November 7, 2017
USD students to travel and teach theater to high schoolers
A group of USD students will be touring the state throughout this month to teach high school students about theater as part of a class. Acting Shakespeare, offered every other fall at USD, went on the first tour in 2015. Chaya Gordon-Bland, associate professor of theater, teaches the class. She said the tour is focused […]
USD, SVRC plan Veterans Day events
USD is celebrating and honoring veterans through speakers, a dinner and various events. The Student Veterans Club is hosting a Veteran’s Appreciation Dinner Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Eagle’s Club. Joseph Knoer, the Student Veterans Resource Center coordinator, said the Student Veterans Club dinner was originally supposed to be in the Muenster University Center […]
USD women’s soccer coach ‘relieved of coaching duties’
Women’s head soccer coach Mandy Green was relieved of her duties Nov. 1. David Herbster, USD’s athletic director, announced her firing in a press release on GoYotes. “At the end of the day, the results on the field did not meet our expectations,” Herbster said in the press release. Green took over as head coach […]
Student veterans share stories from service
Three student veterans, Nathan Stockfleth, Krisztian Fasi and Michael Mayrose, have served a combined 21 years in the military. Each shared their experiences in service and how they’ve adjusted to civilian and college life. Twelve years in the Air National Guard Stockfleth, a senior finance major from Sergeant Bluff, IA, has been in the Air […]
Writers push daily word counts in hopes of publishing novels
A thousand words a day for 30 days – that’s how several USD students hope to finish writing their novels by the end of this month. As part of National Novel Writing Month, Ph.D. student and author Teri Kramer is working with students on their novels. Kramer has written three novels this year and is working on […]
Dogs train with Yankton prison inmates
A few four-legged “inmates” have been serving time at a Yankton prison. Trained dogs can be part of anything as per this contact form. Four dogs from Heartland Humane Society in Yankton previously lived in the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Yankton as part of the Federal Inmate Dog Obedience (FIDO) program. The FIDO program, […]
Editorial: USD should erect new flagpole
We’re all lucky to be at college. It’s an opportunity most of the world isn’t afforded. For most, it can difficult to grasp how fortunate we are and what it takes to have a functioning educational institution. There’s one group of people we can all thank: veterans. Without our men and women in uniform, it […]
Why President Trump’s border wall is a bad idea
In late September, the United States government announced the construction of eight prototype border walls for the Mexican border, a primary promise President Donald Trump made during his presidential campaign. The Customs and Border Protection said four of the prototypes are going to be made of concrete, and the others are going to be made from […]