Reading Time: 2 minutes This past Monday April 5, Utah Valley University opened its doors to host the first annual mental health symposium. The symposium was held in an effort to raise awareness about the growing trend of mental difficulties seen in university students throughout the state of Utah. An estimated 500 or so UVU students and members of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes So what did you do for spring break? If you are like me, your perfect spring break vacation would have been sitting on a beach far, far away from Utah, where you can soak up the sun and run away from this dreadful weather. The Volunteer and Service-Learning Center brought a new and exciting opportunity […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chris Benson batted at a .336 clip last year as a sophomore. That season also featured a 17-game hitting streak and 38 RBI. So how does he evaluate himself in the past compared to now? “The past couple years I didn’t really work as hard as I did this year,” Benson said. “This year I […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVUSA held the fifteenth annual Wolverine Achievement Awards on April 7 and among those awarded were two of UVU’s athletes. Allyce Jones, a UVU volleyball player, was awarded Female Athlete of the Year and Ben Kjar, a UVU wrestler, was awarded Male Athlete of the Year. An emotional Jones thanked family members for their support […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is difficult to imagine films without an abundance of special effects, let alone an era in which films were absolutely silent apart from the ramshackle sounds of a film reel and piano accompaniment. Set during this silent film period of the early 1900s, a new production titled “A Flickering” will be performed by a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute At Brent Brown Ballpark on April 3, the Utah Valley University Wolverines scored a school record 14 runs in the second inning of a pounding of Southern Utah University 23-9. The Wolverines took out their anger on Southern Utah after having lost a heartbreaker the night before in the second game of its double header when […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our university has grown considerably over the past several decades. It has gone from vocational school, to community college, to state college to the growing university it is today. Over the course of those years of transformation, various programs have been added and enhanced along the way. One particular program that doesn’t seem to get […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes How did you come up with the idea for a Bona fide Beauty Day? For a methods course I did an ethnographic study on the beauty pageant culture and it amplified my disagreements with the way that women are objectified in our society. Instead of writing another paper on it, I decided to do something. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The “normal” size for women in Hollywood and in the fashion industry is nearly 60 pounds lighter and six sizes smaller than the average American woman. One would be hard pressed to find a woman who is not affected by this, whether emotionally, physically or both. Unrealistic ideals lead many females down an unhealthy and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Karl Marx would be proud. The pre-eminent capitalist nation is on its way to what Marx says is a communal life. Most would say that it is a far stretch for America, the traditional warrior against communism, to be headed toward that system. However, America has been making steady progress since before the establishment of […]