Creer’s Column: Money Over Everything

October 24, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes California Gov. Gavin Newsom took a path of action and signed the Fair Pay to Play Act into law and ensured California college athletes could make money off of their likenesses and receive personal endorsements beginning in 2023. The NCAA is not happy about it, to say the least — they have threatened to bar […]

Creer’s Column: It’s time for fair pay

September 26, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes The change being implemented in California is a step in the right direction, and it would be smart for state legislatures to do the same. With all of the money athletes bring into state institutions, maybe it would be nice if they could make a little money for themselves.

WAC Weekly: Winners, losers, improvers and who’s to blame?

September 15, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes A month down on the fall sports Western Athletic Conference calendar, and there have been some good, bad and ugly plays. Over the last month, we’ve had both men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball, and men’s and women’s golf. Who’s taking home the first-ever WAC and Wolverine winners, losers, improvers and blame? Let’s get straight to […]

WAC Weekly Column: The awakening of fall sports

August 29, 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutes We did it. We made it. What is it, you may be wondering? No, not the start of school but the slowest time of the sports calendar year is over with. Goodbye, dog days of mid-July and mid-August, where debates of professional athletes at AAU basketball games are the center of attention. Hello, fall sports […]

Interfaith work strives to build bridges between religions

November 2, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes The following is a letter to the editor sent to the UVU Review. Dear UVU, On October 27th, 11 people were murdered at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg, Pa., while celebrating weekly Shabbat. This was the deadliest anti-semitic attack ever committed against Jewish people in American history. In the wake of this heinous […]

Voting for Prop 5 will help UVU campus culture

October 30, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes At 39,931 students enrolled for the 2018 fall semester, Utah Valley University is the largest school in the state. Earlier this month, the Utah System of Higher Education released figures that show UVU has grown by 2,649 students from just a year ago, nearly triple the growth of all other public institutions in Utah. Despite […]

Op-ed: People of all faiths are welcome at UVU

October 8, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Editors note: This letter to the editor was written by a current UVU faculty member regarding a professor’s resignation for writing an anti-Muslim message to students. I am sure that Professor Green was a good teacher. The awards he won throughout his career at UVU speak to his commitment to students and their education. It […]

Sports over stats: capturing UVU players’ stories

July 10, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sports seem to be heavily defined, especially recently, by simply looking at scores and statistics. Notifications on smartphones from sports applications highlight how many points a team scored, and which players contributed the most to the team’s big win. We have had memorable moments as of late here at UVU that are “notification worthy”: the […]