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Wellness Center revises schedule
The University of South Dakota Wellness Center is on a mission to help students sweat, stretch and dance their way to better health and fitness with an assortment of new group fitness classes this semester. The Wellness Center is offering Les Mills Bodypump, Yoga Inc., Kick & Punch and Zumba Gold for the first time […]
Work study program helps senior pay full-time tuition
Senior Lyssa Morrow has a lot on her plate. As the student supervisor at I.D. Weeks Library, she is responsible for the other student workers at the library’s circulation desk, opening and closing the library on weekends and making sure students are safe in emergencies. Morrow’s job sometimes ends up keeping her at work from […]
Students face midterm blues
Midterms are here and students at the University of South Dakota are preparing for the week. Although it is only halfway through the semester, midterms are designed to test students of the material they have learned these past few weeks in the forms of tests, projects, or papers. Either way, students are in full swing […]
USD choirs prepare for fall showcase
Each semester, members of the University of South Dakota choir have two major concerts, the first of which is the Fall Choral Showcase held Oct. 20 at 3 p.m. in Aalfs Auditorium. David Holdhusen, the choir director in charge of the showcase, said all three choirs —men’s and women’s chorus, concert choir and Chamber Singers […]
Students bowl for cancer awareness
University of South Dakota students will help strike out cancer later this month, while also helping to spread the mission of the American Cancer Society. College Against Cancers, a Colleges Against Cancer, the University of South Dakota’s student organization that works to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society, will hold its annual […]
Liska travels the extra miles for education
McKenzie Liska’s mornings begin at 7:30 a.m. She wakes up, gets ready and with her two-year-old son Braxton, drives nearly 80 miles from Verdigre, Neb. to Vermillion. Liska, who plans to graduate in the spring of 2015, transferred from Northeast Community College in 2011 to pursue public relations. “I don’t want to be another single […]
Anthropology students travel ‘Into the Field’
Sophomore Zach Nelson and senior Jesse Van Maanen spent this past summer working on an archaeological dig in Peru, gaining hands-on experience in the field alongside five other University of South Dakota students and their professor, Matthew Sayre, an assistant professor of anthropology. To document this experience, two of Sayre’s former students were filming a […]
First-year athlete deals with stress in school, on pitch
For first-year student Jamie Karch, coming to the University of South Dakota was exciting. She loves playing soccer and hanging out with her friends. Karch is from Milwaukee, Wis. and majoring in health science along with playing soccer here at the university. School and soccer take up much of her time at USD. “My life […]
Campus dynamics: Greek Life proves to be more than just letters
Greek Life is a key organization on the University of South Dakota campus and is widely known around the United States. Aside from the social aspect of the program, the houses on the USD campus participate in service work and focus on academics. Meet senior Liz Green, junior Joe Erickson and sophomore Jessica Johnson, three […]
Students make cross-cultural connections
Senior Cassandra Bosma got to climb the towers in Rothenburg, Germany, and joined the fall festivities at Kramermarkt in Bremen, Germany, two unique experiences marking when she studied abroad in Germany for a year. The University of South Dakota encourages students to go through with this program because it gives most students a better understanding […]