Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re like most people, you’d probably rather not think about Mexico or illegal immigration. The issue is like a door that hinges on racism: Open it, and you enter a room of overwhelming and seemingly unsolvable social, economic and political problems.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Regardless of my political views on any other issue, I believe the single most important issue we face as a nation is ending the war… not the war in Iraq or the war against terrorism, but the devastating civil cold war that is destroying our nation from within.
Reading Time: 2 minutes We’ve all seen them, and know that nothing ruins a day quite like the unwelcome vision of unkempt, unseemly, unattractive people. That’s right, you ugly degenerates, you know who you are, and you know we don’t want you around.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now that I’m not on strike anymore, I can finally preach my words of wisdom unto thee. Here are some events to look for in 2008.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you ever pause to wonder what inhabitants of the future will think of our society when they look upon our remains? If someone from the future came to UVSC’s campus, there is one thing that our future-friend would surely find baffling.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Each year a local beneficiary is chosen and spotlighted. The beneficiaries of The Vagina Monologues ticket sales have been Turning Point at UVSC, Promise for Women and Children, the Donner/Galbraith Scholarship, House of Hope, and this year’s Center for Women and Children in Crisis.
Reading Time: < 1 minute In 1908, famed sociologist Thomas F. O’Dea published a monumental work on the LDS church titled THE MORMONS, a commentary that is now a staple in the collections of many contemporary Mormon theologists, researchers and critics. In celebration of the publication’s 50th anniversary, UVSC’s Behavioral Science department will host an on-campus conference titled “Thomas F. O’Dea’s THE MORMONS: A Reconsideration Fifty Years Later.”
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kiddus Yohannes, the former student who was arrested June 2007 on charges of purchasing guns illegally and unlawfully possessing his roommates debit card, was convicted on Feb. 15 and may face life in the custody of immigration officials.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The United States Air Force Academy’s Latter-day Saint Cadet Choir gave a great concert honoring both our country and the LDS church. They sang some beautiful songs, including the national anthem, “The U.S. Air Force,” “I Know That My Redeemer Lives,” “Praise to the Man,” and “Come Thou Fount.” The students also enjoyed a piano solo of the song “I Stand All Amazed.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes Controversy, violence and the vagina make their way to UVSC for the fifth year in a row, presenting The Vagina Monologues.