BREAKING: Dawn Plitzuweit named new USD women’s head basketball coach
Dawn Plitzuweit has been named the 10th women’s basketball head coach in program history. Plitzuweit, who is coming from a coaching position at Northern Kentucky, has compiled a 188-93 record in nine years as a head coach. She has led programs to 19 winning seasons in 21 years of coaching experience at the NCAA Division […]
USD athletics department budgets for coming year, lack of GAF increase
In a small office tucked away in the bowels of the DakotaDome, Jeanette Hubert plans for the Athletic Department’s coming year. Hubert, the Associate Athletic Director of Finance & Administration for USD, and her one assistant race against the clock every year to plan the department’s $12.9 million budget before July 1, the start of the […]
Vermillion City Council indefinitely tables chicken ordinance in close vote
Residents living in Vermillion who want the option of gathering fresh chicken eggs from their backyards will have to consider other alternatives. In a 5-4 vote Monday evening, the Vermillion City Council moved to indefinitely table a proposed ordinance that would allow residents to keep up to four chickens in backyard coops within city limits. […]
PHOTOS: USD hosts 96th annual Military Ball
Members of the USD Reserve Officers’ Training Corps attended the 96th annual Military Ball Saturday evening in the Muenster University Center. The keynote speaker for the ball was USD alumnus Brigadier General Ronald Place. Place is responsible for 14 medical treatment facilities on the Eastern seaboard and in the Southeast. This year also marks the […]
BREAKING: Amy Williams takes head coaching position at Nebraska
Former head women’s basketball coach Amy Williams is leaving USD to take a head coaching position at the University of Nebraska. The Nebraska Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst announced Monday that Williams will be the new head women’s basketball coach. “We are extremely fortunate and thrilled to have identified an exceptional person, coach and Nebraska […]
City sees influx of visitors for WNIT Championship
Saturday, the city of Vermillion swelled in size as thousands of people descend upon it to see the USD women’s basketball team take on Florida Gulf Coast University in the WNIT Championship game. This is the first year Vermillion has hosted a game that is the size and scope of the WNIT final game. John […]
WNIT brings out the best of USD student section
I was planning on leaving at halftime. Last Sunday night I decided to go watch the women’s basketball team play the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers for the “third last game in the DakotaDome.” I, along with the group I came with, were only planning on staying until half due to multiple homework assignments leftover from break. But […]
Students get real-world experience at annual business competition
Entrepreneurs and innovators from area high schools and USD gathered Saturday for the second Invent to Innovate Business Model Competition. Seventeen teams presented their business ideas to a panel of judges for a chance to win cash prizes. Beacom School of Business Dean Venky Venkatachalam said the goal of the event was to create economic […]
New Secretary of Education hopes to streamline student loan repayment
Paying off student loans can be a burden years after a graduate gets his or her college diploma, but the U.S. Department of Education is now trying to make that burden a little less heavy.You can also see more to know about educational loan facilities. On Friday, newly appointed Secretary of Education John B. King […]
Visiting professor to speak on role of cathedrals in medieval cities
A professor specializing in medieval architecture and sculpture in France and Spain will be speaking at USD next week about the role of cathedrals within medieval cities. Caroline Bruzelius, a professor from Duke University, will speak at “The Cathedral and the City” event Thursday, March 17 at 4 p.m. in the Freedom Forum conference room in […]