Reading Time: 2 minutes Award-winning author of “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” Stephen R. Covey spoke on campus last Tuesday as part of UVUSA’s symposium “A New U.” Covey explained to the student audience the world they will enter after college and how to land any job.
Reading Time: 2 minutes One can only express admiration for the director Laura Barnham and her youth program Acting UP! at the SCERA. Teenagers from all over the valley audition for her program, and once admitted become part of an ensemble that focuses on family-friendly fun and uplifting entertainment.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dial M For Murder, the play on which Alfred Hitchcock based his movie of the same name, opened March 20 at Pioneer Theater Company in Salt Lake. Murder, the story of a scheming former tennis player and his heiress wife who refuses to play the victim, was written by English playwright Frederick Knott.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ballet West in Salt Lake is at it again with another new and exciting performance called Treasures of the Ballets Russes. This recital is set to sample some of the original Ballet Russes’ most famous and profound pieces, including Les Biches, The Prodigal Son and Polovetsian Dances.
Reading Time: 2 minutes “For one afternoon people cover each other in colored powders, and our differences are erased in one swipe,” says Charu Das, manager of Holi, also known as The Festival of Colors. Celebrated largely in countries with large Hindu populations such as India, Nepal and Bangladesh, the festival is also held yearly at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Construction has begun on the west side of campus for the new Hal Wing Track and Field Facility located north of the soccer fields. The $1.2 million project will be completed by fall 2009. It will have a 1,500 seating capacity for spectators to watch UVU’s track and field team compete.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Each spring, Peace and Justice Studies hosts a conference on a timely and important topic. Last year’s conference, discussing the topic of nuclear weapons, drew more than 1,200 attendees. This year’s dialogue will discuss genocide prevention. Four of the world’s foremost genocide scholars will come to campus (the schedule can be viewed below; details and biographical information about the speakers included).
Reading Time: < 1 minute What do sequins, flowers and feathers all have in common? They are being spotted on heads all across campus. Headbands and elastic head wraps have returned once again. Celebrities like Mary-Kate Olsen, Nicole Richie and Rachel Bilson have been seen sporting hippie style headbands throughout the last couple of years, and this vintage style hair accessory has made it to the mainstream.