Chance Mullinix

Chance Mullinix is from Sioux Falls and is the assistant news editor for the Volante. He is pursuing a double major in Media & Journalism and German, with a Film Studies minor. Chance like sports, movies, TV, video games and talking in the third person.

Campus

April 21st, 201798 On April 21, 1862, Dakota Territory Governor William Jayne signed legislation declaring the founding of a university in the town of Vermillion. One hundred fifty five years later, South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard proclaimed April 21, 2017 "USD Day." During USD's birthday party held in the Muenster University Center pit lounge, USD...
Campus

April 19th, 201753 The Vermillion Public School District is teaming up with USD to better focus on elementary students' strengths. In 2016, the district was awarded a Bush Foundation grant to establish a professional development partnership between Jolley Elementary and the USD School of Education. The grant was given through the Bush Foundation’s...
Sports

April 18th, 201753 The USD football team will be playing national powerhouse Oklahoma University in 2019. The game, scheduled to take place Sept. 7, will be USD’s second game of the season. USD will be paid $575,000 to play OU in Norman, OK. These so-called “cupcake games” allow smaller schools, such as those in the Football Championship...
State/Local

April 18th, 2017151 Two USD students are hoping to score $5,000 from the state to help them develop an app. Sam Hummel, an MBA graduate student, and Tyler Frank, a senior accounting major, are competing in the Governor’s Giant Vision Student Competition. Their app idea is called "The Knack." “The Knack is an e-commerce based app focusing on...
Campus

April 11th, 201799 The Student Government Association debated for more than an hour Tuesday whether to make international club a large student organization. Being designated a large organization allows international club to ask SGA for more money, and to be a part of the large organization funding pool. International club needed 15 votes in order to...
State/Local

April 11th, 201791 A bill recently signed into law by President Trump allows Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to sell customers’ browsing data to advertisers. According to the New York Times, Verizon, Comcast and AT&T can continue tracking and sharing people’s browsing and app activity without permission. There's been some pushback since...
Campus

April 4th, 2017132 The Student Government Association introduced legislation Tuesday night to make SGA more transparent. Senator Malachi Petersen, former Volante editor in chief and current representative of the graduate school, introduced three bills that would increase the transparency between SGA and students. The first bill would amend the SGA...
Campus

April 4th, 2017591 While most Greek chapters may be stereotyped as encouraging a raucous party lifestyle, an often overlooked aspect of fraternities and sororities is their intensive fundraising efforts. All 12 USD Greek houses are active in the community, raising money for the respective charities they support. In the 2015-16 school year,...
Campus

March 28th, 2017261 A Ph.D. student is looking into what impact, if any, entry-level addiction studies courses have on students' lifestyles and choices regarding alcohol and drug use. Melissa Dittberner, a Ph.D. student studying human development and educational psychology, is researching the correlation between knowledge and behavior for her...
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