Reading Time: < 1 minute “I’ve never seen it that way. I celebrate Samhain, a festival for the dead and the ancestors whose guidance I seek. While others associate death with violence, to me it is simply an aspect of the life cycle to be celebrated like any other, rather than reviled, condemned or feared.” —Loraine Gholdston, features writer “Halloween […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Compiled by Reed Noble Saturday morning session Ezra Taft Benson’s: 14 Fundamentals in Following the Prophet (from a talk given at a Devotional at BYU) 1. The Prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything. 2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the Standard Works. 3. The living […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Every year it happens: Halloween rolls around and everyone goes out hunting for costumes. Guys don bananas, doctors, creepy clowns and all sorts of similar costumes. Some women, however, have different tastes in costumes; they seem to go for things with less fabric. You can see it for yourself, just take a trip down the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, Halloween is so awkward. While I’m all for dressing my cat as my daughter and my daughter as my cat for a day, the social and moral implications behind this holiday are worth concern. For some, Halloween is to real violence as “heck” is to “hell.” Instead of doing something forbidden by […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute In a world where many people focus on everything they don’t have and blame all their problems on others, on Oct. 2-3 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints declared through multiple leaders that everyone has a choice. At the church’s semi-annual General Conference, a singular message about agency was given across two days and five […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The purpose of any governing body should be to act as a voice for the population they serve, and we as students are no different. However, when students feel apprehensive, even fearful, of speaking out against their student government, the issue justifies critical attention. “The role of student government,” said Student Body President Richard Portwood, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I remember the first time I saw a cell phone. I was in sixth grade at Table Mound Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa. I distinctly remember overhearing an older woman nearby refer to it as “the devil’s walkie-talkie.” Little did she know just how much “the devil’s walkie-talkie” would come to shape the worldwide cultural […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are people that make a name for themselves by giving to science. There are, however, people that give their own bodies to science, and no one can call them by name. On the first floor of the science building there is a locked door, not because there is danger of death, but because the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “I have the mentality that I don’t want to have someone else do my job. If I’m tired, I push through it, because I don’t want to be watching other people do it.” That was the outlook Lauren Bluth had both on and off the field – until a battle with ulcerative colitis proved too […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Odyssey Dance Theatre presents Thriller This month the highly acclaimed Odyssey Dance Theatre Company is performing Thriller in five different locations in Utah. The annual event has a reputation for being electrifying and filled with gripping adventures and pop culture references. Thriller has become a major hit in the 13 years since its creation. This […]