After just three weeks on campus, USD recorded over 200 positive COVID-19 cases amongst students and has run out of space to house students who require isolation. We talk to Vice President Dr. Carmen Vazquez and Dean of Students Dr. Donald Godwin about the University’s response. We also get a student’s perspective on what it is like to live in school-mandated quarantine.
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The Super Bowl may be over but the debate rages on what the best commercials were during the big game. Toreros tell us what commercials they liked the best. We also talk to one USD student who was actually in last year’s Facebook Super Bowl commercial about his experience.
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San Diego’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is well underway. Some in the USD community have already received the vaccine. Others say the vaccine makes them optimistic about what lies ahead.
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Last week a group of amateur investors began buying up massive amounts of stock of the video game retailer, Gamestop. This move artificially inflated the company’s value and sent Wall Street into chaos. We talk with finance professor Dr. William Beggs to see how this all went down and talk to students to get their reaction.
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The Pope recently endorsed same-sex civil unions. We talk to members of USD’s faith community to see what the Pope means and ask how this could influence catholicism moving forward.
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People all around the world are following the U.S. presidential election. Zenaida Gomez-Raggion Gil-Delgado, a USDtv reporter taking classes from home in Spain, spoke to some Spanish college students about their thoughts on the election.
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One way people get into the holiday spirit is by watching Halloween movies or TV shows. We put some Toreros’ Halloween pop culture knowledge to the test in our new game, Name That Character!
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After a decade of Instagram we take a look back at how the platform has changed how we interact. We talk to students about how they use Instagram now versus how they used it when it first came out and see how it influenced their lives.
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Online school makes cheating on tests much easier. Students say they know that a lot of students cheat on online tests but professors warn it is easier than you might think to catch cheaters.
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The President tested positive for the coronavirus shortly after the first presidential debate. He recently was cleared to return to the white house. Students share their thoughts on the President contracting the virus.
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