State/Local
Sentencing in tax fraud scheme will not affect football program
Three former University of South Dakota football players, along with eight others, plead guilty to tax-refund fraud. Alphonso “Rico” Valdez was sentenced to 61 months in prison Jan. 12 in Sioux Falls. Each of the 11 people involved in the scheme plead guilty, and about $400,000 was collected in total. Athletic Director David Herbster said in […]
S.D. legislative session: Four bills that pertain to USD students
As the 2015 South Dakota legislative session gets underway in Pierre, The Volante has compiled a list of bills to keep an eye on that pertain to students at the University of South Dakota. No requests from USD were received by the South Dakota Board of Regents asking to submit any bills to the Legislature this […]
Students, faculty respond to Charlie Hebdo tragedy
Earlier this month, a wave of violent attacks in the heart of France shocked the world — and the aftermath is being felt by students and faculty as far away as the University of South Dakota. On Jan. 7, two gunmen broke into the headquarters of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris and attacked members of […]
LIVE BLOG: State of the Union
Live Blog State of the Union Jan. 20 Follow the State of the Union address here on our live blog.
Students volunteer in Vermillion, Yankton for Day of Service
More than 80 University of South Dakota students participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Jan. 19. For the seventh year in a row, the Center for Academic and Global Engagement at USD organized and sponsored various volunteer efforts in both Vermillion and Yankton. In total, students volunteered at 16 different locations […]
Boy Scout presents ROTC program with custom bookcase
The University of South Dakota Reserve Officers’ Training Corps welcomed a new addition to the decor in the Burr House Friday afternoon. Graham Leonard, a Boy Scout and a freshman at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, presented the ROTC with a custom bookcase he built as part of his Eagle Scout requirements. Leonard said the […]
Students say social change depends on education, dialogue in response to nationwide protests
A group of 250 Syracuse University students staged a “die-in” Monday, which lasted four and a half minutes to symbolize the four and a half hours Michael Brown’s body was in the streets of Ferguson, Mo., following his death. More than 150 protesters, including many UC Berkeley students, were arrested the same day following a march […]
Vermillion man carries on tradition of family Christmas tree business
To students, Mitchel Morse is the man who unlocks the Muenster University Center every day in the early hours of the morning, the man who arranges and aligns furniture to accommodate campus speakers and events and the man who ensures the MUC is neat and tidy. But to the community of Vermillion, Morse is known […]
USD students lose “grandparents” after closure of Vermillion Assisted Living
Every Thursday, University of South Dakota senior Scott Cichos has gone to Vermillion Assisted Living to visit his adopted “grandfather” David Hansen. Cichos met Hansen three years ago through the Students Enhancing Resources for Vermillion Enrichment (SERVE) organization at USD. “He’s a huge jokester, and he’s just got the greatest outlook on life,” Cichos said of Hansen. […]
Sculpture Walk to expand to downtown Vermillion
Downtown Vermillion will get a touch of artistic culture this summer as an extension of the University of South Dakota’s Sculpture Walk brings four sculptures to Main Street. Larry Schou saw an opportunity to give recognition to the Arts Department and commemorate the hard work of artists in a way that would also benefit the city […]