Stephen Hawking once said, “Without imperfection, neither you or I would exist.”  Hawking, considered by many to be one of the best theoretical physicists of our age, died on Mar. 14. I remember when I read the news. It was late at night (Hawking’s time zone had entered the next day). I was scrolling through Facebook, […]

It has been a year of ups and downs for the Center for Diversity and Community (CDC). Events like the Multicultural Leadership Institute saw a positive reception. Engagement was on the rise. Members of staff provided inspiration and optimism to students. However, not all was well. Lena Tran resigned from her post. Reports later revealed the […]

I read Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” in my senior year of high school, and I loved it. It was electrifying, terrifying and thought-provoking. I was certainly glad to have read it when it came up on the AP Literature exam that spring, which is probably part of the reason I passed the exam. But now that […]

I’m 21 years old. But last Tuesday, I felt like I was 5. On Feb. 6, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Tensions were high. For those not familiar, SpaceX is a private company that develops and launches rockets into space. Essentially it’s a private version of NASA. The Falcon […]

A bill introduced in Pierre, House Bill 1073, which aimed to protect free speech on college campuses in South Dakota, has failed in committee. I am deeply disappointed in the South Dakota State Legislature, as well as our own SGA, and their vote to oppose House Bill 1073. While I understand their concerns, I find […]

I enjoyed giving tours to prospective students on scholarship recognition day. Taking the sharpest and brightest students in the region around our university was a great experience. Getting to know them and their dreams reminded me of my days in high school, thinking about where I wanted to go to college. It got me thinking – […]

Let’s be honest: the USD School of Law has a bad rap around campus. Talk to faculty and students and it won’t be long before someone says something negative about the law school. I’ve been told that if I attended the law school, I would be selling out. The recent debate about moving the law […]

Echo chambers are dangerous, not just for the individual, but for society at large. For those who don’t know what an echo chamber is, it’s an environment where someone hears and engages with things they already believe or agree with. When people enter their echo chambers, they block out voices that disagree with them. No […]

Last Wednesday, at noon in the Muenster University Center pit lounge, the Honors Program presented its first lecture in the Flash Lecture series. Flash lectures are true to their name: they last only five minutes. To kick off the series, Michele Turner, the Student Counseling Center’s prevention coordinator, talked about laughter. While it was a […]

As a tutor of mathematics here at USD, it breaks my heart when a student says, “I can do math, I just don’t like it.” I can’t necessarily blame them — I too felt that way once upon a time. The way our education system teaches math is sad. For a country such as the […]