Category: General News

JULIA SHERWOOD CONTRIBUTOR What is better than defeating the No. 1 ranked team in the nation? Beating the No. 1 ranked team at home with a standing room only crowd of over 4,400 fans cheering from the stands. That is exactly what happened last Friday evening when the University of […]

LAUREN VUJOVICH EDITOR IN CHIEF @lvujo On Thursday, Sept. 18, during a 10:45 a.m. Communication Criticism class, a piece of the ceiling fell to the floor, nearly missing one of the students in Camino Hall room 108. The piece that fell to the ground was approximately two feet by two […]

GWYNETH SHOECRAFT NEWS EDITOR @gshoecraft On Sept. 29 at approximately 7 p.m., a motorcyclist was hit by a car at the intersection of Alcala Park Way and Torero Way. Neither the motorcyclist nor the driver of the car appeared to be critically injured. According to Lt. Henry Marquez of the […]

GWYNETH SHOECRAFT NEWS EDITOR @gshoecraft On Sept. 18, University of San Diego celebrated Dr. Patricia Márquez’s appointment as the third dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. Márquez, the former director of USD’s Changemaker Hub, is planning to revamp the school’s programs and to get students excited […]

JACQUELINE ALMEIDA CONTRIBUTOR Students walking around University of San Diego at night may encounter a raccoon or two as they head across campus. The animals are often spotted near Camino and Founders Halls, as well as in the Valley where the Missions A and B dorms are located. Some students […]

TAYLER REVIERE VERNINAS CONTRIBUTOR On Sunday, Sept. 21, hundreds of thousands of people around the globe joined in the People’s Climate March to raise awareness for the global climate crisis. The marches, which occurred in 162 different countries, took place two days before the United Nations’ climate summit, where world […]

GWYNETH SHOECRAFT NEWS EDITOR @gshoecraft The power of words cannot be understated. Words can act as peacemakers. Put together properly, words can inspire nations or heal a broken heart. Words can also be dangerous: They are the most powerful weapons. Sure, they are not the mechanism that drops the bomb […]

By Dani DeVries CONTRIBUTOR Spring break is usually the time when the University of San Diego community has Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on the brain. However, in the wake of the recent landfall of Hurricane Odile, the Baja California resort town is making headlines for more than just wild parties […]

By Olivia Lougee ASST. NEWS EDITOR During National Suicide Prevention month, the University of San Diego community remembers students whose lives were lost to suicide, while pushing efforts to prevent such tragedies from occurring again. In October 2013, USD was awarded a three-year, $300,000 federal grant from the Substance Abuse […]

The crisis for Chaldean Christians in Iraq hits home for some San Diegans By Olivia Lougee ASST. NEWS EDITOR Christians and other non-Muslim groups in Iraq are undergoing extreme hardship and daily threats by the Islamist militant group that identifies itself as Islamic State. Of all the groups being targeted […]