About the Statesman

The Statesman is a student newspaper created at Lincoln High School, Sioux Falls Public Schools, 2900 S. Cliff Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57105.

The Statesman office is located in room A400 (Aka the J-Lab). The phone number is 605-367-7998.

The Statesman’s purpose is to inform and entertain with an honest and accurate approach. The opinions of students, staff members and faculty are expressed in a tasteful manner.

The Statesman is a member of the National Scholastic Press Association, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and is a winner of the George H. Gallup award for “…distinctive achievements in scholastic journalism.” The Statesman has received a Superior Newspaper since 2016 from the South Dakota Acitvities Association and Silver Key from the Columbia Scholastic Press Assocation in 2024 and 2022.

The editors and adviser take responsibility for the content of the Statesman.

Follow the Statesman on Instagram with the handle @lhsstatesman.

See all of our print issues at https://issuu.com/lincolnstatesman.

About Perspectives:

Our Credo, inspired by Neil Gaiman

Welcome to Perspectives, a new way to share ideas. The Statesman believes “that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, …  sing, dramatize and deny.” The goal of Perspectives is to start and add to conversations through persuasion, thought-provoking ideas, research or some combination thereof. Each Perspective is written by a Statesman staff writer and does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff in its entirety. We write because ideas “are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they are even true.”

Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.