Reading Time: 3 minutes The stage was set with grimy public restrooms and calls to liberation were smeared across the walls: “Let my people pee!” they demanded. This was the depiction audience members saw in the Ragan Theater Jan. 21-30 before the spectacular production of “Urinetown” began each evening. The music began and lights focused on Officer Lockstock, played […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Four years ago, the Utah Valley women’s basketball team gained a new point guard from nearly 1,100 miles away. Utah Valley’s Asumi Nakayama came all the way from Saitama, Japan to play as a Wolverine. Despite another offer to stay in Japan to play basketball, Nakayama chose Utah Valley because of the opportunities it held […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Utah County in danger of a nuclear strike? Not likely, even today. But in the late 50s, the arms race infused the entire country with a paranoia that no city ignored — not even the 2,000 citizens of Happy Valley Orem. Solution: bomb shelters. For the local civil defense council, the most ideal places for […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As if Utah college students weren’t facing enough obstructions to their education — especially the cost of tuition, which continues to grow every semester — there’s more trouble on the financial horizon. As reported by the Deseret News on Jan. 21st, Utah’s colleges and universities had their budgets reduced 4 percent, putting jobs in jeopardy […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Jan. 27 a symposium presenting the elements of the recent Haiti tragedy featured information from two university professors and an employee of the American Red Cross to a packed audience. Organized by department of earth science Chair Dr. Daniel Horns and co-sponsored by the College of Science and Health and the International Center, the […]