Reading Time: 2 minutes The top cycling teams in America descended upon the breathtaking mountains of northern Utah to compete in the Tour of Utah – America’s toughest stage race. The six-day stage race covered over 300 miles of mountainous terrain, and sent the riders over 30,000 feet of climbing.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The first days of school in late August bring with them a sense of beginning, a sense of belonging and a spirit of affiliation. At UVU this is mostly true — all but the spirit of affiliation part. It’s a regular occurrence on campus to find students wearing shirts, hats and other accessories colored a certain shade of navy blue, littered with logos of another Utah Valley university, all while Utah Valley green can be hard to find.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU’s Toolson Signs with Team in Turkish Basketball League He Will Begin Practice with the Team on Thursday Aug. 10, 2009 OREM, Utah – When Ryan Toolson’s agent approached him about the possibility of playing professional basketball in Turkey, UVU’s all-time leading scorer wasn’t in for it at first.
Reading Time: 2 minutes It has regrettably come to my attention in recent weeks that one need not do anything to break a law in Provo. I mean this in the most literal sense possible, and if you doubt the possibility of this seemingly bold claim, I direct you to the following hypothetical reconstruction of an actual situation: Mary owns a beat up old clunker which she intends to fix up on the cheap, and stores said vehicle in her back yard, away from the eyes of the public, who in all likelihood would be visually offended by the sore sight of a rusty Pontiac blighting the neighborhood’s pristine profile.
Reading Time: 2 minutes He who has ears to hear, let him hear: Being gay is neither a choice nor a hereditary trait. It is a disease. These are uncertain times to be a man in America. The loud guy next door could be more upright than you. Washington put a man on the moon and now they want to send a rocket to Uranus.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The primary reason for Utah being last in terms of per pupil spending is the high ratio of children to adults. Utah is among the top states in terms of percentage of the state budget allocated to public education, but by the time that amount is allocated to students, the per pupil amount is not very high.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Warning: this article contains fairly widely-known spoilers about the ending of Inglourious Basterds. August 21st saw the release of Inglourious Basterds, the seventh film from art cinema’s enfant terrible and provocateur extraordinaire Quentin Tarantino. The misleadingly marketed story of a Jewish fugitive hiding out in Nazi-occupied France during the last years of World War II (and only tangentially the story of Brad Pitt’s titular Nazi scalpers), the film is primarily a study of the power of cinema as revolution and works as both an intense, dialogue-driven thriller and a commentary on the nature of filmmaking and its potential as a sociopolitical force.
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a society, we have decided that it is important to ban smoking indoors because of the serious health effects of secondhand smoke. This ban, of course, is protested by Big Tobacco junk scientists who claim no relation between cancer, lung disease, and smoking.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last year among myriad other edicts and appropriations, our indomitable student council voted to fund the preliminary stages of building a new student center. Preliminary in the sense that no such student center will as yet be built. Rather, the idea is that $1 per student per semester will be taken from student fees and put into a fund which will be used at a future date to construct a new building where students can chill, hang, relax, chillax, etc.
Reading Time: 3 minutes After a corrective surgery, six-year-old Adam’s cochlear implant had broken. As an intern for the Utah Schools for the Deaf, I joined Adam on the rug for story time. When the teacher asked Adam in spoken English what color the turkey was, he looked around confused before looking to me.