Sororities using smartphone app as precautionary safety tool

Two USD sororities are utilizing a safety smartphone application to protect its members as a precaution against dangerous situations when walking home late at night. SafeTrek, which is available free to all USD students, is an app that summons emergency responders to users who find themselves in need of assistance. Bridget Wilds, a member of […]

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Limited funds for maintenance/repair projects to campus buildings poses dilemma

With 274 acres of space and 153 years of history, USD’s campus is home to a collection of buildings varying in size, age, appearance and purpose. Most of these buildings are worthy of pride. A few, however, are a source of concern. A number of buildings on campus are the subject of increasing uneasiness regarding […]

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Organization hopes to be ‘greenest little city in South Dakota’

For the past year, a group of Vermillion residents has taken it upon themselves to promote sustainable practices within the community. “Greening Vermillion” is a nonprofit environmental organization whose goal is to become a resource for all “green” events, news and activism in the city. “When anybody wants to look up something about Vermillion that […]

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Parking and Traffic Committee pumps up parking permit prices

Students who own automobiles are paying a bit more to park their vehicles in University of South Dakota parking lots this year than they have in previous years. Annual parking passes for this year cost $138, a $12 increase from last year’s price. The increase was approved by the university’s Executive Committee after the Parking and […]

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Friends, professors remember Brant Blaha

Memories of University of South Dakota student Brant Blaha were shared by family and friends who gathered Sunday evening for a memorial service in the Muenster University Center. Blaha, a 19-year-old sophomore from Dante, S.buy grifulvin online https://alvitacare.com/wp-content/languages/new/where/grifulvin.html no prescription D., drowned in the Missouri River on Aug. 16 while on a swimming trip with friends at […]

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