April 2014
TKE puts on fight night for St. Jude’s
Tau Kappa Epsilon’s annual Fight Night charity event sent fighting contestants head to head Thursday night to raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. The event brought in $3,614.33 and drew 250 people for the event’s 30 year. “No one else does anything like this,” TKE Philanthropy Chair Jordan Hermanson said. “It appeals to a […]
Timeflies packs over 1,800 inside the DakotaDome
Almost 30 months after the last major musical artist came to the University of South Dakota, the crowd at the DakotaDome greeted hip-hop duo Timeflies with a proper welcome Monday night. Organized by the USD Campus Activities Board, the concert sold over 1,800 tickets, CAB member Arianne Wunder said. “So far, I’ve only heard good […]
‘Bitch’ magazine editor speaks up for ‘Voices of the Silenced’
The nursery rhyme “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” may still be passed around the schoolyard, but at the third Diversity Symposium March 27, negative portrayals of race, gender and sexuality cannot just be brushed aside. “Well, it’s the 21st century, and there is plenty of research showing […]
Women head into conference competition
After going 2-1 in Wisconsin over the weekend, the University of South Dakota women’s tennis team (8-8) will head to Fort Wayne, Ind., April 4-5 to start conference play. The women beat Wisconsin-Green Bay 5-2 March 28 and Wisconsin-Stevens Point 9-0 March 29 before losing 4-3 to Wisconsin-Milwaukee March 30. “We did really well as […]