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• The keynote address was given by NSU alumnus Darryl Tonemah. He sits on various state and national boards addressing disparities in education and health care among the Native community.
• The newspaper reports the ceremony featured nine flags representing the home nations of NSU's class of 2014.
• Northern State was founded in 1901 and is one of South Dakota's six public universities.
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Groups call for ban on use of live mammals as bait
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota game officials and representatives from trapping and fur-harvesting organizations are calling for a ban on the use of live mammals as bait.
• Reports of live animals such as domestic cats being used to bait coyote and bobcat traps prompted the state's Game, Fish and Parks Commission to recently propose a ban.
• The Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/REaUvu ) reports the commission has received complaints from people hiking or walking in the Black Hills who have come across a small cat in a trap that hasn't been fed or watered for several days.
• Keith Fisk with the commission says the rise in prices paid for bobcat pelts could compel inexperienced trappers to use live bait.
• Larry Bowden with the Western South Dakota Fur Harvesters says the organization supports the proposed ban.
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Fed govt failed to inspect higher risk oil wells
HOPE YEN, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government has failed to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells it considers potentially high risks for water contamination and other environmental damage, congressional investigators say.
• The report, obtained by The Associated Press before its public release, highlights substantial gaps in oversight by the agency that manages oil and gas development on federal and Indian lands.
• Investigators said weak control by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management resulted from policies based on outdated science and from incomplete monitoring data.
• The findings from the Government Accountability Office come amid an energy boom in the country and the increasing use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. That (Continued on page 16)
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