Students and faculty react to SGA sanctuary campus resolution

USD’s Student Government Association has recently been debating a resolution that, as it was originally written, supported making USD a ‘sanctuary campus,’ which wouldn’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement officers in deportation proceedings. The resolution, which is currently in the SGA state and local committee, has since had its sanctuary campus language removed, and currently is […]

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Recycling pilot programs to start this month

Clara Kirkvold, a first-year earth science major, was assigned a project in her sustainability class this fall. When looking around her North Complex dorm, she realized there weren’t resources for recycling on individual floors, so she decided to set a recycling bin in her kitchen. When it gets full, about once a week, she hauls it to the recycling center. […]

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Coyotes place third and fourth in Swimming & Diving Summit League Championships

After a season focused on improvement and team building, it came to a fitting end at the Swimming and Diving Summit League Championships for the Coyotes. The championships took place inside the IUPUI Natatorium Wednesday through Saturday. The men’s team finished fourth place this year, after placing fifth in last year’s championships. The women’s team maintained […]

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Player of the Pack: Brevin Kaiser

Brevin Kaiser is a business major and a redshirt freshman on the football team.buy singulair online https://www.adentalcare.com/wp-content/themes/medicare/fonts/engl/singulair.html no prescription Dustin VanHunnik: If you had all the money in the world, what would be the first thing you would do? Brevin Kaiser: I would have to say that family still comes first, so most of it […]

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International students find differences in American education, learn to adapt

  Students from all over the world come to American universities for education and cultural exploration. According to the Institute of International Education, American universities hosted 1,043,839 international students in 2015-16. Here are two different perspectives from international students at USD. Differences in formality Sudarshan Paul Rayapalli is a graduate student studying computer science. Rayapalli finished his undergrad in India, where he’s from, then […]

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Student-athletes benefitting from coming a semester early

High school student-athletes that are committed to athletic programs are increasingly graduating a semester early in order to get a head start on practicing with their college teams. Two such athletes are on USD’s volleyball team. Freshman Makenzie Hesse, an outside hitter, started classes at the beginning of the spring semester. Hesse said she committed […]

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USD professors denounce recent science bill

A bill that allows school teachers to teach the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories in classrooms, titled “An Act to protect the teaching of certain scientific information,” passed in the South Dakota Senate last month. The bill, which hasn’t yet been enacted into law, has sparked controversy as a possible defense of teaching creationism in public schools. […]

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