Letters to the editor

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Dear Editor, As a student I am constantly running around UVU campus, from one class to another.  Usually after a couple of weeks I find the most time-efficient paths to follow as I travel.  Sometimes these paths take you across grassy lawns.  Honestly I know that I’m not the only person on campus who values […]

Clash of the Tenets

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s fairly hard to ignore the fact we live among a highly concentrated population of LDS members. Yet even though there is a high percentage of single faith followers in this area and at our school, one does not have to strain to find the perspective of the non-LDS community.  They tend to speak a […]

Victim helps campus police catch attacker

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute The latest victim in a series of females being inappropriately touched on campus was able to lead campus police straight to her attacker on Nov. 30. An unidentified female victim followed her attacker to a restroom in the Liberal Arts building after she was inappropriately touched in the same building. After following the attacker, the […]

The educational needs of Mali met through digital media

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes Defying the average senior project, three digital media students accompanied by two professors will be in Mali Jan 9. through Jan. 18 filming a documentary in support of the Mali Rising Foundation. The documentary is meant to promote educational development in a country where, according to www.MaliRisingFoundation.org, there are barely 8,000 primary schools for 15,000 […]

Events Calendar–Jan. 11-17

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: 5 minutes Editor’s Pick of the Week: UVU Men’s and Women’s basketball will both be playing here at home in the McKay Events Center on Thursday, Jan. 14. Come out and support our school’s athletes as they go head to head with North Dakota. The Women’s game will start at 4:30 p.m. and the Men’s at 7 […]

UVU looks for GWC win over Fighting Sioux

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes The conclusion of the semester break marked the end of the preseason for the UVU men’s basketball team. After dropping the three final non-conference games against Cal, Furman and UT Arlington, the Wolverines are back and ready for conference play. After hosting Chicago State in the conference opener, the Wolverines prepare to welcome North Dakota, […]

Indulge your inner creativity with locally produced art

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Springville Museum of Art (SMOFA), Utah’s most historic museum dedicated to the visual arts, is now featuring five new exhibitions as of Jan. 5. The “Natural Revelations” exhibit, featuring 23 engaging works of art created by the gifted Susan Swartz, emphasizes the inherent beauty of natural Utah landscapes. While Swartz initially pursued more traditionalist […]

The Correctionary: Free Market

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Milton Friedman once said that a lack of belief in freedom itself is what supports most arguments against free market economics. It could also be said that most uses of the term “free market” rely on a fallacious understanding of freedom, even by those who do believe in it, especially burgeoning students and future capitalists […]

Realizing the dream

January 11, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cheryl and Linda Brown were just children when their father joined twelve other families led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit on behalf of their children. In the 55 years since the lawsuit the sisters have remained involved in a civil rights […]