Reading Time: 2 minutes The UVU lacrosse team ended its spring season and playing year with the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association national finals held in Denver May 11-15. The team played four games throughout the finals and stood out nationally as the number two team within Division II. The Wolverines began their finals with a game against Briarcliffe College, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The indoor track and field team made its first-ever NCAA Division I appearance on May 27-29 in Austin, Texas, with six qualifiers. After being back-to-back Great West Conference champions, the team had six members qualify for regionals. Although the team’s effort was not enough to advance to the NCAA championships in Eugene, Oregon, the team […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes After finishing the year with 28 wins, the softball team concluded its season with the Great West Conference tournament in Dallas, Texas, from May 16-17. The Wolverines returned home with only one win. The Wolverines went into the GWC tournament as the number one seed, but were upset in their first game 4-2 by the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Baseball coach Eric Madsen doesn’t hesitate when asked about the first thing that comes to mind concerning UVU’s 2010 team. “It has to be the unity,” Madsen said. “All the guys focused on one goal. I’ve never been part of a team where that was so evident.” Madsen had three goals in mind for the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Softball freshman Jordahn Denny was involved in an automobile accident on May 4, leaving her paralyzed and in intensive care. Denny was traveling south near Downey, Idaho when she lost control of her vehicle, striking a semi tractor-trailer, which was also traveling south. This sent her vehicle into a roll in the median and ejected […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Many members of the campus community have seen performances in the state-of-the-art Noorda Theatre, completed in 2009. What not everyone might know is that funding for the theater was only part of a larger program with an emphasis on helping youth. When Tye Noorda made a generous, university-matched donation to the Department of Theatrical Arts, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Grassroots Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet is likely different from any Shakespeare performance its audiences have seen before. This troupe is composed of thirteen actors and that’s all. There’s no director, no stage manager, no costume designer. “The greatest part of Grassroots Shakespeare is that there is no one director,” says company member Jessamyn […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Computers have a fantastically awful little switch called a reset button. Deviously simple, it quickly reboots your computer, even if you spent hours writing a paper and did not intend to push the button. But when your computer locks up and begins crashing, that same reset button is a lifesaver and gets you back to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes During a recent conversation, I told mentioned that the same pattern of reasoning used against homosexuality – the ruin of the nuclear family, society and human civilization as we know it – was used by early Mormon leaders Brigham Young, John Taylor and Orson Pratt in order to argue the evils of monogamy. A friend […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Located adjacent to the Nordstrom in Orem’s University Mall, the Woodbury Art Museum is an official extension of Utah Valley University, despite its distance from campus. Led by director and curator Marcus Alan Vincent, the Woodbury remains a fascinating destination for students and non-students alike, even in the summer. While class offerings are substantially smaller […]