Verve Blogs

At the beginning of the school year, I wrote a column titled “Road to change difficult but worthwhile.” For those of you who may have missed it, the subject matter regarded my journey to find myself. Since this is my last column of the school year, I have decided to revisit this column and provide […]

Since the beginning of my undergraduate career, I have noticed a very interesting pattern during class discussions about feminism. Almost everyone’s beliefs align very closely with the ideas of equality espoused by the philosophy, but nobody likes to use the word. This is because the average person associates feminism with either the hardcore conservative wing […]

For those of us who choose to channel our energy with creative means, it can be very difficult to cope with life when a block hits. For instance, this semester I have had very big issues with creative block. Last semester I never had this problem. I wrote every single day for three months. There […]

The following column is dedicated to the administration of this fine university. As a student, there are certain issues I feel they have done an excellent job of ignoring, and I would like to appeal to them to make a change. I realize you have been out of college for many years and may not […]

Throughout my misadventures in love I have been given a lot of very strange advice. One of the strangest was to stay friends with my exes after getting dumped because that is the only way to maturely handle the situation. Though I realize that there are some people who can do such a thing, this […]

One would think the time travel genre would have lost its appeal long ago due to lack of originality, but Stephen King isn’t known for his conventional writing. His latest book “11/22/63” takes the subject, which has been beaten to death in movies as well as literature, and makes it central to the plot line. […]

As Vermillion’s resident fake Parisienne, there are certain fashion trends I have little tolerance for. The latest of these is so disturbing to me that I have no choice but to emerge from hiding in an attempt to save my fellow females from it. I know what you’re thinking: What could women possibly be wearing […]

I have been pulled over a total of six times while driving my own car. Comparatively, I have never been pulled over while driving my grandma’s Lincoln Towncar, a friend’s Denali suburban or my mom’s Camry. Young people are constantly profiled. If you’re under 25 and drive any kind of used car that was made […]

I used to like cowboys, but then I got close enough to smell one. Back in high school, I had a few short-lived relationships with typical Midwestern men. They were cute, polite, nice to my mother and could fix anything from a car to a broken window. The best part was that they were always […]

Page two of the Verve section is getting a face-lift and we want you to be a part of it. Editor Payton Randle, Assistant Editor Emily Niebrugge and I have been planning out the possibilities this page presents. We want to make sure this page is engaging and interactive and full of the things you […]