Reading Time: 2 minutes The Salt Lake Acting Company is staging part one of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning epic play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on American Themes. This mind-blowing, intimate piece of theater focuses on Americans from various socio-economic backgrounds who face a myriad of conflicts. The characters are based in Salt Lake […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Well, sort of The Elie Wiesel Foundation will be hosting the Conference of Nobel Laureates Oct. 5 and 6 at Manhattan’s Ninety-second Street Y. Presiding over the conference will be Wiesel, author of the Holocaust memoir Night, and David Axelrod, senior advisor to President Obama. “But wait,” you say. “How do these diplomatic wheelings and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes America’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy puts us among embarrassing company. With countries like South Korea and Iran, our bigoted bedfellows in banning openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the military, we are a shining beacon of discrimination for the rest of the world. Who cares that every NATO nation besides Turkey and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The links between our physical lives and spirituality remain mysterious for many of us. Various explanations for these links, while sometimes leading to more confusion, are often some of the most thought-provoking parts of our conscious lives. In an attempt to help answer some of these questions, the Carl Jung Society of Utah will present […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute “I, uh, I don’t think you’re supposed to be asking me that.” –Emma Hunt, managing editor “I don’t really see the point in keeping it. People of a homosexual orientation have every right to defend their country as homosexual Americans.” –Brian Ericksen, features writer “I think it’s a fair way to deal with a controversial […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The ways in which student fees are handled could not be better. The money is allocated to meet the needs of students. Without the extra fees that students pay, accessibility to computer labs, wireless Internet and even the student center would not be available. Paying student fees, a process designed by the student government, adds […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute As students rush from car to class, they sometimes forget the importance of being safe. Starting last week, many students received a harsh reminder to keep safe when the campus police department started issuing misdemeanor citations for jaywalking. Just like a traffic citation, a citation for jaywalking requires the student, faculty or even community member […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes From roster cut to rotation player? It’s a transition made by few, and it normally takes at least a year – if not more – to see it happen. For soccer’s Kendra Buchanan, it took a week. “I definitely didn’t anticipate it being this great,” Buchanan said. The improbable swing took place […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Saturday, Sept. 25, mtvU’s Campus Invasion tour made its first stop at the UCCU Events Center. The concert featured bands 30 Seconds to Mars, New Politics and locals Neon Trees. The concert opened with New Politics, an alternative rock group from Denmark. Its three members, David Boyd, Søren Hansen and Poul Amaliel, blend the […]