April 2017
Month of events to address human and sex trafficking
A group of professors and community members are coming together to educate on an overlooked topic — human trafficking. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so professors from the criminal justice and political science departments decided to cover a topic that isn’t normally talked about on campus. They came up with a three-week event series, […]
Player of the Pack: Josh Hale
Josh Hale is a junior sport marketing & media major on the football team. Dustin VanHunnik: What is your favorite sport to watch? Josh Hale: Football. It’s the only sport I’ve really ever paid attention to. DV: What is your favorite USD sporting event? JH: Definitely the basketball games. The games against State are easily […]
USD track and field coach presented Olympic bronze medal
Derek Miles, a USD alumnus and current track and field coach, received a bronze medal Monday for his pole vaulting performance during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Miles placed fourth in the event nine years ago, but after the International Olympic Committee stripped a handful of athletes of their medals for banned substances found during retests […]
Campus charity group to send aid to those in need
A new student organization will be shipping food packages to people in need soon. The group, Then Feed Just One, aims to help families in Central America, South America and Africa. Then Feed Just One is a non-profit organization based in Le Mars, Iowa, and was brought to USD by first-year students and co-presidents Krayton […]
USD to play Oklahoma in 2019
The USD football team will be playing national powerhouse Oklahoma University in 2019. The game, scheduled to take place Sept. 7, will be USD’s second game of the season. USD will be paid $575,000 to play OU in Norman, OK. These so-called “cupcake games” allow smaller schools, such as those in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), […]
Two USD students enter their app idea in $5,000 contest
Two USD students are hoping to score $5,000 from the state to help them develop an app. Sam Hummel, an MBA graduate student, and Tyler Frank, a senior accounting major, are competing in the Governor’s Giant Vision Student Competition. Their app idea is called “The Knack.” “The Knack is an e-commerce based app focusing on hand-made goods and services,” […]
It might be too late for United Airlines to recover from bad press
Anyone who’s turned on the news or logged onto Twitter in the last week probably knows about United Airlines’ most recent controversy. Passengers on a United flight from Chicago to Louisville, KY watched as an older Asian man was violently removed from his seat to clear a spot for airline staff because the flight had been overbooked. Though it’s […]
Chemical weapons: A demand for action
War is a terrible thing. As Robert E. Lee said, “It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.” What a sad, yet honest statement of humanity. We must avoid war when we can. One of the few things I supported former President Obama on was the […]
Volunteer firefighters dedicated to protecting community, saving lives
Fighting fires is just one more commitment for the 20 full-time students that volunteer for the Vermillion Fire Department. Vermillion EMS deputy chief Matt Callahan said the volunteers bring a new atmosphere to the department. “They’re a younger generation of people, so I think it helps with that, helps with the diversity of the department,” he […]
Morgan’s Mix: Q&A with NE-HI’s Jason Balla
NE-HI is a band from Chicago comprised of Jason Balla (guitar), Mikey Wells (guitar), James Weir (bass) and Alex Otake (drums). The band stopped at Total Drag Records on Easter night on their tour promoting their full-length album “Offers.” It was their second time at Total Drag; their first was during a tour with fellow […]