Students view gender-neutral housing as step forward

The Residence Hall Government Association is considering a policy that would enact gender-neutral housing as an option in residence halls. “We are in the beginning stages of this project and are in the process of creating a proposal to present to the Dean of Students and Student Services administration,” Stephen Goodfellow, president of RHGA, said. […]

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Local business owners capitalize on students as consumers, employees

In part three of this three part series, The Volante focuses on a local businesswoman’s achievements in a predominantely male business environment.                   Among the sound of freshlybrewed coffee spewing from the machine and hushed, frantic gossip conversations of elderly women, college students of all backgrounds can […]

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Graduate School sees 5 percent increase for 2012

The University of South Dakota Graduate School has reached an all-time high. “Graduate enrollment, not including the Medical School and Law School, was at 2,157 this past fall,” Brandy Durham, director of recruitment & marketing at USD Graduate School said. “Based on information from the Institutional Research Office, this would not be the highest headcount. […]

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Q & A: Native Student Services director receives award

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Volante news section features a profile on an award-winning USD faculty member. Gene Thin Elk is the director of Native Student Services for the University of South Dakota, and was named a recipient of the Dr. George Blue Spruce Jr. Award, presented by Pathways Into Health at the 2012 Achieving Excellence, Harmony […]

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