Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s that time of year again when we see our athletic teams helping others. For the last couple years, UVU Athletics has been a part of ‘Pink with a Purpose’ games to help others who are in need. This year, the Utah Army National Guard, Wolverine Crossing and the Second Chance Foundation of Utah will […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU Rugby forced a narrow victory on Sept. 25 in their home opener against Snow College, winning 12-7 in a slugfest that saw four yellow cards handed out. Both teams were emotionally charged for the game, with a heated rivalry developing after Snow College ended the team’s playoff hopes last year. The game featured contrasting […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The women’s golf team is almost to the end of the first half of an incredible season. The lady Wolverines have played in various all-day tournaments since early September. They have played in Utah, Montana and Arizona and will be in California the beginning of October. The women’s golf team has 10 players, five of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The hours, days and weeks Utah residents have spent perfecting Haruhi Zuzumiya school girl outfits and crafting replica Cloud Strife buster swords will finally culminate in one of the biggest gatherings of anime, manga and video game fans Utah has to offer. Anime Banzai, Utah’s first established anime convention, will return for its fifth year […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the start of every April and October, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds its semi-annual General Conference. Across the valley, TVs tune in to watch the leadership’s messages. It’s a chance to hear the men we believe are prophets, seers, and revelators – men that are relating God’s message. Yet as […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes When October rolls around, we all think of the same things in Utah: haunted houses, corn mazes, Halloween and bad dates. For those of us who love these macabre ventures, nothing sounds better than some good old-fashioned devil music. Enter Alice Cooper, one of the earliest rockin’ rollers to be accused of Satanism, and his […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes First Family Acceptance Regional Conference held this weekend In an attempt to illuminate risks to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and queer youth and provide strategies for keeping families united, the Utah Pride Center is hosting its first Family Acceptance Regional Conference this weekend. “For more than a decade, the Utah Pride Center has worked […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Utah may get a little more colorful next week when Arvind Sharma visits Westminster College to give his lecture “The Scientific Study of Religion: Promise and Pitfalls.” Although the name of the lecture may sound anti-Mormon, or anti-religious for that matter, it isn’t in the slightest. When asked how he felt about the Mormon community, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, The struggle for LGBTQ rights is once again gaining attention as a matter of life and death. On one hand, Republican senators have blocked the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” keeping openly gay soldiers from risking their lives for their country. On the other, closeted New Jersey student Tyler Clementi committed […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why opposing “don’t ask, don’t tell” is picking the wrong battle Since the ’90s, a ghostly siren has been calling the mainstream gay rights movement. The siren itself has gained the trappings of a wealthy, white, married male. For the past decade, this figure has been the magic Disney prince gay activists are fighting to […]