Reading Time: 2 minutes Meditation and mediation. They almost beg to be combined into a single concept, don’t they? Meditation is an active pursuit, but it is aimed inward. The disparate, warring elements of the psyche are brought to heel by the focused, directed thinking of the mind. Mediation, on the other hand, is also an active pursuit, but […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well folks, this week I’ve decided to do something a little different and do a double feature. (After all, I can only use the word “fun” so many times to describe one place.) My topic: attractions in Utah Valley. Jump On It in Lindon Located just off the freeway five minutes north of UVU is […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes While some people (OK, a lot of people) in this county attend various houses of worship (OK, one particular house of worship) each Sunday, other people find that their day of rest is a day with no church services or Munch ‘n Mingles. So what can these gentiles (I joke, I joke) do with those […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am so happy about the Nov. 16 article “Project Encourages Women to Continue Their Education.” It helps me keep being motivated and continue with my professional career. A couple of years ago, I was feeling a little depressed and kind of lost. I have had in my mind for a long time the idea […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Epictetus once said “only the educated are free,” but a Supreme Court ruling may challenge that. Although no professors were involved in the Garcetti v. Ceballos case that was settled in 2006, the verdict could endanger teachers’ freedom of speech in their own classrooms, which would directly affect the academic freedom we take for granted. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Writers like Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams have changed the view of deserts as wastelands to one of wonder and beauty. But there are some who would like to return the desert to its wasteland status. As the folks from the Appalachian Mountains know all too well, there is no better way to destroy […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Like an obscene inchworm, a wounded woman crawls across the commons area of a Russian airport in desperate search for cover from the brutal terrorist attack raging all around her. This is not a description of a recent attack. Rather, it is a video game mission, a mission in which the player is required to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nothum named GWC student athlete of the month On Wednesday UVU cross country runner Mary Nothum was named the Great West Conference Women’s Student Athlete of the Month for October. This marks the second consecutive month that Nothum has won the conference honor. Nothum, a junior from Washington, Mo., was named the Great West Women’s […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It was a true David versus Goliath story, but in this case the Goliath character handled the character playing David quite easily. The analogy is geared toward the Wolverines recent loss to the Minnesota Golden Gophers of the Big Ten conference. The Gophers came into the game ranked eighteenth in the USA Today/ESPN poll and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The UVU women’s basketball team will be back on its home court Tuesday Nov. 24 at 7:05 p.m. to take on the Boise State Broncos. This game will be “hometown hero” night for senior Blake Reynolds because she hails from Boise. Admission for the game will be $1 if you’re from the state of Idaho […]