Katie McGuire

Katie McGuire is a senior at the University of South Dakota. Her major is media and journalism with a specialization in journalism. She is the Verve content editor for The Volante. In her spare time she participates in Colleges Against Cancer and The National Society of Leadership and Success

Summer Issue

May 6th, 2016109 Coming in as a first-year student can be the most frightening thing one can do at the age of 18, especially if he or she is far away from home. However, one of the perks of college is meeting new friends, and because students are required to live on campus for two years, it inadvertently creates an area to meet new people in the same...
Opinion

April 26th, 201637 These past four years of college, I've been to the Muenster University Center just about every day for various reasons. During the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., any student will find many tables set up by student organizations in order to provide information to the student body and ask for engagement. Or that's what I assume they...
Opinion

April 12th, 201659 On March 31, five members of the United States National Soccer Team sued the U.S. Soccer Federation and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for wage discrimination. For those not tuned into the international sports favorite, the U.S. team won the 2015 World Cup hosted in Canada, which wasn't their only win. In total, they've...
Verve

April 5th, 201683 For the USD music department, the time is finally here. The next few weeks will be crunch time before the department's final concert featuring Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Students from different entities of the music department, as well as some community volunteers, have been preparing for this concert since the beginning of the...
Opinion

February 23rd, 2016274 With growing tension in politics on social issues such as racism and gender equality, I thought it necessary to explain, as a millennial, a white person and a woman, what exactly it’s like to view our world and where I see us headed, because it isn’t good. Let’s start with the important topic of racism. Looking at my picture,...
Opinion

February 10th, 201626 Look at me, a baby from 1993. Because our country likes to give generations nicknames such as the baby boomers, I’ve been dubbed a millennial, one who was born between the late 1980s and mid 1990s. With this name comes the stereotypes, which I, for one, have never been a fan of, because I’m my own person. I’ll touch base on them...
Blogs

January 26th, 2016360 I began my start of healthy eating and living on Jan. 4. I've got to tell you, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be, but challenges certainly came up. For healthy eating, I would eat breakfast in the morning. Each day was different, between oatmeal and almond milk, eggs or Bagel Thins. Then I would eat a midmorning snack,...
Verve

November 16th, 201587 Ever wonder what the benefits of being a college student are (besides getting that degree, of course)? Believe it or not, there are many opportunities students can take advantage of to receive free or discounted items just for being a college student. Below is a list of a few items students at USD can enjoy without spending an arm...
Verve

November 16th, 201526 We are more than halfway through the semester and with Thanksgiving break just around the corner, we have just a few weeks left before the highly anticipated Christmas break. For a fourth of the student population, this marks the last fall semester of our college careers. I don’t know about my fellow senior classmates, but I’m...
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