The Eagle E-edition, Jan. 13, 2022

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Eagles lose their first game of the new year CSC men’s basketball team tries to comeback against Westminster and falls short

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NEWS >>

Student Senate starts election process

Students looking to join can pick up a petition in the Student Senate office Please see page 2

Ag & Range >>

CSC hosts Range Day presenters

Presentation topics included weedy plant species, alfalfa weevils, pollinators and past and future weather

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LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE - The Mari Sandoz statue faces Old Admin as students return to campus life for the spring semester Wednesday evening.

CSC women wrestlers win their first dual

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Chadron State’s women’s wrestling team returned to competitions after break with its first dual against Avila University, 19-15, Saturday.

“It was really exciting especially because we had talked about it all week that this is a dual that we can potentially win,” Alijah Jeffery, head

women’s wrestling coach, said. “It was nice to get that first dual win. It wasn’t expected this first season, so it was exciting.”

The newest addition to the squad, Ryleigh Dye, freshman of Queen Creek, Arizona, contributed to the team’s win by pinning her 143-pound opponent Kai Morrison, freshman of Atwood, Kansas, at 3:32 Kamila Montenegro, sophomore of Las Vegas, pinned No. 20 Raziyah Thomas, fresh-

man of Marshall, Montana, in 5:05 for the 191-weight class.

Karstin Hollen, freshman of Mesa, Arizona, won with a technical fall against Jessica Miller, freshman of Fenton, Montana, 10-0.

Along with Kinsey Smith, junior of Windsor, Colorado, taking points for a forfeit, the Eagles finished on top of the Avila Eagles.

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Student Senate starts election process

Social Science club sponsors events to honor MLK

 By Aubrie Lawrence

 By Aubrie Lawrence

Editor-in-Chief

During its first meeting of the semester, Student Senate announced the beginning of its spring election cycle.

Student Senate elections are being held earlier this year to give newly-elected senators and executive board members time to adjust to their new positions before the start of the fall semester, Chief Justice Nathan Cronin said during the Dec. 6 Student Senate meeting.

“It’s really hard to get what we do here going when we only have one meeting before summer break,” Cronin said.

Anyone who will be returning

to campus next semester is able to run for a position, except for a dorm senator position, or executive board position.

Students looking to run must pick up a petition located in the Student Senate office and collect 10 signatures from the constituents of that position.

Petitions are due to Cronin by Jan. 31. The final ballot will be sent to students at the end of February.

In other news: > Senator of High Rise Colton Brienza was sworn in as the new vice president of finance. > Student Senate allocated $15,000 to CAB for four free movie nights and four free bowling nights.

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To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr., the Social Science Club is sponsoring events starting Monday.

A march beginning at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Third and Main Street will kick off the week. The march will end at the CSC Student Center.

Following the march, lunch will be provided at noon in the Student Center Ballroom. Then at 1 p.m., there will be a student discussion panel in the Ballroom.

There will be no classes on Monday in recognition of the holiday. This is the third year CSC will recognize the national holiday.

On Tuesday, the Social Science Club will be co-sponsoring an open mic night with Sigma Tau Delta at 6 p.m. in the Student Center Amphitheater.

On Wednesday, there will be a book of the month presentation of “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead at 5 p.m. in the Student Center Ponderosa Room.

BRIEFS

Darold A. Newblom Foundation now accepting applications for 2022 scholarships and grants The Darold A. Newblom Foundation is now accepting applications from students living in Box Butte and Dawes Counties for scholarships and grants.

To receive an application, call Wally A. Seiler at (308) 760-4693. Applications must be submitted to the foundation’s Board of

Directors by March 31.

Scholarships and grants will be awarded in May. If you have any questions, call Seiler or mail to his home address, 1208 Laramie Ave., Alliance, 69301.

CSC Community Chorus rehearsals start today The CSC Community Chorus will be meeting for its first weekly rehearsal at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall, Room 126. All students and community members are welcome to join.

If you are unable to attend the first rehearsal but want to join or have questions, email Joel Schreuder at jschreuder@csc.edu.

Try out for CSC’s eSports team Eagle eSports hosts tryouts for competitive gaming.

CSC’s eSports team is looking for new members to compete in Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Smite, Rocket League, Rainbow Six Siege, Super Smash Bros, Fortnite and

Overwatch.

Tryouts are being held Jan. 16-20. Students that are intreseted in trying out can join the eSports discord https://discord.gg/ cyqj7QUDGD.

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CSC enrollment increases 5% during fall 2021 semester  By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

CSC saw a 5% enrollment increase in the fall 2021 semester, ignoring the trend of decreasing national undergraduate enrollment.

A report done by the Integrated Postsecondary Education System Data System (IPEDs) on Oct. 15, 2021, showed that CSC’s total enrollment had grown to 2,250 students during the fall semester.

In the fall of 2020, CSC’s total enrollment was 2,330 students.

“We have a Vice President for Enrollment Management, Tami Selby and an Associate

Vice President for Enrollment Management, Tara Hart who are making great progress in reviewing and revising our procedures and policies related to enrollment management,” President Randy Rhine said. “Their efforts combined with the addition of a new Director of Financial Aid, Anthony Morejon are making a positive difference in our recruitment, retention, and overall enrollment picture.”

CSC was not the only school in the Nebraska State College System (NSCS) that saw enrollment growth.

In total, state college enrollment grew to a total of 8,774 students, increasing by 7%.

According to the NSCS, this is the largest headcount since 2016.

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Sun, Earth, and Universe exhibit opens at Sandoz Center  By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

Starting Tuesday, the Mari Sandoz Center will host the interactive Sun, Earth, and Universe exhibition.

The exhibit is in collaboration with NASA and the National Informal STEM Network and will be at the Sandoz Center through mid-May. It is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to noon.

The Sandoz Center will be open from 10 a.m. to noon on Jan. 29, Feb. 12, March 19 and April 23 to provide special visiting hours for families unable to attend during the week.

The exhibit, which is tailored for families with children, allows kids to participate in hands-on activities while learning about space.

Some of the activities include exploring the surface of the Mars landscape play table with toy rovers and spacecraft; build and test spacecraft models with the tools needed to complete a NASA mission; and compare images that show the Sun at periods of high activity and periods of low activities.

Interactive components will be sanitized regularly and masks are not required.

People are also welcome to browse space-themed books and look at satellite images of Earth to see how humans have impacted the planet.

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veryone has had hard times or things to deal with in their life. That’s completely normal and OK. What’s not OK is deciding that your own issues or hard times are worse than anyone else’s experiences.

It’s OK to not understand what another person has went through and it’s okay to admit that someone had a harder time than you.

Empathy is an important skill to have.

I know that it might seem difficult to some people but that doesn’t mean they get a pass on being nice or considerate.

If you can’t empathize, you can always take the time to sit and listen.

And if you choose the sit and listen option sometimes it might be just being there for them and listening. If they are OK with you sharing your hard times too then go ahead.

It might make them feel more accepted or normal. It’s important to know when to share and when not to share.

Sometimes people just want to vent and need someone to listen.

Sometimes the person sharing wants someone to agree and have a common experience with.

Make sure you know what the person you’re listening to needs.

Otherwise you risk looking like you don’t really care about what they’re saying.

I know it may seem odd to ask what they want you to do at the beginning of a conversation.

However, doing so can help you be a better listener or friend.

Ask them if they want you to help solve the issue or just listen.

That will help you from making your friend more frustrated and help them feel like they’re being listened to.

No one that is frustrated and venting wants to hear how you

think their problem could be solved.

Even if you think it is a problem that could be easily solved the person venting might not be ready to hear about your solution.

For the times Velvet Jessen that they want someone to share with them it’s completely OK to talk with them about both of your experiences. But it’s not OK to switch the entire conversation towards you.

Especially if they came to you with a serious topic.

If it’s something serious sharing can be good but you might have to be careful about it. If you switch the conversation to you, you’re not really helping them.

It says - whether you want it to or not - that you don’t really

care. Which definitely isn’t going to make your friend feel better.

Sometimes the conversation switch is on accident. You try to share your experiences and accidentally talk a little to much but you can fix that if you’re aware of it.

After you realized you might have talked a little too much that when you say why you shared. You can easily just end with saying that you understand their issue because of your experience and then switch it back to them.

It might be awkward at first, but making sure that your friends feel heard can be really important.

I encourage you to try and work on your listening and empathy skills. It’s a skill that will transfer into many different parts of your life and it will always help in your relationships.

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“I was sad that she’s not going to be in random movies anymore.”

“I was disappointed she didn’t make it to her 100th birthday, she was so close.”

“I didn’t really know any of her movies or anything.”

“I thought it was really sad that she didn’t make it to her 100th birthday.”

“I only really knew her memes.”

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CSC hosts Range Day speakers u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Jeff Bradshaw, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln speaks during his presentation “Alfalfa Weevils: Positive vs. Negative Bugs” at Range Day, Jan. 12.

CSC hosted the Upper Niobrara White Natural Resource District (NRD) Range Day on Jan. 12 in the Student Center Ballroom.

Using funding from C.F. Coffee Gallery, The Bill and Virginia Coffee Family Foundation and the Nebraska Environmental trust, students and local agriculture producers were able to listen to four speakers.

The Panhandle Research Integration fot Discovery Education (P.R.I.D.E.) sponsored doughnuts and coffee that were available before the speakers began.

The presenters were able to speak either in person or over zoom if needed.

Chris Helzer, author of “The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States” and “Hidden Prairie: Photographing Life in One Square Meter” started off Range Day. His talk titled “The Good, Bad and Ugly of Weedy Plants” discusses weedy plants versus invasive plants.

Helzer runs a blog on prairie ecology and has published images and essays in NEBRASKAland Magazine and Wildflower Magazine.

Jeff Bradshaw, an entomologist from the University of

Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) spoke next about Alfalfa Weevils.

His presentation “Alfalfa Weevils: positive bugs vs. negative bugs” outlined the problems with alfalfa weevils and ways of controlling them.

Bradshaw has published several works regarding entomology and has received several awards from UNL. After a lunch in CSC’s Student Center Ballroom, Mike Klosterman, a wildlife biologist working with Pheasants Forever spoke about pollinators in his speech titled “Native Plants to Benefit Pollinators in Rangeland.”

Klosterman is a Farm Bill Biologist working in Sioux, Dawes, Sheridan, Box Butte, Scotts Bluff Banner, Morrill, Garden, Deuel, Cheyenne and Kimball counties.

The last speaker of the day was Don Day Jr., who spoke on current and future weather. Day Weather was created by Day to predict weather in Wyoming, Colorado and western Nebraska.

The company customized weather forecasts for different industries and plays on 80 radio stations.

In between speakers the Upper Niobrara White NRD provided two plant ID quizzes for students and producers to try to guess common plant species.

In between speakers, there were 15 minute breaks, which allowed local agriculture producers to be able to meet with the presenters. Students were also able to meet local producers and speak to the Upper Niobrara White NRD employees.

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Brooklyn Anderson, sophomore of Hastings and Rebekah Pobanz, senior of Grand Island laugh during one of the plant idenifications put on by the Upper Niobrara White Natural Resource Distirct during Range Day, Jan. 12.

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River otter season closes with 75 harvests u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

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Nebraska’s River otter pilot season ended Jan. 11 after the trapping of 75 otters.

The season opened on Nov. 1, 2021 with a season close trigger of 75 or an end date of Feb. 28.

Once the season trigger is hit the season closes three days later.

Otters in Nebraska must be harvested through trapping and reported to a Nebraska Game and Parks Commission office within 24 hours of the harvest. The harvester then has two business days to have the otter tagged.

Before setting traps each day, trappers must

call Game and Parks to ensure that the season close trigger has not been met.

Otters accidentally harvested after the season close must be released or turned over to Game and Parks.

In 1904, river otters were thought to be extinct in the state and were not seen again until 1977.

River otters were listed on the endangered species list in Nebraska in 1986. Game and Parks began reintroducing the species following the listing.

In January 2020, otters were delisted by Game and Parks Commission after biologists confirmed that the population was secure.

November 2021 marked the first river otter trapping season in the state.

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Chadron’s Jeslyn Jindra (bottom) wrestles Hastings College’s Amy Fuller in their 155-pound match Sunday at Lynn Farrell Arena in Hastings.

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CSC also faced No. 2 Umpqua Community College Saturday, but fell short, 42-7. The RiverHawks tallied up points with six forfeit wins.

Montenegro persevered in her match by pinning Aracely Rendon-Gomez earning the only points for CSC. On Sunday, the women wrestlers remained in Hastings for the Hastings College Open and had seven of eight wrestlers place by the end of the tournament.

Montenegro finished the weekend first in the 170-pound weight class after pinning two ranked wrestlers, No. 7 Sierra Taladge of University of Jamestown and Saturday’s competitor Thomas of Avila.

“She’s (Montenegro) been getting consistently better,” Jeffery said. “This has been her stron-

gest performance all year. She doesn’t lose confidence in herself and it’s at the right time.”

She also took two decision wins before taking her only loss of the day against Summer Mauk of Albion, being pinned in a little over a minute.

With a 2-1-day, Smith took third of five wrestlers in the 101 weight bracket after a technical fall win against no. 11 Malarie Dominguez of Waland Baptist, 10-0, followed by a decision win over No. 7 Violeta Evangelista of Umpqua, 12-4.

In the same weight bracket, Taylor Lindstrom, freshman of Rapid City, South Dakota, finished fourth after she pinned her first opponent and fell to her other two.

“There were definitely times during my matches I could have wrestled better and put myself in better potions,” Lindstrom said. “I

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wrestled well though, and I’m proud of myself and my teammates for placing.”

Dye finished fifth of 11 in the 143-weight class by pinning two of her opponents and beating her teammate Hollen with a technical fall, 10-0.

Behind Dye, Hollen finished in eighth, going 1-3 for the day, and Jeslyn Jindra, junior of Box Elder, South Dakota, was another Eagle to place in Hastings, finishing seventh at 155 pounds.

The Eagles cuurently plan to send a group to compete at the York College Open Saturday.

“It’s hardly a job when you have athletes that want to work every day and get better,” Jeffery said. “We are excited to see where we are at and how much we progressed from last week to this week.”

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Marcus Jefferson

Hometown: Las Vegas Class: Sophomore Sport: Wrestling

Hometown: Lewisville, Texas Class: Junior Sport: Basketball

Montenegro won six of her seven matches throughout the weekend in Hastings. She finished first in the 170-pound bracket during Sunday’s Hastings College Open, pinning two nationally ranked wrestlers and only taking one loss.

Jefferson led the Eagles with 16 points, and set his season high with four steals during Saturday night’s game against Westminster College. He made all three of his attempted free throws and was three of five from the arc.

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Eagles turnover a win u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

Chadron State’s men’s basketball team starts the new year off with a loss to Westminster College, despite attempts to comeback Saturday in Chicoine, 73-67.

“The reason why we had to comeback was because we had such a poor start in the first half,” Shane Paben, head men’s basketball coach, said. “We missed some key shots in the second half but if we only had five turnovers in the first half like we did the second half, we definitely would’ve won the game.”

By the end of the first half the Griffins outscored the Eagles, 43-22, but CSC returned to the court and closed the gap to six points four times against Westminster.

With 4:11 left of the game, CJ Jennings, senior of Colorado Springs, made a fastbreak layup to bring the score to 63-57.

Marcus Jefferson, junior of Lewisville, Texas, also brought the ball to the basket in another fast break, bringing the score gap back down to six with two and a half minutes left after Griffin Donaval Avila, freshman of Petal, Mississippi, made a jumper.

“We have talent to be a conference championship team,” Paben said. “We just have to figure out how to win games or, at least, force people to beat us instead of shooting ourselves in the foot.”

The Griffins quickly answered back after Jefferson’s basket with a three point-

er from Matt Kitzman, senior of Draper, Utah, in an attempt to extend their lead.

Following a steal from Teddy Parham, Jr., junior of Los Angeles, Jefferson was fouled at the arc with 36 seconds left and proceeded to make all three of his free throws.

After a series of free-throws made by Westminster, Parham closed out the night with a layup followed by a free throw to once more place the teams six points apart and set the ending score of the game.

“Coming out at the half, we wanted to increase the intensity and cut our turnovers,” Jefferson said. “Even though the end result wasn’t what we wanted, we made a positive strive in the right direction in the second half.”

Jefferson led the Eagles with 16 points, being five of 14 for field goals and three of five for three-pointers. He also set his season high with four steals during his 37 minutes of play.

KJ Harris, junior of McKinney, Texas, put 14 points up on the board, being 50% from the field goal range and three-point range, and leading the night with six assists.

The Eagles continue to Colorado for weekend games against Fort Lewis College at 7:30 p.m., Friday, and Western Colorado University at 7 p.m., Saturday.

“Our focus as a team is to put a whole game together and learn from our previous mistakes,” Jefferson said. “Also, play hard and give ourselves an opportunity to be victorious.”

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Marcus Jefferson (3), middle, junior of Lewisville, Texas, drives toward the basket against Matt Kitzman (2), left, senior of Draper, Utah, during Saturday’s game against Westminster College in the Chicoine Center.