I have to admit that I’ve never been through the Math Emporium. I’d never even heard of it until the Student Government Association heard a presentation on the program by Associate Professor Dan Van Peursem. After hearing his presentation on what Emporium is, I think the program is a step in the right direction if […]

Thanksgiving is the most American of all holidays. Though it is often forgotten in the commercially-driven retail world — which simultaneously sells Halloween and Christmas items while paying no heed to turkey day — Thanksgiving is a time for family, travel and, of course, food. Our culture has largely become one of laziness and overeating, […]

Are the Republicans putting their best foot forward? Running through the list of front-runners certainly makes you wonder if they’re taking this election seriously. The flavor-of-the-month tastes a bit like Newt, though it recently tasted like Godfather’s pizza. Let’s take a look at these candidates for the highest office in the land. Newt Gingrich, the […]

There are few things more infuriating to me than when technology fails to do as it is supposed to do. At the University of South Dakota, this is the norm, not the exception. The most recent technology frustration I encountered was with the online program evaluation on WebAdvisor. This is the only tool the university […]

Welcome to the age of technology. I can still remember when my family didn’t own a personal computer, yet now my mom, dad and sisters all own their own laptops. That’s just the beginning. Now, I have a smart phone with more processing power than our first desktop computer. I can receive email and news from […]

The United States’ foreign policy needs an identity. We supported the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Moammar Gadhafi in Libya and would like to see changes in Yemen, Syria, Iran and many other countries around the world. Yet we still refuse acknowledge the right of the Palestinian people to have […]