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lion project. Donations now total about $412,000. Five of the 31 planned statues are fully funded at $68,000 each; eight are partially funded.
• "There is no tribute to a state's governors like this anywhere in the country. It is only found in South Dakota," Jensen said.
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SDSU student appointed to SD Board of Regents
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed South Dakota State University student Joseph Schartz to the state Board of Regents.
• Schartz is from Humboldt and will be entering his sophomore year at SDSU, where he's pursuing a double major in journalism and agricultural business and a minor in political science.
• Daugaard says Schartz is articulate, level-headed and thoughtful, and will make a great regent.
• Schartz says he's grateful for the opportunity to serve on the board that governs the six state universities and two special schools. He succeeds Patrick Weber, who left the board last month following his graduation from the University of South Dakota law school.
• The student member is one of the board's nine members and is a voting member.
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Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials
The Associated Press
• Capital Journal, Pierre, June 2, 2013
• Rodeo was a way of life before it was a sport
• The sharp wind whipping across Fort Pierre on Saturday and the crowd of hundreds that gathered in spite of it to dedicate a sculpture garden celebrating South Dakota rodeo greats was a reminder, if we even needed one, that rodeo was a way of life before it was ever a sport.
• It reminds us that cowboys needed to work cattle in all kinds of weather, and many of the rodeo events we now celebrate in places such as Fort Pierre grew out of those daily tasks of roping and riding and breaking horses, rain or shine.
• Now, of course, rodeo has become the state sport of South Dakota, Wyoming and Texas.
• But because it grew out of working cowboy culture, some of the key centers of rodeo will never be in urban areas. The centers of rodeo culture will remain in places such as Fort Pierre and other cowtowns up and down the Great Plains where (Continued on page 16)
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