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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 […]
Friendship strains in college
Most people, if not all, are guilty of premature judgement. Judgments could last a split second or last a lifetime, but we all make judgments about other human beings. These opinions of others could be altered by what another person is holding back. On numerous occasions, especially when in a fight with a friend, I […]
Rambling Anna: The bucket list conundrum
Bucket lists have become a popular thing, so my roommates and I — all seniors — decided to create one for ourselves. The problem is, we’re all starting to come to terms with our age and the fact that sometimes it’s just really nice to spend a weekend doing absolutely nothing. For instance, back in […]
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 […]
A musical year: Don’t be a pretentious music snob
In the three weeks since my last blog, I surprisingly have not attended any concerts, but that doesn’t mean the musical part of my life has been lacking. In fact, it’s been quite the opposite. On Sept. 30, a kind of musical Christmas happened for me, with the release of Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience […]
Fall play mixes time periods
Taking place in two very different time periods, this year’s fall production “Arcadia” challenges the ideas between order and disorder, certainty and knowledge. The play is being showcased Oct. 9-13 at the University of South Dakota, including a matinee Sunday. Directed by junior graduate student Callie Hisek, “Arcadia” revolves around two sets of characters in […]