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Sustainability Club’s weeklong Earth Days present ‘lightheartedness’
Each year, the sustainability club hosts Earth Days to promote sustainable efforts with a week filled with activities. On Monday, they held the Earth Days fair. In years past, themes of conservation and protecting the planet were used, this year the organization’s theme is lightheartedness to continue to promote sustainable efforts. The Earth Days festivities started […]
ICARE members working on sexual assault prevention training, programming for next academic year
The multi-faceted ICARE team is developing and planning new programs which will take effect in the fall, continuing the team’s mission to educate USD students on sexual assault prevention and response efforts. ICARE members are working on two projects: developing a bystander intervention training called Bringing in the Bystander, and finding a way to make […]
USD foundation works with students for Giving Week fundraiser and Founders Day events
The USD community is coming together for Giving Week after President James Abbott announced his retirement last fall. Teagan McNary, former SGA president and political science and criminal justice double major, said the main goal of the week is to fundraise for the James W. and Collette Abbott scholarship endowment. The main source of fundraising […]
Letter to the Editor: Abbott, Porter are game changers
Both men entered this world in 1948, and graduated from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1974. Each began his law practice in Yankton. And, over many decades, both changed South Dakota’s landscape in two high profile and important fields: education and health care. This summer, both are retiring, and though it […]
Laura Chandler hired as new Center for Diversity & Community director
Following a semester without leadership in the Center for Diversity & Community, a new director was hired with the help of a search committee and students. Laura Renee Chandler, an assistant professor of history at South Dakota State University, was hired as director following a three-part student panel April 2, 3 and 5. When Chandler officially […]
USD offers in-state tuition for Nebraska students
A reduction of $3,000 per year will be offered for transfer and freshman residents of Nebraska. Scott Pohlson, vice president of enrollment, marketing and university relations, said the reduction of prices for Nebraska came after USD implemented in-state tuition for Iowa last year. “We started with Iowa and some of that is population-based because Sioux City […]
Clothing stolen from “What We Were Wearing” exhibit
A piece of clothing from the “What We Were Wearing” art exhibit hosted by PAVE and ICARE was recently stolen twice by an unknown thief. In place of the stolen piece is now a sign that reads “the underwear illustrating this story has been stolen twice. Stealing objects from a sexual assault survivor art installation […]
SGA expresses displeasure with university response to parking complaints
Matt Yetter, Student Government Association senator, proposed a resolution expressing SGA’s displeasure with the university’s lack of action in regards to campus parking at the weekly SGA meeting Tuesday evening. The resolution requested that the university take “rigorous and holistic analysis of the availability of student parking on campus.” It also requested that the chair of […]
USD NSAC placed second in regional competition
USD’s National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) team took second place at this year’s competition hosted by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) from April 6-7 at the University of Minnesota. The theme for this year’s regional competition was for students from District 8 to create a marketing campaign for Ocean Spray. USD’s NSAC team chose ‘Create […]
Law school dean looks back at a ‘magnificent challenge’
The university is starting the search for a new law school dean as dean Thomas Geu recently announced he will be stepping down from the position. Geu will serve as dean of the law school until a new dean is hired. Geu has been a member of the law school faculty for 29 years, first […]