Category: General News

By Matt Hose NEWS EDITOR Memory is a funny thing. I remember that it was after Hurricane Katrina. My mother, my brother and I had previously evacuated for four months to Sacramento, Calif. to live with my aunt and uncle. I remember that we had moved back into my house […]

By Erin Fogerty STAFF WRITER James Brennan has been chosen as the Undergraduate morning ceremony’s commencement speaker. Brennan, who graduated from USD in 1996, will be speaking to the graduating seniors in the College of Arts and Science. The morning ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. on Sunday, May 26, […]

By Erin Fogerty STAFF WRITER Paul Rice will be speaking in the afternoon for the USD students graduating from the School of Business. This ceremony, which will also take place in the Jenny Craig Pavilion, will begin at 2 p.m. Paul Rice is the founder, President and CEO of Fair […]

By Morgan Lewis STAFF WRITER Starting in 2013, USD will have a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The current dean, Mary Boyd, will be leaving her position after being appointed in 2008. There are three candidates in the running for the position, all with an impressive […]

By Brittany Carava CONTRIBUTOR As spring rolls around, honeybees take it as a cue to populate USD more than ever. Lately, it’s not just the cuddly, trashcan digging, raccoons that are plaguing USD’s campus. The university has had multiple instances where an overabundance of bees has created a problem for […]

Institute for Peace and Justice hosts discussion panel. By Jackson Somes NEWS EDITOR The Syrian civil war is nearing its 29th month of conflict. The war has resulted in more than two million refugees and, according to a U.N. estimate in July, has reached over 100,000 overall casualties. What began […]

By Jackson Somes NEWS EDITOR “They know what it’s like to deal with power, they know what it’s like to deal with repression, they know what its like to deal with people with very different viewpoints,” Dean Luck says. Dean Luck, the dean of the Kroc School of Peace Studies, […]

By M.K. Volatile CONTRIBUTOR France legalized gay marriage last week, giving same-sex couples the right to adopt and have surrogate mothers. The landmark legislation also brought protests and riots throughout the country. Although civil unions have been legal in France since 1999, the controversy over the new law has ignited […]

Del Dickson, a political science professor and expert on the Supreme Court, analyzes the courses of action the court could take in deciding two cases about gay marriage. By Matt Hose NEWS EDITOR At the end of March of this year, the Supreme Court of the United States began to […]

After downloading millions of files from MIT’s database of scholarly articles, Aaron Swartz was arrested and subsequently committed suicide. By Anastasia Macdonald STAFF WRITER In January, Aaron Swartz, one of the creators of Reddit, RSS, and Creative Commons, brought into light questions regarding media freedom on the internet. Saying he […]