For a city that markets itself as one of the “sunniest” places in California, San Diego has recently been hit hard with heavy rainfall. Dating back to the month of December, the city has faced multiple storms including heavy rainfall, strong gusts of wind and all-around colder temperatures.
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Student loans are a topic all too familiar for many college students, especially in America. In August of last year, President Biden released a plan to ease the burden of student debt for 43 million borrowers. This plan would forgive $10,000 in federal student loan debt for individuals who make under $125,000 or households that make under $250,000, with an additional $10,000 forgiven for Pell Grant recipients.
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of USD’s Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. What was once just a department on campus transformed into a greater assemblage of talented students, new amenities, majors and more.
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Since 1994, USD has held an All Faith Service at the beginning of the spring semester. On Feb. 9, the All Faith Service celebrated its 30th anniversary, in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre.
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Vigil honors ancestors and victims of Police Brutality Anjali Dalal-Whelan / Asst. News Editor / The USD Vista On Feb. 1, to kick off Black History Month, the Black Student Resource Commons (BSRC) held a vigil at Paseo de Colachis. The vigil served as a space for students to commemorate victims […]
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In-person recruitment for the first time since 2020 KYLIE DURHAM / ASST. NEWS EDITOR / THE USD VISTA For the first time since the transition to an online learning format in 2020, the seven chapters of USD’s Panhellenic Council held recruitment in person this year. Students on campus could sign up for […]
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Individuals all across the world now have a unique opportunity to employ an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to create written responses to various prompts and questions, as a human might produce. Chat Generated Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) is an AI Chatbot, co-founded by Elon Musk with a San Francisco-based startup, OpenAI. The platform utilizes a compilation of text data to generate summaries for long texts, answers to questions, written responses to prompts and more.
Read moreRoe v. Wade, the court case responsible for federally guaranteeing access to abortion in the United States, was overturned on June 24 of this year. In the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion rights are now determined on a state-by-state basis.
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On an ordinary day in Idaho, four college students were stabbed to death in their home. Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were students at the University of Idaho. On Nov. 13, after a night out, an unknown perpetrator entered the home and brutally killed these four students to death. No suspects or people of interest have been identified in this case.
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For the first time in history, players on the USD men’s club rugby team will have an opportunity for pay. They are the first club to join the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Association. NIL is a policy under the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that allows athletes to get paid for brand deals, regarding their name, image or likeness.
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