Letter to the Editor: Professor doubts “discrimination alone” leads to gender gap

The war between the sexes, perhaps humankind’s oldest, continues to flicker on the University of South Dakota campus. Payton Randle fired an opening salvo in the Oct. 2 Volante, questioning the need for a feminist women’s group on campus. Sarah Heerdt responded, arguing that the existence of the wage gap, violence against women and employment […]

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Letter to the Editor: Growth of students needs residence hall reevaluation

I agree with Erik Muckey when he mentioned hopes for new residence halls in Braley Dodson’s article, President James Abbott covers enrollment, graduation and retention rates.  If Abbott wants to continue the growth at the University of South Dakota, he needs to accommodate that growth with places for new students to live. As a student […]

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Letter to the Editor: Dean urges students to use time to strive for greatness

President Lincoln’s inaugural address appealed “to the better angels of our nature.” In that spirit, I write respectfully and with great affection to all USD students — as a first-generation college student and South Dakota kid — asking that you give academic life your very best effort. After all, few people in human history are […]

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Letter to the Editor: University, students show lack of cultural, heritage sensitivity

Patience and persistence were required to write an op-ed to the blatant remark by a young college male whom bragged one weekend to be, “drunker than 100 Indians” on a popular social media page. The remark was perhaps nothing more than a young male highlighting the activities of his typical Friday night. However, I couldn’t […]

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