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Lorna Wounded Head is the Family Resource Management Field Specialist at SDSU.

How to Avoid the $43.79 McDonald’s Value Meal

Lorna Saboe-Wounded Head, Guest Columnist (She/Her) November 17, 2020

You are about to hear a cautionary tale that will have you rethinking your trip to McDonald’s. It was a November much like this one, with drastic changes in weather and looming project deadlines and...

Lorna Wounded Head is the Family Resource Management Field Specialist at SDSU.

How to financially plan around an internship

Lorna Saboe-Wounded Head, Guest Columnist (She/Her) November 4, 2020

To get a good internship, you are probably being encouraged to start looking for opportunities now, even though the internship may not start for six months. Your major professors may recommend you complete...

Jennifer McLaughlin
Columnist

Plastic bags not recyclable in campus bins

Jennifer McLaughlin, Sustainability Specialist (She/her) November 4, 2020

Last summer, plastic bags were taken off the recyclable list for Brookings and South Dakota State University and remain unrecyclable in single stream recycling today. This includes plastic bags alone and...

Native references: Yea or nay?

Native references: Yea or nay?

Skyler Jackson, Reporter (He/Him) November 4, 2020

names and symbols have always been a part of United States sports teams at the professional, collegiate and high school levels. But teams are now changing their identity in response to the increasing protest. My...

OPINION: politicians attire can influence audience perception

OPINION: politicians’ attire can influence audience perception

Andre Gary-Mack, Opinion Editor (He/him) November 4, 2020

Most people don't often think of fashion and politics as going hand in hand. Well in fact, they do. A lot of what happens in this multibillion-dollar industry works hand in hand with policies, bills and...

Lorna Wounded Head is the Family Resource Management Field Specialist at SDSU.

Plan ahead for the semester ahead

Lorna Saboe-Wounded Head, Family Resource Management Field Specialist, SDSU Extension October 28, 2020

You have made it past the halfway point of the semester. With only about a month left before you leave campus for a break, now is the time to start thinking and planning for financial needs for next semester. Employment Work...

Editorial

Editorial: Make time to go vote

Editorial Board October 28, 2020

The 2020 election is just around the corner, and with an election year as controversial as this, voting is imperative. While it may be too late to submit a ballot by mail, you can still vote in person...

Halloween, paying homage or appropriating?

Halloween, paying homage or appropriating?

Andre Gary-Mack, Opinion Editor (He/him) October 28, 2020

Cultural appropriation is something that has infiltrated society with the help of mainstream culture and social media. This is the season to display our most creative sides through costume and traditions,...

Lorna Wounded Head is the Family Resource Management Field Specialist at SDSU.

How being broke in college can be a good thing

Lorna Saboe-Wounded Head, Guest Columnist (She/her) October 20, 2020

What does it mean to be financially broke? How does the lack of money to just buy a snack from a vending machine feel? When you are out of money, do you find yourself craving and wanting everything you...

Why Men Love Bitches: An assertive self help book

Why Men Love Bitches: An assertive self help book

Colette Gannon, Reporter (She/her) October 20, 2020

When one of my favorite YouTubers and podcasters, Shallon Lester, the self-declared “queen of the girls,” and proponent of confidence, self-esteem and “feminine feminism” recommended that all of...

The Jackrabbit wears Prada

The Jackrabbit wears Prada

Andre Gary-mack, Opinion Editor (He/Him) October 6, 2020

It’s not lapis, it’s not turquoise: it’s actually blue, paraphrasing a quote from “The Devil Wears Prada,” an iconic movie in cinematic history and in fashion. But what does this have to do...

SDSU alumnus recollects his time as university construction worker

SDSU alumnus recollects his time as university construction worker

Kevin Woster, Guest Columnist October 6, 2020

There’s a sidewalk on the north side of the Stanley J. Marshall Center that should have my name on it. It doesn’t. But it should. I helped pour it back in the fall of 1972. That’s quite a while...

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