Cellphone usage eliminating value of blue light phones
Since 2005, the University of South Dakota has had four blue light emergency phones installed around campus. However, in the past four years, Jef Rice, assistant director of the University Police Department, said the phones have only been used twice — one call for directions and the other, a prank. Rice attributes this low usage […]
Cadaver lab provides USD students with new experience
Anatomy 411 — human gross anatomy — has a clear set of rules for its students on the first day of class. Rule No. 1: students are required to make the first cut into the body placed in front of them. “It bothered me at first,” said junior Jen Allen, a medical biology and chemistry double […]
Student fees to increase pending approval
A General Activity Fee fund increase, if approved by the South Dakota Board of Regents, could increase overall student fees at the University of South Dakota by nearly $14 per credit hour over a three-year span starting next semester. Senate Resolution 4, passed by the Student Government Association Dec. 9, 2014 with a majority vote, […]
USD Athletic Department least funded in Summit League, Missouri Valley Football Conference since D-I transition
The University of South Dakota’s Athletic Department budget is the lowest in the Summit League and Missouri Valley Football Conference — something university administrators hope to change soon. USD’s total athletic department budget of roughly $9.4 million is about $6 million less than South Dakota State University’s total athletic budget, and about half of North […]
Substance abuse specialization cut won’t affect addiction studies program
The elimination of a substance abuse specialization will not affect the University of South Dakota’s addiction studies program, although the two areas of study share similarities. Because of low enrollment, a request for the removal of the specialization in the Counseling and Psychology in Education graduate program was submitted to the South Dakota Board of Regents last November. According to https://mcshin.org/resources/drug-addiction-help-who-needs-it-and-how-to-get-it, […]
SGA candidate drops out of presidential race
Two days after declaring their candidacy for executive positions in the Student Government Association, junior Nick Henchal and his running mate, sophomore Chelsea Gilbertson, have announced their withdrawal in the upcoming race for president and vice president. Henchal officially withdrew from the race Jan. 22, citing “rising health concerns” for his departure. “(We are) just going to stay […]
Nearly 600 students to graduate Saturday
As students gear up for finals week, a collection of seniors will also say goodbye to the University of South Dakota as they move forward in their careers at an alternative time compared to the typical May graduation date. There are 375 undergraduate and 200 graduate students participating in the 39th Winter Session Commencement Saturday, which […]
Poverty affects one third of Vermillion residents
The University of South Dakota is getting involved in an initiative to assess why Vermillion’s poverty rate is not being addressed as much as it should. Kelsey Collier-Wise, executive director for United Way of Vermillion, said Clay County has a poverty rate of 24 percent, with Vermillion’s poverty rate reaching nearly 33 percent in 2010. To […]
Law professor advocates for no-fault divorce law
Tania Aesoph was 50 years old and a mother of five when she was murdered in 1999. She separated from her husband-turned-murderer, David Aesoph, twice — once in 1994 and again in 1999. Both times, she was told because her husband did not want a divorce she would have to hire family lawyers toorak and […]
Recycling at USD decreased from 2013
Every other weekend, University of South Dakota first-year Gabbie Sefranek, a sustainability major, takes seven peoples’ worth of recyclables back to her hometown of Omaha, Neb. “None of my friends would recycle before I asked them to,” Sefranek said. Sefranek’s mother teaches at a high school where the janitors take all recyclables to a center that […]