Josie Flatgard

Josie Flatgard is a senior English and sustainability double major with a media & journalism minor. She is the sports presentation editor of The Volante and interned in Guatemala with Sharing the Dream this past summer. Josie is from Arlington, SD.

Campus

August 26th, 201550 Coyote ID cards are going to be getting a little more use starting this year after changes were made to dorm access and laundry facilities over the summer. Dorms on campus are being converted to replace key entry with Coyote Card access only. Dean of Students Kim Grieve said the change is one that many universities are moving...
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April 22nd, 201542 Since 2010, Information Technology Services at the University of South Dakota has been administering a yearly survey to students through EDUCA-- -- USE, which provides services to higher institutions on a national level. The window to take the 2015 survey just closed, and now the waiting game begins for the university, as results will...
Sports

April 21st, 2015546 Rymma Maslova has been playing piano since she was 6 years old, and playing tennis since she was 9 years old. The University of South Dakota tennis athlete was coached by her father in Kiev, Ukraine, who had no formal training. She grew up practicing piano every day, while going to music school classes and attending...
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April 15th, 201572 University of South Dakota students are celebrating LGBTQ+ communities during this year’s Pride Week. USD’s LGBTQ+ group on campus, Spectrum: Gender and Sexuality Alliance, is hosting the events all throughout the week. First-year Jacob Hyde is a member of Spectrum and has been helping with the activities. He hopes “Drag...
Sports

April 8th, 201524 Moving an ocean away from their parents and usual lives, senior international athletes have found being involved in a sport helped them transition to the unknown at the University of South Dakota when they first arrived on campus. Senior Nicole Seekamp, a psychology major and guard on the Coyote women’s basketball team, arrived...
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April 8th, 201544 Junior Jessie Miller has been working at daycares for all three years of her college career. “I just really love children, so I’ve just always wanted to work with them,” Miller said. “I connect really well with them, and so one of the only places that you can work with them and not have a degree is in a daycare.” At the...
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March 25th, 201548 Ti'Esha Jones cleans her room regularly — not just for herself and her roommate's benefit, but with the hopes that it will attract students to the University of South Dakota. “Having the tours motivates me to keep (my room) clean, so it’s a win-win,” Jones, a first-year who lives in Coyote Village, said. Residence Hall...
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February 24th, 201571 Next fall, the reigns of the women and gender studies program will be handed over to the history department. The transition comes after Miglena Sternadori, program coordinator and associate professor in the media & journalism department, accepted a job at Texas Tech University. She is training Sara Lampert, an assistant...
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February 11th, 201549 According to the National Education Association, the average starting teaching salary for South Dakota is $29,851 and the average public school teacher salary is $39,018. Hee-sook Choi, interim dean of the School of Education, said about 60 percent of the students who graduate from the University of South Dakota’s teacher education...
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