Nickolas Zeimet

Opinion

April 5th, 2017215 It comes out of nowhere. Three beeps, one right after the other. Loud. Shocking. It’s like an air-raid. It’s Tapingo. Tapingo is the newest addition to campus life, which allows students to order food and drinks from various business at the Muenster University Center by simply using an app on their smartphones. With the app,...
Opinion

March 21st, 201788 I don’t believe in working out. Something about the practice just doesn’t make sense to me. Why go to the gym when I could eat nine Pop-Tarts? Why go for a bike ride when I could watch the entirety of Friends for the tenth time? I understand why some people want to go to the gym – they want to get in shape. They want to look in...
Opinion

February 19th, 2017591 There’s very few people out there who can deny the power of Beyoncé. When it comes to relevance, the woman has been on the top of the game since her emergence onto the music scene in 1997. Whether someone’s dancing it out to “Survivor” from back in her Destiny’s Child days or they’re jamming harder than they’ve ever...
Opinion

January 29th, 201749 I’m 20 and single. When my parents were 20, they were engaged to be married in a few short months. It seems crazy to think that at one moment in time holy matrimony was something that would rank high on the list of a 20-year-old’s list of concerns, but it was. Most people I know are single – they aren’t necessarily thrilled at...
Opinion

January 22nd, 201777 Stress is all around us. A 2015 study at Penn State says there are more than 100,000 college students at 140 colleges and universities seeking mental health treatment. Whether we’re stressing about our academics, work, friends or relationships, it seems like every corner we turn leads us to a new stressor. So, what do we do? On a...
Campus

September 27th, 2016891 It's an upgrade that has been a long time coming. USD's new supercomputer — a computer that runs 10 times faster than the average desktop computer — will be rolled out in the spring. After having written the grant for the new supercomputer in January of 2015, the funds, $504,911, were finally given to the department in August...
Campus

September 6th, 2016123 It's nothing more than a little remote — but that one little remote is getting a big upgrade. TurningPoint Technologies, the vendor that provides USD with its testing clickers, has progressed from their old audience response software to a newer model that exists within "the Cloud." Cheryl Tiahrt, the assistant vice president of...
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