Published April 19, 2011, 12:00 AM


Students stand across the street from a group of Westboro Baptist Church members (foreground) in November in Vermillion. The counter-protest was organized by Shea Smith, a Mitchell native who recently received the University of South Dakota’s Outstanding Diversity Award.

(Valerie Menning/The (USD) Volante)

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