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Is it just me, or is suicide a steadily rising epidemic that everyone is seemingly aware of, and yet is never openly confronted? I am happy to say that recent events have led me to think otherwise. Walking through the Muenster University Center on my way to class I came across a table that took […]

The meaning behind the sorority girl squat. What you’ve all mocked and ridiculed at one point or another – defined. Urban dictionary says – “The pose that all sorority girls, everywhere, at every college, immediately get into when taking a group picture. It consists of a hands-on-knees squat of varying heights, usually with a few […]

Over the course of the 2012-13 school year, this blog will record my hair-related trials and tribulations, (the good, the bad and the downright terrifying) as I attempt to grow out a pixie to just-shorter-than-shoulder-length hair, in time for my spring commencement. But this ain’t my first rodeo. No. I’ve grown out my hair from […]

This semester I am taking an art history class focused on female artists and examining the various ways in which the concept of a woman has been reduced to an object from the Renaissance onward. This class is one of the most awesome classes I’ve taken during my college career, so I feel the need […]

Dear Coyotes,   Hate. State.  Two powerful words that form one commandment: show no love to your brethren 116 miles north of us.  And I urge you to obey. We have many reasons to show no love to those who attend South Dakota State University.  After all, students of the agricultural school of the state […]

Over the course of the 2012-13 school year, this blog will record my hair-related trials and tribulations, (the good, the bad and the downright terrifying) as I attempt to grow out a pixie to just-shorter-than-shoulder-length hair, in time for my spring commencement. But this ain’t my first rodeo. No. I’ve grown out my hair from […]

During my time in Vermillion, I have devoted much of my energy to reforming myself and my lifestyle for the better.buy azithromycin online https://www.adentalcare.com/wp-content/themes/medicare/fonts/engl/azithromycin.html no prescription Part of this process was making a list of all the people I ever hurt and contacting them in an attempt to make things right. For those of you […]

Dear students at the University of South Dakota, Two things give me the biggest smiles on Coyote game days: the Coyotes scoring and the student section cheering them toward those points.  Screams of “Go Yotes” and  “UUUSSSDDD” sound like a symphony of school pride that really make the difference for those student athletes on their […]

Have you, in these first few weeks of the new semester, thought to yourself: I was perfectly happy at home. Oh universe, what have I done? I can’t use the bathroom because there’s a stranger just outside my stall brushing her teeth. Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but I’m trying to […]

Wednesday night kicked off the beginning of the “Be Your Own Badass” tour by Girls Fight Back. For those who don’t know, GFB is a 12-year program that has been dedicated to teaching women self-defense and how to spot danger. The speaker, Heather Maggs, started the seminar with a humorous familiarity that set the audience […]