Student Life
Festival of Nations featured food, entertainment
As fifth-grader Fatima Anees took a bite of the orange Indian chicken on her plate, her eyes bulged as the heat of the dish snarled her tongue and mouth in a wave of fire. After racing to the corner of the Muenster University Center ballroom, Fatima laughed between taking giant gulps of water. This is […]
Festival of Nations brings students together
With platefuls of colorful and aromatic cuisine, participants of the 2012 Festival of Nations at the University of South Dakota received a taste of the diversity in and around campus. Held in the Muenster University Center Ballroom March 31, the International Students Club-sponsored event sold about 300 tickets and had over 20 countries represented, from […]
Medical School students host 6th annual 5K event
More than 50 runners and walkers took the streets of Vermillion early Saturday morning to compete in a 5K and support a local charity. Medical student members of the South Dakota State Medical Association and American Medical Association hosted the 6th annual Run for Your Life 5K, with all proceeds given to the Vermillion Food […]
Members of African Student Association react to Kony 2012 campaign
“It was August 13th around 10 p.m. when we were attacked and more than a hundred people, almost 200 hundred people, were killed in just three hours. I survived with my family, but my sister was shot and more than 20 family members were killed and friends also.” This is how sophomore Jeanne Namugisha, an […]
Sharing his talents
When Saturnino John came to the United States as a refugee in 1994 from the Republic of South Sudan, he always knew he would one day go back. “Ever since I came to this country, I wanted to achieve that particular goal,” John said. “I wanted to go back, educate people with what I know.” […]
New group helps to network
Vince Lombardi is a household name among football fans. Known for his motivational speeches, his career as a sports manager, as well as countless others in sports management, will form the foundation to the University of South Dakota’s newest club. The Sports Management Alliance is a new club on campus that students in the sports […]
PREVIEW: New student organization helps students network
Students at the University of South Dakota have the opportunity to be a member of any group that interests them. If there isn’t a group they’d like to be a part of, they can make one themselves, and that’s exactly what one group of students recently did. The university is now offering a sports management […]
PREVIEW: USD students affected by Kony 2012
Amidst the hype of the Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign, members of the University of South Dakota’s African Student Association — mainly consisting of African refugees — find themselves full of unanswered questions. Questions like: Why Uganda? Why not my country or Africa as a whole? But mostly — after 26 years — why now? […]