October 2020
USD students work to build a culture of resourcefulness on campus
For years USD has not had many consistent recycling acts set in place. However, two sustainability students are planning to change that for good. Caitlin Reimers, a junior sustainability major and campus recycling coordinator, and Anna Moore, a graduate student, have been working together to plan a campus initiative for recycling. Starting with North Complex […]
Pre-Physician’s Assistant Club provides resources, help to students looking to become PAs
USD currently offers the only physician’s assistant (PA) studies program in South Dakota. The Pre-Physicians Assistants’ Club on campus seeks to provide medical students who are planning on becoming physician assistants with resources and assistance on that path. Gracelyn Sales, a member of the PPAC, said the club helps USD students who are either applying […]
Roommates: Love ’em, hate ’em, can’t live without ’em
Our college and young adult years are filled with thrilling adventures, finding jobs, taking on crippling debt and of course the joys of roommates. Because it is always cheaper to live with a roommate or two, most college students or young adults opt to have one. But at what cost? Some days, it’s fun, other […]
SGA moves Green Initiative Fund to USD Sustainability Committee
The USD Student Government Association (SGA) passed a bill to move the Green Initiative Fund to the USD Sustainability Committee and a resolution to encourage the committee to adopt old guidelines in its meeting Tuesday. SGA also introduced a special appropriations bill to allocate funding to Yotes for Life for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Senator […]
Is having no holiday breaks affecting students?
At USD this fall semester, students will not receive any three-day weekend breaks due to COVID-19. This is to help prevent traveling and seeing others who might be at risk with COVID. Not only is USD doing this procedure but other schools around the world are so they can maintain a safe school environment for […]
“The Nosebleeds” are buzzing even without sports this semester
Saturday afternoons — once dominated by tailgates, endless finger-foods and football parties, USD students are now finding new ways to keep sports alive on Saturdays. For some students like freshmen Tavin Carncross and Brock Weidner, this absence of college sports has left them lost and longing for years past. With this in mind, Carncross and […]
Tanager football drops season finale
Football In a pivotal season finale for the Tanagers, they couldn’t muster up enough to top Lennox, falling to the Orioles 25-20 inside the DakotaDome last Thursday. Tanager quarterback Charlie Ward had the offense moving late in the third quarter but suffered an injury and the offense without him couldn’t get the job done. Lennox […]
Editorial: Democracy has its eyes on you
The past year has been a mudslinging, name-calling, muckraking mess of an election. By the end of March, we knew there was only one viable democractic candidate left for presidential nominee. We knew Biden and Trump would be going head to head. But no one could have predicted back in March that Trump would claim […]
Internet trolls: The bane of Trump
I always find it entertaining, you know, joining onto a livestream of a Trump rally to see thousands of people spamming messages in the live chat section that say “MAGA” and the like. When in these chats, I only see one or two people in futility trying to get their own message across. Maybe entertaining […]
Letter to the editor
To the Editor, I am an education major that attends school at the UDS’s main campus in Vermillion, SD. I am writing to you about the university’s expenses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic I utilized the USD Wellness Center and attended USD activities, which was included with the activity fees in my tuition. When COVID-19 hit the university closed the Wellness Center and their canceled events. […]