Katie Brust
SGA prepares for SHED
USD’s Student Government Association (SGA) discussed Senate Bill 76, passed three new Senate Resolutions as emergency legislation, and passed Senate Bill 73, 74, and 75. On Tuesday, Katie Brust, Vice President of SGA, introduced Senate Resolution 19, 20, and 21 in preparation for SGA’s trip to Pierre for the Students in Higher Education Days (SHED). […]
USD Announces top seven Dakota Days royalty candidates
On Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. USD announced the top seven candidates for Mr. and Miss Dakota. The event was hosted by Morgan Jaco and Ntombi Ngeleka at Aalfs auditorium. This event celebrated the first day of USD’s Dakota Days. One of the candidates who made it to the top seven was Brady Samuelson who […]
SGA swears in New Senators, funds organizations
SGA President Ally Feiner swore in the new SGA senators, Rachel Beare, Kathrerine Conzet, Grace DuVall, Dillon Grubb, Tabitha Hunt, Max Mickelson, Rachel Overstreet and Cole Pry. A bill was passed to fund Students for Reproductive Rights. SFRR is a student organization dedicated to advocating for women’s choices in health matters and educating about women’s […]
SGA returns with new faces
SGA began the first of its weekly meetings Tuesday. SGA will likely continue to face problems with COVID-19 in addition to its usual legislation. Katie Brust, the SGA Vice President, said she was looking forward to how young the senate is compared to previous years. “I think that with COVID in particular, a lot of […]
SGA President, Vice President reflect on semester, look forward to fall
A month and a half into Ally Feiner and Katie Brust’s terms as Student Government Association President and Vice President, respectively, Feiner said the past few weeks have gone well. Currently, SGA is in the middle of budget season. In general, many student organizations weren’t able to achieve past utilization rates due to the pandemic, […]
New SGA president, vice president and exec. team are appointed
Student Government Association President Alexandra Fiener and Vice President Katie Brust were sworn in at the March 16 SGA meeting by former President Abuk Jiel. Along with the new president and vice president, a new senate was also sworn in. The new senators include Garrett Adam, Gretchen Biersbach, Lily Christian, Trenton Hoekstra, Abigail Johnson, Darby […]
SGA candidate team preps for voting day
Typically the Student Government Association (SGA) has multiple teams running for president each year, but the 2021-22 campaign has one team, Ally Feiner and Katie Brust. Feiner, a sophomore studying political science and criminal justice, is running for president. Her running mate is Katie Brust, a junior studying studio art and biology double major who […]
New president, vice president candidates announced at SGA
Ally Feiner and Katie Brust announced their candidacy running for SGA president and vice president at this week’s SGA meeting. “We’re really looking forward to getting started on this campaign season and we can’t wait to talk to students about how we can make USD a better environment,” Feiner said. Jacob Carsten, a USD law […]
Know your worth
Knowing your worth is the most important thing you can do for yourself. It’s a long-term investment that will lead to healthier relationships, respectful boundaries and above all, a confidence that will take you where you want to be. Knowing your worth means taking the time to assess your lifestyle and pinpointing the components that […]