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with high interest rates on federal student loans -- that are set by Congress -- students are immediately met with mounting financial stress.
• Full-time enrollment at the state's universities dropped this year by 0.94 percent, only the second time since 1999 that enrollment has fallen. It's too soon to know if university enrollment has peaked, but the steady increase in the cost of a college education eventually will force more high school graduates to look for lower-cost career choices.
• We appreciate the Board of Regents' efforts to hold down student costs while providing access to a quality education, but the trend toward higher college education costs doesn't appear to be slowing down.
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Author to present book on Wounded Knee occupation
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Forty years after the 71-day occupation at Wounded Knee, there is still lots of pain and many questions about what truly happened, according to an author of a new book examining the occupation and the last meeting between all the major players.
• "Wounded Knee 1973: Still Bleeding" by Stew Magnuson was released in February, in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the incident. Magnuson, a Washington D.C.-based journalist will be in Sioux Falls on Saturday to present the book at this year's Dakota Conference at the Center for Western Studies at Augustana College. "Wounded Knee 1973: Still Bleeding," which is published in ebook and traditional form, tells the story of the occupation and the gathering of the major and minor characters -- including AIM leaders Dennis Banks, Russell Means and Clyde Bellecourt and former FBI agent in charge Joseph Trimbach -- at last year's Dakota Conference.
• "It had all the fireworks I anticipated," Magnuson said about the conference. "Lots of people yelling at each other and calling each other liars and confrontations between AIM senior leaders and the Trimbachs, the former FBI agent and his son, and some of the victims of AIM in the 1970s were there to confront the leaders."
• Magnuson writes about the anger Means displayed as he talked about South Dakota and when he confronted with questions about the occupation. Means died in October at the age of 72 after battling cancer.
• "His rhetoric about the state of South Dakota was completely undiminished," Magnuson said. "He still had very strong feelings about the state of South Dakota, very negative feelings. He was still very much the angry young man all the way up (Continued on page 27)
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