September 5th, 2018129Coming off of a 27-24 thriller against Kansas State, the USD Coyote football team shows promise going into the season. Though USD doesn't have a 50,000-seat stadium to fill with fans as Kansas State did Saturday night, we should be able to fill the DakotaDome on game days. The excitement of the game is what makes football season...
April 24th, 2018496Being gay is very "in" right now. No, really. It is. According to a 2016 report from GLAAD on LGBTQ+ representation in media, of the 895 series regular characters expected to appear on broadcast scripted primetime programming in the coming year, 43 of those characters (4.8 percent) were identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual,...
April 5th, 2017321It 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,...
March 21st, 2017155I 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...
February 19th, 2017635There’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...
January 29th, 201769I’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...
January 22nd, 2017101Stress 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...
September 27th, 2016918It'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...
September 6th, 2016200It'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...