Residents of Young and Binnewies halls are the subjects of a pilot test determining if the new 24-hour visitation policy will work across campus. Last spring, the board of Community Assistants, CAB and the Residence Hall Association made recommendations to change the visitation hours in the residence halls to 24 hours.
The only two high-fidelity simulated mannequins at SDSU now have a newly remodeled area to call home. The new simulation laboratory was built this past summer by joining two classrooms on the third floor of the Nursing-Family/ Consumer building. "The new laboratory is to give students experience that may not be experienced during their clinicals," said Roberta Olson, dean of the College of Nursing.
A revised proposal to change the size of the Parking and Traffic Committee will keep the number of student representatives at its current levels.
Brookings is among the cities feeling the effects of the recession with more visitors to donation-based food suppliers, such as the Food Pantry and Harvest Table. This year, 167 more families have visited the Food Pantry than at the same time last year, said Don Kasak, manager of the Food Pantry.
While many people throughout Brookings sleep on Nov. 11, Cadet Major Sarah Smith will march in peaceful silence to honor the veterans' sacrifices that have ensured freedom in the United States. "We really need to think about everything they have done so we can still have the United States … and everything that we have," she said.
After what was South Dakota's seventh coldest summer on record, the news that this winter will be warmer than average may come as a shock. "The most likely outcome for this winter is that the average (temperature) will be above the 30-year average," Extension State Climatologist Dennis Todey said.
In order to make Jackrabbits aware of how much energy they are using and what their impact is on both a local and global level, the Office of Facilities and Services, Residential Life, the Energy Analysis Lab and the Wind Application Center at SDSU have joined forces to implement Efficiency Week, a dorm-wide competition seeking to determine which students can save the most energy in one week.
Echoes of contemporary war tales and first-hand accounts of experiences in Iraq filled the air in the Performing Arts Center on Oct. 27, as the Harding Distinguished Lecture Series and the South Dakota Humanites Council featured U.S Army machine-gunner Colby Buzzell.
The University Program Council is out to raise funds to combat malaria by any means necessary, even if it means randomly placing toilets on university administrators' lawns. "You Got Flushed" is a fundraiser featuring three pink toilets making the rounds around town.
A survey on gay, lesbian and bisexual identity development is being done amongst SDSU students for one graduate student to gain a better understanding.
A group of computer science majors at SDSU programmed their way into the second-place slot at the Association for Computer Machinery's computer programming contest at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Seniors Scott Kool, Michael VanBemmel and Tigh Kistler are computer science majors at SDSU and participated in the annual computer programming event with their team, Never Gonna Let You Down.