April 2019
What We Think: A review of Vermillion’s newest restaurant
In What We Think, the Verve Team ventures out to try businesses, restaurants (Going Here you can figure out the way people can open a restaurant franchise), products and trends so you don’t have to! This week we tested out Vermillion’s newest restaurant, Pizza Ranch! You can look into jackintheboxfranchising.com to franchise with some of […]
Week-long Earth Days celebration will promote sustainability
To celebrate Earth Day on April 22, the Sustainability Club, as well as other organizations around the community, are hosting a week of events. The theme for the week is ‘Let’s Talk Trash.’ Faith Ireland, a second-year sustainability major and events coordinator for Sustainability Club, said the theme is focused on “human waste and what […]
Spring Break: USD bypasses spring football game
USD football decided to forego the annual spring football game due to DakotaDome renovations. Instead, the team held two practices open to the public on April 6 and 14. Head coach Bob Nielson and Athletic Director Dave Herbster came to the conclusion for no spring football game, which is usually held in April. “The Dome being […]
Coyotes win 10 Events at Sioux City Relays
USD had a top collegiate finisher in all but two events at the Sioux City Relays on Saturday. Sophomore Landon Kemp became the third Coyote this season to break the 14-foot mark, and only the fifth in USD history. Kemp, who vaulted 14 feet, ¼ inches to win the event, moved into 10th place in […]
Devers’ breakout season attributed to work ethic and attitude
In total, the USD women’s softball team won five conference games last year. This year, they’re 11-1 in Summit League play, and won nine straight games against Summit League opponents from March 30 to April 14. Redshirt-sophomore pitcher Alexis Devers has won her last six games. In those games, she has yielded zero home runs […]
Smooth as butter: Two-time Diver of the Year Isaac Morris reflects
It is a nearly impossible feat to win an Athlete of the Year award in the Summit League if you only compete for three weeks. However, junior Isaac “Butters” Morris captured the Summit League Diver of the Year after missing most of the season recovering from a torn ACL while rock climbing. “Just over the […]
Pride Week to celebrate LGBTQ+ community
Spectrum organizes a pride week dedicated to promoting and celebrating the LGBTQ+ community each spring. Pride Day usually is celebrated in June, which is Pride Month, but Spectrum selects a week within the spring semester so USD students can participate and support the LGBTQ+ community. The week will kick off on Thursday, April 18, with […]
ITS reports over 1,000 incidents involving compromised accounts last year
The service desk of the university’s Information Technology Services (ITS) processed 1,132 tickets related to compromises of student accounts in the past year. Some tickets were duplicates of one account’s compromise, while other tickets involved the hacker managing to log back into separately compromised accounts due to the password not being changed when the account […]
Dakotathon tops $200,000 fundraising goal at annual Dance Marathon
Updated at 9:50 a.m., 4/14/19. Lauren Soulek and Lexi Kerzman contributed to this story. Members of Dakotathon fell into tears and hugs on the floor of the Sanford Coyote Sports Center after seeing their final amount raised for the Children’s Miracle Network: $208,732.19. For the 22nd consecutive year, Dakothon and its 700 members kicked off […]
The Rant: Displays of affection in the MUC
Dear lovers in the MUC, We can see you. We see you holding hands walking to pick up your Chick-fil-A Tapingo order, as if you’re going on a romantic hike in a magical forest. The Muenster University Center is not the place to have your romantic night away, and the MUC pit is not a […]