Dinner With A Gay Psycho: A True Story of Survival and Japanese Food
My first sign should’ve been the text messages. Larry (name changed) was incessant with texting me. We’d met at a bonfire of hundreds; in retrospect, how he picked me out…
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Who’s getting handouts?
According to the “Salt Lake Tribune”, Curtis Oda, the man behind HJR24, called affirmative action “a failure…You’re promoting discrimination to stop discrimination. You’re telling these people, ‘You’re not good enough…
Give me liberty or give me marriage!
“I’m not against gays. I like gay people. I’m just for traditional marriage!” I can do this trick too: I’m not against “Twilight”; my sister likes it. I’m just for…
Scripture Technology: World’s Only Gutenberg In Provo
A German goldsmith living in the 1450s hid from the Catholic Church to invent what would not only bring the world out of the Dark Ages but become the first…
Math Wimps Can’t Tip
Dear Freshmen and Anyone Holding Out For Kingdom Come Before They Must Take Math 1010…don’t do it. I tried. I told myself: “I’m a nerd, sure, but not enough to…
Movies I can’t wait to see this year
10. “Iron Man 2” I’ll be honest: I didn’t fall in love with the first movie, and I don’t know if the sequel will win me over. But superhero sequels…
Love U2
My poor roommate. One minute I’m saying how happy I am that today I finally put down my deposit for the English department’s summer study abroad: London! Last time I…
Tunnels of Orem High
Utah County in danger of a nuclear strike? Not likely, even today. But in the late 50s, the arms race infused the entire country with a paranoia that no city…
Bramble’s Gamble
Currently, online pharmacies are illegal in every state. But with his new bill, Provo State Senator Curt Bramble aims to make Utah the first exception. Companies have been negotiating for…
Sundays at the library
On the seventh day, God rested from his long week of nonstop work. But God wasn’t in college. For most students, a typical Sunday involves dressing up nice and spending…
Correctionary: Reverse discrimination
I keep hearing classmates claiming to being discriminated against. It’s usually a dramatic story involving a sort of pathetic solitude in the high school cafeteria or in a Carl’s Jr….
Wild Rumpus
Perhaps, like some, you nearly cried in childish delight when you saw the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are earlier this year. Perhaps you’ve sat through the crooning and…
Dancers with no home
When Alfonso Nunez, a ballroom dance student, was told this last summer to either leave the McKay Events Center or have the campus police escort him off, his sensible response…
Putting the fun in the factorial function
Picture this. You’re sitting in your math class while the professor is explaining order of operations — and you actually GET it. Don’t think it’s possible? Would it help if…
The reels of misfortune
The UVU Cinema Club will be showing Slumdog Millionaire this Thursday as part of its International Film series. In case you missed the hullabaloo, it won eight Oscars, including Best…
