Annual festival brings over 20 cultures to USD
They say the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach. If the yearly tradition of food, flags and new friends at the University of South Dakota’s Festival of Nations is any indication, the phrase rings true. The annual Festival of Nations, hosted by the International Students Club, features an array of exotic dishes cooked […]
What is your degree worth?
The University of South Dakota is ranked last — dead last. According to a March 12 MoneyWatch article examining starting salaries earned by graduates of the 46 state flagship universities around the country, USD grads earned less than any other flagship university, taking in $35,900 per year. The figures, generated by a research firm called […]
College search engine could mislead students
South Dakota State University may be outdoing the University of South Dakota in terms of lower cost and higher graduation rates. Or they may not. According to USD administrators, a newly launched online tool aimed at helping students choose a college may actually be misleading them. The “College Scorecard” is part of the U.S. Department […]
USD struggles with bandwidth demand
The University of South Dakota is just one of many United States colleges trying to keep up with an increased demand for faster, newer and better technology. One of the most important technological aspects of a modern student’s life is Internet access, and a fall 2012 mobile computing survey found 25 percent of 657 USD […]
Muckey, Hoffman sworn in as SGA executive team
The March 12 Student Government Association meeting saw a transition in leadership as new senators and a new executive team was sworn in. Former SGA President Alissa VanMeeteren and Vice President DJ Smith presented a list of proposed changes for the new administration and expressed gratitude for the opportunity to lead SGA before formally swearing […]
Legislative Overview: 2-27-13
House Bill 1213 House bill 1213 has been scheduled for a hearing with the Senate Education Committee. If passed, the bill would provide a reduced amount of state aid to education funding to certain school districts with a fall enrollment of less than 100 students. Schools with less than 100 students that are not located […]
UPDATED: Muckey and Hoffman win SGA election by 150 votes
Junior Erik Muckey and his sophomore running-mate Clay Hoffman won the Student Government Association presidential and vice presidential election by 150 votes. According to senior Deven Scott of the SGA Election Steering Committee, a total of exactly 2,000 students turned out to vote for their 2013-14 student body representatives. The breakdown of the votes: •Muckey/Hoffman: […]
Bollinger, Muckey campaigns propose different solutions to campus hot topics
At the annual Student Government Association presidential debate, presidential candidates answered questions posed by the Cross Media Council and students in attendance. Junior Jilanne Doom moderated the debate, and posed questions to the candidates on a variety of topics, including how they would handle negative publicity, the newly instated smoking ban, how they plan to […]
Q&A: Erik Muckey & Clay Hoffman
What issues at USD need to be addressed first? EM: What we have right now are three big main points. Developing a Division-I tradition, fostering USD/Vermillion relations and making SGA more accessible for students. How do you plan to go about doing these things? CH: With the DI tradition we want to increase all aspects within the […]
Students adjust to professors’ sabbaticals
Every few years, professors at the University of South Dakota take sabbatical leaves, where they are paid full or half salary by the university to research, travel or study. This semester, six USD professors are on sabbatical leave, with some doing their research near Vermillion and others traveling overseas to conduct their work in a […]