Interview With a Former Homecoming Queen

  Linda Gay Winters Zimmerman was born and raised here in Vermillion. Growing up, her father worked for the REA and her mother was a school teacher.       In the 1960s she attended USD and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music education. After graduating, she married her husband and moved to El Paso, […]

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Lightning Strikes Backstage 

There are a lot more people involved in a play than just the actors on the screen. To make a production run and smoothly there is a whole team behind the scene.       “The Lightning Thief” the USD’s Theatre department’s next show, is contemporary, but involves many fantasy themes and is a musical adaptation […]

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Vex and the Verm – a Column: Guess the Apple Doesn’t Want to Fall Far From the Tree.

 It’s that time of year. One doesn’t even have to look around to see that almost everyone is sick. I have just gotten over this after what felt like weeks of coughing and pain.       Unfortunately, I’m being plagued with a new sickness. Homesickness.       It all started after I watched a video […]

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Biannual Drag Show is Free for All

USD’s Spectrum: Gender and Sexuality Alliance will host their biannual drag show on Oct. 24 free to all.      Spectrum and their drag show have been around since the 1990s when it was started by Professor Cindy Struckman-Johnson, who saw a need for a Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) group on campus.      […]

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Dakota Days Queen of 1968 Still in Vermillion

Today, Winter Zimmerman lives in Vermillion and is a member of PEO. In 1968 Gay Winters Zimmerman, Then Linda Gay Winters, was Dakota Days Queen. Winters Zimmerman majored in music education and was involved in a multitude of activities. These include Freshman Snow Queen, pledge class secretary, 1967 Rose of Delta Sigma Pi, local and […]

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Vex and the Verm – a column: Nathan Goes Greek, A Real Story of Rushing

For starters, I am not the type of person who would ever rush. That was until I learned what Greek life is really like. Going into this I had some predetermined guesses on which houses I would like or could get into. I also had a decent amount of friends in different ones, which may […]

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