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Fire pit project almost goes up in flames As senators grow tired of unanswered questions and high price tags, the fate of the project rests in student’s hands

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Big meat processors accused of profiteering A press briefing from the White House cites big meat producers for the rise in meat product cost in stores

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Eagles falter against a second-half surge Despite blocking five kicks and punts, CSC comes up short against Anglo State

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Chad Mikelson, senior of Julesburg, Colorado, pouts toward the referee after his receive attempt in the end zone was called incomplete during Saturday’s game against Angelo State University on Elliott Field at Don Beebe Stadium.

Justice Studies celebrate Constitution Day CSC Justice Studies plan a quiz and raffle to recognize the day before the holiday

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Constitution Day is celebrated each year on Sept.

17, which this year falls on Friday.

The reason for this is holiday is to pay tribute to the signing of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia on

Sept. 17, 1787.

This was when the fundamentals of our government were established.

To celebrate the holiday, the CSC Justice Studies is holding an event, 9 a.m. to noon, today, on the third floor of Old Admin.

Students are encouraged to test their knowledge of the constitution by participating in the quiz available for students. There will also be a raffle for prizes.

News Fire pit project almost goes up in flames

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 By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

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Above is an artist’s rendition of Lee Davies Architecture’s design of CSC’s proposed fire pit and gathering area.

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The ongoing plans to install a fire pit behind the Hub were almost burned to ashes when a senator suggested ending Student Senates involvement in the project at the weekly Monday meeting.

Sullivan Jones, senator of liberal arts, suggested that the project should be turned over to the administration because it was too expensive for the use of student funds. He said that, because the fire pit would be property of the school as soon as it is finished, that is should be a project funded by the school rather than students.

“This is a lot of money,” Jones said. “$140,000, it’s like they said, you could buy a house in Chadron for that price, and we’re going to spend that on a fire pit.”

Another concern Jones voiced was the lack of answers to questions regarding details like fuel.

“So, a lot of these questions that everyone is asking- and they’re good questions- have been asked before,” Jones said. “They’re the same questions, just different people. We’ve been working on this for years now and the problem is that no one’s taken it

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upon themselves to do anything about it. We need to focus our attention and our money on something that is truly going to benefit the students.”

Another big question that hasn’t been answered is who would be in charge of operating the fire pit.

The responsibility is likely to lie with RAs, as they are the ones in closest proximity to the project. Some senators believed that this would be too much of a burden, but Kelsey Crock, senator of EHPCPSW who is also the president of RLA, assured everyone that RAs are on board with the project.

“RA wise, I know 99%, I’m not going to say 100 because as I told you there’s no pleasing everyone, most of them are fine with adding that little bit of responsibility to it if it means improving student’s life on campus because that’s our whole job to keep people on campus,” Crock said.

Bryan Zutavern, senator of BMS, suggested a student town hall to have the questions answered and then let students vote on whether the project should continue rather the senate make the decision.

In an eight to four vote, the senators voted against halting the fire pit plans.

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When in doubt, the Food Pantry will help you out  By Teddy Parham Jr. Reporter

Thanks to funds by CSC’s Student Senate, the Shepard’s Pantry at Immanuel Lutheran Church, pizza coupons provided by Chadron’s Domino’s Pizza, and private donations, students in need of food essentials can pick up a prepackaged bag of food on campus for free.

This innovative idea was first piloted in Spring 2020 and served 100 students to address the needs of student’s health and food insecurity. Since then, the number of students has expanded and the need for more food has increased.

Each of these prepackaged bags offered by the food pantry includes three cans of vegetables, two cans of fruit, one can of spaghetti sauce, one package of spaghetti, one package of macaroni and cheese, one package of pasta or rice meal, one can of meat (tuna, chicken, or other meat), two cans of beans, three cans of soup, two packages of ramen, one jar of peanut butter and one box of cereal.

With the primary goal of the food pantry being to support learning, health, and retention, this free bag of food covers all bases.

“I think the Food Pantry has really grown in the past year

and a half,” Kate Pope, project coordinator, said. “We started out with a pop-up style pantry in the library with 50 pre-packaged bags, changed locations to the Student Center and started offering students the choice to make their own bag or take a pre-packaged bag, and now we are back in the library with those same options and the addition of fresh fruits and vegetables. We now are in a permanent location and have purchased a fridge to give us the ability to provide more fresh produce to our students.”

It is because of the students on campus that allows projects like this to thrive and become better at giving back to the community.

Due to COVID-19 last year, the pantry averaged about 80 students each month. However, that trend has disappeared as restrictions have lessened.

“For our first Food Pantry date this semester we had 130 students,” Pope said. “We’ve seen continual growth with the Food Pantry year over year, but I do expect that the numbers will level off.”

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The staff meet occasionally to discuss future opportunities such as offering more days of availability and more items to add to the pantry.

“I do ask the students different questions on the Food Pantry form each month to get their feedback on things we can do to improve so that guides our discussions,” Pope said. “Since the Food Pantry is a service for the students, I am very dependent on their feedback for the changes they would like to see made.”

If you have not felt your tummy growl already, make sure to head on over to King Library and grab yourself a bag full of love and essential food.

The next opening of the pantry will be Monday, Oct. 4, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 5, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

For more information, you can visit csc.edu/foodpantry and see more dates and times coming up this semester. For those dealing with COVID-19, the pantry also has contactless pick up available.

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n case you haven’t heard or noticed women’s reproductive rights are constantly being debated by government.

Laws about abortion and birth control are constantly being changed. The laws may vary state to state but none (yet) overrule the decision made by the supreme court on Roe v. Wade. For some reason these policies are what are undergoing change during a pandemic.

Texas is the latest of the states trying to change their abortion laws.

Under the new law, abortions would be banned as soon as a heartbeat can be detected and depends on the actions of private citizens to enforce its new law.

Less formally said: the law bans abortions a little over a month after a woman’s last period and wants their residents to take out lawsuits on anyone helping women who are seeking abortions.

Which means that the lawsuit can’t be taken out against a woman for having an abortion but anyone who helps including: a doctor, a friend who drives them to the clinic, a boyfriend who pays for half of the procedure, or even some poor Lyft driver who’s just helping them get to a clinic could be sued.

They wouldn’t be sued by the Texas government, they would be sued by their neighbors or any other Texas resident. In fact, the state

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encourages residents to turn in people helping women seeking abortions. $10,000 is waiting as an incentive for anyone who feels like turning in their friend, neighbor, enemy, or just some poor stranger for helping a woman exercise her reproductive right to an abortion.

This law is limiting enough as it is with a fetal heartbeat but the Velvet Jessen ability to sue anyone that might even be barely involved is insane.

It’s stripping a woman’s right to a safe abortion, because lets face it, even if this will lower the number of legal abortions, it’s not going to have the same affect on the total amount of abortions that are happening. That’s why abortion became legalized in the first place, because too many people were dying from unsafe abortions.

Let’s go back to the heartbeat part of the law.

A fetal heartbeat can usually be found around five or six weeks into a pregnancy, sometimes before the fetus even develops its heart. A month is about four or five weeks and a woman’s reproductive cycle is usually around a month.

That means if a woman has a longer cycle and has her period every five weeks she must assume that her period is not late and that she’s pregnant and get an abortion right away or she

will be forced to have a child. Or even if her period is on a four week cycle than if she waits a week to see if it’s just late and then discovers she is pregnant, she has one week to get an abortion if she so desires.

Abortions aren’t an easy decision either, sometimes it becomes a question of medical issues or a lack of funds or a ton of other reasons that usually aren’t settled in a weeks time.

However, I understand that some people just can’t understand abortions. I could never have one myself, but I recognize that not everyone sees it the same and they deserve to have the choice.

I ask for those who want to lower the amount of abortions to stop trying to restrict them.

Instead rally for better sex education, consent education, a reformed foster care and adoption system, more support for pregnant women, better prenatal care, and further prosecution for rapists.

If we do those things, the number of unplanned pregancies will go down, leading to less abortions plus better support for women who need it and the kids that we are forcing the women to have.

If the government must control women’s bodies, can we at least regulate men’s too?

As You Said It! We asked: How do you feel about the Texas abortion law?

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“No, I don’t agree with it.”

“It’s a woman’s body, she should be able to do what she wants with it.”

“Being a personal survivor, I feel we deserve to have the choice of what we do with our own bodies.”

“Truly, a girl should be able to do what she wants to. There shouldn’t be a time limit on decisions about your own body.”

“I think that it should be the mother of the child’s choice.”

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Is social media starting a class war? u By Adeline Beason Columnist

If you’ve spent any amount of time on social media, you have likely seen trendy phrases such as “Eat the rich” and “Topple the system” floating around. As more people get access to internet, information about America’s upper class is released, causing uproar.

On TikTok alone, there are over 500 million views on videos about Jeff Bezos alone.

Bezos, the billionaire CEO of Amazon, has come under fire for not paying livable wages, stifling small business and hurting the environment despite having more than enough money to stop global warming.

What’s more, Jeff Bezos is not alone.

Other billionaires are also taking advantage of their workers and polluting the planet for profit.

Young people are getting angry.

Calls for change echo around the internet, some of them gaining quite a bit of popularity. ‘Eat the rich’ is now commonly used by middle and lower-class workers to expose the huge gap between themselves and the ‘one percent’; who exploits them?

Could this be the start of a class war?

Although communism is still considered taboo, there is enough outrage to spark real tension between Americans. This outrage is also in part of the ‘Blue Wave’; or the rise of liberalism in young voters.

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Adeline Beason Since the majority of Generation Z voted for President Joe Biden, it feels like our voices have been heard. Even more, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently wore a gown with the phrase ‘TAX THE RICH’ to the MetGala, arguably one of the

biggest displays We are tired of wealth of the of working year. The tide is multiple minturning in the imum-wage common man’s jobs just to stay favor. afloat.

However, if It is time such a war is to to take back happen, who our liberties will fight in it? from a govWhat will be the ernment that outcome? cares more More than about the few

- Adeline Beason likely, it will than the many. look like reform, There is now a taxes and breakbigger auing up monopolies such as Ama- dience than ever to push back zon and Disney. against the billionaires that opSocial media users are calling press us and destroy our planet. on the Anti-Trust Act to keep giIf we are truly getting ready to ant companies from controlling ‘Eat the rich’ and start a class war, the economy and plummeting the internet is on our side. quality of life.

“It is time to take back our liberties from a government that cares more about the few than the many. ”

Student Senate wants to burn up your money u By Sullivan Jones Guest Columnist

The CSC Student Senate receives, from the students, about $200,000 each academic year.

Senate can do whatever they wish with that money – they can spend it on the most ridiculous event or the greatest idea.

Senators have for years debated using those student funds for construction of a fire pit on campus.

The most recent proposal for this project will cost students up to $158,500.

As of now, Senate already spent $4,000 for architectural renderings of the fire pit and plans to hear input from students about the project details before proceeding.

As a liberal arts senator, I have

an obligation to share the full details – disclosed and undisclosed – with students of this campus before we take any more of your money for the project.

First, the fire pit will not be easily accessible to all students: located just south of The Hub, Edna and Eagle Ridge residents will be forced to walk across campus to have any access. Off-campus students will have to drive across town and subject themselves to restrictive campus rules to use the pit.

All users will then be required to ask permission from RAs or campus security before using the fire pit; which begs the question, why should students have to ask permission from staff to use something they paid for and supposedly have control over?

Well, this fire pit will not ac-

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tually be student property; upon receipt of senate paying for the project, CSC administration will necessarily gain full ownership rights of the fire pit. Essentially, Student Senate will be donating the $158,500 dollar project to the school.

Second, that high cost should frustrate any frugal-minded indi-

vidual; it’s a shame to see young adults wasting money like our larger taxpayer funded governments.

Indeed, there are certain costs associated with constructing a new project, but this is a measly fire pit. For the price, I could buy a nice house in Chadron and have money left over to invite the whole class over for smores in my backyard.

There are other alternatives to the fire pit that would distribute money across campus to impact more students. For example, lets put a few propane grills at each residence hall (I hear you can get one for under $200 at Walmart); let’s put some smaller propane fire pits along with those grills – and while we’re at it; let’s add some hot dogs, buns and smores to our school food pantry!

When Student Government is working to make campus a better place for all students, they’re doing their job; unfortunately, some on senate are instead worried about “leaving their mark on campus.”

They should be more concerned with leaving a mark within student minds that campus was a fun, enjoyable place for them.

These larger projects are neat ideas, but they steal too much time, money and attention from Student Senate’s agenda: Working to make campus better for all students.

It’s time to ask your senator to turn the remaining project over to CSC administration, who will eventually own the project anyways.

Tell Student Senate that our campus doesn’t need the expensive fire pit.

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ZAK gets groovy with flower power

Photos by Adeline Beason

ABOVE: Natalie Boyd, 21, senior of Stratton takes a selfie in a flower crown at the Zeta Alpha Kappa flower crown making event, Tuesday, during the sororities’ Rush week.

RIGHT: William Atnip, 22, senior of Lander, Wyoming, glues flowers together at the Zeta Alpha Kappa flower crown event, Tuesday, during the sororities’ Rush week.

Student Senate swears in two senators  By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

Only two senate seats remain after Student Senate swore in two new senators at its weekly Monday meeting.

Cooper Reichman, junior of Chappell, was sworn in as a PSAS senator.

“I like to help people so that’s kinda why I’m applying,” Reichman said. “I like to be involved on campus because Chadron’s pretty great.”

Meghan Hodgeson, freshman, was sworn in

to fill the last liberal arts senator position.

The only two vacant positions remaining are the Edna and Eagle Ridge dorm senators.

In other news: > Student Senate moved to take money from the general fund and reimburse this year’s trip fund for the $6,100 request from Chief Justice Nathan Cronin for the Constitutional Court’s trip to Washington, D.C. The request was made last semester and would have been using this semester’s trip fund rather than last years. > Student Senate has $180,405 unallocated.

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Story & pho Amanda Filipi, Game and Parks Commission education specialist drops a white-footed mouse into a bag of orange tracking powder, Saturday at Chadron State Park.

Above: A white-footed mouse covered in orange tracking dust runs after being released Saturday at Chadron State Park.

Right: Cedar Frink, 5, daughter of CSC professor Teresa Frink, holds up a white-footed mouse at the Bioblitz at Chadron State Park, Saturday.

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white-footed mouse or deer mouse, was recorded.

Two of the mice that were caught were covered in neon orange tracking powder to help biologist track the mice.

During the plant demonstration, participants led by Spiess identified both native and nonnative plant species.

“I learned about the different grasses and other vegetation in our area,” Johansen said. “Being from around an area of just fields, there isn’t much for natural plant life to know about.”

Amanda Filipi, Game and Parks outdoor education specialist also attended the events.

“I enjoy getting people outside and discovering what is in their own backyards,” Filipi said. “I think it’s important because we get to connect researchers and experts to folks who may be just starting to learn what is in their backyards.”

Top Left: Savannah Solon, junior of Kadoka South Dakota, Peyton Johansen, 21, junior of Utica and Jonathan Spiess, CSC assistant professor identify grass species at Chadron State Park, Saturday.

Top right: A praying mantis perches on a piece of grass at Chadron State Park, Saturday.

Left: Savannah Solon, junior of Kadoka South Dakota explains how to identify different grass species based on leaves and nodes.

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FSA offers new incentives for CRP landowners u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

Beef carcasses hanging from racks in a walk in cooler at Table Top Meats in Hemingford, Sept. 8.

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White House accuses top US meat processors of ‘pandemic profiteering’ u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

In press briefing last week the Biden administration caused an uproar among the country’s top “big meat” producers, when it accused them of profiteering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the Sept. 8 briefing Department Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack accompanied by National Economic Council Director Brian Deese made the claim while announcing the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to lower grocery store prices of meat products.

During the briefing Deese referred to “pandemic profiteering” of large companies, as being one of the leading factors in increased grocery store prices.

The ‘Big Meat’ business has four major companies Tyson Foods, Springdale, Arkansas; National Beef Packing, Co., Kansas City, Missouri; Cargill Meat Solutions, Wayzata, Minnesota; and JBS Foods, Greeley, Colorado.

Those four companies process over 80% of U.S.-produced beef, according to the USDA. Tyson says it owns a packing plant in North Platte that processes over 6,000 beef carcasses per day.

In the briefing Deese claimed that the top four companies are reaching record high gross margins, without increasing the amount of money paid to the ranchers producing the live animals.

After the press briefing, Tyson released a statement claiming that increased prices are due to an oversupply of live cattle and a decrease in labor availability.

“Multiple, unprecedented market shocks, including a global pandemic and severe weather conditions, led to an unexpected and drastic drop in meat processors’ abilities to operate at full capacity,” Tyson’s press release stated. “This led to an oversupply of live cattle and an undersupply of beef, while demand for beef products was at an all-time high. So, as a result, the price for cattle fell, while the price for beef rose. Today, prices paid to cattle producers are rising.”

In July, Vilsack announced a $500 million plan to help increase competition in the meat-packing industry.

In that release Vilsack outlined a four step plan starting with an increase in regulations in the Packers and Stockyard Act. The second step is to increase the transparency of average pricing in the market. The third step is to increase price transparency in grocery stores.

The final step is to increase the number of and processing capacity of small meat packing plants.

It isn’t pheasant under glass, but the Farm Service Agency is offering CRP landowenrs tasty new incentives to boost their pheasant populations.

In an effort to help pheasant populations and other wildlife the Conservation Reserve Program is offering extra income to its panhandle participants.

Areas of the panhandle deemed ‘Pheasant Opportunity Areas” may apply for the extra funding, in one of two ways.

The first is for a five year contract for the Open Fields-and Waters Program which makes land owners eligible for $40 per acre and $10 per acre for the term of the agreement.

If participating in this program, participants must allow for their land to be open for hunting.

The second option is for landowners who do not want to have hunters to have access to their land, these landowners

can still receive $25 an acre. This only applies to lands that are no further than one mile from open hunting lands.

Open hunting lands include Open Field and Waters program land, wildlife management areas and U.S. Forest service lands.

Landowners will receive a wildlife habitat plan that is specific to their land, they may be required to seed parts of the land or make other changes.

“We may ask that you add native grasses and forbs to the property. If you have a stand of cool season grasses,” Shelly Steffl, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission private lands biologist said in a Game and Parks press release.

“Perhaps you add a herbicide treatment to help set back the grasses and allow for better establishment of those plantings,” she said. “In providing these incentives, we hope to help landowners offset the upfront costs necessary to establish or maintain their CRP while helping to provide quality habitat for wildlife.”

Fall turkey season opens u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

Wild turkey season opened Wednesday and closes Jan. 31, 2022, with each permit allowing hunters to take two turkeys.

Statewide, fees cost $8 for youth permits, $16.50 for resident landowner permits, $65.50 for non-resident landowner permits, $30 for general resident turkey permits and $128 for general non-resident permits.

Two turkeys of either sex can be killed per permit, which can be purchased online at https://ngpc-home.ne.gov/ or at a Nebraska Game and Parks Commission office.

More information on turkey hunting in Nebraska and information of public lands access can be found on the Game and Parks website at outdoornebraska.gov/publicaccessatlas.

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An old tractor sits in a field in the Collins Family Farm in Alliance in July, 2020.

NDA receives behavioral analysis grant

u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

A grant of $500,000 has been received by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture to aid with behavioral health assistance for the state’s agriculturists.

The money will be distributed over the next year from Sept. 1-Aug. 31, 2022 in the form of vouchers from the Nebraska Rural Response Hotline, with help from Legal Aid of Nebraska.

The Rural Response Hotline has been running for 35 years since its creation by the Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska in 1984.

Agriculturalists who are experiencing hardship and want to seek mental health help can call the Rural Response Hotline at 800-464-0258.

After calling the hotline, participants will speak to staff members who will refer them to services or people that might help them, including counselors, attorneys or financial offices.

If necessary, participants will receive a voucher which al-

lows for one free hour of counseling at participating offices, when used within 30 days of receiving it.

According to the Rural Health Information Hub, agriculturists have limited access to health services, including mental health.

Agriculturists have a unique set of stressors, according to the American Psychological Association, including weather related stressors, COVID-19, family pressures and economic failure.

Farming and ranching can be difficult because of the uncertainty of the job, changing weather patterns, droughts, flooding, tornadoes and fires can all cause damage to land and crops. Financial fluctuation also causes stress to agriculturists who are unable to predict how much money they will make each year.

A survey done by American Farm Bureau Association, showed that the reasons that farmers don’t access mental health is because of a lack of mental health facilities in the area, embarrassment, treatment costs and lack of mental health awareness.

The study also showed that agriculturists were more likely to talk to primary care doctors, family friends, religious leaders and family members.

A study done by Andrea Bjornestad, Courtney Cuthbertson and Jessie Hendricks, published this year by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, showed that Midwestern farmers had an increased risk of suicide.

It also showed that suicide risk in agriculturists is rooted in self-blame for issues and problems that occur on the land.

Self-blame was categorized by the study as being beneficial for farmers not struggling with mental health and being a significant factor for those who were.

Two suicidal pathways were identified by the study, acute situational and protracted. Protracted refers to long-term mental disorders while acute applies to changing issues like financial difficulty and relationship issues.

In farming communities, men are more likely to attempt suicide, however, in the general population women are more likely to attempt suicide.

Overall, the study found that farmers were at an increased risk for suicide and mental health issues.

Contact Rural Response Hotline at 800-464-0258, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 800-273-8255 or 911 in emergencies for assistance with mental health or suicidal ideation.

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Throwers are working it out

Northrup begins the hiring process for a new throwing coach by submitting a job proposal but the position is estimated to remain vacant for a month or longer u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

Ethan Rich, former assistant track and field coach, officially finished his time at Chadron State Sept. 10, after resigning on Sept. 1.

“We preach team here; we preach family first,” Rich said. “We preach it to our kids (student-athletes). If they have something going on family wise, we want them to be there. We want them to support their family.”

Rich is stepping down from the throwing coach position due to family issues and he’s going home to help his family.

“I love CSC, I love the kids.” Rich said.

“They’re a great group of kids and I wish them the best and I know they’re going to do a great job this year. But I got to do what’s best for my family, unfortunately.”

Currently, the coaching position remains vacant, but Head Track and Field Coach Riley Northrup has started the steps to hire for the position by submitting a job proposal as soon as he could.

The department will still hire for another full-time throwing coach, but the process will take some time.

“That’s what I’m trying to get them (student-athletes) to understand, this is out of our hands,” Northrup said. “I’m going to try to do it as fast as I possibly can, but also we want to get somebody good so we’re going to do it the right way.”

The process starts with the job description proposal going through a series of approvals from Northrup’s supervisor and the administra-

Ethan Rich tive line. Once approved, the job can be posted but must remain online for 10 days before interview scheduling can begin.

Interviews are set up to accommodate where applicants are coming from and how long it’ll take them to get to Chadron, and after the interviews each applicant is evaluated. Northrup will submit a recommendation for hire and when the job is accepted, the person is given a reasonable amount of time to pack and move into town before beginning their job.

“In a really good scenario, it’s probably realistically a month,” Northrup said. “It’s going to take me a month probably before I can get somebody here.”

Colorado Mesa University and Black Hills State University are also advertising for similar positions, but it’s not just at CSC or in the RMAC. On the U.S. Track & Field and Cross-Country Coach Association (USTFCCCA) website, there

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is a number of jobs posted that need to be filled.

“Unfortunately, what happens is the snowball starts rolling at the top of the hill,” Northrup said.

He explained that if a coach at a highly coveted school decides to leave in May, people will move from one location to another. That trickle down process ends up extending into the fall before people actually stop moving around.

Northrup said he’s reassuring his athletes that they have plenty of time, even if they’re worried about practicing on their own for a month, they have months before competing starts. They should be training and throwing but there shouldn’t be too much pressure put onto the situation.

“We have good leadership that has been in the program,” Northrup said. “They’re experienced. They know the process of training and getting prepared to throw things far, follow them. Let them guide you (freshman) through the next month until we get someone in here that can actually organize everything.”

Northrup isn’t worried about the situation, but he thinks the most important piece is to be receptive and respectful to what the new coach says and does because there’s going to be things that student-athletes are going to like, dislike and be neutral to.

Northrup said that younger student-athletes, specifically freshman, will likely watch how the upperclassmen respond to the new coach and if they are rude or just negative, it’ll trickle down and the feelings will be shared.

“That’s just what we’re trying to avoid happening,” he said. “Trust that I went through my process to hire somebody that I know would do a good job in coaching you guys.”

Tayle Brink

Hometown: Florence, Alabama Class: Senior Sport: Football

Hometown: Reva, South Dakota Class: Senior Sport: Rodeo

Jones was announced as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Special Teams Player of the Week.

He made a 45-yard field goal for his career high, and made all three of his point-after-touchdown attempts, totaling six points throughout the game.

Brink placed in three of her events during the Shawn Dubie Memorial Rodeo, the first of the fall season. She finished third in breakaway roping at 4.6 seconds, fourth in barrel racing at 18.23 seconds, and 12th in goat tying at 9.5 seconds.

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Rylee Greiman, junior of Windsor, Colorado, passes a ball thrown to her during a volleyball practice drill, Monday, Aug. 23 in the Chicoine Center.

CSC battle against tough competition Eagles golf through bad shots

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Kenzey Kanno, sophomore of Mitchell, lines up her shot for a putt while she returns her golf ball to the green during golf practice, Sunday, Aug. 29, at Ridgeview Country Club.

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The Eagles try to weather the Storm.

The Eagles pushed to finish out their weekend on a higher note than it started by taking on the Storm in their final match during the Rosella Meier UNK Fall Classic in Kearney.

“I think just inconsistencies in our overall play is where we really fell short and then also just our ability to play competitively at a high level throughout the entire weekend,” Head Volleyball Coach Jennifer Stadler said.

With a second set win, CSC kept pushing against Southern Nazarene but they were unable to push the game to a fifth, losing in four sets: 21-25, 25-23, 21-25, 22-25 “Pre-season gives you an opportunity to kind of get some reps in and get to see where you are at, things that you need to work on,” Stadler said. “I think our focus just needs to be on getting our offense going and getting our offense consistent.”

Audrey Bennett, freshman of Lenexa, Kansas, made a strong mark during the match against the Storm, recording five blocks, 16 assists and eight digs. Throughout the weekend, Bennett totaled 29 assists, 22 digs and an ace serve.

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By the end of the two days, each golfer shot three 18-hole rounds.

Chadron State finished 11th after 54 holes with a score card of 329-324340-993.

The Eagles had finished their first round of their season in ninth of 19 teams, holding 328 strokes after the first 18 holes.

“We just didn’t meet our expectations that we had set for ourselves,” Head Women’s Golf Coach John Ritzen said. “But it’s still early in the year and we’ll bounce back and play well moving forward. I don’t really know why but we just didn’t seem to have it this weekend.”

Despite the struggles, Kenzey Kanno, sophomore of Michell, remained under 80 strokes through the first two rounds, with 79 strokes for both. Finishing out the third round and leading the Eagles, Kanno finished 21st, scoring 81 in the third round and a

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total of 239. remained “We have close to what so many great she was avgolfers on our eraging last team and we year. are so com“When we petitive with had a couple each that we of bad holes, push each we just lost other each our confiday to be betdence and - John Ritzen ter, so to be kind of let it head women’s golf coach able to lead snowball,” Ritthis team is zen said. “We a big accomjust have to p l i s h m e n t ,” stay confident Kanno said. and understand that some bad shots After the first round, Alpine Hick- will happen throughout the round.” stein, junior of Chadron, tied at 10th The Eagles will travel to Rapid with 79 strokes. Following the end City, South Dakota, for their next of the tournament, she finished with tournament, the Hardrocker Invite 243 strokes, scoring 80 in the second starting at 9 a.m., Monday. round and 84 in the third.

“That’s our closest competition Allison Acosta, sophomore of Oro of the year because we don’t host a Valley, Arizona, competed as an in- home tournament,” Ritzen said. “So, dividual and was the Eagle with the the girls are excited to have some third lowest score at 84-85-82-251, of their friends be able to come and and finished tied for 59th. Her score watch them.”

“We just have to stay confident and understand that some bad shots will happen throughout the round.”

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For their Friday matches, the Eagles took back-to-back loses, both in three sets. Against, West Texas A&M, they lost the sets 16-25, 15-25 and 11-25. Following that evening, they faced UNK Lopers and were trampled, 9-25, 17-25 and 8-25.

“This weekend, we didn’t play very well as a team even though we did some great things,” Olivia Moten-Schell, sophomore of Billings, Montana, said. “We have all the pieces we just need to put the puzzle together.”

Moten-Schell remained persistent throughout the weekend, leading all three games in kills for the Eagles. She finished with 20 total kills through the three games, three aces and five digs.

While against UNK, Devyn Volz, junior of Parker, Colorado, was the only Eagle to serve aces with two. Throughout the weekend, Volz also totaled 15 digs and led the Eagles with 32 assists.

For CSC, Micaiah Vrbka, junior of Brainard, blocked the most attacks with 10 over the three games, five of which were against Southern Nazarene University.

“She’s (Vrbka) progressively been getting better every year that she’s been in our program,” Stadler said. “She’s come in every day since a freshman really working to get better technically. Now she’s at the point where she’s seeing all that hard work pay off and is continuing to work hard when she’s in the games.”

In the libero jersey, Rylee Greiman, junior of Windsor, Colorado, dug up more than ten attacks each game with a total of 36 digs. Greiman also assisted with two set and served three ace serves.

CSC will hit the road again to play Adams State University, 7 p.m., Friday in Alamosa, Colorado. The following game will be in Las Vegas, at 3 p.m., Saturday against New Mexico Highlands.

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Rylee Naprstek, freshman of Gothenburg, throws her lasso to rope a calf during rodeo practice, Wednesday, Sept. 1 in the outdoor arena at the Rangeland Complex.

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To start out its season, Chadron State’s rodeo team swept the arena in breakaway roping, with three Eagles taking first, third and fourth at the Shawn Dubie Memorial Rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

“We have a good mix of underclassmen and upperclassmen,” Tayle Brink, senior of Reva, South Dakota, said. “The upperclassmen give the underclassmen advice while the underclassmen fuel us upperclassmen’s fire to get better.”

To take the breakaway roping prize, Brianna Williams, senior of Buffalo, South Dakota, took first, being the only roper to mark a less than four second time at 3.9 seconds.

Behind Williams was Brink in third and Sierra Lee, junior of

Rhame, North Dakota, in fourth.

Brink roped at 4.6 seconds and Lee was marked at 4.7 seconds.

Brink finished well in other events throughout the weekend, taking fourth in barrel racing at 18.23 seconds and 12th in goat tying at 9.5 seconds.

“At this point in my life, most of my skills are muscle memory,” Brink said. “Yes, I work on them every day, but for me, most of my competition is in my mind.”

The horse that Brink ran in the barrels had her knees reconstructed about two years ago, and after this weekend, Brink can tell that her horse is back and feeling the best.

In the barrels, Shailey McAbee and Williams finished sixth and 12th respectively. McAbee was timed at 18.42 seconds while Williams was tenths of seconds behind at 18.76 seconds.

“We’re just wiping the rust off and looking to do really good and the home rodeo,” Head Rodeo Coach Dustin Luper said.

For the men’s, Clancy Clifford, senior of Porcupine, South Dakota, finished fifth with 30 points in bareback riding.

In steer wrestling, Seth Shorb, senior of Hermosa, South Dakota, took eighth, taking down his steer at 8.7 seconds.

Many CSC rodeo student-athletes had strong runs but finished just short of the second go-round.

CSC will host its next competition at the Dawes County Fairgrounds, starting at 7 p.m., Friday.

“It’s a lot of work to host a home rodeo but I think the kids do enjoy it,” Luper said. “They get to protect their home territory. They seem to find a little more triumph and we’ve always done real well at our home rodeo.”

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years and that was the great feelings I’ve had playing the game,” Brehmer said. “I feel blessed Sports Editor to be able to be one of those statistics in a dominant special teams’ game.”

Jeremiah Makahununiu, senior of Sioux CSC’s special teams blocked two field goals Falls, South Dakota, led the Eagles with eight in the first half, but the Eagles couldn’t fend off a solo and eight assisted tackles for a total of 16. late Angelo State University surge, losing 28-24, He also recorded two sacks for a loss of nine Saturday at Elliott Field. total yards.

“The special teams really dominated the Gunnar Jones, senior of Florence, Alabama, coached three individual national wrestling programs; closest prou By” Mackenzie game, Head FootballDahlberg Coach Jay Long said. “I kicked a 45-yard field goal which was histhe career 8:20 a.m.

U.S. Mountain Time, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021 champions and 12 All-Americans in the gram is Colorado Mesa. was really happy with our special teams, and high and the longest successful field goal atIt’s so important for Sports Editor 2020-21 women’s wrestling season. this region a women’s something we need to lean on as a team as the tempt by a CSC kicker“Giving since 2014.

He made all “I think it’s very apparent that womwrestling program and building it wrestling in general to season goes on.” three extra point attempts, earning six points in DAN, Chadron State welcomes new en’s wrestling is growing rapidly,” Jeffery a program that can compete for CSC had multiple chancesato take back the the game andwas into announced as Rocky Mounaccept girls and women addition its athletics’ program, said. “For so long, girls had to wrestle top finishes in the nation and produce lead withto under ten minutes remaining in the tain Athletic Conference Special Teams Player women’s wrestling, and with it comes against the boys; that was really the only All-Americans and National champions game but failed to convert on two red-zone of the Week. wrestling.

Just for college Please call me at 308-430-1492 and let me know: adrives, new coach. option. Now, girls get the opportunity eventually, ” Jeff ery said. one set up by a blocked punt from BrenDalton Holst, graduate of Gillette, Wyoathletics, it really shows College announced to wrestle in their own division and Jeffery has beenyards working a.Chadron If this State isjunior what were for. completed 16 throws dan Brehmer, of you Alliance, that looking placed ming, for 159 and to recruit June 17 that women’s wrestling would for state championships and for the program with the short time the Eagles around the any ten-yard line with under two touchdown passes. colors.

The longest throw of b.added If you changes to anything, including what the sport is growing compete be to itshave athletics’ program. national championships.” frame he was given, with the start of eight minutes remaining. the game was a 72-yard pass to Montel GladJeffery CSC now sponsors 14 sports, eight of inAlijah Before his coaching careers, he the season being this year. into and what the next Brehmer’s punt block was one of two the ney, junior of Flowood, Mississippi, which lead which are women’s sports. competed collegiately at NCAA Divi“Recruiting has been different than second half. to one of the team’s touchdowns.

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Following announcesion I Northern Illinois University and everCity, hadSouth to do before,” The Eagles behind held thethat Rams to just six points Cole Thurness,anything senior ofI’ve Rapid mdk ment came another, Friday, Aug. 6, to announce the new Jeff ery said.

“It’s been a challenge, but in the first half, but its offense faltered in the Dakota, was the leading receiver with six catch- Head Coach Alijah Jeffery remained on the starting lineup all four program’s head coach, Alijah years. second.

ASU outscored CSC Jeff 21-0ery. when they es for 37 yards. it’s been a great and fun challenge.”

“I’ve been littlequarters. over a month and everyone’s been At Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Thof e wrestlers he has been searching returned to thehere finalatwo Elijah Myles, junior Hawthorne, Califorsuper friendly, ” Jeff ery said.

“All the coaches and staff have Iowa, he wrestled and won a state chamfor are athletes that can establish them“Angelo State is ranked 22nd in the country nia, attempted 17 rushes with net yards of 29 beenI think willing to help andisshow me here.

It’s a touchdown pionship at 120 pounds in 2014, and he selves as leaders in zone. their first year, that and their defense one of thehow topthings in the run and rushed into the end nice to be a part of the family. ” to theplaying face of in thefront program country, ” Long said.

“WeChadron found some things “It was great tocan be be back of and that can be the leaders that finished third, third and fifth in his other three high school The in women’s willsecond be released soon, at Elliotthe seasons. incoming freshman can look up to for the following years. exploit the firstwrestling half and schedule then in the everybody Field, ” Brehmer said. “Playsince they will begin competing this year as a winter sport.

He was also a USA Folkstyle national champion and a “It’ll be a small team, but we’ll be ready to go to some half, we didn’t exploit them as well. We had two ing at home just adds so much energy to our “Thdowns is first year, I really to help establish game Chadron Fargo Freestyle Nationals All-American. opens, compete fourth that we didn’twant convert on. Those and to our sideline.

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“For to come, this Brehwill really a staple” and women wrestling,” Jeffery said. “Just for college athletics, Jeffery had two years of experience as an assistant coach with onethe of years the blocked punts, onbe Saturday.

Photo by and Mackenzie for women’s especially in the region. it really shows what the sport is growing into what Dahlberg the both the and men’s wrestling program at Indian mer recordedwrestling, 10 total tackles, five solo and five ” The Eagles will for be playing forwomen’s the Eagle-Rock Nebraska currently doesn’t have any other NCAA women’s steps hands are.” off the football to Jeydon Cox, redshirt freshman of HillsDakota Community in Centerville, Iowa. ere, he of Gillette,next Dalton Holst, right,Th graduate Wyoming, assisted.

Trophy against South SchoolCollege of Mines Jackson, Wyoming, against Angelo State University, Saturday on Elliott Field at Don Beebe Stadium.

“I’ve been playing football now for about 13 at 6:30 p.m., Saturday on Elliott Field.

Jeffery joins the Eagles coaching staff as head women’s wrestling coach and brings his own coaching and competing experiences from the mat

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