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VERMILLION — The Uni-versity of South DakotaSchool of Law is hosting itslong-standing Biennial In-dian Law Symposium, April2-4, in its Courtroomfacilities.

Along with USD Law’s Na-tive American Law StudentAssociation (NALSA), theSchool of Law will present“Public Safety in IndianCountry: Tribal, Federal &State Responses.” Students,practitioners, judges, schol-ars and the general publicare invited to join this year’sevents that will focus onpublic safety, the protectionof women and the recentfederal Tribal Law & OrderAct.

This year’s symposiumbegins at 7 p.m. on April 2with a keynote address byBrendan Johnson, UnitedStates Attorney for the Stateof South Dakota. Additionalactivities include panel dis-cussions on the specific top-ics of the implementation ofthe recent federal Tribal Law& Order Act; specific issuesand efforts involving theprotection of women in In-dian Country and finally;and Tribal and State

relations regarding publicsafety.

Several experts arescheduled to attend andcontribute at this year'ssymposium: Derrick Beetso,counselor to the Secretaryof Interior Bureau of IndianAffairs; Captain Yuma House,Bureau of Indian Affairs Po-lice — Lower Brule and El-ishia Stewart, supervisor forthe battered women’s shel-ter on the Tulalip Reserva-tion in Washington state. Inaddition an accomplishedset of USD Law alumni willparticipate, including DaniDaugherty, BIA Deputy Re-gional Director for IndianServices in Aberdeen; JanetRoutzen, executive director,White Buffalo Calf WomenSociety from the RosebudReservation; and JR La-Plante, South Dakota Secre-tary for Tribal Relations.Helping to lead these eventswill be USD Law’s own na-tionally recognized IndianLaw professor, scholar andTribal appellate court judgeFrank Pommersheim.

A schedule of events isavailable athttps://www.usd.edu/law. Pan-els on April 3 are from 9 to

11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 3 p.m.with a final session at 9 a.m.on April 4.

This year’s Symposium isdedicated in the memory ofUSD Law Alumnus Jennifer J.Fyten “Duta Winyan” (1964-2013) Flandreau Santee Sioux.The late Ms. Fyent’s dedica-tion to Indian peoples will be

honored. As is this Sympo-sium’s tradition, a commis-sioned art piece tocommemorate these events isbeing produced by artist JonMark Tiger (Creek) from Eu-faula, Okla. These events willalso be acknowledged by hon-oring songs performed bylocal singers.

Esther MichaelsenMass of Christian Burial for

Esther D. (Bryce) Michaelsen,80, of Neligh, Neb., will be10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 25,2014, at Our Lady of MountCarmel Catholic Church inTilden, Neb. Reverend JohnBroheimer will be Celebrant,with burial in the St. Mary’sCatholic Cemetery in Tilden.

Visitation will be one hourprior to services at thechurch.

Brockhaus-Harlan FuneralHome of Tilden is in charge ofarrangements.

Esther Bryce Michaelsen,born June 2, 1933 in Lindy, Ne-braska, died Thursday, March20, 2014, at the Golden LivingCenter in Neligh.

Lela TrudeauLela M. Trudeau, 95, of Ver-

million, passed away Wednes-day, March 19, 2014 at PrairieEstates Care Center in ElkPoint.

Funeral service will be at11 a.m., Monday, March 24 atKober Funeral Home, Vermil-lion with burial to follow atBluff View Cemetery in Vermil-lion. Visitation with VideoTribute will be one hour priorto the service on Monday atthe funeral home.

Kober Funeral Home, Ver-million, is in charge of arrange-ments.

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SDHP Joins ‘Drive to Save Lives’PIERRE — South Dakota’s Highway Patrol is joining

more than 40 other states and the U.S. Department ofTransportation in an aggressive “Drive to Save Lives’’ cam-paign aimed at reducing highway fatalities across the na-tion in 2014.

Participating agencies will use state-specific data to tai-lor safety programs to the needs and problems in theirown states, focusing on use of seatbelts and problems withspeeding, and impaired or distracted driving.

“Too many times, our troopers, officers or deputies arethe ones who must notify family members that a loved onewill not be coming home,’’ said Col. Craig Price, superin-tendent of the South Dakota Highway Patrol. “The Drive toSave Lives campaign is an opportunity to use partnershipswith other states, as well as with local law enforcementagencies, to identify and implement effective, ongoingstrategies to reduce fatalities on our highways.’’

Price participated today in a news conference announc-ing the campaign at the annual meeting of the InternationalAssociation of Chiefs of Police.

While the campaign theme is being shared by all partici-pating state police and patrols across the nation, eachstate decides what strategies will work best for the safetyof its citizens.

“We are still reviewing our data to finalize our cam-paign,’’ Price said. “We will use the data to identify causes,locations, times of day or days of week and other con-tributing factors to our fatal crashes. With that informa-tion, we can launch a campaign that targets our majorproblems.’’

Drive to Save Lives kicks off in 2014, but it is viewed byparticipants as an ongoing campaign that can be revisedwithin each state to respond to changing needs or condi-tions. The campaign also will include a major componentfor officer safety. Traffic-related incidents are the leadingcause of line-of-duty deaths for law enforcement officersnationally.

Supplemental Food Program ChangesLINCOLN, Neb. — The Commodity Supplemental Food

Program (CSFP) now serves low-income seniors due to achange in federal requirements.

The 2014 Federal Agricultural Act known as the Farm Billwas signed into law on Feb. 7. It changed the eligibility re-quirements for CSFP making the program only for low-in-come seniors 60 years and older. Women and children areno longer eligible to apply for the program; however womenand children already receiving CSFP benefits prior to thesigning of the bill will continue to do so.

CSFP is a United States Department of Agriculture pro-gram that provides nutritious food to eligible Nebraskans.The food is purchased and distributed by the agency and in-cludes milk, peanut butter, canned fruits and vegetables, ce-real, rice or pasta, canned meat, cheese and juice. TheNebraska Department of Health and Human Services workswith eight local agencies that receive and distribute foodboxes to program participants across Nebraska.

Nebraska CSFP served 633 women and children and10,237 seniors a month in 2013.

Women and children who are not currently part of CSFP,but are seeking assistance will be referred to other resourcesin their communities such as the Women, Infants and Chil-dren Programhttp://dhhs.ne.gov/publichealth/Pages/wic_index.aspx/.People with additional questions about Nebraska CSFP cancall 800-942-1171.

‘Lessons From Louisiana’ SlatedVERMILLION — The W.O. Farber Center for Civic Leader-

ship at the University of South Dakota, in cooperation withPolitical Science League and the Criminal Justice Club, wel-comes Damon Thibodeaux and Steve Kaplan to campus for aprogram at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1, in Farber Hall, whichis located inside Old Main.

The program, “Lessons from Louisiana: The Damon Thi-bodeaux Story, Capital Punishment and Criminal Justice,”will explore the exoneration of Thibodeaux, who was incar-cerated on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary foralmost 15 years for a crime he didn't commit. Kaplan, seniorcounsel to the Minneapolis law firm of Fredrikson & Byron,P.A., was a member of Thibodeaux’s post-conviction legalteam for a decade. The legal team also included the CapitalPost-Conviction Project of Louisiana and the Innocence Proj-ect of New York.

Thibodeaux, who currently lives in Minneapolis, Minn.,was released from prison on Sept. 28, 2012 following a com-prehensive reinvestigation that included the Jefferson ParishDistrict Attorney's Office. He is the 141st innocent death rowinmate to be exonerated since the United States SupremeCourt re-instated capital punishment in 1976. Thibodeauxalso became the 300th person in the U.S. to be exonerated inwhole or in part on the basis of DNA testing.

The only leadership program in the state — as well as theoldest and most well-established leadership program in theMidwest — the W.O. Farber Center for Civic Leadership wasestablished by the South Dakota Board of Regents in 1997 asa Center of Excellence. Housed within the Department of Po-litical Science at USD, the W.O. Farber Center for Civic Lead-ership annually hosts programs, Farber Forums, designed tostudents and the public insight into national and state poli-tics, campaigns and elections, public administration and in-ternational relations.

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Law Student Earns ‘Best Defense Advocate’ TitleVERMILLION — Swapna

Kilani, a third-year law stu-dent at the University ofSouth Dakota School of Law,was honored as Best DefenseAdvocate at the 2014 CapitolCity Challenge held in Wash-ington D.C. recently.

The Capitol City Chal-lenge, hosted by AmericanUniversity, is a prestigiousmock trial competition con-sisting of the top trialschools in the nation. TheUSD School of Law team par-ticipating at the Capitol CityChallenge included third-year law students Kilani, JendeHueck and Shane An-drews; and second-year lawstudent Andy Fick. The USDtrial team is coached by lawschool faculty Tom Horton,associate professor of law,and Michael McKey. Thecompetition featured teamsfrom the Georgetown Univer-sity Law Center, University ofVirginia School of Law,William & Mary Law Schooland Temple University

Beasley School of Law.Kilani scored 68 (out of a

possible 75) to place firstoverall as the USD School ofLaw team defeated WidenerUniversity (the University ofDelaware’s School of Law) inthe opening round of thecompetition. This is the sec-ond time in five years that aUSD law student has beenhonored as Best Defense Ad-vocate at the Capitol CityChallenge (Alex Hagen won itin 2010). Her co-counsel, An-drews, scored a 66 to earn atie for third place.

“We could not be prouderof Swapna, Shane, Jen andAndrew. Their outstandingperformances against suchtop teams directly resultedfrom their hard work anddedication over the past sev-eral months,” stated Horton,who thanked the SouthDakota Trial Lawyers’ Asso-ciation for their support ofthe USD School of Law’s trialteams.

SUBMITTED PHOTOSwapna Kilani (left) stands with a teammate after being named‘Best Defense Advocate’ at the 2014 Capitol City Challenge inWashington D.C.

Lecture, Award Highlight Alpha Chapter Initiation At USDVERMILLION — Alpha Chapter of

South Dakota, Phi Beta Kappa, at theUniversity of South Dakota will initiatenew members and host a celebratorybanquet on Monday, March 31. The an-nual Lifto Amundson Lecture, which isopen to the public, will conclude theevening’s events at 7:30 p.m. at the USDSchool of Law Court Room. The publicis also invited to a reception at 7:15p.m. in the Law School Commons.

The initiation ceremony is sched-uled at 5:30 p.m. in the Law SchoolCourt Room followed by a banquet hon-oring all new members of Phi BetaKappa at 6:30 p.m. in the FreedomForum Room of the Al Neuharth MediaCenter.

The celebration of “25 years of LiftoAmundson Lectures” will begin with thepresentation of the James M. Doyle Hu-manities Teaching Award by Matthew C.Moen, dean of the College of Arts andSciences, and includes highlights of

past lectures. The 26th Lifto Amundsonspeaker, Kory Floyd, Ph.D., professor ofhealth and family communication atArizona State University, will deliver thelecture, “The Importance of BeingProsocial: Communication, Health andWell-Being.”

Floyd, whose work has been fea-tured on NBC’s Today show, on Na-tional Public Radio, and in dozens ofmagazines and newspapers, is also a re-search associate with the Arizona Can-cer Center. His research focuses on thecommunication of affection in close re-lationships and on its connections towellness and health, exploring physio-logical responses to interpersonal com-munication. His theory, AffectionExchange Theory, assumes that affec-tionate behavior evolved within thehuman species due to its contributionsto viability and fertility, and specifiessome of the situations under which af-fection communication will have

positive health benefits, and the situa-tions under which it will induce a stressresponse. His recent work has built onthe experience of alexithymia, the in-ability to recognize or describe emo-tions, and the impact of alexithymia oninterpersonal communication andrelationships.

The Lifto Amundson Lecture was es-tablished in 1988 by Marjorie LiftoAmundson and her son, Dr. Loren H.Amundson of Sioux Falls. Mrs. Amund-son was a member of USD’s AlphaChapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Amund-son (USD School of Medicine, 1954; Dis-tinguished Alumni Award, 2004) wasalso elected to membership in thechapter. The Lifto Amundson Lecture-ship has enabled distinguished speak-ers from the liberal arts disciplines tovisit USD each year and share their re-search and perspectives with thecommunity.

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