Olde Funk Riot isn’t just a name you come up with over night, and the music they play certainly isn’t either. Olde Funk Riot is a local jazz band growing in popularity at the University of South Dakota. “The name of the band is a bit of a joke,” said Kevin Sparks, the lead bassist […]
Fall 2012 marked the first year that the Coyotes could officially call themselves Division 1 Athletes. The University of South Dakota is no longer transitioning into this upper division; the move has been completed. Like most transitions, our D1 move has created a number of challenges for our players, coaching staffs, and department heads. We […]
The brothers of Lambda Chi are trying to make Vermillion a safer place to drive on the weekends by offering sober rides in return for a monetary donation. Every Friday and Saturday from 8 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., the fraternity offers sober rides to anyone, to and from anywhere within Vermillion city limits for $3. […]
Get your hand sanitizer ready folks, it’s that time of year again. As temperatures fall, the amount of sniffling, sneezing and hacking in the classroom steadily rises. While getting sick is a part of life, students at the University of South Dakota need to remember that there is etiquette that must be paid attention to […]
There is a small room tucked away in the Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts that very few non-art students know about. Gallery 110 is a sparse room, with only a long office table in the center, surrounded by chairs. Students go there to study and admire the art hanging on the walls all […]
The Board of Regents approved two projects for the University of South Dakota at its Oct. 10 meeting. Part of the BOR’s meeting was to discuss the 2013 Board-Sponsored Legislation. If approved, the legislation would go to the South Dakota Legislature in January for approval USD requested to move two pieces of legislation. The first […]
One of the shining jewels of the University of South Dakota is hidden in a basement, slowly falling apart. Located in the basement of Dakota Hall, the Oral History Center is home to South Dakota’s most valuable interviews and transcripts dating as far back as the mid-1800s. These audio clips and written interviews include some […]
When Jesus Trevino took a job at the University of Denver in 2002, students of color represented 11 percent of the entire student body. By the time Trevino left his position as the university’s Associate Provost for Multicultural Excellence this summer, students of color represented 20 percent of the university’s enrollment. Trevino said he credits […]
Last year, the University of South Dakota had two bomb scares — one in the Arts & Sciences building when a bomb threat was written on a bathroom stall and another in Coyote Village when unidentified material was found in a jar — that called for building evacuation. Within the last month, North Dakota State […]
Oct. 3 1. Officer on bike patrol encountered an 18-year-old Vermillion male with an open container at the 300 block of N. Dakota St. Male was cited for underage consumption of alcohol. Oct. 4 2. A 20-year-old Vermillion male was arrested for trespassing at the Charcoal Lounge on the 10 block of E. Main. Offender […]
