Reading Time: < 1 minute The Interdisciplinary studies program hosted its second annual Contours of Knowledge conference on Friday, Dec. 3. Students presented various projects from mapping social trends in obesity to mapping identity in memories and mapping a fictitious world. Alisha Giles, a senior, presented to a room of about 100 students, teachers and guests the correlations between poverty […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Everyone becomes like their parents in one way or another. There are physical characteristics that manifest themselves immediately, as well as personality traits and others that appear at different stages throughout life. On Monday, Nov. 22, an adoption conference was held at UVU. The conference was sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The growing number of students on campus and the need to increase campus development has necessitated the once-blooming wetlands to be replaced. The wetlands, once situated on the west side of campus, have been pulled out to make room for a proposed parking lot to accommodate the school’s growing population and some additional playing fields. […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Many believe they could use a little individual democracy in their lives. This involves living a life the way one wants to live it and not relying on anyone else to tell them what to do or how to do it. This was one of the inspiring messages given in a lecture on Dec. 2 […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality fueled by non-violent, social and political change has inspired students on campus to work for their beliefs through the same means. Student organizations such as the Revolutionary Student’s Union (RSU), the Peace and Justice Studies Club and the UVU Latin American Club, allow students to be actively […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In a tragic plane crash that also claimed the life of a student, Aviation Science instructor Jamie Cope Bennee died Nov. 17. Family, friends, co-workers, students and community members gathered to pay tribute to her Tuesday, Nov. 30. Those in attendance came to know Bennee as a driven, kind and optimistic person who touched those […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Memorial services generally include crying and people keeping to themselves or talking to loved ones, but when David Whitney passed away, those in attendance did not stop talking about the man they all loved. David Wayne Whitney Jr. was one flight away from finishing his private pilot license when he and Jamie Bennee crashed the […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Diego Ibanez might have spent the evening of Nov. 28 celebrating his mother’s birthday, if circumstances had been different. But as it was, he was taken into custody by immigration officers for refusing to leave the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch. He wanted the senator to offer a public statement supporting the DREAM act. Ibanez, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes During the hustle and bustle of the holiday season with final projects, papers and comprehensive tests, some students may find themselves feeling overwhelmed and down. There are multiple situations that could potentially cause stress or depression. This time of year plays a major role in the happiness of many students. Expectations of good times are […]