Reading Time: < 1 minute Picture this. You’re sitting in your math class while the professor is explaining order of operations — and you actually GET it. Don’t think it’s possible? Would it help if your professor was wearing leopard skin boxers over his pants? Mathematics professor Ben Moulton thinks it might. Moulton believes that every student has a different […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I should have known when she walked into my aikido class that she would be the one to break my heart. Let me tell you about the woman who ruined my life and my summer. I was filling in as instructor one week in May, while Sensei Jeff was away auditioning for Deadliest Catch. Jeff […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dr. Sean Esteban McCabe and colleagues at the University of Michigan and Harvard University analyzed the answers from the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, which in 2001 surveyed 10,904 randomly selected students enrolled at 119 colleges across the United States. Overall, four percent of the respondents reported having taken a stimulant medication […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I’ll take a little anxiety and insomnia if it means getting a good grade point average,” Lisa comments matter-of-factly. Lisa, a current Utah Valley University student, sounds similar to the majority of her peers. Who in college hasn’t distressed over deadlines or pulled an all-nighter cramming for that Biology final? What’s different about Lisa’s situation is where her anxiety […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ello all, it’s that time again. Every year around this period, I start feeling it in my body. Cramps, irritability, anxiety, mood swings, angry outbursts and tender mamas are all signs that my favorite holiday – I like to call it ‘ween – is here. I hear some of you dissenters whispering that it’s too […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week my assignment took me to Orem’s very own Café Fresh, located at 500 South State, in the same building as Good Earth, just up the road from last week’s critique of the week restaurant, Pho Plus Noodle House. Type of food – Boasting a wide variety of fresh, healthy food, Café Fresh is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s face it, any woman with an ounce of estrogen yearns for the attention and royal treatment like that of the ever-so-suave Leopold, from “Kate and Leopold,” appropriately played by the sexiest Wolverine alive: Hugh Jackman. But how realistic is such yearning? Frankly (and quite unfortunately), we live in a world outside of the silver […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Great West Conference Granted Automatic Bid into CIT Field The Great West Conference men’s basketball tournament champion has been granted an automatic bid into the CollegeInsider.com Post-season Tournament (CIT), giving the league’s first post-season tournament even more meaning. The Great West and CollegeInsider.com, a nationally recognized website, formed a partnership which grants an automatic qualifier […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Looking for some offense and an elusive win, the UVU women’s soccer team took its travels north to take on the Idaho State Bengals. The good news: After nearly three games, the Wolverines finally scored a goal. The bad news: They still lost. The Bengals (4-4-0) struck early and scored late to hold off the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mon. Oct. 5 Women’s Volleyball vs. Boise State Orem, Utah 7 p.m Men’s Golf at Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate Palm Desert, California Women’s Golf at Firestone Grill Intercollegiate San Luis Obispo, California Tues. Oct. 6 Men’s Golf at Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate Palm Desert, California Women’s Golf at Firestone Grill Intercollegiate San Luis Obispo, California Thurs. Oct. […]