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Candidly Canada: Learning foreign languages requires innovation

April 25th, 2017

37 After taking two years of French – three semesters in the States and one in Canada – I would've expected myself to be at least familiar with the language. However,...

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Bill O'Reilly's departure from Fox News is bittersweet

April 24th, 2017

183 I'm not a journalist, I haven't taken a journalism class since I was in high school and my only real qualification to talk about journalistic ethics is that I read the...

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Editorial: Dakotathon brings USD students together

April 11th, 2017

20 This year’s Dakotathon not only raised $145,422, surpassing its original goal of $115,000, but it also achieved something it does every year — it brought USD...

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It might be too late for United Airlines to recover from bad press

April 18th, 2017

90 Anyone who's turned on the news or logged onto Twitter in the last week probably knows about United Airlines’ most recent controversy. Passengers on a United...

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Diversity on campus leads to new education

April 17th, 2017

51 I am a straight, white, Lutheran man who grew up in a small South Dakota town where the population of 800 was almost entirely white Protestants. In Whitewood,...

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Busted filibuster: A needed change

April 12th, 2017

155 On my last day as an intern for the United States Senate I was asked, “If there is one you would change about the Senate, what would it be?” I replied, “Get rid...

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Chemical weapons: A demand for action

April 18th, 2017

125 War is a terrible thing. As Robert E. Lee said, “It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.” What a sad, yet honest statement of...

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Leave politics out of sports

April 12th, 2017

107 Politics are supposed to bring a country together, but in reality, they tend to separate it. Meanwhile, sports are the exact opposite. They're supposed to separate...

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Pepsi's Jenner ad shows misunderstanding between generations

April 10th, 2017

192 In his 2009 movie The Invention of Lying, British actor Ricky Gervais summed up the average useage of Pepsi with the parody slogan: Pepsi, when they don’t have Coke....

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