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Wednesday, February 7, 2018 sdsucollegian.com SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT-RUN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1885 SINGLE ISSUE FREE New SDSU housing to break ground this summer EMILY De WAARD Editor-in-Chief South Dakota State is set to break ground this summer on a new housing complex. The $20 million southeast housing proj- ect is set to open Fall 2019. Bonds for $18 million are already issued, and the rest will come from residential life, din- ing services, The Union and Wellness Center revenue. Although enrollment num- bers have been stagnant, Vice President of Student Affairs Michaela Willis said about 1,000 students surveyed last year showed a high demand for this style of housing. “We’re really excited for this opportunity,” Willis said. “We wanted to better serve our ju- niors, seniors and graduate stu- dents and hopefully phase one Collegian graphic by ABBY WOLF will go well and if we see a de- mand we can do a phase two.” While Willis considers the timeline “aggressive” for the fa- President Dunn inspires Bookstore ‘Swap N Shop’ cilities to be open by 2019, both BRIANNA SCHREURS of The Bookstore Amber Healy. Dunn gave him a South Dako- clothes will eventually end up. she and Associate Vice Presi- Managing Editor “Because they are our rivals and ta State University pin at a Stu- “I think it would be kind dent for Student Affairs Doug I thought it would be a cool in- dents’ Association retreat last se- of fun to research and find a Wermedal agree it is doable. tudents can get rid of any centive.” mester. group, or [donate to] the Wom- The complex will likely be T-shirt, hoodie or hat from This came about after Healy Neswick was wearing a en’s Abuse Domestic Shelter or two buildings, housing approx- another university and heard about President Barry Wartburg College T-shirt and somewhere that could benefit imately 220 beds for upper-lev- S el and graduate students, Willis swap it for credit at The Univer- Dunn buying a new Jackrabbit Dunn gave him the pin so he from this because I am sure that sity Bookstore in the first-ever hat for a student wearing anoth- had “something that’s SDSU.” some of them will be in really said. Right now, a three-story President’s Swap N Shop. er college’s logo. “It’s a pretty personable ges- good condition,” Healy said. apartment complex and max- The Swap N Shop happens Dunn said he started pur- ture,” he said. “It shows a lot She is hoping the initial imum two-story townhouse Feb. 12 to 16 and allows students chasing and giving students about his character, and shows event proves to be to be success- complex are planned. with clothing representing other SDSU attire in 2010 when he he’s an outgoing, approachable ful. Units will be a mix of one universities to part ways with it was the dean of the College of guy.” “This is something we hope and four-bedroom, including in exchange for bookstore credit. Agricultural and Biological Sci- Neswick wears the pin on to do every year. It’s the first an- in-unit laundry and off-street The credit is good until Feb. 17, ences. He started because of his his jacket now for “dressy occa- nual and we’re going to see how parking. The estimated costs but there is only one coupon per previous position at Texas A&M. sions.” it goes,” Healy said. “It would be will be between $500 to $700 a customer. “... I was impressed at the “We all have so much to be something we would continue to month, according to Wermedal. If students bring in Univer- pride students, faculty, staff and proud of,” Dunn said. “... And it do President’s Weekend.” After conducting architect sity of South Dakota or North alumni had in Texas A&M and helps build our campus commu- While this event is targeted interviews in January, the uni- Dakota State University appar- how they showed that by wear- nity. It’s a way to lift each oth- at students, the Brookings com- versity selected Architecture el they will receive $20 in-store ing the school colors, buying er up.” munity has been showing inter- Inc. from Sioux Falls to design credit. They can get rid of any and wearing apparel from their Any exchanged items will lay est as well, Healy said. the structures. So far, one plan- unwanted T-shirt, hoodie or bookstore and proudly display- on a table in front of the store, ning meeting has been held, hat from another university and ing the A&M brand in every- so shoppers can view all the Willis said. swap it for $10. thing from lapel pins to Power- clothing that has been swapped Continued to A3 “What better way to add a Point presentations,” Dunn said. in. Healy plans to donate the little something if it’s USD or Jonathan Neswick, music ed- items collected, but she doesn’t Continued to A3 NDSU,” said Assistant Director ucation major, remembers when know where the other college’s Return to school delayed for student who suffered farm injury GARRETT AMMESMAKI damage to her hearing, and down.” News Editor planned to come back to campus “When I went to visit her in this semester. However, failed the hospital for the first time af- Francesca “Frannie” Feekes was skin grafts and the laborious ter the accident she was ask- greasing the bearings of a fertil- creation of prosthetic ears have ing everyone how they were do- izer tender, when it rumbled to put her plans on hold. ing with it,” Winkel said. “She life in May last year, at the Ar- Initially, Feekes was nervous was more concerned about how cher Coop Grain Co. in Archer, about being back on campus. everyone else was handling the Iowa. “I don’t have hair, I’m bald, situation, rather than worrying After finishing one side, she I don’t have ears and I wasn’t about herself.” was waiting for her coworker to ready to face my peers looking The accident happened bring a ladder to continue her like this,” she said. “Even though during Feekes’ summer intern- work. we’re adults, people our age can ship. “I was raised on a farm and still be really cruel.” Her spirits never diminished, you don’t stand around — you Even adults, Feekes said, and she constantly had to be re- find something to do,” Feekes have gawked and stared at her, minded to “slow down” when said. “So, I went to get my grease going so far as to ask her inap- she worked, said Scott Summa, gun.” propriate questions about her Feekes’ former supervisor and Feekes reached for her tools, wounds. manager at Archer Co-op. which laid on the ground near But according to Feekes, her “She was so excited when I the tender’s rotating power take- healing is “going really well,” called her and the doctor had off shaft (PTO). She thought and with the reservations she given her a release to come back they were a safe enough distance had for being on campus gone, on a restricted work schedule,” away. she’s ready to “be a normal per- Summa said. “She was just elat- Photo courtesy of N’West Iowa Review Her hair was in a bun, and son again.” ed.” Frannie Feekes planned to come back to SDSU this semester, but didn’t due to a failed when Feekes grabbed her grease “I’ve decided to say ‘screw it, Currently, Feekes is help- skin graph and waiting on prosthetic ears, she was unable to. gun, the spinning shaft caught let ‘em stare,’” Feekes said. “I’m ing out her father on the family hold — taking with it her scalp just going to try to do normal farm. Her attitude was an “inspi- “But I’m — what else can you find it kind of funny — because and both her ears. people things like, you know, go ration,” Summa said. do? Why would you want to wal- that’s just how I am — is the fact Paramedics brought her to dancing with my friends.” Feekes has been called an in- low in self-pity over something that I taught tractor PTO safe- Sheldon, Iowa. There, she was According to her long-time spiration a lot since her accident like this? Because you can’t ty at farm safety camp in high sedated and brought to Sioux friend and agronomy major but doesn’t think she’s anything change the outcome.” school,” Feekes said. “If you can’t Falls, where she awoke the next Cynthia Winkel, that’s just who of the sort. Feekes continues to keep her laugh about it, what can you day after surgery to reattach her Feekes is — passionate about ag- “Everyone says I’m an inspi- sense of humor about her acci- do?” scalp to her skull, she said. riculture, faith and family and ration because of how positive dent with the PTO shaft. Feekes has no long-term she “doesn’t let anything get her I’ve been with it,” Feekes said. “It’s kind of a sick joke, but I A2 February 7, 2018 The Collegian • News sdsucollegian.com DAILY CRIME LOG Little ‘I’ mixes old traditions with new 01.29.18 GRACE LOMMEN schools. three judges. There is a $20 en- tain and it’s just a disaster, but • 9:01 p.m. @ Meadows Reporter Madison Styles, a pre-phar- try fee for anyone who would it’s so much fun.” North.

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