QuickHits: Gilsar, Mettler, Gress set records at fourth annual USD Red-White indoor track meet

VERMILLION, S.D. — Megan Glisar, Jeff Mettler and Ali Gress each set meet records as South Dakota track and field held its fourth annual Red-White Meet at the DakotaDome on Friday.  The meet serves as a preseason event and the results did not count in any qualification standards or national r ankings. Glisar jumped 5 […]

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COLUMN: Divisional competition should round out postseason picture

Heading into the final three weeks of action in the National Football League, the National Football Conference (NFC) playoff picture couldn’t be any tighter. As opposed to its conference counterpart, the American Football Conference (AFC), the NFC has five open playoff spots left. This creates tension within the conference, as any team can potentially lose […]

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Students view gender-neutral housing as step forward

The Residence Hall Government Association is considering a policy that would enact gender-neutral housing as an option in residence halls. “We are in the beginning stages of this project and are in the process of creating a proposal to present to the Dean of Students and Student Services administration,” Stephen Goodfellow, president of RHGA, said. […]

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Local business owners capitalize on students as consumers, employees

In part three of this three part series, The Volante focuses on a local businesswoman’s achievements in a predominantely male business environment.                   Among the sound of freshlybrewed coffee spewing from the machine and hushed, frantic gossip conversations of elderly women, college students of all backgrounds can […]

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Graduate School sees 5 percent increase for 2012

The University of South Dakota Graduate School has reached an all-time high. “Graduate enrollment, not including the Medical School and Law School, was at 2,157 this past fall,” Brandy Durham, director of recruitment & marketing at USD Graduate School said. “Based on information from the Institutional Research Office, this would not be the highest headcount. […]

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