Reading Time: 2 minutes Four children were playing around a beaten-up old dollhouse, in a yard overgrown with weeds and trees with dead branches near a fence falling apart. That is the picture UVU staff and several students encountered on Sept. 8, when they arrived at the location where they were to serve as part of the United Way’s […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute As part of Ethics Week, the university will host three visiting experts in the field of judicial ethics on Tuesday, Sept. 21. The visiting experts are Victoria “Tori” Henley, executive director of the California Commission on Judicial Performance; Randall “Randy” Roybal, executive director of the New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission and Colin Winchester, executive director […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Tuesday, Sept. 21, the Center for the Study of Ethics will be holding a panel discussion on artistic censorship and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics Winter Games. The panel will include three guests: Raymond T. Grant, Mark Lewis and Don Sterling. They will be discussing the Vancouver Olympic Committee’s decision to make artists involved with […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes From the wonderful landscape of Latin America to the beautiful islands of Hawaii and Samoa or the reverent Native American reservations, diversity is another aspect which the university is proud to promote. The Multicultural Center is a little nest where students can go if they want to socialize more and become familiar with the different […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Until recently, early twentieth century experimental author Gertrude Stein has been considered a non-political writer. However, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, Assistant Professor and Director of the Humanities program Michaela Giesenkirchen Sawyer will speak on the inherent ethics of Stein’s language experiments and their political and philosophical implications. Stein’s writing connects in significant ways with the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the stroke of noon on Monday, Sept. 13, Centre Stage was filled with hundreds of hungry and curious students eager to take part in the Multicultural Center’s monthly “Taste of Culture” event. This month’s focus was on the six islands groups of Polynesia. In the presence of these traditions, one could feel the warmth […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve never done anything like this. Yet on the evening of Aug. 28., I found myself in front of the director citing a one-minute monologue, hoping to land a role in the upcoming play Antigone that had been personally commissioned by President Holland. Antigone is an ancient Greek play about law, family, tradition, rebellion and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The I AM EQUAL Project, in conjunction with the school’s Spectrum Club, made a stop in Orem on Sept. 9, ready to provide people with a way of advocating their message. The project, which originated in Salt Lake City, was created by California native Jason Beckett and international photographer Matt Spencer. The idea behind the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes [monoslideshow id=8] The life changing events that could only happen in Kenya have impacted me forever. The beauty of the culture, the people and the genuine happiness that surrounds the entire country – it’s indescribable. People need to experience the culture first hand. Put your shoes in dirt on the other side of the world […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The colony of Kappa Sigma Fraternity will be holding their philanthropy event at the end of this month, and they need the help of the student body. They will be helping out the Mali Rising Foundation, an organization that builds schools in the African country of Mali. Kappa Sigma will be holding an event where […]