Police speak about potential campus shootings

March 31, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes The UVSC Gun and Knife Club wanted to know what to do in the unfortunate event of an on campus shooting, so they invited Sgt. Sprague from Campus Police and Sgt. Wakamatsu from the Orem police department to offer some answers to that and other questions students had.

Q&A with Mae

March 31, 2008

Reading Time: 3 minutes Prefacing Mae’s visit to Salt Lake City on April 4 as part of their current national tour, the band’s drummer, Jacob Marshall, took some time to answer a lot of questions about the band and the tour. Here are some of the questions and answers from the interview:

21 deals a winning hand

March 31, 2008

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!” was a phrase that blackjack dealers supposedly used to say anytime a player was dealt a 21. Although you’re not being dealt a perfect 21 with 21, you definitely have a winning hand.

Why it’s really called Happy Valley

March 31, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Happy Valley” was the nickname given to Utah County when nearly 90 percent of its population was composed of members of the LDS church. Since then this appellation has been used positively and negatively to refer to the environment created by the morally stringent standards of the LDS church’s members.
Now, local filmmaker Ron Williams is introducing a new meaning for its nickname.