The bleak intimacies of Bronx bar patrons

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Two people on one black box stage surrounded by a relatively small audience: It’s one of the most voyeuristic and intimate settings for a play, and quite possibly the perfect setting for The Egyptian Theatre Company’s performance of John Patrick Shanley’s intensely passionate Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. “The style of the play is […]

Banning Gay Men from Saving Lives

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Blood donation policy still in place  against homosexual men. Every two seconds, someone in America needs blood. Many students at this school gave blood during the blood drive on Oct. 27, but homosexual and bisexual men are still banned from being allowed to donate, due to an FDA policy dating back to 1983. Blood is […]

Minister-turned-atheist visits SLC

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation to speak. Leading atheist author and activist Dan Barker is coming to Utah to lecture and sign books this Saturday. In an event organized by the University of Utah’s club SHIFT, or Secular Humanism, Inquiry and Freethought, Barker will speak about freedom from faith. Barker was an evangelist […]

Don’t call me a gamer!

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes My name is Cameron Simek and I play games – but don’t call me a gamer. Let’s try an experiment. Close your eyes and think of a gamer. What do you see? Is it some fat kid who lives in his parent’s basement, drinking Mountain Dew, eating Doritos and playing World of Warcraft? This seems […]

I Ride for Nick’s Eyes

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: 5 minutes A Biker’s plea for help proves humanity of online communities. On Oct. 23, Nick Moore learned that he was going blind. Moore’s face does not look like a blind man’s face. He looks young, trendy and invulnerable at first glance. There is no sign of old age, no drooping lids. Nonetheless, the 24-year-old graphic designer […]

Students inspired by Erin Gruwell

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes In 2007, Paramount released the film Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank and based on the story of Erin Gruwell, a teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Gruwell inspired her 150 students with the hope to succeed when everyone else doubted their potential. Gruwell wrote of her experiences in her book The Freedom […]

Akwasi Frimpong knows about struggles

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: 4 minutes He knows about feeling frustrated and defeated. If you had experienced half of what he has, you would too. He also knows the sweet taste of victory. He knows how it feels to get what you deserve, and just how amazing it feels when hard work prevails. He knows this because he’s lived it all. […]

Aviation instructor beats the odds

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the first time in 13 years, a woman has won the University Aviation Association’s prestigious William A. Wheatley Award. Dr. Mavis Green of the Aviation Science department, became only the fourth woman in 55 years to win the award. Green won the award at the UAA Fall Education Conference Awards Banquet Oct. 7. The […]

Late bloomer Robison dominates middle for Wolverines

November 1, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes Most athletes pick up a ball, swing a bat or begin kicking around the ball at a very young age, but it’s just the opposite for Dani Robison. Volleyball didn’t enter Robison’s life until high school. As a freshman at Orem high, Robison was a dancer and had played just about every other sport besides […]