… graduate who has spent 27 years as a national correspondent for Gannett News Service, USA Today and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This event was held Oct. 1, 2014, at the SDSU Performing Arts Center. You can view it on the C-SPAN website . About the event South Dakota State University is proud to host two former majority leaders for the inaugural public event of the Senator Thomas A. Daschle Congressional Research Study—Sen. Tom Daschle and Sen. Trent Lot. Sen. Daschle selected South Dakota State University as the official repository of his official papers and artifacts from … feature nationally relevant figures on campus to address thought-provoking topics. Senators Daschle and Lott served as Senate leaders of their respective parties during the historic 50-50 split in the U.S. Senate and during the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Both are now affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit organization that drives principled …