Dear fellow students of USD, I don’t know about you all, but I love having everyone else back on campus.  It’s just a breath of fresh air to see the school more populated again. But there is another side of being back to school.  We are in college, after all.  It’s time to hunker back […]

Nothing says “welcome” like a large silver fence.  But that’s what our incoming freshmen and returning students ran into as they began navigating the University of South Dakota campus. It wasn’t as big of a surprise for me; I was here in Vermillion all summer.  But the day that I had to go to practice […]

Dear Vermillion Haters, For Spring Break this year, I elected to stay in Vermillion for a couple of reasons: First, I live in a small town in Wisconsin. There is literally nothing to do there; we have no downtown and we are landlocked between the city of “Dirty ‘Stalis” and the town of Waukesha. Second, […]

Dear Volante Readers, Excuse me while I shake my head as I’m writing this. You see, today I was asked where I go on Tuesdays. Well, I go to my Volante meeting. The next question out of this person’s mouth was, “What’s The Volante?” Are you kidding me? It’s only in every doorway to every […]

  To whom it may concern: Whose brilliant idea was it to close the Beede Bump on Saturdays? The Beede Bump, for those who don’t know, is closed on Friday evening at 2 p.m. and then opens up again Sunday evening at 5 p.m. Sunday! I’m not sure what people are thinking. “Oh, there’s no […]

Dear fellow Coyotes, Tell me – when you apply to a university, there’s a reason, right? Be it sports, academics, location; there’s a reason you chose that college to apply to. Something about that school made you love it. So riddle me this, Coyote fans: Who decided it would be a good idea to wear […]