By Kevin Crespo ASST. OPINION EDITOR It’s springtime at USD. It can be hard to tell sometimes since the weather hasn’t changed since October. Fortunately, USD brings some other aspects to the table to remind us that spring semester is upon us. Aside from the holy-shnikes-that’s-a-large-number of juniors that have […]
Read moreBy Nick Dilonardo OPINION EDITOR I recently returned from 20 days in London. The subject of the course was Shakespeare. We studied him around a central concept: heterotopia. It has to do with the way in which place can allow for us to explore and negotiate different values, ideas and […]
Read moreBy Matt Hose NEWS EDITOR With the beginning of the Spring semester, USD installed new bike racks at several residential areas across campus. Headed by the Office of Sustainability and the Changemaker Hub, the new bike racks come from the company Park-A-Bike. They were designed to make it easier for […]
Read moreBy Leeza Earl STAFF WRITER Living Learning Communities are no longer limited to freshmen housing. Residential Life will pilot “Special Interest Communities” in San Buenaventura and the Alcala Vista Apartments for the 2013-2014 academic year. San Buenaventura will house the Honors SIC, while the Vistas will house Sustainability and University […]
Read moreBy Jade Belzberg ASSISTANT EDITOR Care of Creation was the focus of the 20th Annual USD All-Faith Service. The event, held on Jan. 31 at Shiley Theatre, attracted students, faculty, staff and local leaders of faith communities. The theme of this year’s service highlighted the importance of caring for our […]
Read moreBy Hannah Bucklin ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR “Become involved, make a difference.” That was the essence of the speech given by former governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis, who addressed a packed Institute of Peace and Justice. Dukakis was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he claimed to have been “infected by […]
Read moreBy Matt Hose NEWS EDITOR With the dawn of the new year, Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term as the president of the United States of America. At his inauguration, Obama gave a highly politicized roller coaster of a speech that touched on topics such as Medicare, […]
Read moreBy Tatum Hohl CONTRIBUTOR Many USD students are under the impression that the approximately $40,000 per year tuition spent on this university is going to waste. However, research shows that this assumption is far from the truth. The differences in earnings and opportunities between a mere high school graduate and […]
Read moreBy Lindsay Giles CONTRIBUTOR Everyone has felt the pressure of picking out last minute gifts for friends and family members. This anxiety might be cured, however, with Facebook’s introduction of retail gift cards, available to purchase through your Facebook account. The Facebook gift card can be used to purchase goods […]
Read moreBy Kendall Tich BUSINESS EDITOR Looming skyscrapers, gleaming lights and the faces of strangers greeted me as I first stepped off my 16 hour flight to Hong Kong. I was 16 years old at the time, and forced to relocate to a country in which I only knew the four […]
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