Wetland apathy
The university announced recently through a College Marketing press release the plans to build a track and field.
September 8, 2008
Stories — Page 2
Letters to the editor
Hello. My name is Heather and I’m a BYU fan. With all due respect to Greg Wilcox and his aversion to BYU, (UVU Review Opinion, Aug. 24, 2007) I’m a little disturbed that I have not only been compared to a presumably smelly guy no one wants to dance with, but also accused of soiling this sacred university.
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McCain struck gold in Alaska
McCain’s new vice presidential running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, looked golden for the Republican Party after giving her first big-stage speech at the Republican National Convention.
Ethics Center presents Ancient Athenian Experiment
On Sept. 3 students had the opportunity to learn more about the democratic process. Professor JaNae Brown Haas spoke about the subject in the monthly ethics forum Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy.
New briefs
Campus: Wildflower photographs needed: Jim Harris, a biology professor at UVU, is collecting photographs of Mount Timpanogos wildflowers in order to build a Web site database. The database will be used to plot plant distributions and correlate that data with other information like environmental factors and elevation in order to create a detailed analysis of the vegetation of Mount Timpanogos.
New Lab for Forensics majors
The difference between ordinary elementary school kitchens and what was once the kitchen in the former Vineyard Elementary-now UVU’s Education Building-is that in ordinary elementary school kitchens hairnets are obligatory and they typically do not have upwards of half a million dollars in equipment. But in EB 136 there is just that. And it’s not a kitchen anymore; it’s UVU’s state-of-the-art forensic science lab, hairnets optional.
Heart attack at the institute
Police and paramedics were dispatched to the Orem LDS Institute on Friday, Sept. 5 in response to a reported heart attack.
Karen Mizell: From Russia With Love
While basking in Russian hospitality at Moscow State University, Karen Mizell studied an interesting twist in teaching philosophy. She is our hero for the week. Here is what she had to say:
