By Rebecca Lukito CONTRIBUTOR With summer just around the corner, many USD students are going back home or traveling abroad. While some of us may take classes or work to keep busy, others might have more free time to meet up with old friends or hang out with family. Amidst […]
Read moreBy Henry Kittle STAFF WRITER Look out Rubicon, there’s a new sandwich shop in town and its not for the weak hearted. Fat Sal’s, located on Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach, is the cutting edge culinary vision of three friends from New York. The founders are made up of food […]
Read moreBy Kendall Tich BUSINESS EDITOR Blurtopia, a new mobile phone application that could potentially change the way the entire world views and interacts with social media. For the past few years, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have dominated the charts in terms of most downloaded and used apps—but something new is […]
Read moreBy Kendall Tich BUSINESS EDITOR As young as elementary school, parents, teachers and role models preach to children “if you can dream it, you can do it”. If you’re anything like me, by the time you reached high school you started to feel like that wasn’t quite realistic. However, for […]
Read moreBy Matt Hose NEWS EDITOR Jamie Tworkowski is the founder of To Write Love on her Arms, a non-profit organization based out of Florida that raises awareness about people struggling with issues including depression, addiction and self-injury. In an interview with The Vista, he discussed how to recover from the […]
Read moreBy Matt Hose NEWS EDITOR It took a road trip up the coast of California for me to understand one of Aristotle’s lessons, a lesson of friendship. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle wrote that there are three types of friendships: friendship of utility, friendship of pleasure and friendship of the […]
Read moreBy Leeza Earl STAFF WRITER Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity for women hosted their 12th annual Mr. University pageant, raising more than $20 thousand for the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation and their philanthropy Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children. This event consisted of 10 male contestants, five from Greek life and […]
Read moreBy Lauren Vujovich MANAGING EDITOR A new app has recently swept USD, at least in the female population. “Lulu” allows women to rate anonymously and review men based on manners, looks, commitment, humor, sex, first kiss and ambition. Basically it is an app that allows girls to rate the guys […]
Read moreBy Bianca Bruno CONTRIBUTOR Last week’s Sexual Assault Awareness activities culminated with the annual march and vigil known as Take Back the Night. The event, held Thursday, April 11, was sponsored by the USD Women’s Center. The event kicked off in the UC Exhibit Hall, where attendees were invited to […]
Read moreBy Hannah Bucklin ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Sexual violence is as prevalent as ever on college campuses. On average one in 20 college females report being raped and one in four will be the victim of sexual assault during her academic career as an undergraduate, according to the National Sexual Violence […]
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