A new performance will be shown at the National Music Museum this week featuring University of South Dakota students. A first-time performance will showcase three different students’ talents: Wyatt Smith, Abigail Sandberg and Jina Kim. Smith, a junior at USD, will be playing two movements from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Sonata.” Kim and Sandberg will be […]
Senior Molly Jansen has been playing trombone for 12 years. On March 13 Jansen gave her first recital to showcase her work. Jansen said she practiced for the recital since the beginning of last semester. “My piano player and I got together about a month ago and I practiced every day for about two hours,” […]
When the audience walks out of the theater after “Coyote on a Fence,” the cast and director want them to be thinking about the death penalty. “It is an important issue in society,” graduate student and director Fred Liebfried said. “I don’t think people think about it enough.” The play “Coyote on a Fence” will […]
The new movie adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s classic “The Lorax” has been attracting some sharp criticism from those on the political Right. Most notably, Lou Dobbs has called the film “[more] insidious nonsense from Hollywood” and accused filmmakers of trying to indoctrinate children with President Obama’s agenda of “demonizing the 1 percent and espousing green […]
Dear South Dakota weather, I know you were very friendly to everyone in the Upper Midwest this year in regards to next to no long freezing morning walks to class. However, the fact of the matter is summer-time weather in mid-March has driven my mind crazy. Last week I enjoyed the high 70s temperatures as […]
in the know & in the dark IN THE KNOW: March Madness upsets. It’s refreshing and exciting to know that any team truly has a shot of winning on any given day. IN THE DARK: Busted brackets. As fun as those upsets are though, it’s not like many people had Norfolk State beating Missouri. IN […]
Here you’ll find the weirdest, funniest and stupidest things that we’ve heard during the week. Context is for suckers. “I don’t like curb-stomping. It’s too messy.” — Al Neuharth Media Center “We shall procreate our own economy.’” — East Hall “Guinea pigs. Very cute. Very tasty.” — Beacom School of Business “Michael Bay, keep your […]
After roping in 22 wins during their inaugural season in Division I, the University of South Dakota women’s basketball team received their first-ever bid into the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. The Coyotes will host Drake University in the first round of the NIT on Thursday, March 15 at 7 p.m. in the DakotaDome. The 32-team […]
After roping in 22 wins during their inaugural Summit League Season, the University of South Dakota women’s basketball team received their first-ever bid into the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. The Coyotes (22-7) will host Drake University (18-15) in the first round of the WNIT on Thursday, March 15 at 7 p.m. in the DakotaDome. Head […]
One would think the time travel genre would have lost its appeal long ago due to lack of originality, but Stephen King isn’t known for his conventional writing. His latest book “11/22/63” takes the subject, which has been beaten to death in movies as well as literature, and makes it central to the plot line. […]
