The Price of Beauty

April 12, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty” debuted this season on VH1. The premise is the pop star and her friends travel the world in hopes of being enlightened on the lengths women from other countries will go for beauty. Simpson’s journey takes her to France, Rio de Janiero, Thailand and other locations. What could have […]

As Seen On TV

March 8, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alright, 2010 has been here for two whole months and only now is The V getting around to previewing things you should be looking forward to on TV this year. If you’ll excuse our tardiness, here are a few things that will come to fruition this blessed year. -“Lost” Series Finale, May 23 Lost has […]

Math goes tech

March 1, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ah, Math. The singular source of graduation frustration in so many of us. Luckily, in the technological age we live in, the internet can save us from failing math multiple times (hopefully). Two seniors studying digital media, Rob Steffen and Josh Benson, have launched as their senior project a podcast of Professor Ben Moulton’s Intermediate […]

The State of the University

February 8, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear students, The State of the University address will be delivered this Thrusday at 2 p.m. in the Ragan Theater.  Although this address may seem like a formality, this speech discusses issues facing our school and student body. More specifically, it aids in understanding the myriad reasons the school functions as it does. Maybe because […]

Low-maintenance Valentine’s Day

February 8, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes You may have planned to go to the ever-so elegant (not) Olive Garden with your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day, but as the Mayans would have it, the holiday falls on a Sunday. Your plans are dashed because your love will be oh-so disappointed if you decide to break the Sabbath just to schmooze over each […]

GRE see sweeping changes

February 1, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Graduate Record Exam will undergo significant changes for 2011 test takers. The test required for most students to enter a graduate program has historically been two parts, a quantitative math section and a verbal section which tests a student’s vocabulary, reading comprehension and logic. Former test takers may recall doing practice sections for Educational […]

Explore opportunities of higher ed.

January 19, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week, a group of seven prospective Goshute students visited campus as part of an effort by Children First Utah, a non-profit charitable organization, to encourage these students to graduate high school and explore academic opportunities as multicultural students at Utah colleges. Although on the rise since 2005, according to the National Center of Education […]

Life without Facebook

October 12, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Remember the days of telephone calls, conversation over coffee and thoughtful compliments? I don’t either, but am discovering the lost joy in actual human interaction. Two weeks ago I deleted my Facebook profile. After much deliberation, I realized that the social networking site was not connecting me to people, as it promises on its log-in, […]

Major awesome

October 5, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have a confession: I am a Communication major, emphasizing in journalism. Yes, journalism is a dying industry and yes, there are only about 12 of us actually on the journalism track; however, my experience with the Department of Communication has been nothing but stellar, aside from being the minority in a major overrun by […]

Acronyms- Now you know

September 21, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Instant messaging and text messaging revolutionized the way we communicate. No longer do we properly punctuate, spell correctly (unless you still use T9) or use grammar. How many times do you text “L8R” to your friends just to save three characters? Hopefully not very often because the meanings of some common acronyms are shifting and […]