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Student Senate allocate $45K to Spring Days Week Student Senate to reinstate Spring Days Week in April

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AG & RANGE >>

Climate-smart program announced USDA begins climate-smart commodities pilot program with $1 billion in funding for agriculture entities

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SPORTS >>

CSC wrestlers struggle at last home match Eagles lose nine of ten duals against No. 21 Colorado State of Mines, 37-3

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INDEX News 2 Opinion 5 Lifestyles 7 Ag & Range 11 Sports 13

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Bill Wakefield, guest conductor, directs the high school band during a rehearsal for the High Plains Band and Chior Festival Tuesday afternoon in the Memorial Hall Auditorium.

High Plains celebrates 50 years u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Staff Editor

Chadron State College celebrated 50 years of the High Plains Band and Choir Festival Monday and Tuesday in Memorial Hall.

“Many of this year’s participants are following in the footsteps of older siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, and even grandparents,” James

Margetts, dean of essential studies and the school of liberal arts, said in a CSC press release. “A festival like this also doesn’t continue for 50 years without the support of hundreds of individual high school music teachers and their promotion of the values that those selected for participation in High Plains exemplify, such as hard work, persistence, bravery, and a passion for excellence.”

There were 151 students from 26 Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming high schools and

the high schools were assisted by CSC faculty and students throughout the two days.

Memorial Hall was filled with music both days with rehearsals before the high school ensemble performed for the public, led by William K. Wakefield, guest conductor, at 5 p.m., Tuesday in Memorial Hall’s Auditorium.

The week started with a soprano soloist Carol Perry with Bobby Pace at 7 p.m., Monday night.

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CAB meeting-time confusion comes to an end THE EAGLE COVID-19 REPORT

 By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

After CAB representatives were unable to come to an agreement on a new time for their meetings, Student Senate took the liberty of voting on a proposed bylaw change that would end the discussion at its weekly Monday meeting.

Last year, CAB voted to change its meeting frequency to once a month, claiming that weekly meeting were unnecessary. However, due to improper procedure, the bylaws were not passed properly. That led to last semester’s CAB representatives having to vote on a new bylaw revision.

After a semester of CAB being unable to find a solution, CAB Chair McKenna Juhin decided to hand the decision over to Student Senate.

The proposed bylaw revision would change the frequency of CAB meetings to bimonthly, with the committee meeting on the first and third Monday of every month. It would also

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change the meeting time from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to accommodate CAB representatives who could not attend the 5 p.m. meetings.

However, the change in meeting time would make it difficult for other CAB representatives to attend the meeting.

“Speaking on behalf of some of the clubs that are there and the things I’ve heard from them, 6:30 p.m. on Mondays is tricky,” Senator of PSAS Kelsey Crock said. “There are multiple clubs that have meetings starting at 7 p.m. so if CAB meetings run any longer than 30 minutes are they going to be excused from that because their club is there? Or

are we expecting clubs to change meeting times and things to accommodate the 6:30 p.m. time change?”

Juhin said during the meeting that the CAB executive board had made “many suggestions” about potential times or days CAB could meet, but no matter what they choose “no clubs are going to agree.”

The vote to change the bylaws failed with nine voting ‘yes’ and five voting ‘no.’

Meeting times reverted back to what the original bylaws state. CAB will now meet at 5 p.m. every Monday.

During the meeting, Student Senate also voted 12-2 in favor of changing Article II, Section A, Subsection i to allow one student to represent up to three clubs at CAB meetings.

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CSC students and faculty wait for the evacuation order to be lifted, in the Assumption Arena, Friday.

Bomb threat fizzles  By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

Administrators evacuated campus late Friday afternoon in response to a bomb threat that turned out to be a dud.

About 3 p.m. students and faculty received a message from the college saying there was a report of a serious situation and that they needed to “leave immediately.”

Students left without a place to go while the Chadron Police Department, Chadron Volunteer Fire Department, Nebraska State Patrol and campus security were instructed to go to the Assumption Arena on East Third Street, where they were provided with food and activities.

At 7:47 p.m., the evacuation order was lifted,

and students and faculty could return to campus.

While the search came up empty, it did disrupt events that had been planned for the night.

The men’s and women’s basketball games that were scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. that night were postponed to Sunday.

“I sincerely appreciate your teamwork and patience throughout the entire process,” President Randy Rhine said in a message Monday.

“Although we are not immune to dishonest threats, we do possess the capability to come together as a community. This experience will only make that commitment stronger.”

The identity of the individual who made the call is still unknown. However, Rhine said they will be “dealt with by law enforcement.”

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Student Senate allocates $45K to Spring Days

News Senate revises, clarifies bylaws u By Aubrie Lawrence

u By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

Student Senate voted 11-3 to approve a $45,000 allocation for the upcoming Spring Days week during its weekly Monday meeting.

Last week, the Senate had tabled the discussion of allocating $40,000 to Spring Days week. However, upon further review, the events planning committee decided that more money might be needed.

They requested an extra $10,000, making the total allocation $50,000.

However, $5,000 of it would be for “wiggle room,” Senator at Larger Natalie Boyd said.

“Senate has a whole bunch of stuff that we’re wanting to do and that requires money to do it,” Senator of PSAS Kelsey Crock said.

The request was eventually amended to a total of $45,000 with the idea that if more money was needed the committee could make a request for additional funds.

The money would be spent on things like T-shirts for the week as well as the nearly naked mile, a potential food truck and live entertainment, Crock said.

Clubs were also encouraged to cosponsor events happening during the week of Spring Days or donate leftover funds from the semester.

Spring Days is scheduled to take place April 18-24.

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During its weekly meeting, Student Senate voted on three bylaw revisions that had been presented for a first reading during last week’s meeting.

The first bylaw revision would add a section to Article V of the Student Organization Constitution. The addition would make any person or organization requesting funds exceeding $500 from Student Senate submit a budget packet form to AFB or present a budget form to Senate a week before funds would be allocated.

The change would give clubs a chance to bypass AFB and petition Student Senate directly for funds.

The proposed bylaw change was not passed, with four senators voting in favor of it and 10 voting against it.

The second proposed bylaw change would

take power away from the executive board by removing its right to ask senators to join additional committees when necessary.

Some senators were hesitant to approve the removal and worried that it could potentially make things difficult for future bodies of the Student Senate that might have numerous vacancies.

“This is taking away the flexibility of whoever is going to be on the executive board next year to be able to make decisions based on the very limited resources that they have,” President Isioma Akwanamnye said.

Instead of removing the passage from the bylaws, the senators came to the agreement that they could revise the bylaw to give senators the discretion to override an executive board members request.

The final bylaw revision approved during the meeting gave the secretary the responsibility of archiving and distributing meeting minutes rather than the vice president.

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Opinion

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Is Nebraska becoming too conservative for Gen Z?

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he other day I saw a campaign video for Jim Pillen, a candidate running for Nebraska governor, on Twitter.

In the video, he addresses the usual issues that “Cornhusker Conservatives” care about: blue lives matter, gun rights and fighting the “crazy liberals in Washington.”

In the list of responses to the tweet I saw a response from a friend of mine. And why are people leaving Nebraska?”

Now, this isn’t something we haven’t heard before.

Since I was a kid, I’ve heard that young people have been leaving Nebraska at an alarming rate.

People are apparently calling it “brain drain.” According to a KMTV 3 article from March, 2021, it happens because cities have more draw than the smaller towns that make up Nebraska.

They have more nightlife and more to occupy your time, making the choice to move easy.

According to the Center for Public Affairs, roughly 2,000 people between the ages of 20 and 29 have moved out of Nebraska each year because of this supposed “brain drain.”

It’s causing a loss in tax revenue for the state and, as an attempt to fix the damage, colleges like ours are trying to encourage graduates to get jobs in the state.

But maybe it isn’t the nightlife or job opportunities that young people are leaving Nebraska for.

Maybe it has something to do with the values the state and its representatives hold that is causing the migration.

Our current governor, Pete Ricketts, has been backed by heavily conservative groups, such as the Nebraska Family Alliance, for years. He has stood against policies that promote gender identity equality and women’s reproductive rights.

On Jan. 28, he supported a proclamation to recognize

the pro-life flag in Nebraska is a Nebraska. wonderful state. There Now I’m all for aren’t many places left respecting the beliefs in the world that have of everyone, but I so much open space don’t remember him and greenery. ever recognizing the I’m always amazed LGBTQ+ or proby its beauty, and I choice flags. don’t think I’ll ever But he isn’t the get the chance to fully only government explore it all. official in the state But I don’t know Aubrie Lawrence that are pushing conhow much longer I’ll be servative views and driving out able to stay here when my rights young, liberal Nebraskans. are being put on the line.

On Jan. 19, Senator Deb I want my friends who are Fischer received an A+ rating part of the LGBTQ+ commufrom the Susan B. Anthony list nity, who come from a variety National Pro-Life Scorecard. She of different cultures and are all supports passing a bipartisan bill different races to feel safe here. that would prohibit abortions in And if that means I have to Nebraska after 15 weeks. move to a city for that to hapAs a young woman who pen, then that’s what I’ll do. leans a bit more to the liberal It’s not the nightlife that’s side, it’s concerning to see Pildriving some of use young len, as well as the other candiNebraskans away from the dates with his same values, that state, it’s the lack of respect for are running for governor and nontraditional values that is higher offices. doing it.

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As We See It

You have to make your happy ending u By Velvet Jessen Opinion Editor

“And then they lived happily ever after.”

Every story I heard as a child ended with the perfect sunset and the main characters live happily ever after.

They defeated whatever bad guy they were up against and then it’s smooth sailing and fun times until the end of time. The rather unfortunate truth of not being a story book character is that life is not one bad guy and then a happy little ride into the sunset.

Sometimes life is annoying and frustrating and nothing seems to work out the way you want it to. Everything feels like too much and you want to give up. And that can make you start to blame yourself or blame the world. Those aren’t good holes to

fall into.

It’s really hard to accept the bad days and move past them but that’s what you have to do sometimes. You can’t blame yourself because that doesn’t solve the problem, it will just make the problem worse.

You are the key to your success and the key to your own downfall too. And if you’re constantly beating yourself up then you can’t succeed.

Sometimes you will mess up and it really will be your fault.

That’s OK. You just have to accept that you messed something up and figure out how to work on it or fix it. Figuring out how to help yourself is sometimes the hardest part. But remember that although you create your own perspective you aren’t a god. Sometimes things happen that you can’t stop or control.

You just have to roll with the punches and keep getting up even when it’s tough. Give yourself grace and breaks every once in a while. But

Sometimes it’s easiest to blame yourself and dig a hole. But after a while you’ll realize that the shovel you’re using to dig is pretty heavy and you’re in a pretty deep hole. Put it down and start grow- Velvet Jessen ing from the times you mess up. Ask your friends for help if you need or even reach out to the counseling services on campus.

Anything besides letting yourself get worse is a step in the right direction.

One bad day or one bad test doesn’t define you. How you deal with those things is.

If you start taking steps in the right direction eventually it’ll pay off even if it doesn’t feel like it. When your head is down and you feel bad, you miss all of the pretty amazing

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things you’re accomplishing on the way. Look up every once in a while and you’ll see how far you’ve come.

You just have to start moving forward.

Life moves fast, so don’t wallow in a bad day.

Even when it feels easier.

Sometimes a good day is just what you make it.

Don’t let one bad thing ruin your week or give it the time it deserves and move forward. You deserve to enjoy your life and to get your happy ending.

Your story isn’t over until you get a happy ending even when it seems impossible. Your happy ending might not look like the fairy tales and it might come from a lot more hard work. However, it’s your story, so chase your happy ending and that pretty sunset. It might be work but it’ll be worth it. Your story will just be more interesting than Cinderella’s.

“One bad day or one bad test doesn’t define you.”

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keep on getting up, it’s how you’ll get better. Not by dragging yourself down with negative talk.

Something that might be helpful to remember is to treat yourself like you would treat your friends. You wouldn’t tell your friend that they are stupid because they had one bad day or one bad test.So, why would you tell yourself that? You deserve the kindness you give to others.

We are the monsters you created u By Kameryn Kozisek Staff Editor

Our generation grew up in the age of technology, video games, movies and phones. We have had access our whole lives to the ends of the internet.

We grew up in a time when school shootings were blamed on violent video games and movies.

In a class I had, we were watching a Call of Duty livestream when the professor asked us how we could handle watching the violence of the game.

The question was shrugged off, why should we be bothered by the deaths of cartoon characters? We

grew up in an age of violence and it is not our media consumption.

The reason we are unbothered by violence isn’t because we play video games based on war and it not that we watch movies about death and murder, it’s that we grew up watching these things happen.

School shootings, bomb threats, suicide and sexual crimes were things that we were raised on. When CSC went into to lockdown last semester, I listened to people joke and talk about what we could use as weapons in a classroom. And while this may be an appropriate for a bunch of 1825 year olds, my 8-year-old little sister is learning the same thing.

We were in second grade

we learn about the world. birth was, how getting pregnant No one would kill us. thought We were twice about taught to hide showing us under desks videos about and in closets children in our classthat were rooms, where kidnapped to run if we or killed by could get out strangers. We of the building were told to if there was a be scared of school shooter. the cars that Taught how - Kameryn Kozisek drove past to throw cans us when we and chairs and walked alone. barricade doors.

Even in sex education we’re How can we be blamed for not shown movies about how STDs caring about cartoon violence, can kill us and what it looked like when we were taught to fear a and told us how dangerous teen violent world?

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“No one thought

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watching the video of the Twin Towers fall, watching people jump out of building to their deaths and listening to voicemails left to loved ones.

We were shown videos of people getting blown up and shot in wars and it is normal, it’s how

twice about showing us videos about children that were kidnapped or killed by strangers.”

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The Cake Remains

By Abigail Swanson

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Harley Rhoades, 22, senior of Douglas, Wyoming, moves a plastic ball with a pizza box during halftime entertainment at the women’s basketball game against Adams State University, Saturday in the Chicoine Center.

White frosting gleamed like bird poop in the middle of the road. Wrinkles from when she pulled off the tinfoil squished the cursive “Jenna and Jeremy” to an indecipherable black mass in the center. But hey, it looked pretty good for a three-year-old piece of cake. Better than she did.

Trees lining the county road chirped with birds. Robins swooped over the new offering. Could birds get sugar rushes? Jenna vetoed rice at the wedding to avoid having bloated birds on her conscience, no matter how much Jeremy’s mom complained.

Maybe she should clean up her mess afterward, just in case.

Jenna reversed the car a few yards down the county road. She hadn’t wanted to save the stupid cake anyway but Jeremy’s mom insisted.

“Soak it with bourbon and it’ll keep like a dream in the freezer. You’ll want it for your anniversary.”

The woman cut their names straight out of the center of the sheet cake like she was afraid the five guests who showed up would claw right past the cut and plated side pieces and ruin any hope of a lovely anniversary.

So what if they did? It was just a court wedding. She didn’t even wear a white dress.

At least Jeremy agreed with her. He threw that slab of cake to the back of the freezer and forgot it existed. She only rediscovered it yesterday.

Jenna put the car in drive. And back in neutral. What would Jeremey’s mother say?

“If you didn’t want it, you should have said. How will you handle kids if you can’t even take care of a cake?”

Of course, she’d never say that. The woman just pinched her lips and aimed thought daggers at Jenna’s soul.

A bird landed beside the cake. Greedy thing would stick itself in the frosting. Jenna hit the horn and the bird flickered back to the trees.

She would make a great mom, whatever Jeremey’s mother said.

Jenna shifted back to drive, but kept her foot planted on the break. Was it really worth covering the car in cake bits? She’d come this far. What would she do, wrap it back up and return it to the freezer? That would make Jeremy’s mom judge her more than just murdering a cake.

The woman kept strong opinions on decision making. “Go right or go left. There’s too many flat birds in the middle of the road.”

Well then. If anyone asked, Jenna just followed Jeremy’s mom’s advice like a good daughter-in-law.

Her foot landed on the gas. Birds scattered from the trees. The car flew into the cake like an airplane hitting a runway. The front tire plowed a pass through the white sugar and the rear tire impressed perfect tracks through their black frosted names.

She should have done this sooner.

The ruins glowed like Grecian architecture in the rearview mirror.

Jenna grabbed the crumpled foil from the center console and swung the car door open. She walked back to scavenge the cake remains. Hey, she might need it again next year.

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CSC powers through game

Powers earns a double-double both Satu Sunday night against RMAC competitio Story and photos by Mackenzie Dahlberg

ABOVE: Riley Aiono (4), left, sophomore of Bountiful, Utah, goes up for a shot against Grizzly defenders during the women’s basketball game against Adams State University, Saturday in the Chicoine Center.

RIGHT: Olivia Waufle (10), front, freshman of Thornton, Colorado, and Ashayla Powers (20), freshman of Longmont, Colorado, share a hug after Powers made a buzzer-beater shot to win the women’s basketball game against Adams State University, Saturday, in the Chicoine Center.

Chadron State women’s basketball team powers to a buz against Adams State University, 63-61, Saturday before g time against Colorado State University-Pueblo, Sunday, and loss, 77-74.

Ashayla Powers, redshirt freshman of Longmont, Colo numbers for both nights of games, reaching a double-doubl “Honestly, I was very proud of myself,” Powers said. “I set g both of those games and I achieved both. Even though I wi won the second game, I believe I played well.”

Against the Grizzlies, Powers went on a run for about half in the third quarter and for about six minutes in the fo was the only player to put points on the board.

With 14 seconds left of the game, Powers made a layup to three points ahead, but the Grizzles answered back 10 seco up the score at 61 points with a three pointer from Stephani senior of San Antonio, Texas.

Powers finished out the game with a buzzer-beater layu game from going into overtime. She had 13 rebounds and 2 The Eagles also held the Grizzles to six points total in the “We as a team never gave up and energy on the court an has been the best it has ever been,” Powers said. “Being e bench helps everyone playing and can change the energy of th Despite another strong night from Powers, the Eagles wer the win during Sunday’s game, which was originally schedul With three minutes remaining in the third quarter, Pow score at 49 with a layup before scoring again nearly a minute Eagles in the lead for the first time of the game.

Even though the lead was lost by the end of the third, Jor of Mitchell, gained the lead again with a three-pointer and la Despite her attempt at the end of overtime, Peters was u her last three-point shot and the Eagles fell to the ThunderW Powers finished the night with another double-double, points and rebounding 13 shots.

Olyvia Pacheco, sophomore of Rawlins, Wyoming, had 1 night, making all three of her shots from the arc. She was als field goals and three of five for free throws.

CSC will hit the road again, playing New Mexico Highlan 5 p.m., Friday in Las Vegas and University of Colorado-Colo 5:30 p.m., Saturday in Colorado Springs. The next home gam will be at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday against Black Hills State Univer

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LEFT: Jori Peters (12), right, senior of Mitchell, drives past Tomia Johnson (13), sophomore of Colorado Springs, toward the paint during the women’s basketball game against Colorado State University-Pueblo Sunday in the Chicoine Center.

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A trio of Longhorn cattle eat off of a hay bale on a ranch east of Chadron. The USDA is taking projects for agricultural producers to be climate-smart.

USDA announces $1 billion to climate-smart ag u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

On Feb. 7, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the USDA will be investing $1 billion to support climate-smart agriculture for landowners across the U.S. Funded by Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, applications for pilot projects is open now for 2022 fiscal year.

A USDA press release defined climate smart commodities as

“an agricultural commodity that is produced using agricultural (farming, ranching or forestry) practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester carbon.”

Funding will be used on each practice to apply techniques to working land, measure greenhouse gases benefits and promote resulting commodities.

Applications cannot be done for individuals, but instead are for entities. Entities that can apply include county, city, state, special and Native American governments, private, state and public

higher education institutions, Native American tribal organizations, profit organizations, nonprofits that have a 501 (c)(3) and those that don’t.

Each proposal needs to contain plans for implementing largescale climate-smart agriculture and involves historically underserved populations, monitor and report climate results, promote climate-smart commodities and help to develop markets for those commodities.

There are two funding pools one for proposals between $5-100 million due April 8 and one for

proposals for $250,000-4.9 million due May 27. Proposals can be found on Grants.gov.

There are two funding pools one for proposals between $5-100 million due April 8 and one for proposals for $250,000-4.9 million due May 27. Proposals can be found on Grants.gov.

More information is available on the USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities at https://www.usda. gov/climate-solutions/climate-smart-commodities.

“America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest owners are lead-

ing the way in implementing climate-smart solutions across their operations,” Vilsack said in a USDA press relesase. “Through Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, USDA will provide targeted funding to meet national and global demand and expand market opportunities for climate-smart commodities to increase the competitive advantage of American producers. We want a broad array of agriculture and forestry to see themselves in this effort, including small and historically underserved producers as well as early adopters.

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Bored? Maybe it’s time to get outside Smith Falls State Park may be a twohour drive to Valentine, but is well worth Ag and Range Editor seeing. A cool place to go swimming, kayaking or floating or even just sight-seeing.

I went to high school in a small town, Going the other direction to South population 284, 45 miles from the nearest Dakota there are plenty of sights to see. movie theatre and bowling alley.

There is Wind Cave National Park, Even though in many people’s minds which is good even just for the views we had nothing to do, to me, being less and the wildlife. You can also take a tour than hour from the Bighorn Mountains, through the cave system. was plenty to do.

Just past Wind Cave, near Custer, While I agree Chadron doesn’t have South Dakota is Jewel Cave Nationmuch to offer in terms of activities for al Monument another place to explore college stucaves. Jewel dents, I do think cave also has we are sleeping Hell’s Canwalking past the yon hiking world around trail which, us. from what I Within 50 have heard miles of Chadis worth the ron there are hike. some great natCuster ural attractions.

State park There is has a lot to Chadron State offer, in my park less than opinion.

10 miles away. It Photo by Kamryn Kozisek From Neeis a great place Toadstool Geological Park near Crawford at sunset. dle’s Highto fish, hike, way to gorpaddleboat and swim. geous lakes. You can feed the burros and The Cliffs Trailhead, east of Chadron just enjoy the wildlife. is a pretty hike with a great view of the While they aren’t exactly natural, area and could be a nice place to have a Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monpicnic. uments are definitely worth seeing, even Near Crawford, Toadstool Geological if it’s just once.

Park is a cool place to go on a long hike Badlands National Park might be alor just explore. You can hike to the Hud- most three hours away but it is worth the son-Meng Education and Research Cen- drive. Hiking, wildlife viewing and just ter or explore the 1984 sod-house. driving around are all activities that are Fort Robinson State Park is anoth- hard to regret in this national park. er nearby place to go hiking, camping, If you are just looking for a day trip horseback riding or just view the wildlife. or want to explore, Spearfish Canyon in It is also a place with plenty of history and South Dakota is a beautiful place to go a museum. sight-seeing.

A little farther away, the Scottsbluff Even in the winter, there are beautiful National Monument. From what I have places to hike and watch the sunset. heard its a cool drive and hike and is on The thing to understand is that we are my CSC bucketlist. surrounded by beautiful places worth exLake Minatare State Recreation Area ploring, even if there isn’t anything to do is a cool area to see, fish or swim. in town.

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Range CRP general enrollment open until March 11 u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

General enrollment for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) which opened Jan. 1 will close March 11.

Other CRP programs including the Continuous CRP enrollment has constant open applications and Grassland CRP opens April 4 and closes May 13.

The FSA pays a yearly payment to agricultural producers and landowners to take land out of agricultural production. Contracts run 10-15 years in length .

In 2021 there were 5.3 million acres in CRP land with 1.9 million in General CRP, 2.6 in Grassland and 902,000 acres in Continuous.

The USDA’s Farm Service Agency CRP program was started by Ronald Regan in 1985 and is based on fighting environmental issues.

According to USDA, CRP improves water quality, soil erosion reduction and habitat for endangered species.

To sign up for CRP producers can contact their local FSA office.

More information about the CRP program is available on the USDA FSA website at https://www. fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-programs/conservation-reserve-program/.

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Courtney Smith, junior of Rock Springs, Wyoming, spins around in the throwing ring for the weight-throw event during the Don Holst Open, Saturday, Jan. 19, in the Nelson Physical Activities Center.

Throwers and jumpers make good marks u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

CSC indoor track team earned four first places at the Mines Winter Classic hosted by Colorado School of Mines. Three of the firsts were in men’s events.

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“Colorado Mines is not a good place for anybody running anything over like 60 meters,” Riley Northrup, head track and field coach, said. “From the performances of the events that we really went there for, the jumpers and the throwers, we had great marks all over the place, lots of PRs and a number of provisional qualifying marks.”

Morgan Fawver, junior of McCook, took first

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Ashayla Powers

in the 60-meter dash, timed at 6.86 seconds. He nearly took first in the long jump, finishing second at 24 feet, 4.5 inches (7.43 meters). Fawver’s long jump is the fourth best jump in Chadron State’s history, and also ranks him third in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) and eighth in the country right now.

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Morgan Fawver

Hometown: Longmont, Colorado Class: Freshman Sport: Basketball

Hometown: McCook Class: Junior Sport: Track & Field

Powers finished out Saturday’s game against Adams State with a buzzer-beater shot that helped win the game for the Eagles. She earned two double-doubles, both Saturday night and Sunday night against CSU-Pueblo.

Fawver finished with a first and second place at the Mines Winter Classic, Friday and Saturday. He took first in the 60 meters at 6.86 seconds and second in the long jump at 24 feet, 4.5 inches, the fourth best jump of CSC history.

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Ethan Leake, right, redshirt sophomore of Clovis, California, arches his back to keep his shoulders off the mat while his opponent Grayston DiBlasi, freshman of Thornton, Colorado, pulls down to try and pin Leake in the 141-pound weight class during the men’s wrestling match against Colorado School of Mines, Sunday afternoon in the Chicoine Center.

Eagles fall to Orediggers at last home dual, 37-3 u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

During its last home dual of the season, Chadron State men’s wrestling team was crushed by No. 21 Colorado School of Mines, 37-3, Sunday.

With the loss, the Eagles now sit third in the conference with a 4-1 record.

“The unique thing about this team is it’s a pretty good team, because it seems like someone else takes a role in terms of our duals, Brett Hunter, head men’s wrestling coach, said. “You’re used to seeing our older guys win matches, now we’re seeing maybe they get beat and then we have some freshmen step up.”

Despite the close bouts in some weight classes, CSC lost nine of the ten weight classes. The Orediggers pinned three Eagles to the mat, quickly gaining a large lead.

Kobe Lepe, redshirt sophomore of San Fernando, California, was the only Eagle to win his dual, putting up the three team points following his 3-2 decision win over Tyler Krause, redshirt junior of Plainfield, Illinois. Through his match, Lepe earned a two-point takedown and a one-point penalty.

“Winning my match on Sunday felt good especially going into this week but it also showed me there are some things I need to work on if I want to make the next step,” Lepe said.

Facing No. 5 Oredigger Weston Hunt,

redshirt senior of Pueblo West, Colorado, No. 10 Mason Watt, redshirt junior of Broomfield, Colorado, held onto the lead throughout most of the bout until Hunt earned a last-second takedown, finishing out the match two points ahead of Watt, 4-2.

Hunter had high praise toward Watt, saying he’s improved a lot and is having a really good season.

“The kid he beat from Pueblo probably beat him by 15 points a year or two ago and then we beat him now, and the kid from Mines who’s a national runner-up, put a beating on us the last couple of years and we’re right there,” he said. “He (Watt) puts a lot of time and effort outside of the wrestling room and it’s good to see that translate

onto the competition.”

Quade Smith, freshman of Layton, Utah; Darwin Hull, freshman of Schertz, Texas; and Ethan Leake, redshirt sophomore of Clovis, California, battled through their own matches but fell to their opponents.

“Seeing guys to continue to improve and buy into our program, that’s what I’m most proud of at this point,” Hunter said. “With two duals left, two big dual, two really good teams and hopefully we just continue this momentum going into the regional tournament in a couple of weeks.”

CSC finishes out its regular season with two rescheduled matches against Colorado Mesa University at 6 p.m., Thursday in Grand Junction and Western Colorado University at 6 p.m., Friday in Gunnison.

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Samantha Conradie (5), back, freshman of Thornton, Colorado, moves to tag Metropolitan State University of Denver player after sliding home and kicking up dust during the softball game, Saturday, April 3, 2021, at the CSC Softball Field.

CSC softball gets up to bat u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

Chadron State softball team returns to the batter’s box to starting its season and to play ball.

This season, the Eagles are currently scheduled for 52 games, 22 of which will be played at the CSC Softball Field.

“I think just the fact that we’re so blessed to still be able to play and still do the things that we love,” Kaley Ness, head softball coach, said. “It’s been nice to see a little bit of normalcy to fall back in place and just be able to have the opportunity back out on the field, getting an extra tournament that we didn’t get to have last year and just being able to compete.”

In 2020, CSC’s softball team was unable to see the field at all due to COVID-19 and last year, they held an overall record of 13-27 and a conference record of 13-23.

The 2022 team consists of 27 players with 13 returners, 11 freshman and three transfers, compared to last year’s roster of 18.

“I am happy to see a lot of my teammates return this year and we are looking forward to playing another season,” Samantha Conradie, sophomore of Thornton, Colorado, said.

With a number of other returners, Conradie will put the catcher gear back on after having 79 putouts, nine assists and a fielding percentage of .946 last year.

Sloane Quijas, redshirt sophomore of Erie, Colorado, and Bailey Steinke, senior of Lakewood, Colorado, both were the only two players that started and played all 40 games of the 2021 season.

Quijas fielded 35 putouts and 67 assists, to attain a fielding percentage of .919. She had 17 runs, 34 hits, three doubles, three home runs and a team-high 24 RBIs of her

126 at-bat appearances.

Appearing 138 times to the plate, Steinke batted 34 runs, 55 hits, 20 RBIs, and was 19 of 23 for stealing bases.

She had a .972 fielding percentage at shortstop with 64 putouts and 109 assists.

CSC welcomes Gabby Russell, senior of Oceanside, California, and Peyton Propp, senior of Lakewood, Colorado, back to the mound. Russell pitched in 27 games, starting eight of them. She pitched a shutout game and had the team-best walks and hits per inning pitches (WHIP) of 1.87.

Propp saw the most starts of Eagle pitchers with 19.

She allowed only 93 hits, 13 home runs and a .260 opposing batting average of the 28 total games she pitched.

With a number of new faces, competition remains high in practice which Ness believes will help the team compete in games.

“Whether they’re freshman or they’re a transfer student, I think it’s always going to be an adjustment for them,” she said. “Overall, they’ve adjusted really well, and we anticipate big things from quite a few of the new players.”

CSC begins its season at the Lubbock Sports College Invitational, the first game is scheduled for 11 a.m., Friday against West Texas A&M University in Lubbock, Texas.

The team will also play Lubbock Christian University, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Eastern New Mexico University and Northwestern Oklahoma State University throughout the weekend.

Ness hopes to see some consistency from the team anythime they step onto the field for a game.

“If we’re playing a team that had a winning record last year, winning record up until they play us, or a losing record, just being consistent and playing the best of our abilities regardless of who we step out on the field against,” she said.

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Not far behind Fawver in the long jump was Emory Yoosook, sophomore of Casper, Wyoming, who finished third and provisionally qualified with a jump of 23 feet, 5.5 inches (7.15 meters).

Daniel Reynolds, sophomore of Granby, Colorado, out threw the competition to take the gold in the weight throw, marking 60 feet, 9.5 inches (18.53 meters). Reynolds also finished third in the shot put with a throw of 52 feet even (15.85 meters).

Also in the throws, Parker Gonser, sophomore of Windsor, Colorado, finished fourth in both the weight throw at 49 feet, 3 inches (15.01 meters) and shot put at 48 feet, 11.5 inches (14.92 meters).

Putting together another first place finished was Derrick Nwagwu, junior of Aurora, Colorado, leaping 48 feet even (14.63 meters) in the triple jump.

Brock Voth, senior of Berthoud, Colorado, finished third with a mark of 47 feet, 7 inches (14.5 meters) and Joss Linse, senior of Plattsmouth, took fourth with a leap of 46 feet, 5.25 inches (14.15 meters) both in the triple jump.

Courtney Smith, junior of Rock Springs, Wyoming, earned the only first place in the women’s events with a toss of 52 feet, 11.5 inches (16.14 meters) in the weight throw.

Women high jumpers excelled in their event and earned career-best marks. Jourdain Cerenil, sophomore of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, passed 5 feet, 7.75 inches (1.72 meters) to finish second with a fourth best jump in Chadron State’s history. She’s currently second in the RMAC and ranked 10 nationally.

Miranda Gilkey, senior of Lusk, Wyoming, took fourth with the bar at 5 feet, 6.5 inches (1.69 meters) and is number seven all time for Chadron State, number three in the RMAC and is currently tied for the 17th national spot.

“I am confident that she can jump one maybe one and a half more bars in that 5’8” range,” Northrup said. “She’s pretty little so it’s pretty impressive to see somebody jump over their own head like that.”

The Eagles venture back to Brookings, South Dakota, for the South Dakota State Indoor Classic all day Saturday.

“This is basically our last competition with our whole team because we have the conference championship in two weeks,” Northrup said. “SDSU is going to be great competition. Last time we went and ran on the 300 (meter) track, we ran good times, and so we’re going to give everybody this opportunity.”

Northrup said that the men’s 4x400 meter relay will be a point of emphasis at SDSU, believing that the four are highly competitive and can push themselves when placed against team’s that have recorded faster times.

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Eagles win in OT u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

Despite Chadron State men’s basketball team taking a one-point loss to Adams State University Saturday, 59-58, the team returned to Chicoine and battled to a win in overtime against Colorado State University-Pueblo, 88-86.

“Being in back-to-back close games has shown us how important it is for all of us to find a way to impact the game,” Porter Anderson, sophomore of Russellville, Arkansas, said. “Whether that’s coaching each other from the sideline or getting on the floor for a loose ball. Every single play is important no matter when it happens in the game.”

The Eagles were the first to put points on the board against the Grizzlies Saturday with a layup from Anderson.

Being behind by seven points, Anderson put up more points, making a dunk with 2:16 left of the first half.

With a free throw from Mason Hiemstra, junior of Alliance, and another jumper from Anderson, Adams State’s lead dwindled as KJ Harris, junior of McKinney, Texas, made two free throws to tie up the score at 24 points by the end of the first half.

The second half saw the Grizzlies momentarily break away, gaining a ten-point lead two different times, but CSC recovered to take over the lead after Hiemstra made a layup with 16 seconds left.

Adams State returned to the lead though with two free throws and finished the game

ahead by one.

Anderson led the Eagles with 18 points and nine rebounds Saturday.

“It was bittersweet,” Porter said. “It always feels good to get a rhythm going and hit shots.”

CJ Jennings, senior of Colorado Springs, hit a double-double night with 11 rebounds and 11 points, being five of 11 for field goals and one of six for three pointers.

Chadron State saw another game filled with tied scores against the ThunderWolves Sunday after the games Friday were moved due to the campus evacuation. Both halves finished tied, 36 after the first and 76 after the second.

The Eagles were able to put themselves nine points ahead of CSU-Pueblo five times in the second half with the ThunderWolves catching back up to send the game into overtime.

During the extra five minutes of play, the ThunderWolves started off with the lead, but the Eagles took it with 2:25 left and kept it for the rest of the time.

Marcus Jefferson, junior of Lewisville, Texas, led the Eagles Sunday with 18 points, being seven of 12 for field goals, and two of three for both three-pointers and free throws.

“We played with everything we had,” Porter said. “We understand that these are must-win games if we want to have an opportunity to compete in the conference tournament, and it showed this weekend.”

The Eagles hit the road for games against New Mexico Highlands University at 7 p.m., Friday in Las Vegas, and University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday in Colorado Springs. They will play at home again at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday against Black Hills State University.

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Porter Anderson (30), sophomore of Russellville, Arkansas, dunks the ball during the men’s basketball game against Adams State University Saturday night in the Chicoine Center.