Catching up on USD sports
On Nov. 20, 2019 the USD men’s rugby team participated in the Rugby City Championship Tournament, which was designed to showcase the best rugby teams in San Diego County.
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Big Sky dreams for football
When the University of San Diego football team took the field against the University of Northern Iowa on Saturday, it marked the Toreros’ fourth consecutive postseason appearance, and their fifth in the last six years. A week earlier, USD won their 37th consecutive Pioneer Football League (PFL) game, defeating the Jacksonville University Dolphins 47-28.
Read moreCRP officially defunded
The Associated Student Government Senate voted to officially defund the entire College Readership Program the Friday before Thanksgiving. Although, the decades-old program dedicated to informing USD students through access to national newspapers did not go down without a fight.
Read moreWonderfront’s first festival
On the weekend of Nov. 22-24, the music festival Wonderfront opened its gates to the public for the very first time. Hosted along the San Diego waterfront, the festival boasted beautiful views and an abundance of attractions for all kinds of visitors. Leaning on its location and on the natural beauty of San Diego, the festival was able to provide an experience for attendees that was unlike any other music festival in existence.
Read moreSister Rodee’s journey at USD
It was the 1950s. The United States had the strongest military in the world, families were growing, and the economy was booming. Women were encouraged to stay within the confines of the home. Popular magazine articles like “Don’t Be Afraid to Marry Young,” “Cooking To Me Is Poetry,” and “Femininity Begins At Home” urged women to leave the workplace and focus on bearing children. During the same era, however, the recently-opened San Diego College for Women, which would later become the University of San Diego, offered women different opportunities.
Read moreTurning passion into dough
It’s dinner time in the Alcalá Vistas Apartments at the University of San Diego, and wafting through the halls are the familiar smells of college cuisine — ramen noodles, jarred pasta sauce, and delivery pizza. This semester, however, the smell of freshly baked sourdough bread has joined this medley of scents thanks to two aspiring entrepreneurs, sophomores Juliette Owada and Grace Schmidt.
Read moreHow ASG spends student fee
Senior Tyler Arden began asking for greater transparency within Associated Student Government (ASG) in September. Arden then attended numerous ASG Senate meetings and each time requested that the student government make their budget public in an act of good faith and transparency.
Read moreAnalysis: Are ASG’s struggles unique?
Take one look at each of the universities’ student governments, however, and the similarities seem to fade. While USD’s Associated Student Government (ASG) has been mired in more than a year’s worth of controversy and student concerns regarding their financial transparency and defunding of free newspaper access for students, LMU may not have had to weather similar issues.
Read moreAztecs defeat Toreros
The Jenny Craig Pavilion was packed Wednesday, Nov. 20 as the University of San Diego Toreros were looking to defeat the San Diego State University Aztecs in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2001. This was the 51st meeting between the two rivals, but for now, this was the last matchup as both schools decided not to renew the contract that allows them to keep playing each other season after season.
Read moreNCAA Tournament preview
Ask nearly any college sports team what their collective goal is for the season, and they’re likely to tell you that they want to play in the postseason. A college basketball player would probably say they aspire to play in March Madness Tournament, a college baseball player — a berth to Omaha, and a football player might have ambitions of playing in a playoff or bowl game.
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