2016
Possible cyberattack on Volante website leads to beefed up security
On Sunday morning four stories on The Volante’s website were unpublished in the matter of minutes, alerting editors to a possible cyber breach. The stories, which were all Verve articles, were unpublished from an editor’s account, whose password has since been changed. In a 24-hour period, there were 240 failed login attempts on The Volante’s […]
Safe spaces disrupt the First Amendment
USD prides itself on supporting the First Amendment, words of which are proudly displayed on the front of the Al Neuharth Media Center. While USD supports freedom of speech unquestionably, I can’t fathom how college campuses across the country are creating designated, little spots to avoid offending others. These areas are considered safe spaces, tabooing certain triggering words […]
Cooking and eating healthy is worth the effort
One of the hardest things about moving away from home has been finding ways of eating healthy meals while being on a budget. As a freshman and sophomore, getting food wasn’t such a big issue for me because I was on a meal plan that covered everything I could possibly need each week. Even though […]
Becoming bilingual is crucial for USD students, Americans
In a world that’s becoming more connected every day, it’s now more beneficial to learn another language —even in the English-heavy country of the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a record-breaking one in five Americans speak another language other than English in their household. This percentage is only expected to go up […]
Editorial: DAPL raises questions beyond the pipeline
As American college students, we aren’t known for sitting idly in the face of injustice. The Dakota Access Pipeline is no exception. Across the nation, people are rallying alongside the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota to stop production plans for the pipeline. Even after the Obama administration halted the pipeline, the risk still […]
Letter to the editor: Honors Program curriculum serves all students
Dear Editor, I am responding to the Aug. 30 opinion piece addressing the Honors Program curriculum. The Honors Program serves students of all majors and our courses are explicitly designed to be interdisciplinary in nature, allowing students to share their perspectives with one another. As a result, according to an exit survey of a 2016 […]
Virtual reality may be next art form
For anyone who has never gotten the chance to experience virtual reality, it’s almost beyond description. I, of course, can try to tell you what it feels like, but by nature it’s something that needs to be used first-hand for the full effect. With high-end options, it’s like jacking into the Matrix. It’s the logical […]
Political party and personal ideology: There’s a difference
In a letter to a future Continental Congress colleague, John Adams wrote, “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist visits USD
An image is said to be worth 1,000 words, but for one community photojournalist it was also worth the Pultizer Prize. Robert Cohen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning community photojournalist, visited USD last Thursday. Cohen, an employee of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, won his Pulitzer for his photographic coverage of the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death […]