The Vex & The Verm: Is It All Just Too Much?
Is it all just too much? Does it seem like everything just keeps piling up until the stack meets its inevitable fate with gravity? I’ve been doing a lot this semester, Co-Producing Coyote News, running the social media for Arts & Sciences, recording the SGA meetings, writing this column, taking 16 credits, and trying to […]
The Good, The Bad and The Missing TV
How big are the dorm rooms? In North Complex, where I have been living for the past two years, they are 10’7” x 15’4”. That is about 165 square feet shared between two people. I’ve lived in less than 83 square feet to call my own for two years. After a while this takes a […]
Vex and the Verm(A Column): This One is Personal
* Vex /veks/ verb: To distress, trouble, harass, worry, or annoy (a person, a group, a person’s thoughts or feelings, etc.). This one is personal. For two years in a row, I have been denied a position as an RA here at University Housing. Granted, as mentioned in my last column, I didn’t even […]
Vex and the Verm – A Column: Farewell, Berlin
Less than two weeks ago, I learned I would not be going to Germany. I had applied for a fellowship that would take me across the pond and allow me to venture through German cities, mainly seeing media entities and how they function outside of the U.S. Unfortunately, I knew the second it […]
Vex And The Verm: A Room Full of Strangers
It’s hard to be happy for others when you’re not. I am used to it at this point, though it still pangs. Being single, and to have never been in love, at least to never have that love reciprocated. All of this is, of course, non-platonic love which I am referring to. Most of the […]
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, […]
Vex and The Verm: What a Way to Go
I once heard that a singer starts to write about fame when they have nothing else to write about. While I certainly am not famous, I wonder if the same can be said for a journalist. Do they write about their work when they have nothing else to write about? When writing my […]
Vex And The Verm – A Column: An Ode to My Father
Since I can remember I have been a “mama’s boy,” both self-proclaimed and stated. Every Saturday I would go out to eat with her and my aunt, and afterward, the three of us would spend the rest of the day shopping. As brutally honest as it may sound, my […]
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 […]
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 […]