Campus conversations

University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus articles

Browse current student reporting connected to University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then start or join an in-person Roundtable through ThinkMatch.

Lagniappe Day 2026: food, fun and more

The Vermilion

As the school year comes to a close, and the weather warms, celebrations are in order. To end off the spring semester, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette hosted its yearly Lagniappe Day on April 17. Taking place on Boucher Drive, near the Union plaza, Lagniappe day holds a multitude of festivities, food and games. […]

Student Publications, So Long and Goodbye

The Vermilion

A student joining a student organization in their senior year is something that is unheard of. That is what I thought, until I did just that when I joined Student Publications during my last year of my undergraduate degree. Even though my time at Student Publications was short, I do not regret it in the […]

And that’s the ball game: Goodbye Student Publications

The Vermilion

When I first arrived on campus in the fall of 2022, I fully believed that school and band would take up all the time I had. I soon came to find out that I had way too much free time, especially when compared to the eight-plus hour days I had just been experiencing in high […]

Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

The Vermilion

I have genuinely lost all sense of time, so I can’t believe I’m at the end of my newspaper journey. I started at The Vermilion in the spring of my freshman year. I always knew I wanted to be more involved in college, and I got the opportunity to apply. At the time, I was […]

Why you should read sports manga: A basic introduction to the genre

The Vermilion

The world has been taken over by anime since COVID-19 shut the world down in 2020. I was one of those people who started watching anime during quarantine because there was nothing else I felt like watching. So, I finally decided to give in to my friends, who were big fans of anime before the […]

Chimes serves up indulgent comfort food and Cajun classics

The Vermilion

Located at 1400 Camellia Blvd. sits Chimes, a restaurant serving up hearty southern food. Their Lafayette location opened in 2023, the most recent of its four total locations including two in Baton Rouge and one in Covington. The establishment sits right on the corner of a busy intersection with Kaliste Saloom Rd. which makes it […]

Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced the Home Team Act: “Sports in America should be about more than just making billionaire owners even richer…”

The Vermilion

American sports has a major problem relating to teams moving away, leaving the communities that they had become intertwined with. There are certain examples in the past, like the Colts moving from Baltimore to Indianapolis in 1984 or the Oilers moving from Houston to Tennessee in 1997 and becoming the Titans in 1999. The past […]

E-scooter popularity on campus brings higher accident risks

The Vermilion

Many students on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s campus have felt the familiar breeze of an e-scooter zooming past them on the sidewalk. Some unfortunate students have even been hit by one as they shoot across the campus crosswalks. E-scooters have become a popular form of environmentally-friendly transportation, being used to cut down on […

Loading the complete article list and nearby Roundtables…