2014
Crop tops a hot trend for season
Transitioning into the spring season, the hot trend on the runway is the crop top. Crop tops are available in all sorts of styles and prints in countless magazines and stores across the United States. Tops come in a more flowy style as well as form-fitted. There are solid-colored, patterned, crocheted, laced, haltered, strapless, long-sleeved, […]
Student pens book on Romanian orphans
When Holly Baker took 10 minutes to watch a video on Romanian orphanages in early 2013, she did not imagine what the video would inspire. In fact, the video — which highlighted the struggles of Romanian orphans and orphanage homes following the country’s release from communism -— was just an interesting video, until she shared […]
USD Idol winner finds her way back to vocals, tops USD Idol competition
Elizabeth Daniel said she has been singing “for what feels like forever,” belting out Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” for anyone who would listen growing up. For the past two years, her vocals took a back seat to other pursuits. “I’ve been running from (singing) for a few years,” she said. It would be hard […]
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 […]
