February 2013
REVIEW: STRFKR third album amps up electronics
To be perfectly honest, I only found out about Starfu*cker through their name. I figured it’d be something unnecessarily discordant and metal-y (think Nine Inch Nails’ song “Starf*ckers, Inc.”). Instead, what I heard was “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second”: three minutes of tight, quirky, dance-inflected indie rock. Now, on their third album, “Miracle Mile,” STRFKR […]
COLUMN: March Madness may leave USD in the cold
March is a beautiful time of the year for basketball fans. When one’s college basketball team is simply waiting for their school to start playing in the NCAA basketball tournament, every day looks bright and sunny. For USD, things are a little gloomy and gray. USD is at the breaking point of their first season […]
Coyotes take first in Summit League Championships
The University of South Dakota men’s indoor track and field team had a monumental two days Feb. 24-25, winning the Summit League Conference Championship held at the DakotaDome. The men had seven individual championships and also took home first place in the 1600 meter relay. The win is important university wide, as it’s the Coyotes […]
USD women’s golf tees up for season
The Coyote women’s golf team hits the course for the first time since the fall as the team heads to Sedona, Ariz. for the Northern Arizona Red Rocks Invitational beginning March 2. The invitational hosts 20 teams, and the Coyotes will be under pressure as they have only been able to practice exclusively in the […]
COLUMN: Romance in the MUC
Last week I went on my first “Blaine date.” It’s like a blind date, but better. I am a double major and spend endless hours improving my brain in the library, so Blaine had to work around my incessant studying to ensure we were able to have dinner together. He met me in the library, […]
Clodfelter’s lasting legacy
Kim Clodfelter thumbs through a well-worn University of South Dakota yearbook from 1954, surrounded by a dozen similar titles stacked on a table in ID Weeks library. The 58-year-old Kim Clodfelter stops at the men’s basketball page. His finger circles the team photograph several times, then points directly at it. “This was Dad’s first year […]
BLOG: Names cause problems for the Girl with the Glasses
What is in a name? An interesting question, Mr. Shakespeare. It’s a question that caused no little bit of controversy on Facebook this last week. Sometimes when I’m lying awake at night and pondering my life, I consider my name. Sometimes I say it to myself over and over again. “Jackie.” After a while, […]
Guest pianist wows small audience
Sitting in the small Colton Recital Hall, the few, but excited crowd members waited for pianist Kevin Ayesh to perform. Ayesh has received degrees from both the University of Texas and the University of Maryland, and is a professor at Blue Ridge Community College in Virginia. Music students, professors and members of the community came […]
BLOG: A professional procrastinator’s realization
I have a confession to make; I don’t know how to deal with change. I like to make it seem like I know what I’m doing and that I can go with the flow, but to be honest, it’s really hard for me to wrap my mind around change, no matter how big or small […]
Where have all the CDs gone?
Sophomore CJ Carlson sits with his laptop on his legs as a guitar riff plays loudly from its speakers. The notes and vocals combine to form a work of art, but he didn’t pay for it. Music has evolved over the years not only in style, but in format. From records to MP3 files, tunes […]