Americans throw away nearly 10.5 million tons of clothes every year. Those thrown-away clothes can sit in landfills for hundreds of years, if not forever. You may not think about it often, but the...
September 16th, 201920As part of an annual discussion series, the Women, Gender and Sexuality studies department presented a Civil Rights Roundtable last Thursday. With representatives from advocacy organizations and scholarly experts in attendance, the department designed the event for people to ask questions on civil rights issues. Sara Lampert, program...
September 8th, 201936 After English and Spanish, American Sign Language is the third most used language in the United States and is expanding outside of the deaf community. The American Sign Language (ASL) Club at USD regrouped last spring after disbanding a few years ago. USD offers two sign language classes but the interest in learning ASL has rapidly...
September 1st, 201927With a new season of diverse productions ahead, students within the USD theater department have started working on stories they will present to the USD community during the fall semester. The season's first show will be The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, which will run from Sept. 26-29 on the Wayne S. Knutson Stage. Other shows for...
August 30th, 201918 Listening local. That's what USD percussion professor Darin Wadley had in mind while organizing the first annual Great Plains New Music Festival, where 23 musicians will perform in the Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts on Sept. 7. The festival will showcase professional musicians and composers from all over the country, as well as a...
August 27th, 2019270 Art has a way of bringing people in a community together. Behind the Coyote Twin Theater on Main St., members of the Vermilion Cultural Association and USD student artists collaborated on a mural during July and August, which was completed before the beginning of the Fall 2019 semester. The mural's theme is a lens on the...
August 26th, 2019127Pageants take patience, practice and planning. For Amber Hulse, a junior political science major, it's been her life for the last seven years. Hulse was crowned Miss South Dakota 2019 on June 1. She competed in her first pageant when she was 13 years old and has been on her journey to Miss South Dakota ever since. To prepare for the...
April 14th, 201954Spectrum organizes a pride week dedicated to promoting and celebrating the LGBTQ+ community each spring. Pride Day usually is celebrated in June, which is Pride Month, but Spectrum selects a week within the spring semester so USD students can participate and support the LGBTQ+ community. The week will kick off on Thursday, April...
April 8th, 201964Chick flicks are usually associated with sleepovers or movie nights–and for the last two years, the Vermillion Cultural Association (VCA) has held Chick Flick Club in the downtown Vermillion Theater. The Chick Flick Club has been a place for Vermillion community members to watch a female-centered movie together. “What makes it the...
