Reading Time: 2 minutes Every student will at some point take a class from an adjunct faculty member. Our school has about 450 full-time faculty members, and about a thousand part-time faculty, most of whom are adjunct professors. Over 50 percent of the credit hours awarded are taught by adjuncts. In the rest of the nation, about 70 percent […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The day after the health care bill passed in the House was possibly the most annoying day in the history of days. Everyone, seemingly for the first time, cared about it deeply and expressed their views via Twitter and Facebook and annoying conversations on the bus. But very few people could tell you the full […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Weeks ago Utah Valley women’s basketball team went into the Great West Conference tournament as the sixth seed, the underdog, and came out on top as the champion. No it wasn’t a dream you had – it really did happen. After a rough season with a team consisting of six returning players and six freshmen, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tuesday, March 30 Baseball at Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 6 p.m. Thursday, April 1 Baseball vs. Southern Utah Orem, Utah 6 p.m. Friday, April 2 Baseball vs. Southern Utah Orem, Utah 3 p.m. Track at BYU Cougar Invitational Provo, Utah All Day
Reading Time: 2 minutes Perez named GWC Player of the Week Utah Valley’s Amanda Perez and South Dakota’s Mel Johnson have been named the first Great West Conference Softball Players of the Week of the 2010 season as announced by the league office Thursday. Perez, a sophomore designated player from La Mirada, Calif., hit .625, belted her first two […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes My first sign should’ve been the text messages. Larry (name changed) was incessant with texting me. We’d met at a bonfire of hundreds; in retrospect, how he picked me out of the darkened crowd is suspicious, and why I caved in and gave him my number is rueful. The guy had some audacity — you […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU made history by participating in the madness of March for the first time in school history as three wrestlers qualified for the National Wrestling Championships in Omaha, Neb. Ben Kjar, Flint Ray and Brad Darrington each made the trip to Nebraska to grapple with the best-of-the-best with hopes of a national championship on the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes How to survive the last month of school 1. Limit the time you “dick around” Many people suffer from procrastination and I, folks, am one of those people. For example, the deadline for this article was today at noon. Well, it’s 9:55 p.m. and I am just getting around to writing it. This is not […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are plenty of reasons to like March: Mother Nature starts to usher out Old Man Winter; a certain Irish-themed holiday provides an excuse to party on a Wednesday and college students are given leave to engage themselves in various forms of debauchery, the likes of which may result in an ill-advised tramp stamp or […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes So, ideally, this book should probably be reviewed along the whole “The Divine Comedy.” Yet such a review would take pages, and “The Inferno” provides more than enough on its own to merit a solitary review. The book’s adventure really begins as Dante, with Virgil as his guide, begin their descent down the circles of […]