Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re like me, when you pull up the UVU Web site on your preferred browser, you are reminded of that ominous drawer in the kitchen full of broken pens, sticky notes, forgotten receipts, eraserless pencils, etc. Whatever you need is probably in there, but your chances of finding it are about the same as […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I consistently notice that speakers of the grand ol’ English language, even smart students, fail to realize the broader usage of the words they speak and write with, most especially loaded terms which aren’t used often. Words like “violence.” The most common understanding of violence is that of physical violence. I punch you, or shoot […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes When Alfonso Nunez, a ballroom dance student, was told this last summer to either leave the McKay Events Center or have the campus police escort him off, his sensible response was, “But sir, we are practicing for class.” Nunez is one of several ballroom students who find it increasingly difficult to find places on campus […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes How did you get started with Touchstones? I first heard about Touchstones, a student journal for literature and art, when then-editor-in-chief Amber Watson promoted it during an intro-level English course. When class ended, I approached Amber and expressed my interest in the journal, at which point she invited me to reading night, an event where […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Top four noble truths, courtesy of Wikipedia 1. Life as we know it ultimately is or leads to suffering/uneasiness (dukkha) in one way or another. 2. Suffering is caused by craving or attachments to worldly pleasures of all kinds. This is often expressed as a deluded clinging to a certain sense of existence, to selfhood, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ello all. As you may remember, last week I talked about corn mazes, but this week, we go a bit deeper into the ‘Ween spirit and look at movies that set the mood for All Hallows. Back when I was 12-years-old, me and my mate Berta went to see a movie we thought looked good. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Remember how much we all loved the ABC situational comedy Dharma and Greg? Remember how there was a void left in our hearts after the cancellation of said show? Well, now you can finally fill that void with the weekly column Karma and Meg. It has nothing to do with Dharma and Greg, nor does […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dear self-appointed spokesman of the café area at the bookstore: stop it. Yes, we can hear you. No, we are not impressed. We really do not care that you want to talk loudly and apparently persuasive about the goings-on in whichever country you are an expert on and how it all ties in with the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Halloween is a few weeks away and you’ve begun to search frantically for a costume. You dig through the attic and find that Cinderella dress you wore in second grade; it should be obvious that this outfit will no longer fit. Don’t leave the attic yet, though – you could probably safely get away with […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes For someone who will be referred to as Karen for the sake of anonymity, dating her professor just sort of happened. “At the end of the semester, he suggested we get together and have dinner,” Karen said. “I thought he meant a group of students, but when I showed up he was the only one […]