Reading Time: 3 minutes As the winter of discontent begins, a front of depression sweeps across the populace. It’s December’s foggy freeze that shoulders the blame for the epidemic, but Jack Frost is wrongfully accused. What these huddled masses disregard or forget is that regardless of wind chill, snow pack or barometric pressure, life is always miserable. Seasonal depression […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Marketing Native Amercian culture is hypocritcal: Discriminatory policies at Deer Valley Resort as an example Jonathan Williams, a full-blooded Navajo student at UVU, met with Deer Valley Resort representatives with plenty of positive expectations for a career in hospitality. He was immediately disappointed and frustrated that Deer Valley would deny a male an internship based […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another week of intrasquad practice translated to another weekend of success against opponents for UVU wrestling. All five competing Wolverines placed at the Cowboy Open in Laramie, Wyo., led by Ben Kjar’s first-place finish. Kjar shed the off-season rust against his first two opponents, who fell by a 11-4 decision and 14-5 majority, respectively. “Just […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to Salt Lake City on Nov. 13 to compete in the NCAA Western Regionals. The men’s team finished in 11th place, with junior Josh McCabe qualifying for nationals. The women’s team finished in 10th place, placing higher than the Univ. of Utah and Utah State. For the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute OREM, Utah – The Utah Valley University volleyball team landed five players on the Great West Conference teams released Friday, led by senior outside hitter Kayli Doxey (Gilbert, Ariz./Gilbert HS), who was named to the first team for the second straight year. Behind Doxey, who was UVU’s lone member on the first team, seniors Kathleen […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Being female, people will often ask me how I got so into sports and why I wanted to go into sports writing. I can attribute both of those things to my father and my brother. I love the world of sports and I have both of them to thank for my knowledge of sports and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Thanksgiving is a time of family gathering – but what about those who aren’t welcome in their own family? For Utahans alienated by their sexuality this Thanksgiving, the Utah Pride Center will host a Thanksgiving dinner for the local LGBTQ community. The Center is a Salt Lake organization that according to their website “provides support, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Every holiday, people head home to their families for some time together. It’s a tradition, or maybe it’s something buried deep within us, that need for people close around these highly celebrated times. Or maybe it’s that we’re all gluttons for punishment. Having a family celebration is not easy for my family; we’re scattered all […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes This Thanksgiving, Disney Pictures presents Tangled, the newest installment in their collection of fairytale animation. Rapunzel, a feisty princess with 70 feet of magical, golden hair and a hankering to see the world, has been locked in a tower for 18 years of her life by Mother Gothel, a controlling, manipulative and over-protective villain who […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pay attention to pre-Pioneer Utah You didn’t know we’re in the middle of American Indian Heritage Month, did you? We live in Utah, but most of what we know about our state’s history takes place after 1847. The stories of people who lived here before Mormon settlers arrived have seldom been given attention in Utah […]