Reading Time: 2 minutes State and national legislators have been debating immigration reform since the birth of our country. Recently, the issue has evolved to target the immigrants crossing our southern border. It has also opened up debate on states’ rights in creating legislation. For Utahans, the issue has now approached our doorstep with Stephen Sandstrom’s immigration bill. Sandstrom, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hablando en tu idioma Uno de los departamentos donde si hay mucha diversidad es en el Departamento de Idiomas. Ahí siempre puedes encontrar la información que buscas. Ahora con un nuevo jefe de departamento, el Dr. Baldomero Lago, quién nació en España. No importa si hablas chino, japonés, francés, portugués, alemán, ruso, español or a […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Library turns traditional lectures into engaging stories Sometimes a lecture at a symposium isn’t the best way to tell the masses about an amazing new discovery. NASA took an alternative approach when its Science Outreach program started showing up at storytelling festivals. “Storytelling is the most basic form of communication,” said Janet Lowe, Timpanogos Storytelling […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes If altitude had anything to do with the Race to the Top Fund’s recent contest, Utah probably would have been a finalist. However, Barack Obama’s Race to the Top Fund is for states reforming their compulsory education practices. The 10 finalists were announced on August 24, and none of those finalists were Utah. Apparently, we’ve […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Orientation Office and the Latino Initiative is sponsoring an orientation dinner Sept. 1 for new Latin American students and their parents. An announcement for the event states that the “Latino Initiative aims to increase educational and career opportunities for Latina/o students and their families in our local communities.” The event offers information about the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Being a diplomat’s wife isn’t easy, especially when one has to push aside personal goals and needs. But for the six panelists of the International Women’s Symposium, that difficulty was a learning experience, one whose lessons they would like to share. On Sept. 2, the university will be hosting to be hosting six wives of […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A new addition to the school, the waitlist system, has been put in place to accommodate the growth this university is facing. According to Ryan Burton, director of admissions, the waitlist system is better than trying to get a professor’s signature on an add card before another student does. Because the system is a recent […]