Reading Time: 3 minutes While the university maintains an outstanding reputation with the Deaf community, Deaf and hard-of-hearing students see no reason why they should not be included in recruiting others with similar characteristics. The most prepared and effective program in all of Utah for Deaf Studies is UVU; this is partially due to Accessibility Services, the program in […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes An amendment to Utah’s constitution that proposes banning affirmative action from state governed agencies and state institutions will specifically attack state funding to outreach programs, recruitment and preference-selection geared towards women and minorities of color. Peggy Pasin, coordinator of the Women’s Center, and Gwen Anderson, director of the Multicultural Center, have voiced numerous concerns about […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes While affirmative action supports equality in the workplace, it also mandates funding for diversity projects like the Multicultural and Women’s Centers on campus. Chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute Ward Connerly leads conservative legislators in Utah on efforts to revive a bill seeking to ban outreach programs funded by the state for multicultural populations […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Marketing Native Amercian culture is hypocritcal: Discriminatory policies at Deer Valley Resort as an example Jonathan Williams, a full-blooded Navajo student at UVU, met with Deer Valley Resort representatives with plenty of positive expectations for a career in hospitality. He was immediately disappointed and frustrated that Deer Valley would deny a male an internship based […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The purpose of any governing body should be to act as a voice for the population they serve, and we as students are no different. However, when students feel apprehensive, even fearful, of speaking out against their student government, the issue justifies critical attention. “The role of student government,” said Student Body President Richard Portwood, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Change in the multicultural lens of UVU comes subtly but can enter loudly upon arrival, and UVU’s Multicultural Center is looking to make it welcomed and positive. A partnership created by the UVU Latino Initiative and Latinos in Action, a program founded by Mountview vice principal Jose Enriques, seeks and labors to prepare young Latinos […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes UVU: path to your future Remember those days when students used to say, “Yeah, I’ll only be at UVU for a semester, maybe two. Then I’ll go back to BYU or the U to finish”? Well, that’s not really happening now. The institution has changed quite a bit from a vocational center of schooling to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Could a Spanish-speaking man who cannot speak correct Spanish be a terrorist? Ginger Dixon seems to think so. Dixon was at the presentation of Sandstrom’s immigration bill to a legislative committee on August 18. After Sandstrom presented his bill and discussion for comments was open, Dixon spoke and described once encountering an individual who she […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ken Sekaquaptewa, an advisor at the Multicultural Center, calmly expresses feelings of frustration: “One weekend is all we’re asking for,” he says. For eight years, the Native American community of Utah and those who appreciate their vibrant heritage look forward to the Native American Powwow in November, which is Native American Heritage Month. This year, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Drilling into flesh with warmth, a bright sun bore down heavily on our skin as we approached the Capitol Building in Salt Lake City. All four of us are Latino UVU students: Agustin Diaz Jr. (Me), Tony Castillo, Betty Ruiz, and a prospective UVU student Albert Anzar. We were tense but excited riding from Provo […]