Honors Newsletter 4 Northern State University 2022 Gypsy Day Parade winners Best Overall Float (best group participation and overall theme representation): Primrose Second Best Overall: Blank Canvas Salon Third Best Overall: Aberdeen Swim Club Northern Spirit Award (best Northern internal group participation): NSU Honors Program Thunder’s Award (best animal entry): Dirksen Organic Beef The parade took place Saturday, Oct. 8, on Aberdeen’s Main Street. Parade entrants decorated their float based on this year’s theme, “Wolves on Broadway.” The first five Northern State University Honors Program students have been accepted to law school through the new Honors Law Opportunity Program. The program, a collaboration between Northern and the University of South Dakota, guarantees admission for five NSU Honors Program students into the USD Knudson School of Law. Those five students are: • Jakob Lund • Kahden Mooney • Mayson Sheldon • Darius Swanson • Kylee Van Egdom These students will be granted automatic acceptance into the Knudson School of Law, regardless of LSAT score, and will receive a $2,500 scholarship for their first year of law school. Lund, from Caseyville, Ill., and Kansas City, Mo., is majoring in sociology with minors in legal studies and criminal justice. Mooney, from Watertown, S.D., is majoring in history with minors in government and legal studies. Sheldon, from Mandan, N.D., is majoring in criminal justice with minors in legal studies and psychology. Swanson, from Lake City, S.D., is majoring in political science (government) with minors in legal studies, communication studies and criminal justice. Van Egdom, from Sioux Falls, S.D., is majoring in political science and criminal justice with a minor in legal studies. HLOP—Honors Law Opportunity Program has first recipients
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