‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ cast prepares for opening night

USD’s Department of Theatre has been hard at work preparing for their upcoming production of “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” a Shakespeare play that is believed to have been written around 1593. The upcoming production will bring both modern and traditional elements to the show. Allie Verry, a senior acting major, said that throwing in some modern music into […]

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Minnesota transfer quickly making his mark at USD

“Streveler for president,” yelled junior quarterback Chris Streveler’s teammates as he stood on the sideline for a recent interview following practice. The University of Minnesota transfer is quickly making friends and an impact at USD. Three games into the season Streveler has been a big factor for the USD offense. He currently leads the team […]

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USD collects supplies, raises awareness for DAPL

Students and faculty around the University of South Dakota’s campus have joined the protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.78 billion production that will transport about 570,000 barrels of crude oil from Bakken, North Dakota, through South Dakota, Iowa and Patoka, Illinois. Tribes across the nation have come together to protest the pipeline’s passing […]

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Morgan’s Mix: Enemy Planes, Night Moves and Soulcrate play in Sioux Falls

Downtown Sioux Falls was lit up Saturday night for “That Sounds Decent,” a free-for-all-ages concert. This event was hosted by local remix group Later Babes and Kansas City-based brewery Boulevard Brewing Co. The venue was at the intersection of 8th and Railroad Center, the perfect spot in the heart of Sioux Falls surrounded by local […]

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UPDATED: Apartment complex residents return home after gas, fire scare

About 20 people were allowed to return to their apartments early Tuesday morning after a gas leak and fire scare at the Austree Apartment complex led to the evacuation of the two buildings Ileen Weisser, a resident of the apartment complex located at 800 Jefferson who made the initial 911 call, said she was doing […]

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Possible cyberattack on Volante website leads to beefed up security

On Sunday morning four stories on The Volante’s website were unpublished in the matter of minutes, alerting editors to a possible cyber breach. The stories, which were all Verve articles, were unpublished from an editor’s account, whose password has since been changed. In a 24-hour period, there were 240 failed login attempts on The Volante’s […]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist visits USD

An image is said to be worth 1,000 words, but for one community photojournalist it was also worth the Pultizer Prize. Robert Cohen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning community photojournalist, visited USD last Thursday. Cohen, an employee of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, won his Pulitzer for his photographic coverage of the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death […]

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