Fall intramurals getting underway

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Now that school has started and everyone is starting to settle into their everyday routine, it’s time to mix it up, do something different and get more involved. A great way to do this is by signing up and participating in some events this fall, hosted by the Intramurals club which is located in the student center.

Who’s taking home the hardware?

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes With the beginning of the college football season there is always time to speculate as to who will be touting the hardware come December. The race for the Heisman and the track meet to the national championship will be hotly contested until the final weeks of the season.

Sports briefs

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Broadbent named GWC volleyball player of the week Junior Outside Hitter Earns MVP Honors at Weber State Invitational Sept. 1, 2009 OREM, Utah – Utah Valley University’s Kayli Broadbent was named Tuesday the Great West Conference Volleyball Offensive Player of the Week for her MVP efforts in leading the Wolverines to the Weber State Invitational title last weekend.

Plight of Utahs Deaf Students: Part II

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes It is wrong to assume that deaf people want to become like hearing people and it is not our right to make educational discussions regarding deaf children with this assumption. Instead of forcing children to waste their school years on learning to “speak” and “hear,” we must give them an equal opportunity through bilingual education.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Scene

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s recently been a sudden surge of my old high school friends coming home from missions trying to get used to being around other old friends who’ve “changed.” It’s still difficult for them to resist urges to shake hands and shove blue books into people’s hands, so they socialize more passively with “guy’s night out,” which is essentially when guys foreswear association with any relations to the fairer sex (be they casual girlfriends or wives of several years) to assert “maleness.

Blue bins not green enough

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes UVUSA’s attempts to go green have been an important step to making UVU environmentally friendly, but have they taken the best step? We have new recycling bins and we have new biodegradable and recycled products being sold, but there are still obstacles we must face and so much more that we can and need to do when it comes to preserving the environment.

Give back your handouts

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a near-constant refrain I hear from friends, fellow students and political pundits in the ongoing debate in health care and it goes something like this: “I believe in personal responsibility, and I don’t think that it’s right that some poor person or illegal immigrant should get a handout from the government for doing nothing and/or breaking the law.

Don’t call 5555–they’re not answering

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the past six months, UVU Review has gone missing from its racks twice. The first instance was the result of an innocent mistake on the part of counselors for at risk youth who were in need of materials for a building project. The second instance occurred at some time on Aug.

Is it just me or are these Utah Dairy Council ads being ran in the Review a little unnerving?

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes What has two eyes, two ears, two ovaries and is subject to routine rape? If you answered dairy cows, you are correct. How else do you think dairy cows are able to consistently give milk? Cows don’t get to “do it” the old fashioned way, instead dairy farmers artificially inseminate the cows by collecting the semen from the bulls and injecting it straight into the females.

Trading down

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Former Lieutenant Governor Gary Herbert, now Governor Gary Herbert, (due to the resignation of former Governor, current Chinese Ambassador, and all-around awesome dude Jon Huntsman) was supposed to attend a panel discussion on our campus last Friday in lieu of Senator Orrin Hatch, who had been requested to deliver a eulogy for Ted Kennedy and who expressed regret at having to bow out at the last minute.