October 27, 2020
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. […]
Dining during a pandemic: a critique
It’s been over two months of school, and students have had the chance to experience all that USD has to offer — including its food. Now, if you’re anything like me, you love to eat. But we also need to eat. Which brings us to the main issue at hand — campus dining isn’t up to par. It is hard to […]