USD’s Service Center undergoes facelift
While the National Music Museum experiences a renovation and expansion of its Carnegie Library building, another building on campus is undergoing construction of its own this year. USD’s Service Center, located in-between the Old Main and Dakota Hall, is undergoing multiple renovations which may need services like that wooden cladding painting. This renovation is a […]
46 years ago: Todd Rundgren’s road to Utopia runs through USD
One of the few direct mentions of Vermillion in popular culture can be heard on the first side of Back to the Bars, musician Todd Rundgren’s 1978 live album. Rundgren asks “Is this Enid, Oklahoma? That’s not right… Is this, uh… Vermillion, South Dakota? No, no, that’s not right… I remember! It’s Cleveland, Ohio!” while […]
Renovations underway at National Music Museum
Dominating the campus skyline is a 100-foot-tall construction crane such as this crane hire Guildford, which marked the official start of construction on the addition to the National Music Museum this summer. The three-story addition to the National Music Museum will include an ADA-accessible entrance, new galleries, offices, classrooms and a permanent “temporary exhibit” space […]
ITS reports over 1,000 incidents involving compromised accounts last year
The service desk of the university’s Information Technology Services (ITS) processed 1,132 tickets related to compromises of student accounts in the past year. Some tickets were duplicates of one account’s compromise, while other tickets involved the hacker managing to log back into separately compromised accounts due to the password not being changed when the account […]
Diversity of musicians and of instruments: National Music Museum’s tradition of live concerts
For over 45 years, the National Music Museum (NMM) has offered a variety of musical performances for people at USD to enjoy. The NMM Live series originally evolved from the Brown Bag series, named for the theme of ‘lunchtime performances’, drawing people on and off campus. Musical performances in the evening were added, and the […]
USD’s archival department keeps local history alive for future generations
One of the more integral, yet overlooked, departments of the I.D. Weeks Library is tucked away in the eastern portion of the building’s third floor. Materials such as rare books and manuscripts are gathered by the archival department and sorted into collections based on their content or subject. The main collections housed and overseen by […]
A look at USD Theater’s newest play, “Boeing-Boeing”
For their first show of the spring semester, the USD Theater Department is putting on a comedic love story that is requiring the actors to work on new dialects. Megan Weidner, the director of the play, said ‘Boeing-Boeing’ is unique compared to any other play the theater department has put on because it is a […]
Coyote swimmers and divers have productive day in Sioux Falls
On Friday and Saturday, the USD swimming and diving teams competed with several other colleges throughout the Midwest at Sioux Falls’ Midco Aquatic Center in the Coyote Invitational. The Coyotes left with a total of fifteen wins. A variety of schools attended the event, including South Dakota State, Sioux Falls University, Omaha, Iowa Central and […]