Morality in Games: Puritan or Satan

March 29, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Morality is subjective and each person has their own interpretation, but it plays an integral role in the direction of our lives. It’s complicated, to say the least.   There are games that claim they present the user with moral dilemmas, that they force you to make difficult decisions and that those decisions affect the […]

Wednesday Woes: The Trouble with Nicknames

March 28, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes The other day, my friend Jarom was reborn. It was amazing.   Walking through Times Square, Jarom was stopped by a random rap artist, peddling his wares among the tourists. “What’s your name, man?”   “Jarom.”   “Jared?”   “Jarom.”   “Cool,” said the rapper. “I’m gonna call you J-Smoove.”   That’s right, Smoove, with […]

Wolverine Minute, March 28th

March 28, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute   -Clothesline Project/in need of volunteers The Clothesline Project will be featured in the UVU Grand Ballroom on April 3rd and 4th to raise awareness on violence. Blank shirts will be available for students to share their personal stories of abuse. If you would like to volunteer to help with this project contact the Equity […]

Rally demands end to sexism and discrimination on campus

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes As students and faculty members raised their fists in solidarity, their angry voices echoed down the halls of Utah Valley University. Protestors chanted “At this university, we must protect diversity! Make Matthew Holland see, we must protect diversity!”   The chant was only the beginning of the Rally For Equality sponsored by the Coalition Against […]

Planning a wedding can be stressful

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute But it doesn’t have to be.   You don’t have to travel far, and you don’t have to look very hard, to find ways to make your wedding uniquely yours. This issue of the V represents some of the best wedding amenities the Valley has to offer—from hand-crafted couture dresses and cake, to carefully-arranged bouquets […]

Photography

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes The world is drowning in photographers. A medium that once evoked so much intrigue that onlookers could only explain the process by magic has become so commonplace that a camera rests in nearly every single back pocket.   It seems like everyone has a camera-wielding relative who knows just enough to be dangerous. As tempting […]

Students, meet your science building

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week was the first week students could walk through the new College of Science and Health Building. Although it will not be utilized until this summer, students enjoyed being able to go through the building to get around the school.   Trevor Davis works for catering and is happy the hallway has opened up […]

Graphic design department offers expertise at conference

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nearly 500 technology oriented high school students poured into the conference center of Salt Lake Community College’s Miller campus  for an 8:30 a.m. keynote address.   The annual conference of the Academy of Information Technology convened on Wednesday, March 21, to host kids from five Utah school districts and reinforce the AOIT objective of offering […]

Data aggregation? Data aggression

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes Our so-called privacy may as well be considered piracy and it seems like no one is fighting it. There are well over 800 million Facebook users and 100 percent of those users are making themselves vulnerable to data aggregation.   Social media sites are getting smarter. Facebook made $3.2 billion in revenue last year from […]

Venues

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cake eaters, awkward toasters and relatives you never knew you had will only be there for a few moments.   That one day, that one thing, that one reason, that one person, that one place. You want perfection, if not just for you, so that you won’t have to hear it from your mother-in-law for […]