Feb. 4, 2021 THURSDAY
Issue No. 4 csceagle.com
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Eagles start their unique season after practicing all fall Please see pages 8 Semper veritas
Giving voice to Chadron State College students since 1920
NEWS >>
Student Senate considers $1750 funding request Virtual conference for students would cost $70 per individual.
Please see page 3
AG & RANGE >>
Feb. 2 celebrated World Wetlands day
Nebraskan wetlands provide habiatat for amphibians, fish, mammals and birds. Please see page 5
SPORTS >>
Track continues success in Spearfish
The Eagles win six events with strong freshmen and sophomores performances Please see page 7
INDEX News 2 Ag & Range 5 Sports 6
Photo by Terell Gray
The Capitol dome illuminates the Washington skyline as soldiers National Guardsmen move into position.
Student-soldier recalls D.C. duty u By Aubrie Lawrence Editor
A couple of blocks away from the U.S. vice president’s house, Terell Gray, CSC student and military police soldier, sat cramped on a bus in full kit waiting for riots to break out, as Joe Biden was
sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. When he joined Chadron’s 1057th National Guard unit a year and a half ago, he did it to further his education. He never expected to be one of the 26,000 soldiers that were deployed to Washington to guard the Capitol Building. “When I first got there, I was super geeked out,” he said. “Then I started seeing all these news re-
ports saying there is going to be armed protests and I was like, ‘Wow, I might get shot. People might pull out AR-15s and start shooting at us.’ It was scary at first, I’m not going to lie. “I was hoping something would happen. I was like, ‘let’s go, let’s go.’ I think they had us on that bus for 18 hours.”
Please see Student-soldier page 4