2012
COLUMN: Division I status brings a new experience to USD sports
I’m not sure if you have heard yet, but the University of South Dakota football team willltake on a Football Bowl Subdivision and Big 10 opponent Northwestern on Saturday. It is an exciting week for not only the team, but for anyone at USD. The Student Government Association is selling a Chicago Game Day package […]
Warder dreams of bare-chested Roddick
EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week The Volante sports staff will interview a member of the USD athletic community and ask them off-the-wall questions. Enjoy the hilarity. MC: When you’re on the court, are you a screamer? MW: Not as much a screamer as I am a grunter. Honestly, if you get into a tough match, and […]
Women’s golf takes a shot at SIUE tourney
The University of South Dakota women’s golf team will be back in the swing of things as they travel the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Intercollegiate Sept. 24-25. This will be the team’s second meet of the season after a rough start in Lincoln, Neb. during the Chip N’ Club Invitational. “Our main goal when working with […]
COLUMN: Why is there no men’s history?
This semester I am taking an art history class focused on female artists and examining the various ways in which the concept of a woman has been reduced to an object from the Renaissance onward. This class is one of the most awesome classes I’ve taken during my college career, so I feel the need […]
Organist visits USD
With his feet dancing along the peddles and his hands summoning sound from the keys, concert organist Douglas Cleveland, Ph.D, entertained his audience Sept. 14 in the University of South Dakota’s own Aalfs Auditorium. Cleveland started the night of with Concerto in A Minor by J.S. Bach and three songs later ended it with Sonata […]
Mysterious Twitter celebrity calls for school spirit
Dear Coyotes, Hate. State. Two powerful words that form one commandment: show no love to your brethren 116 miles north of us. And I urge you to obey. We have many reasons to show no love to those who attend South Dakota State University. After all, students of the agricultural school of the state […]
Dave Matthews impresses again
After 21 years of making music and a seemingly endless tour schedule, one may say the Dave Matthews Band is beginning to show signs of wear and tear. However, that person would also be wrong. From the initial guitar riff and smooth melodies of “Broken Things,” the first track off the band’s eighth studio album, […]
“The Words” makes audience think
As someone aspiring to be an author one day, I have given a lot of thought to what that would be like. Naturally when I saw the trailer for “The Words,” I was instantly captivated and ready to go to the theater. As I left the cinema, I had a million different ideas buzzing around […]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia — Growing Out a Pixie: From Justin Bieber to Javier Bardem
Over the course of the 2012-13 school year, this blog will record my hair-related trials and tribulations, (the good, the bad and the downright terrifying) as I attempt to grow out a pixie to just-shorter-than-shoulder-length hair, in time for my spring commencement. But this ain’t my first rodeo. No. I’ve grown out my hair from […]
Meet your classmate…Bo Bruinsma
A political science major, criminal justice and mass communications minor is not your typical combination. But for Bo Bruinsma, it just worked out that way. Bruinsma is a senior at the University of South Dakota and will graduate in May. He said after visiting with his academic adviser, it made sense to get this degree. […]