Opinion

Complaints invalid without understanding

April 19th, 2017

44 Complaining – we all do it. We all have ideas of how things could be improved and done differently. There are 300 million people in the United States, and each and...

Opinion

Editorial: Marijuana should be decriminalized

April 19th, 2017

105 South Dakota activist groups are organizing efforts to legalize medical and recreational use of marijuana. This effort doesn’t come without opposition. Governor...

Opinion

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

April 18th, 2017

91 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...

Opinion

Chemical weapons: A demand for action

April 18th, 2017

127 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...

Opinion

Diversity on campus leads to new education

April 17th, 2017

55 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,...

Opinion

Busted filibuster: A needed change

April 12th, 2017

159 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...

Opinion

Leave politics out of sports

April 12th, 2017

111 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...

Opinion

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...

Opinion

Pepsi's Jenner ad shows misunderstanding between generations

April 10th, 2017

195 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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