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Madville Times (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
South Dakota State University President Dr. David Chicoine may have sold his soul and my land-grant alma mater to the ag-industrial complex ... but if I were the Green Pope, I might sell him an indulgence for this: Save the day? Heck, save the planet! Robb Rasmussen of Sioux River Bicycles and Fitness is hoping to get one thousand cyclists together to ride in the Hobo Day Parade on Saturday,...
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Madville Times (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... shifted to about 52 percent for the students and 48 percent for the state." SDSU President David Chicoine calls that a "dramatic reversal" in higher ed funding in our state. Faculty are also bearing a greater share of the funding burden, as they face greater pressure to hustle research grants for their campuses. Lacking the responsibility to pay our own way, we the...
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Madville Times (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... business dealing involving another Democrat and then resorts to the usual mindless ad hominem , David Newquist tears into the real reasons for the controversy surrounding SDSU President David Chicoine's appointment to the Monsanto corporate board: The professors who work under President Chicoine must abide by a policy in regard to their outside work and consultation....
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South Dakota War College (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
From today’s Rapid City Journal comes a story where SD Senate Democrats are going after corporations’ involvement with our university system. Particularly, the practice of corporations inviting University officials to sit on corporate boards: The appointment of South Dakota State University president David Chicoine to the board of agribusiness giant Monsanto in April has some...
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South Dakota War College (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
From Bob Mercer over at Pure Prairie Politics: His father, by the way, is former state legislator Roland Chicoine of Elk Point, a Democrat who served 20 consecutive years at the South Dakota Capitol moving between the House of Representatives and the Senate from 1981 through 2000. The most intriguing angle in this dispute, however, is the [...]
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Hog House Blog (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
... following: Gov. Mike Rounds and the governor-appointed Board of Regents allowing SDSU President David Chicoine to serve on the board of directors for Monsanto, “one of the dirtiest chemical companies in the world,” for $400,000 per year - in addition to a state salary Abourezk says is $300,000 per year. (A Google search seems to confirm these numbers - they’re often-quoted - but I...
