King-sized entertainment from a pint-sized cast

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Who doesn’t like a good wholesome laugh that resonates with slap-stick historical comedy? Isn’t that what Monty Python’s Holy Grail was all about?  Non-profit organization The Resonance Story Theatre is putting on something similar next week: King Arthur and the Round Table Troubadours, a four-man act that dives into Arthurian legend aiming to entertain and […]

‘Ghost Town’ on display in library

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes After a devastating fire and a century and a half of decline following an economic nosedive, by 1920 Bodie, California — once a booming Wild West metropolis — remained home to fewer than 150 people. Today, Bodie is home only to a transitory community of state employees and museum guides who work to preserve it […]

‘I hate the French’ Learning to overlook stereotypes

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Whilst waiting at a bus-stop on a little Island off the coast of Morocco, I was approached by a middle-aged American man sporting a Red Sox T-shirt. He heard my British accent and we immediately struck up a conversation concerning England. The man raved for a good ten minutes about the beauty and culture of […]

Tenure 1010: The hows and whys of a professionally paid faculty, Part 2

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes As a teaching-based school, we are especially concerned with the aspect of tenure that allows for free expression and flow of ideas in a classroom without fear of reprehension or job loss for professors. “Students benefit from the tenure system because their professors will feel more freedom to talk about controversial ideas in the classroom,” […]

Editorial: Walk with your life in your hands

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes We are concerned that students are dangerously ignorant of jaywalking. Last Monday, a student was life-flighted from in front of the Testing Center to the hospital. He had been struck by a car going 25 MPH while listening to music with headphones. He now has a metal plate in his skull. He was the fourth […]

Letter to the Editor: October 4, 2010

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute This year, I have had the opportunity to attend some Utah Valley University classes and to be on campus there on many occasions. The unprofessional attire by the staff there is sub par. Recent articles in the Daily Herald and other media hail the “all Steinway campus” and the dreams and visions for the music […]

Academics or public relations: President Holland’s focus

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Some around campus have taken exception to the politics of school administration, criticizing brief appearances by President Matthew Holland at some events, claiming it was face time with the cameras. One has to ask, ‘Is that really what his primary function is?’ Examine the role of the university; its entire existence, especially here, is to […]

Tarasiewicz’s eagle on 18th hole helps Wolverines

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Junior Nicholas Tarasiewicz led the men’s golf team with a 29th overall finish in the Falcon Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Wolverines finished with a team score of 914 to finish ahead of Southern Utah, UTEP, Utah and event host Air Force Academy. Tarasiewicz’s eagle on the par-4 18th hole from 140 yards out […]

Soccer grasping for consistency with region play approaching

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes What started as off-season optimism soon gave way to a sobering slide in the Wolverines’ record. An early three-game losing streak, which featured just one goal by the team in green, was marred by what Coach Brent Andersen labeled “individual play.” UVU employed less passing and more dribbling than a game of pickup basketball, and […]

Men and women both finish in top 20 at latest invitational

October 4, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Josh McCabe and Shelise Walker lead the Wolverines The men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., on Sept. 25 to compete in the Roy Griak Invitational. Overall, the men’s team finished in 12th place, two spots ahead of Arizona, which had the overall top-placed runner. Cross country Coach Scott Houle said of […]