Chadron State’s runners will compete next week at their home meet, the Chadron State Open. The Eagles are the two-time defending women’s champions at that meet, while both men’s and women’s teams won two years ago.

CSC faces big challenge in week two

GOLF, from page 1

Home opener pits Eagles against second ranked Colorado State University - Pueblo Thunderwolves u By Devin Fulton Alpine Hickstein

John Ritzen

Kinsey Smith

played well today, but had a bad last few holes,” CSC Head Coach John Ritzen told CSC Sports Information. “We were up two strokes on the sixth place team with three to play and then we had a rough go at it.”

Despite the team’s mishaps as the invite drew to a close on Tuesday, Ritzen said he believes Monday’s record score will be more representative of their average this season.

“We have a good group with some good girls sitting at home, too, so it’s going to be interesting,” he said.

Monday, Kramer tied for the most pars at the invite, according to CSC Sports Information, and birdied two. She led all golfers until a double-bogey on her final hole of the day. The bogey dropped her into a tie for third place after one round. Unfortunately on day two Kramer added 15 strokes to her first round score. Her score of 73-88-161 tied her for 23rd.

CSC was led by Hickstein who shot 77-79-156, good for 13th place among the invite’s 75 golfers.

Behind Hickstein, freshman Kinsey Smith shot 82-83-165 and tied for 35th; freshmen Allison Acosta shot 87-81-168 and tied for 44th; Sophomore Anna Branscome scored 83-87-170 and tied for 57th. Abby White shot 85-90-175.

Individually the meet was won by Faith Kilgore of Colorado Christian University. She shot 70-73-143 to take the title. Dixie State took the team title with a two-day score of 300-313-613.

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The Eagles’ football team hosts #9 Colorado State University Pueblo Thunderwolves with kickoff scheduled for 7 p.m., Saturday, under the lights at Elliott Field of Don Beebe Stadium.

Both teams are coming off a sizeable victory with each producing over 500 yards of offense but will be ready for a competitive RMAC showdown.

Currently, CSU Pueblo owns a seven-game win streak over the Eagles.

CSC hopes to send a message to the RMAC with its first ever win against the Thunderwolves to start their season 2-0 for the first time since 2007, the same year the Eagles were RMAC champions.

But the #9 ranked team will add an aerial attack to its smashmouth offense when facing the eagles.

Pueblo’s quarterback Jordan Kitna, sophomore of Dallas and son of former NFL quarterback Jon Kitna, threw for 261 yards and added two TDs on the ground against Dixie State last week.

Pueblo carries more NFL pedigree on their roster with Marcus Lindsay, a sophomore of Denver and younger brother of Denver Broncos pro bowl running back Phillip Lindsay, rushed for 51 yards and one touchdown last week, but was never solo tackled during the game.

The Eagles’ defense made a statement against Black Hills State University as they intercepted three passes and recovered one fumble, giving CSC’s offense good field position for Dalton Holst, junior of Gillette, Wyoming, to lead a second half comeback.

Linebacker Travis Wilson, junior of Fresno, California and safety Tyree Fryar, senior of Burlington, New Jersey, combined for 29 tackles against

the yellowjackets and hope to bring similar play against a Pueblo team who rushed for 244 yards and 4 TDs last weekend.

The Eagles will bring a balanced attack on offense into the game as well, but could lean on Elijah Myles, a sophomore of Hawthorne, California, who rushed for 138 yards and three touchdowns.

Saturday’s game will see the Eagles compete in a primetime game for just the second time since the late 1980s, according to chadroneagles.com.

The 2018 RMAC champs will provide a major test for the Eagles as this game could have a significant impact on CSC’s reputation within the RMAC. After losing to CSU Pueblo in week two last season, the Eagles proved they can learn from mistakes, going on to win six of their last eight games.