2014
Taking a bite of the world: Featured recipes from Festival of Nations
The sights — and smells — from the Festival of Nations April 6 in the Muenster University Center ballroom featured plates that covered regions all over the globe. Here are a few cooks and their featured recipes from the University of South Dakota event: Haiti Angelica Gabriel, director of Wesley Campus in Vermillion, met her […]
It’s time to organize, bring on the college athletic union
Hail to the union, the collegiate athlete union. I might be jumping the gun on this one — there are no college athletes picketing arenas with “More work? Less pay? No way!” signs, but a recent decision by the regional National Labor Relations Board could mean monumental changes to college athletics. The official ruling March […]
Programs combat neglect
Most late-night ice cream runs made by University of South Dakota students don’t end with a coloring session at the Vermillion Police Department with three young children. Junior Kate Turner, who is also The Volante’s advertising manager, had a “relatively strange” evening last October with a friend, who asked not to be identified. Shortly after […]
Students lack respect for professors
“We never had that back when I was growing up.” How many times have you heard one of your grandparents, teachers or anyone older than you say that? This generation is accustomed to many privileges the generation before us were not provided with. Throughout all of the changes our society has gone through, from even […]
Trevino paves way for diversity
When Jesus Trevino came to the University of South Dakota in fall 2012, he had a vision for the Office of Diversity, a vision that has steered USD in the right direction and toward an actual remedy for its diversity shortcomings. Since then, the associate vice president for diversity has implemented numerous policies and incentives, […]
First-year pitcher becomes leader for team
In the game of softball, the pitcher’s game can be the deciding factor in how the game turns out, which is why the University of South Dakota’s women’s softball team feeds off the success of first-year pitcher Rachel Cue, senior third baseman Lindsey Boyd said. In the Coyotes’ most recent games at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort […]
Festival serves as ‘bridge’ to cultural exchange
More than 150 strangers held hands, stepping to the beat of the drums in an attempt to perform their own version of a Native American circle dance. They stretched through the entire Muenster University Center Ballroom April 6 doing this — stumbling, laughing, keeping time. Angelica Gabriel, director of Wesley Campus in Vermillion, was alongside […]
Law school looking into possible Legal Studies minor
A Legal Studies minor which would qualify under the University of South Dakota’s College of Art and Sciences department is an idea as of right now said Angela Ericson, School of Law assistant academic dean. Ericson said the law school and Arts and Sciences department have had little discussion on the minor or potential benefits […]
Don’t bet on a South Dakota spring
“South Dakota? You know it gets cold there, right?” This is what more than a few people back home said to me when they heard I was coming to school here. At the time, I thought it was pretty stupid. The only difference between the weather here and in Illinois was that Illinois got it […]
Dakotathon 2014 Coverage
9 a.m. – The 2014 Dakotathon ended April 6 in the place it started, the Muenster University Center’s ballroom with students, “miracle children” and their families all in attendance. The major reveal for the closing ceremony was the amount raised with these year’s event. Dakotathon fundraised $56,205 for the Children’s Miracle Network, $6,ooo more than […]