The Brookings City Council unanimously approved the proposal by the Students' Association to look at bicycle routes throughout the city and get a plan hammered out to start putting them in this spring. "I think it's a great project," Council member Ryan Brunner said.
The way employees in the South Dakota regental system get paid could soon change, and this has some workers concerned about how that could affect their retirement. The Board of Regents proposed a plan to move pay day from the last working day of the month to the first.
Two major issues are on the minds of many Americans: politics and the economy. Articles on the proposed $700 billion bailout covered the papers last week. Both the U.S. House and Senate approved the $700 billion bailout Oct. 3. The measure is a governmental plan to help stabilize the economy by purchasing "toxic" bank assets.
For Amanda Nolz, college has been marked by unique experiences and opportunities only offered to exceptional students. As a 20-year-old senior at SDSU, Nolz has completed an internship in Washington, D.C., studied abroad in Argentina and has interned for an agricultural magazine in Minneapolis, Minn.
Have you ever dreamed of being one mean "green" machine? It is now easier than ever before. Options for recycling have been streamlined and made more accessible to students both on and off campus. Sept. 2 marked the beginning of a new pick-up schedule and an expansion of the products picked up curbside.
On Thursday, Oct. 16, SDSU students will arrive at the Brookings County Courthouse by the van load as part of the Students' Associations (SA) SDSU Votes event. "Young voters are traditionally underrepresented," said the event's coordinator and SA Senator Alisha Kropuenske.
SDSU students may have noticed a change in their online course management systems after returning for the fall semester. Starting during the summer 2008 term, the South Dakota Board of Regents changed its system from WebCT to Desire 2 Learn, commonly shortened to "D2L.
Author and attorney C.L. Lindsay, III, will speak on the legal and negative implications of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook Oct. 21 at Jack's Place at 8 p.m. The lecture is titled "Trouble Online: Campus Computing and the Law" and covers many aspects of the Internet like plagiarism, privacy, underage drinking photos and the effects of Facebook and MySpace, according to Bass/Shuler Entertainment.
The official groundbreaking of the Habitat for Humanity's latest project was Oct. 11. SDSU construction management students are working with Habitat for Humanity to build a home in Aurora. Pat Pannell, the program coordinator of construction management at SDSU, said that this project "teaches students about Habitat for Humanity and gives them a chance to participate in the community.