Reading Time: 2 minutes On Saturday, July 24, residents from across the state will be celebrating Utah’s pioneer heritage by participating in a grand parade, fireworks and other seasonal activities. While most students are grateful for a late-summer holiday, few are familiar with its significance. Saturday marks 163 years since the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley and […]
Reading Time: 12 minutes Monday July 19 Festival: SPANISH FORK FIESTA DAYS — Call 1-801-804-4500 or visit SpanishFork.org for a schedule of events and their locations. Music: AMERICAN FORK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES — 7 p.m. at the Amphitheater at Quail Cove, 851 E. 700 N. American Fork. Visit AFCity.org or call 801-763-3081. Free. Music: OPEN MIC NIGHT — 7 […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes On June 19, Christina Lowe was crowned Miss Utah of 2010. Lowe, a junior at UVU, beat 50 other contestants representing various parts of the state. Lowe was crowned Miss Utah County back in August, which automatically qualified her for the state competition. To many in today?s society, the idea of beauty pageants evokes thoughts […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The school board of trustees has recently approved the purchase of 100 acres of property located between Center Street and 1600 N. on Geneva Road in Orem to serve as intramural fields. “We are just waiting on approval from the board of regents and other state entities,” said Chris Taylor, associate vice president of marketing […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes While some students, due to how far away they live, may not realistically be able to take a bike to school every day, those of us who live closer may find it in our benefit to do so. Student Body President Richard Portwood said, “We don’t have the capability of building more parking… [Alternative modes […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The offseason didn’t keep basketball coach Dick Hunsaker away from the court or from coaching. Hunsaker held his Basketball Fundamentals Camp June 21-25 for kids ages 7-17, in hopes of impressing the importance of hard work and basketball fundamentals. “Nobody ever got good without hard work,” Hunsaker said. “You look at some of the pros, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The thing about art is that it can be encountered in various ways. The thing about the 337 Project Art Truck is that this encounter will either drive past you or stop for you. The 337 Project truck is a sort of offspring of the original 337 Project. In 2006, a building in Salt Lake […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Old Man Winter was a particularly intrusive bastard this year. He lingered well into the months we normally call “spring” and generated a very realistic fear that sometime in mid-May we could still be trapped in our homes by gargantuan piles of snow and forced to consume our loved ones, Donner Party style. Yet for […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Rachel Potter, an Integrated Studies major in Anthropology and Spanish, is in the middle of a three-month anthropological investigation in Bolivia, researching the way globalization is affecting the youth who are of Aymaran and Bolivian descent. During a normal workday, Potter stops to talk to Elsa, a Bolivian street vendor. Potter asks Elsa what she […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes His basketball career blossomed in Arizona’s desert, flourished at UVU and most recently expanded in Europe. Now, Ryan Toolson’s career is coming full circle. Following his visit to catch up with coach Dick Hunsaker and speak to kids at the coach’s camp, Toolson returned to his native Arizona this summer to play with the NBA’s […]