Reading Time: 3 minutes Campus Police, Student Health Services and Judicial Affairs have set crime-preventing policies that help keep the campus safe and crime rates low. Extensive training throughout the university has taken place to practice preventative action. In 2009, there were 11 counts of forcible sex offences on the BYU campus. Neighboring the Cougars, UVU cut that number […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Friday, the Utah State Board of Regents approved a tuition rate increase at each of Utah’s public colleges and universities – Dixie, SUU, USU, U of U, Snow, Weber, SLCC and UVU. The average increase is 7.5 percent, with Dixie facing the sharpest increase at 11.8 percent, SLCC the lowest at five percent. UVU […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Planned Parenthood creates a dialogue around the long-tabooed topic of sex. These services are essential to open the subject and inform people about safe methods. By Megan Flox-Lambert Opinions Writer Americans have the highest rate of sexually transmitted infections and teen pregnancies of any industrialized nation. In the United States, 19 million new sexually transmitted […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a laughable attempt to balance the budget, Utah’s legislature is punishing one of the state’s few profitable agencies, presumably because it helps miscreants and moralists alike get drunk. The House and Senate passed a bill slashing the budget of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The bill requires that the Utah Alcoholic Beverage Control […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVUSA will be hosting a battle of the bands competition on Wednesday, March 30. The event, which will be held in the Courtyard, will see performances from seven different artists. Over 30 bands auditioned to compete in the competition on Monday and Wednesday of last week and only a select few made the cut. […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Kjar becomes UVU’s first All-American wrestler Wolverine senior Ben Kjar may have just given Sylvester Stallone a reason to write another chapter to the classic Rocky series with his inspirational run at nationals. Just like Rocky, Kjar had high expectations for himself and wouldn’t settle for anything less. The UVU wrestler spent hours upon […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thriving to repeat as Great West Conference tournament champions, the lady Wolverines took to their hardwood as they hosted the GWC tournament March 9-12. As the No. 4 seed, the lady Wolverines first met conference foe Texas-Pan American for the third time this season. Utah Valley ran away with the win, 81-65, advancing them to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Matt Eastin is a UVU alum, a local independent video and media producer, and a former Mr. UVSC (2004). He and the group Occidental Saloon have produced a music video for the band Fictionist, a local group who are in the running to be sponsored by Rolling Stone. Another video produced for the band Neon […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Across campus, students will have a chance to donate money to offer relief to Japan, which was recently struck by a tsunami. The fundraiser will run Monday, March 21 through Friday, March 25. The goal of the fundraiser is to have every student donate a dollar, which would raise around $30,000. The fundraiser will be […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Spring Break is this week… what’s YOUR plan?