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Student-run media of Black Hills State University.  The Jacket Journal / Ponder Magazine / The Buzz FM

BHSU Media

Student-run media of Black Hills State University.  The Jacket Journal / Ponder Magazine / The Buzz FM

BHSU Media

Student-run media of Black Hills State University.  The Jacket Journal / Ponder Magazine / The Buzz FM

BHSU Media

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Area '76

Area ’76

Alec Butterfield May 1, 2025

Not even halfway up the chairlift my face was already red from the beaming morning rays. Dirt was beginning to trace the ditches between the moguls under the lift. It snowed only two days before, now...

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The Golden Paint Brush

The Golden Paint Brush

Sierra Hopp May 1, 2025

Every year, over 4,000 children are diagnosed with a brain or spinal cord tumor. A brain tumor is a cell growth that occurs in or around the brain, causing extra pressure in this closed space.  Due...

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Ink and Asphalt

Ink and Asphalt

Nathan Feller May 1, 2025

“When you’re going days without any contact, you break a little bit. It’s a mental game when you’re dealing with shitty weather and nothing’s going right. It tests you in a way that there’s...

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A Tired Warrior

A Tired Warrior

Austin Graft December 1, 2024

Music is a language, a language that connects us all. Songs bring us closer together, inspire us and open the doors of self-reflection, allowing anybody to connect to a wide range of emotions and feel...

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We're Not Robots & We're Not Wizards

We’re Not Robots & We’re Not Wizards

Alec Butterfield December 1, 2024

Seconds turn into minutes, minutes into hours, hours to days. All time put toward shedding a few seconds off the clock. Among the absurd heat and humidity of late July or the crushing winters in Sioux...

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Inherited Vision

Inherited Vision

Nathan Feller December 1, 2024

Born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, Marty Two Bulls Jr. was destined to become an artist. “I come from a big family of artists,” Two Bulls Jr. said. “From my grandparents’ generation...

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The Man Without a Plan

The Man Without a Plan

Nathan Feller, Managing Editor May 1, 2024

Weaving through faceless strangers on a sidewalk, the famed Murray Block stood motionless as tourists passed by. The rustic brick building exhibited a sense of dying history in the bleak, early afternoon...

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Tom Finke

Tom Finke

Nathan Feller, Managing Editor May 1, 2024

Tom Finke, along with his wife, Mami Yamamoto, resides in a quaint home, cluttered with decades worth of art from various adventures, in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado.  The walls of his home are...

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A Living Past

A Living Past

Bridget Schneller, Editor-in-Chief May 1, 2024

Just as we are part of our parents, so too, are they part of their parents and so on, and so forth. It appears as a domino effect, perhaps a chain reaction. Each generation is – in a sense – connected...

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