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CSC faculty reflects on 9/11, 20 years later Please see pages 8-9 Semper veritas

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Students rush to enjoy B&Js in their PJs An ice cream RLA event runs out of the sweet treat before its official start time

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AG & RANGE >>

USMARC researches water pathogens

Scientist Elaine Berry answers questions on her research with waterfowl and livestock use of water sources Please see page 11

SPORTS >>

Volleyball team fights through the weekend

The Eagles play four weekend games, sit fifth in the RMAC with a 2-2 record

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Clayton Krause, owner of Table Top Meats teaches Chad McPeak, junior of Valentine, how to measure the area of a ribeye on a beef carcass, Tuesday.

Rich leaves Eagles without a throwing coach

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u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

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

Ethan Rich

Citing personal reasons, CSC assistant track coach Ethan Rich quit effective Sept. 2, leaving the team without a throwing coach.

A call to Rich Wednesday evening for comment went unanswered.

“We were told that he’s leaving and that we have no coach and no plan for hiring a coach,” A team member who spoke only on condition of anonymity said. “The

earliest we might have someone could be a month from now.”

The source said that the four throwing co-captains would be in charge until a coach is found.

The four co-captains include: Jordyn Spencer, senior of Loveland, Colorado; Shane Collins, junior of Bison, South Dakota; Courtney Smith, junior of Rock Springs, Wyoming; and Rebecca Monahan, junior of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

According to the source, other RMAC teams have been struggling to hire throwing coaches including Colorado Mesa University and Black Hills State University.

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Someone holds a pint of Ben & Jerry’s “Pistachio Pistachio” ice cream in their hand while deciding what flavor they wanted during RLA’s B&Js in your PJs Tuesday night in the Hub.

RLA event faces some rocky road u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Staff Editor

B.Y.O.P. Bring your own pint.

B&Js in your PJs received a lot of student traffic Tuesday night as they arrived at the HUB for a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

“Well, after having a year of hardly having any programs because of COVID, we just wanted to offer the students an opportunity to gather together, enjoy ice cream together, enjoy music and games.” RA Alexis Heller, 21, senior of Wisner, said. “To just interact with each other again.”

Photo by Mackenzie Dahlberg

Kelcie Van Anne, 20, junior of Dalton, enjoys her pint of ice cream while dressed in a cow onesie during RLA’s B&Js in your PJs Tuesday night in the Hub.

The event was scheduled to begin at 9 p.m., but the resident advisors running the event decided to open the doors a little early. The line for signing into the event was throughout the Breezeway as people waited to get their pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

Heller wasn’t expecting the turn out that they ended up getting, hoping to get rid of a hundred pints before 11:30 p.m.

The RAs were told originally to plan for 50 people. They ended up planning for 70, buying extra to make it a hundred and were still unable to make it to their original start time before all the pints of ice cream were claimed.

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BRIEFS

Home game tickets for volleyball, football and rodeo are now avalible online Chadron State College football, rodeo and volleyball home, single-game tickets are now purchaseable online.

The home rodeo will take place Sept.

17-19, tickets are $6 each day.

There are nine home volleyball games.

Tickets are $13 reserved seating, $9 for

adults and $8 for children and seniors.

Tickets for the five home football games are $16 for reserved seating, $13 for adults and $9 for children and seniors.

To purchase tickets see chadroneagles.com/tickets.

Tickets for Chancey Williams concert available Country singer-songwriter Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band are making their way to Chadron. He will be performing at the Dawes County Fairground on Saturday, Sept. 18. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the concert begins at 8:30 p.m.

The concert will start after the home rodeo, which starts Friday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m.

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Tickets for the general public are available for $25, students and falculty get in free. Bags (backpacks, drawstrings, duffel bags), purses, and outside food or drink are not allowed.

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Champion wheelchair bodybuilder to speak Sept. 21 u From CSC Public Relations Chadron State College students enrolled in Survival Skills 101 (FYI 169x) will host author and speaker Nick Scott, Sept. 21 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.

His presentation, Igniting the Fire Within, is designed to inspire audience members to follow their dreams and become the best they can be.

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“The biggest question people ask me is, ‘If you could go back, would you take it back and not be in the wheelchair?’ and the answer is simple,” Scott said. “No, I wouldn’t take it back because the day of my accident I realized I was given a gift, a second chance at life. Focus on what you can do versus what you can’t do.”

He said it took him many years to accept himself and be OK with the results of the accident.

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Kids born post 9/11 learn your bias I

was four months old when the Twin Towers fell. I don’t remember a single thing that happened.

According to my mom, she had just dropped me off at daycare and was settling in for a day at work when she found out.

Sometime during the day, my dad picked me up from daycare and spent the entire day with his eyes glued to the screen.

“I can still see you sitting in your activity saucer like it was yesterday,” she said to me. She even has photos of me from that day. She told me that, even though the day meant nothing to me at the time, she knew that it would in the future.

And of course she was right, I don’t remember any of that. All I know is what other people have told me and what we learned in school, which is the common experience for anyone under the age of 25.

Growing up, 9/11 was always a day of absolute dread. In middle school the girls used to joke that we needed to wear our waterproof mascara that day because we knew we were going to cry. Of course, the boys would always tell us to toughen up.

But still, there would always be people who would skip school because they didn’t

want to watch the videos of terrorism in American history since people jumping out of a buildPearl Harbor by showing them videos ing. of that day long before they could From elementary school really process what was happening. all the way to high school, we And I guess there are good and bad spent every anniversary of things about that. watching news clips, listening For one, I can tell you just about to voicemails sent by people on anything regarding that day. I’ve the planes and the list of names heard far too many stories to count of everyone who was lost, and and when I went to visit the 9/11 reading first-hand accounts of memorial in 2016, I could feel the Aubrie Lawrence people who were in New York. weight of that day on my shoulders.

That was all we did all day, regardless of But at the same time, I have become the class. completely numb to the pain of world-alterIt wasn’t until high school that they ing events. That might also have something stopped making us recount that day in to do with just how many traumatizing vivid detail. But by then, the memories had events in the United States that I’ve seen in already been burned into my mind and the my short life, but the memories I have from deep seed of resentment had already been learning about 9/11 definitely contribute to buried in the hearts of many of my classthat. mates.

While I remember the patriotism of The day after Osama bin Laden was those that rescued people and fought in killed, I remember many of my classmates Middle East and the lives lost in the attack, rejoicing and cheering for the United States.

I will always see the terror that was experiWe were only 11. enced that day first. And I’m sure if you were In retrospect, I realize how traumatizing to ask anyone who was there that day and all of that sounds. We really educated chilhad to experience it all first-hand, that is the dren about one of the most horrific acts of last thing they would want us to remember.

As You Said It! We asked: How did your school expose or teach you about 9/11?

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Madison Korte 20, Junior, Alliance “Growing up in a conservative town it would always be a super important day. We would dedicate the whole day to honoring 9/11.”

Tejaun Hale 18, Freshman, Oakland, California

Olivia Newton 20, Junior, Rapid City, South Dakota

Kyle Mcintosh 19, Freshman, Brooksville, Florida

Kueliesha Vega 19, Freshman, Stockton, California

“We did some research on it and looked at pictures and videos.”

“We always took a moment of silence at school and I have a family military background so we took it very serious.”

“In class, they’d make announcements and read us articles and we’d give a moment of silence.”

“We always took a moment of silence.”

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As We See It

Rations for Afghan refugees fleeing our war u By Velvet Jessen Opinion Editor

It all starts 20 years ago, tragedy struck the U.S., the Twin Towers were hit and the nation was shocked.

We then went to war and that war made sense at first. We did what we went there to do and dismantled a terrorist organization.

Those are things we could be proud of and I understand. It’s the fact that we stayed there after we did those things.

I had never understood it at all until recently, and even now it feels too much of a mess to comprehend. The explanation that has made the most sense to me, was what I think is the truth.

We went there with good inten-

tions but then we were too scared to leave.

We spent 20 years in a war solving and creating our own issues. We should have left after we got rid of al-Qaida, but we didn’t, we stayed for years after because we were too scared of the mess we made in the name of revenge.

Now we left and it’s a giant mess. It could have and should have been handled smoother but we can’t go back on it now.

We are out of Afghanistan.

The process has been messy and I agree that the government should face some criticism on how this was handled. But we shouldn’t pin our frustrations on the people fleeing a hostile country.

I recently saw a post by an Afghan refugee, in the post it showed a picture the rations that he was being given at a military base in

Velvet Jessen Texas where he was staying.

The comments on the post were insane to me, people were mad that he posted about the rations. The man who posted it said “Not complaining but this is what I got last night for dinner and the next meal is 12 hours later”.

The comments weren’t half as

nice as what a man with an empty stomach posted.

Knowing about the discourse that has happened over immigration in the U.S. I shouldn’t have been surprised but I was.

The comment section tore this man apart and called him ungrateful amongst other things. Very few people had sympathy for a man who had literally fled his country.

Afghans didn’t ask for our war but they are the ones uprooted from their homes and country. I understand the frustration towards our government, but the hate that people are redirecting is disgusting.

He was concerned about how so little food was going to last him for 12 hours, and was giving a perspective on the life that afghan refugees are facing now.

The frustration and sadness over the recent deaths and attacks

are valid but taking it out on a man who just wants the right to live under a democracy is not.

If I were fed a very small proportion once every 12 hours I’d be concerned too and so would most of the people in that comment section. So why did those people think it was okay to tell this man that he should go back to his country if he doesn’t like it here.

Complaining is how things change, people talk about what they dislike about the government everyday. Refugees are now at the mercy of the people taking care of them, its their human right to talk about their experiences, whether it’s complaining or not.

I’m so tired of the apathy of ass***** just because you aren’t suffering what another person is doesn’t mean that other person’s problems don’t exist.

You may hate us but we still have love for you u By Kamryn Kozisek Staff editor

We often hear as Generation Z that we are too “soft”, that our feelings get hurt too easily. I can’t even count how many Facebook posts I see where older generations are talking about how much they dislike Gen Z. They don’t like how often we are on phones (but you can’t get most of them off Facebook), they don’t like how we won’t call over a server at a restaurant or how a lot of our generation is focused on humanitarian issues instead of economics.

Well, some might see it as bad, I think its time to look at it in a new light, that instead of soft we are just empathetic.

We care more about a stranger more than ourselves.

I will tip even the worst of servers

and the thought of not, bothers me. I hate when my older family members talk about how bad service is while we are still in the business.

I don’t want other people to feel bad, even if some would say it is well deserved.

Is it really a bad thing that I don’t want someone else to feel bad about something that seems so minuscule and was nothing more than an inconvenience?

In high school I traveled a lot, I would fundraise for these trips and then travel with other students and teachers.

One of the biggest culture shocks, being from rural Wyoming, was the homeless populations around the world.

When we (The other students and I) saw these people struggling and begging for money, we gave it to them. Our teachers were often ap-

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palled and would tell us not to waste our money.

Why is it that helping someone else was suddenly bad when they teach empathy in the classroom?

Another good example happened a week ago to me and two of my friends. We were on our way to Rapid City when the car in front of us suddenly slammed on their breaks to

take a sudden turn.

One of the trikes behind us was able to stop but the trike behind her, struck her from behind.

Both bikers were thrown off, we stopped as did many other people, including the car in front of us.

Once people realized that everyone was alive (mind you, one of the bikers was still on the ground unable to move), they all left, they had lives to live I suppose.

In the end, the only people who stayed were us, three college kids.

We were the only ones who offered to help move the trikes or help them with whatever they needed.

We stayed until the end; we were there for well over an hour.

Once we got in the car, we all talked about how we never could have felt ok leaving, even if we had not been directly in front of them.

None of us would have been ok

with not staying until emergency services arrived.

I’ve seen, even college students that barely have money to eat, donate money to those in need.

We tip $10 on a $20 ticket and we don’t ask for things if it means someone else will have to go out of their way.

Well, these are just some personal examples, I find that most people in Gen Z believe that nothing is more important than a stranger.

We have seen the struggles of past generations, the great depression, the holocaust, the civil rights movement and want to ensure that people will not suffer like that again.

There isn’t many people in this world I wouldn’t be willing to take a bullet for.

We aren’t soft, we just want a world where people are more important than power, money or ourselves.

Lifestyles Escape into the mysterious reality of “Caraval” u By Katelyn Gomez Contributor

“Welcome, welcome to Caraval!

The grandest show on land or by sea.

Inside you’ll experience more wonders than most people see in a lifetime. You can sip magic from a cup and buy dreams in a bottle. But before you fully enter into our world, you must remember it’s all a game.”

Truly a game indeed! Stephanie Garber’s’ novel Caraval takes you upon the journey of a lifetime. Just when you think you might understand the story, the plot, and the characters, the world shifts beneath your feet.

A tale of definite twists, turns, revenge plots, and betrayals.

Welcome to a land of magic and hoaxes, of mystery doors and tunnels, of flowing fountains and moving castles! Just like its characters in the story, the truth is never what it seems.

As the reader you must determine, untangle, and search behind layers of illusions to find the truth of a single moment, a single day or maybe even a single week for time works differently in a land full of games. Experience a world where your very eyes can fool you, your every word can hurt you, and your every action can lead you more and more into a mind of mental madness.

Garber’s story demands the justification of choices. The choice between exchanging a single day of life for the discovery of truth, trading fears for fortunes of the near future, and even

sharing blood for tales of the past. It allows readers to question how far they would be willing to go to win a game? Then again, can a game every truly be just a game if the game is life itself? Discover a maze of clues, death, enchanted dresses, foods, and books.

Dive into Garber’s creation of a tale of justice, freedom, love, and most importantly secrecy. Get to know the tales of Legend, the unseen leader of Caraval, the man bestowed magic like the gods by a witch for the woman he loves in exchange for his soul. Marcello Dragna, the Governor of The Conquered Isle of Trisda, father of the two Dragna girls, a murderer and power hungry monster, the man who lives to torture those around him. Count Nicolas d’Arcy, a man of complete mystery hiding behind words in letters, promising a life of freedom and safety.

Donatella, the youngest Dragna sister with fire in her blood, rebellion in her eyes, spirit in her soul and a plan to die like no other. Julian, a man with a tricky past, a tricky future, and a tricky family, a man with a difficult choice to make.

And lastly, the main character Scarlett Dragna. The girl on a mission.

The girl who will make you question the very essence of this make believe world. The girl who has only ever seen the world through the experiences of childhood bedtime stories.

I said it once and I will say it again welcome to Caraval. Remember it is only a game… unless it is not.

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“The Princess Bride” has only gotten better with time u By Velvet Jessen Staff Editor

It seems inconcievable that anyone hasn’t seen ‘The Princess Bride’ but in case you haven’t spoiler alert: It’s fantastic. The first time I watched ‘The Princess Bride’ I was 7 I liked it then and it has only gotten better to me with time.

In the movie you can see a giant, a sassy swordsman, a short man with a god complex(not that you can’t find that in real life), a six fingered man, a prissy king-tobe, a pirate, ‘rodents of unusual size’ (if you believe in them) and a doesn’t-want-to-be princess all in one spot. With all these unusual and interesting characters the movie is full of the hilarious quotes that anyone with good taste in movies will immediately get.

The movie’s title may make it seem like some sappy chick flic but it’s anything but to me. In the opening scene we see a sick little boy complaining about his grandpa coming over right before his grandpa opens the door and comes in. The little boy and the grandpa make jokes at each other the entire movie and narrate the story of ‘The Princess Bride’ for the audience. The story is full of sarcasm and jokes that younger viewers won’t get until they’re much older. When I rewatched the movie a couple days ago I found more jokes that I completely missed all the other

times I’ve watched. And trust me I’ve watched it a lot. ‘The Princess Bride’ is simply a movie that won’t get old, the jokes just keep being funny.

The movie doesn’t rely on race, religion, disability, or really anything problematic to make a joke and that is part of what makes it so good. The characters have enough personality and sass that they don’t need to rely on shock value to be funny. The princess bride is a movie you can safely watch when you’re around younger siblings but you’ll be able to actually enjoy it. The jokes will still be funny to them just not in the same depth as they might for an older audience. Its really a movie you can watch with anyone: your grandma, check; your little siblings, check; your college best friends, absolutely check. It creates the perfect Mawiage of adult comedy and children’s movies.

Expect to be quoting things from this movie for weeks after you’ve watched it with your friends because it won’t get old. Just hope they forget the monologue from the wedding scene by the time your marriage comes along if you don’t want their speech done in an awful accent.

Overall the princess bride is a movie I can’t find faults in. If there are any faults I’d put bets on the idea that you’ll be enjoying the movie too much to care or notice. If you don’t believe me feel free to watch it yourself and try to prove me wrong. I’d find it truly inconcievable that you could.

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The morning news echoed softly off the walls, emanating from the radio to keep the silence out but not really being listened to during morning routines. CSC Art Professor, Mary Donahue, rode to work that 9/11 morning like any other normal day. When she stepped into her Utah State University office complex, it greeted her with abandoned desks.

“It was eerie,” she said.

She stumbled upon coworkers gathered in a conference room, watching the television news and what was happening in Manhattan.

“It was hard to get anything done the rest of the day; so much unease and uncertainty,” Donahue said.

Kids today should know that it changed everything, she said. It made fear, anxiety and suspicion part of daily life. It changed how we travel and move through public spaces and placed the U.S. on a path of war and destruction in the Middle East. It affected all lives.

“It is hard to believe it has been 20 years because the memory of that day is so vivid,” Donahue said. “I wish more thought, care and concern for

Twenty years ago on 9/11, a 25 year old Jonathan Rovner was pulling a 12-hour shift at a KFC in Denver when two planes crashed into the Twin Towers. He listened on a radio at first, until someone brought in a small portable television to watch the tragedy unfold.

To Rovner the day was “surreal and terrible and exciting.”

It started as just another day when he had to go into work but ended in what he said felt like “feeling the weight of history” for the first time in his life. The event certainly did go down in history, and according Rovner, it felt and still feels like a “pivot in recent American history.” He added, however, that he isn’t sure what we’ve pivoted to 20 years afterward in what he said feels like “another era.”

“If we as a nation learn anything from the 20 year ‘War on Terror,’ I hope that in the future we never again declare war on an abstract noun,” he said.

Mary Donahue Professor, Art

Jonathan Rovner Assistant Professor, English

Randy Rhine CSC President

Justin Curtis was 11 years old and living in Arizona when the World Trade Center was attacked Sept. 11, 2001. When he was getting ready for school, the first tower had already been hit. By the time he reached school, the second tower had been hit.

The day was somewhat normal, Curtis said, but he was still very aware of the world-changing events taking place. He went to school and, unlike many other classrooms around the nation, his was not shown the live news

Justin Curtis Asst. Professor, Social Sciences

On Sept. 11, 2001, Randy Rhine, then the dean of the college of professional studies at Montana State University, Billings, was having breakfast with several other deans when he first saw the news. Early reports stated the towers were on fire.

Nothing about a terrorist attack.

“By the time I got back to campus, and I went by the chancellor’s office, they had a TV on, and we actually saw the second plane hit the second tower,” Rhine said. “That was a very unnerving moment.”

Later that day when the towers fell, Rhine said he was in complete shock.

“I had been to the Trade Center a number of times and been up on the observation deck a number of times,” he said. “It was kind of a thing; we’d go to New York, and we’d always go to the World Trade Center and watch the planes. It was a very unsettling time.”

Now, after America has spent 20 years fighting the war on terrorism, not much has changed. But Rhine said he believes that even though the world is still full of hardships, it’s important for young people never to lose hope.

“There will always be conflict in the world and unfortunately sometimes that conflict leads to horrendous acts,” he said. “I think it’s important for all of us to strive to create a world and a space where those things aren’t necessary. So don’t give up hope, there is always hope.”

Vignettes by Aubrie Lawrence, Mackenzie Dahlberg and Velvet Jessen

memorate the horrific events that took 2,996 lives, we asked faculty to reflect on what they were doing that day, and how they see the impact of those events 20 years later.

his Saturday marks 20 years since the World Trade Center was attacked by Islamic extrem ists.

In the years since, there has been a lot of destruction, patriotism and anguish. To com-

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Editor’s Note: We interviewed eight faculty members. Because of space and time constraints, we were unable to include them all within this spread.

journalism.

He was hosting faculty colleagues for a weekly poker game that started at 7 p.m. At 7:15 p.m. no one had showed and Kennedy said he wondered what was wrong. A moment later one of the players, a Canadian colleague who resided on the eighth floor, knocked on his door and blurted, “Did you hear what happened?”

“No,” Kennedy replied.

“Someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center,” his friend said.

With poker night canceled, Kennedy turned on the television and the two sat watching the events unfold in New York.

“It was a tough night. But the next day was a little tougher,” Kennedy said. “I was worried about two things. My Arabic students and friends.

“I worked with many Arabic faculty members and every one of them came up and apologized. ‘This is not Islam’ they said, and I knew that. You had to be ignorant to believe this extremism is what Islam is about.”

It wasn’t just his colleagues Kennedy worried about.

“I was tense that day. I was feeling anger. But I had to make sure that my students knew I wasn’t angry with them. It was hard not to convey because I was angry, but I wasn’t not angry with them.”

The events surrounding The U.S.’s involvement in Afghanistan over the past 20 years have been a double-edged sword for him, he said. He recalled the day Osama bin Laden was killed.

“Osama bin Laden needed to go and to this day I see nothing wrong with the way we took him out,” Kennedy said. But he added that he was troubled with the way Americans, particularly young Americans, celebrated his death.

“Hearing crowds of young people chanting ‘USA!’ ‘USA!’ as if we had just won a major sporting event, was troubling, uncomfortable for me.”

That action was way too serious to be trivialized by athletic chants.”

Kennedy said those troubled feelings surfaced last month with the United States’ exit from Afghanistan.

In January of 2002 during semester break at Zayed University, Kennedy spent two weeks photographically documenting living conditions among Afghan refugee camps in the tribal region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. In June 2002, he spent a month in Kabul where, among several things, he attended and documeted Hamid Karzai’s innauguration as the country’s first president after the U.S. drove the Taliban out of the capital.

During both excursions he became close friends with two Afghan journalists, both of whom escaped from Afghanistan just last week and arrived in the U.S. this past Saturday.

“I am glad they got out,” he said. “But the whole exit was a cluster...,” Kennedy cut his words, then added, “well you know what comes next. It should’ve been planned better. Did we need to get out? Yeah, we’ve been there for 20 years. Longer than any other war in our history. And why? For what? We’re not going to change a foreign country’s culture. There was no reason for us to be there that long. We had good reason to be there after 9/11. But once we got rid of bin Laden, we should’ve started thinking, ‘we need to move on and move on now.’”

When the Twin Towers fell in New York, it was 5 p.m. that Sept. 11, 2001, evening in the Dubai coffee shop where Michael D. Kennedy was sipping on a cup of java between bites of his apple pastry. Unaware of what was happening stateside, Kennedy spent the next hour and a half relaxing, unwinding from a day of classes and meetings at Zayed University, an all-women’s institution in the United Arab Emirates where he taught

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the future had been put into the decisions made after 9/11.”

Donahue added that we needed to disentangle from Afghanistan, but the evacuation last month could have been executed better with more time and planning. Better decisions should have been made years ago, so we weren’t so involved there. If we wouldn’t have been involved, then there wouldn’t have been so many American and Afghani lives lost and countries destroyed.

“I am torn about it all,” Donahue said. “It’s all so sad and I wish humans would learn to be kind to each other.”

Josh Ellis Assoc. Professor, Family & Consumer Sciences On Sept. 11, 2001, the morning started as usual for Josh Ellis - a rush to get ready for work while making sure a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old were ready for daycare and school. Neither his television nor his radio were on, normal amid his daily morning chaos.

After he delivered his morning lecture at National American University in Rapid City, South Dakota, Ellis noticed a bunch of students huddled around the small television in the student lounge.

Then he watched the planes collide into the towers.

Shortly after, he received a call from his school to pick up his 5-yearold - all the schools were going into lockdown due to uncertainty. That uncertainty kept everybody glued to the television throughout the day, trying to figure out what, how and why it happened.

“I realized it last year, when I had class on the 19th anniversary of it and I realized most of the students in my class weren’t alive at that time or were very young,” Ellis said. “That’s when it struck me that it was a long time ago, but it just seems like yesterday.”

Since 9/11, Ellis has made several trips to the memorial at Ground Zero.

“The monument in Manhattan is neat to see,” he said. “It still holds a very solemn atmosphere in the area, even after 20 years. It’s still very quiet at the monument, almost like a cemetery.”

Ellis said that kids should know that after the attacks, the country was closer together, which seems to happen in similar situations. It drew people closer together, especially in Manhattan and people appreciated their loved ones more.

But he said he respects people’s positions today about the U.S. entering Afghanistan in 2001 contrasted against the debacle of America’s departure last month.

He said people he knows who served over there feel like it was a waste of their time, while others feel like they did their best while they were there, given what they had to work with.

“But I don’t know if we were ever going to make any positive gains there,” Ellis said. “Twenty years is a long time. There was a lot of money and a lot of time, quite a few lives that were lost there, too.”

coverage of the events unfolding in New York.

“I was either too young or my teacher decided not to do that, I don’t know why, but we didn’t do it,” Curtis said. “It was kinda just a normal day, but it definitely didn’t feel normal. Everyone knew what the World Trade Center was, had an image of the Twin Towers, and so we all understood that this famous image of New York was different all of a sudden.”

However, the formative event that stood out in Curtis’ mind happened a few days later when an employee at a convenience store down the block was murdered in retribution for the 9/11 events because he looked like a Muslim.

The victim, a man, was a Sikh from India.

“For me, for some reason, maybe because of the proximity, maybe because of even at a young age, I recognized how irrational that was. That was the moment that stuck in my head,” Curtis said. “I remember after 9/11 that feeling of unity and patriotism and putting flags in places they had not been. But I also remember an immediate sense of fear, conflict, terror, xenophobia, Islamaphobia, I don’t know exactly what to call it.

“The combination of those two things were extremely formative for me,” he said. “It informed my interest in world politics, which is what I do today.”

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To meet the grade, they grade the meat Table Top Meats in Hemmingford, serves up lessons in quality and yield carcass grading.

Owner Clayton Krause is helping teach students alongside Agriculture & Rangeland Management Professor Ron Bolze.

“I think that one of the problems with our industry is the not knowing,” Krause said. “I think its really good advocation for the industry to have these kids here. They go back and tell their friends what they learned here, and it just spreads.”

Bolze has been taking this class out to Table Top Meats every other fall since 2015.

The class goes every Tuesday afternoon for the first four weeks of the semester.

The students travel to Table Top Meats to help

ABOVE: Beef carcasses hang from a freezer ceiling at Table Top Meats, Hemingford.

RIGHT: Clayton Krause, owner of Table Top Meats, Hemingford, explains how to evaluate a sheep carcass, Tuesday.

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them see things in action and be able to apply the things that they are learning about in class to actual carcasses.

“My favorite part of this class is the hands-on learning,” Jancy Marks, junior from Culbertson said. “It is a lot easier to see things done in real life than just to learn about it.”

The course description for the class states “Evaluation of the relationship of form to function of domestic animals for superior production. Various types, classes, grades, and breeds of livestock will be studied.”

Following that desciption the students are learning about live animals and animal carcasses.

During this class the students learn how to grade meat and how to calculate yield grade. The students were able to see how professionals’ grade and practice measuring themselves.

“I like learning how to quality grade and yield grade,” Savannah Solon, junior from Kadoka, South Dakota said.

“Its something I’ve always wanted to do. This will help us with our future operations, so we know how to look at our animals and know how they might grade.”

Clayton Krause of Table Top Meats, Hemingford, uses a transparent chart Tuesday to measure rib-eye areas of beef carcasses.

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Waterfowl, like this flock, interact with livestock at waterways accross the state. Wildlife and waterfowl carry pathogens that could later spread to livestock through waterways.

USMARC investigates water pathogens u By Alexa Johnson USDA Communication Specialist Hello everyone, Alexa here! In this article I will share another interesting detail of the USDA ARS, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC). You may remember that USMARC originally served as the Naval Ammunition Depot in World War II and the Korean Conflict. One result from the munitions manufacturing activities is a plume of groundwater directly below the Center that is contaminated with chemicals used to make the ammunition. To clean up these residual chemicals, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed a Water Reuse Project in 2013 which placed a water treatment system at USMARC to begin the cleanup process.

The Army Corps of Engineers estimates that 50% of the treated water returns to the aquifer, 10% evaporates and the final 40% makes its way through the series of pools where it is stored in a 200-acre lake. The lake is used to control extreme rain events and also for livestock and irrigation, and is used by wildlife. There are nine grade control structures on the seven-mile long stream that create the pools and slow the water to recharge the aquifer. The pools are designed to hold water in the area for maximum storage and aquifer recharge but can be lowered or drained as needed to allow for extreme rain events or other needs of the Center.

Now, after the completion of the Water Reuse Project with all the grade control structures and their holding pools, the waterway contains water along its entire length throughout the year.

The presence of more water has attracted a much larger variety of

wildlife, and in particular many more migrating waterfowl (ducks, geese, and white pelicans) and other water birds. This waterway, running through the heart of the 35,000-acre USMARC livestock production environment, provides a unique resource for preharvest food safety research.

At USMARC, scientist Dr. Elaine Berry conducts research to monitor how beef cattle production and wildlife interact with the waterway.

I asked Elaine a few questions to help us all better understand her important work.

Elaine, what are the main goals for your research and how does the waterway fit in?

The overall objective of my research is to reduce the risk of human foodborne illness by developing strategies that can be used to reduce transmission of disease-causing bacteria (pathogens) from livestock production or wildlife to food, water, and the environment. These pathogens naturally occur in the environment and the source could be wildlife or animals raised for food. Reducing cattle exposure to pathogens is important to achieving reduced risk of foodborne illness, and here is where the waterway is important to the research.

Sounds interesting! Can migratory waterfowl affect the prevalence of pathogens in cattle?

That is one question that this research is asking. With the waterway full of water, we now have a natural laboratory that reflects the same circumstances that many farmers and ranchers have on their lands. This allows us to study ways to reduce transmission risk when livestock production interacts with wildlife. Ducks and geese are carriers of a wide variety of pathogens, and these migratory species are considered high risk for spreading them along migration routes. This region of Nebraska and the USMARC are located in the bottleneck portion of the Central Flyway, and large flocks of these waterfowl visit lagoons and other surface water in our area during fall and spring migration. However, the research isn’t just about waterfowl, but also other wild animals and birds.

The cattle rarely have access to the waterway, but other wild animals and birds do, and these animals may expose other cattle in the production environment.

What samples do you collect and what are you looking for in them?

We collect water samples from the waterway, and fresh feces and scat samples from the animals. We analyze these for the presence of three pathogenic bacteria species that are common in wildlife and the environment, that can also commonly be carried by cattle, and could cause foodborne illness in humans. We compare the DNA fingerprints of the pathogens we find in the waterfowl, other wildlife, cattle, and the environment to see how these pathogens move naturally through cattle production environments.

Because this waterway and the USMARC combine to create a natural “laboratory” that mimics commercial cattle production, we can study these real problems that cattle producers and feeders face in their own operations. USMARC cattle are monitored daily for signs of disease and treated by our veterinarians if needed.

In addition, all of our animal handlers receive biosafety training that provides them with the knowledge and tools to protect themselves from potential exposures and to prevent the spread of diseases from sick animals to healthy animals.

A natural laboratory, that is great! How are you using it to solve food safety problems?

We are using the USMARC and the waterway to identify the potential sources, routes, risks, and other factors that can affect the transmission of these pathogens into the human food chain.

Understanding these factors and identifying the important targets are critical steps in developing preharvest food safety strategies to reduce the transmission of these pathogens to cattle, and thereby reduce the risk of foodborne illness. Having this natural laboratory helps the USMARC to develop effective solutions to solve high priority problems for the U.S. livestock industry and safe meat products for U.S. consumers.

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Ignorance doesn’t equal loyalty u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

Yes, I know the reason why the Vikings are purple is because if you spent more than 50 years choking, you’d be purple too. At some point in time, like the purple people eaters from 1968 to about 1978, the Minnesota Vikings (National Football League) were actually considered good before I was born and have been struggling since.

I know that the Minnesota Twins (Major League Baseball) currently hold a 61-77 record, sitting fifth in the American League Central division or that the Minnesota Timberwolves (National Basketball Association) have only been to the playoffs nine times of their 32 seasons.

While the closest the Minnesota Wild’s has been to the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Finals was losing the Western Conference Finals in 2003, since their original team, Minnesota North Stars, who lost the Stanley Cup Finals in 1981 and 1991, were moved down to Dallas in 1993.

The only quality professional team Minnesota has is the Minnesota Lynx for the Women’s National Basketball Association. They have won four championships: 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, while also appearing in the final round in 2012 and 2016. But since Maya Moore went on hiatus in 2018, the Lynx have hit a rough patch.

But those things won’t change the fact that I’m a loyal Minnesota fan.

First, don’t judge me on my favorite sports teams because I grew up watching them, both

Mackenzie Dahlberg on television and in the stadiums/arenas.

Second, much like Husker fans and their feelings, being a devoted fan of Minnesota and watching them succeed will be much more satisfying than flipping from one team to another all because of good seasons.

No team knows loyalty like a Minnesota team, but there is a difference between loyalty and ignorance, which brings me to my issues of Husker football fans.

My problem isn’t people being fans of Huskers; I’ve never had a problem with how people enjoy watching sports, especially when their other teams are doing well.

There are some fans who I tolerate because they have same views as I do when it comes to my Minnesota teams. Those fans I even learn to respect because, even though professional and college football are two different levels, that unwavering fan loyalty can be difficult sometimes.

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My problem is when I run into fans who are ignorant.

They are the ones who constantly believe that the Huskers are good and “their record just doesn’t show it.”

No, sweetie, but four losses in a row does show it, especially with their record.

There is nothing wrong with admitting to a bad season; just admit that they aren’t good right now.

They might have been sometime before, but the last few years have been rough.

Believe me, it’s difficult to admit, I know.

Minnesota hasn’t been good in most athletics for a while, but I don’t pretend like they are the best in the league.

I have the Minnesota Mantra down, “there’s always next year.” I’m already saying it for the Minnesota Twins, and I have been for a few weeks now.

I’m not trying to discredit loyal fans, because I know what it’s like to be one and to have hope for a good season. But if they aren’t good once the season really starts rolling, don’t pretend.

Keep in mind that this doesn’t only apply to Husker fans just because they were the team I focused on. I only noticed my issues with some Husker fans because I’m not one in the state of Nebraska.

This applies to any fan of any team or sport.

I know that their sitting 1-1 right now. I know that it’s only their second game and things can change. I know all those fun sayings.

But if the end of the season rolls around, and Husker’s football has a record of 2-10, please just adopt “there’s always next year” mantra.

For your own sake and mine.

Amelia Berg

Hometown: Sheridan, Wyoming Class: Senior Sport: Cross-country

Hometown: Fort Collins, Colorado Class: Senior Sport: Volleyball

Avery ran the second-fastest time of a CSC athlete at the Hardrocker Cross-Country Classic Meet since 2017 at 27:21.78. He finished 14th place of 40 runners and was the first Eagle to finish the race for the team’s first meet of the season.

Berg was one of two CSC volleyball players named to the Steel City Showcase All-Tournament Team, after earning 2.88 points per set with 41 kills. She also recorded six blocks and an ace serve to help split the weekend’s matches, 2-2.

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Chadron State Eagles huddle up before one of their weekend games during the Steel City Showcase in Pueblo, Colorado.

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Audrey Bennett, freshman of Lenexa, Kansas, saves the ball from going into the net during Friday’s evening game against University of Minnesota-Crookston, during the Steel City Showcase in Pueblo, Colorado.

The Eagles withstood their opening weekend of competitions, splitting their four games.

Chadron State finished Friday and Saturday, with a win and a loss each day, in the Steel City Showcase in Pueblo, Colorado. As of Sept. 8, Chadron State holds a record of 2-2 and sit fifth in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

“I’m happy that we came away with a couple wins,” Head Volleyball Coach Jennifer Stadler said. “We were just hoping to learn a lot about ourselves over the weekend and compete.

I think we did a good job with both of those.”

Friday morning started the Eagles’ games, first playing University of Mary of Bismarck, North Dakota, and lost, 2-3. CSC took the first two sets, 25-14 and 25-23, but were unable to finish the match as Mary took the final three sets: 19-25, 19-25 and 14-16.

Chadron State earned 58 kills for a hitting average of .165 to Mary’s 54 kills and .190 hitting average.

In their second Friday match, the Eagles swept University of Minnesota-Crookston in three sets, all 25-17.

Chadron State finished with a .275 hitting average, 37 kills and 11 aces, while Minnesota-Crookston average .134 with 31 kills and one ace.

“I obviously would’ve hoped for a 4-0 weekend, we have all the tools that we could need to win.” Amelia Berg, senior of Fort Collins, Colorado, said. “We were able to work out our kinks and find things that are pri-

orities to work on which is great.”

The momentum from the Eagles’ win continued into Saturday for their three-set win over Fort Hays State College: 25-21, 25-17, 25-16.

Both teams recorded 34 kills, but Chadron State came out on top with eight aces to the Tigers’ two, 11 blocks to four, and a hitting average of .237 to the Tigers’ .077 average.

Against Rollins College, Chadron State were pushed to another five-set game, winning the first and third sets but taking the loss by the end of the fifth: 25-22, 21-25, 25-18, 22-25 and 8-15.

The Eagles finished their last game with a .049 hitting average to Rollins’ .085. Chadron State had 43 kills to Rollins’ 46, and Rollins outnumber CSC for aces, 11 to eight. The Eagles took the blocks though with 11 to Rollins’ nine.

“We had some really great moments, some really consistent moments and also some non-consistent moment,” Stadler said. “Overall, we did a really good job of battling and just looking forward to building off of those positive things that we took from the weekend.”

Throughout the weekend, Berg led the Eagles with 41 kills on 93 attacks throughout the weekend. She also provided an assist against Rollins College and recorded 19 kills against Mary with a .247 hitting percentage for that game.

“I feel that I played well, I was overall pretty consistent throughout the four games,” Berg said. “I still have so much work to put in and can get better throughout the season.”

Rylee Greiman, junior of Windsor, Colorado, took over the libero posi-

tion to earn 73 digs over the weekend.

She also recorded 13 sets, two ace serves and one kill.

Berg and Greiman were named Steel City Showcase All-Tournament Team, announced by CSU-Pueblo Head Volleyball Coach Austin Albers.

Berg earned 2.88 points per set, while Greiman is currently ranked fourth in the RMAC with 4.56 digs per set.

“We put her (Greiman) into a position that she hasn’t played over the past couple of years,” Stadler said. “I thought she did a really good job of taking ownership of that position and pushing herself to play really well.”

Olivia Moten-Schell, sophomore of Billings, Montana, was the second leader in kills for the Eagles at 28 kills of 86 attacks.

Lexi Hurtado, junior of Aurora, Colorado, was right behind with 27 kills through out the weekend and 97 attacks.

Audrey Bennett, freshman of Lenexa, Kansas, made her Eagles debut and earned the most assists for the Eagles with 86 sets. Bennett also attacked 73 times, killing 20 of those hits.

“Just getting a little bit more consistent, especially during the tight parts of the match or the ending parts of the match,” Stadler said. “I saw some matches where we hit really well as a team and then some matches where we didn’t. So just getting a little bit more consistent offensively for us.”

The Eagles will continue their season in Kearney at the Rosella Meier UNK Fall Classic and begin against UNK at 11 a.m., Friday. They will also play West Texas A&M of Canyon, Southern Nazarene University of Bethany, Oklahoma.

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Eagle Jeremiah Gutierrez, senior of Compton, California, stops Mountaineers rush at Saturday’s game in Gunnison, Colorado.

Eagles fumble first game u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

The Eagles opened their season against Western Colorado University Saturday in Gunnison, Colorado, but a team has to take the loss, which Chadron State took, 23-10.

“The thing that stood out about this game was too many penalties and too many turnovers,” Head Football Coach Jay Long said. “As far as positive side of things, I thought we ran the football really well and on defense we stopped the run.”

Five minutes in, Running Back Elijah Myles, junior of Hawthorne, California, drove a rush up the middle of the field, running the ball 80 yards and earning the first touchdown of the game.

With a fumbled punt return for the Eagles, the Mountaineers recovered, leading them to the board with a 49-yard field goal.

To keep the lead after a second Mountaineer field goal, CSC’s kicker Gunnar Jones, senior of Florence, Alabama, scored a 35-yard field goal in the second quarter.

Then Western’s Quarterback Connor Desch overthrew his receiver, al-

lowing Bobby Peele, senior of Fresno, California, to intercept the football in the second quarter to potentially return the momentum to the Eagles.

Desch then drove in two touchdown passes, pushing the Mountaineers to a 20-10 lead before halftime.

Returning to the field for the second half, the Eagles didn’t put any more points on the board, while the Mountaineers kicked one more field goal in the third quarter, taking the win 23-10.

“When you look at us as a team, I think we needed to find a way to become more consistent with our passing game on offense,” Long said.

“Defense, it came down to us stopping the big play. We had two turnovers on special teams and that’s what we got to do better at.”

Myles attempted 21 rushes, gaining 164 total yards.

Both Cole Thurness and Montel Gladney received three passes. Thurness had a total of 31 yards while Gladney recorded 14.

Ali Musa, who received one throw, caught a 35-yard throw, the longest catch of the game for the Eagles.

Dalton Holst, graduate of Gillette, Wyoming, completed 12 of his 32 attempted passes for a total of 141 yards. Holst was sacked three times,

but CSC’s defense was able to return the favor.

“I thought our defense as a whole played very well,” Thurness said.

“They gave up less than a 100 yards rushing. Gabe Perkins, Travis Wilson, and Tayven Bray all played very well for our defense.”

Gabe Perkins, sophomore of Aurora, Colorado, junior Tayven Bray, and redshirt freshman Xavier Harrell, both of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, were the three Eagles who recorded a sack each.

Bray recorded six total tackles, three solo and three assisted, and two tackles lost 16 yards for the Mountaineers offense. Perkins also had three solo and three assisted tackles.

Defensively, Travis Wilson, senior of Fresno, California, recorded 10 tackles, leading the Eagles with the most, five solo and five assisted tackles. Wilson also tackled for a total of 11 lost yards.

The Eagles will play Angelo State University at 1 p.m., Saturday on Elliott Field at Don Beebe Stadium.

“We are very excited for the match up this weekend.” Thurness said. “We can’t let this past performance determine how the rest of our season goes.

We need to fix our mistakes and more forward with our heads high.”

Alissa Wieman, freshman of Box Elder, South Dakota, smiles while running her 5k race during Saturday’s Hardrocker Cross-Country Classic Meet.

XC season begins u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

The Eagles are off to the races.

Chadron State’s cross-country team started its season Saturday morning at the Hardrocker Cross Country Classic meet at Robbinsdale Park in Rapid City, South Dakota.

“We haven’t been able to go to that meet for a while because last year it was canceled,” Head Cross-Country Coach Luke Karamitros said. “It was really good for us to go back to a semi-familiar course because the athletes raced it the first year I took over the program here back in 2019 and things I could compare to.”

The women finished with 100 points in the 5k while the men finished with 108 in the 8k, both teams taking fourth of four teams.

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Newcomer Alissa Wieman, freshman of Box Elder, South Dakota, lead the Eagles in the women’s who finished 12th of 33 runners with a time of 20:34.65. Wieman ran the second-fastest time for a CSC athlete, which Chadron State has been competing in since 2017.

Sydney Settles, junior of Lincoln, was not far behind Wieman in the 5k, timed at 21:06.05 and placing 16th. She ran about a minute and 10 seconds faster at the Robbinsdale course, than she had before.

“Afterward, we were talking about how the execution is what lead her to run that time,” Karamitros said. “It’s also a testament to her work ethic. She put in a lot of work this summer to be able to run faster.”

Garrett Avery, sophomore of Sheridan, Wyoming, led the men’s team for the Eagles with a 14th placed finish with a time of 27:21.78. Like Wieman, Avery ran the second-fastest time for an Eagle on the men’s team.

Noah Burtis, sophomore of Berthoud, Colorado, was the next Eagle to finish with a time of 27:41.21 which placed him 19th of 40.

Audrey Ginnan, freshman of Burlington, Colorado, set her career best at 22:40.46 by dropping nearly 10 seconds off her time, allowing her to finish 27th.

“It’s good to be back, for sure.” Grinnan said. “This was definitely a harder course, but I don’t know that it was too hard. Obviously, I didn’t die.”

Cale Schafer, freshman of LaSalle, Colorado, and Joaquin Venzor, freshman of Greely, Colorado, both set personal bests. Schafer set his best to 28:00.55, placing 25th and Venzor finished with a time of 28:42.52 to take 32nd.

The other two women runners, Morgan

Jaggers, freshman of Sidney, placed 29th at 23:56.46 and Kassyl Swinney, freshman of Gordon, finished 30th at 24:46.08.

“It was good. It was actually my first cross-country meet ever,” Jaggers said. “It was definitely intimidating, but it was good.”

Three other Eagles finished above the final ten racers, Logan Moravec, sophomore of Gering, finished 27th at 28:02.62; Blaine Johnson, freshman of Sheridan, Wyoming, placed 29th with a time of 28:11.62; Logan Andrews, freshman of Gering, took 30th at 28:27.78.

For the meet, Carleton College of Northfield, Minnesota, took first for the women’s team with 31 points while for the men’s Black Hills State University finished on top with 37 points.

“The course that we ran on was a little bit more deceptive and challenging than what people usually think,” Karamitros said. “People are just excited to get out racing. Because of that, they (runners) got out a little bit too hard. It’s really important to pace yourself evenly because if you don’t pace yourself evenly, you spend too much energy at the start or middle of the race, sometimes you pay for it in the end.”

CSC will host the Chadron High School meet, Sept. 11, but they will not compete until, Friday, Sept. 17 at the Gage McSpadden Memorial Meet in Spearfish, South Dakota, hosted by Black Hills State University.

“The fact that some of these individuals exceeded my initial impressions was really awesome to see as a coach,” Karamitros said.

“I’m really pleased with our first showing. It’s a shoe step in the right direction. We got to see that the local competition between South Dakota Mines and Black Hills, that we’re all here ready to get after it.”

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Audrey Grinnan, left, freshman of Burlington, Colorado, and Kassyl Gunwall, middle, freshman of Gordon, cheer on teammate Garrett Avery, sophomore of Sheridan, Wyoming, as he passes a BHSU competitor during the Hardrocker Cross-Country Classic Meet in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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