Reading Time: 2 minutes Student Body President Richard Portwood is probably someone that you’d recognize, even if you don’t actually know him. The man seems to constantly be on campus organizing activities, attending many meetings and events, and still he somehow finds time to make it to classes. Being student body president can’t be an easy job, but Richard […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Walking down the hallways on campus students may feel as if they are constantly being bombarded with flyers and banners placed every few feet about different speakers that are set to appear on campus. Despite this, many students still don’t realize the wide range of speakers that appear on campus nor do many of them […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Most students believe that schools without football teams don’t have a homecoming at all, but that is far from the truth. Homecoming is a tradition initially established to bring alumni “home” to celebrate their school. UVU may not have a football team, but we do have a great basketball team, so our homecoming is planned […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Miss Utah & Wolverine Christina Lowe competed against 53 other women in the 2011 Miss America Pageant. Now she is ready to come back and hit the books. UVU student and current Miss Utah, Christina Lowe, gained national recognition and glory as she competed in the national Miss America pageant on Saturday, Jan. 15. The […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Spectrum Club is bidding a joyous adieu to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The legislation that banned anyone who was openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual from serving in the military was repealed last month, and the Spectrum Club couldn’t be more thrilled. What better way to celebrate the repeal of the “Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell” […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes For many students, math is difficult. General education mathematic requirements notoriously stunt would-be graduates during their last year at UVU. It can tarnish otherwise flawless grade point averages, and some students will even spend thousands of dollars to take courses off-campus that guarantee the fulfillment of these requirements. The Math Lab, located in LA 201, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Heather Shelley had a breakthrough after giving birth to her first child that led her to her career in midwifery. “My first birth was with a doctor in a hospital and it wasn’t a good experience,” Shelley said. “ I had post-traumatic stress disorder; I had nightmares.” For many women, pregnancy and childbirth will be […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes With a dwindling economy money gets tighter and tighter and the question may eventually come up about how much tuition is worth compared to how much it costs. A full-time UVU student with in-state tuition pays $2,144 per semester to go to school at UVU. That is only 58 percent of the actual cost for […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The university’s license for Blackboard, the current web-based course management module, will expire in the Summer of 2012, requiring instructors to migrate course materials to Instructure Canvas, the new online management tool. After six months of evaluating several different online course tools including Moodle, Desire to Learn, the newest version of Blackboard as well as […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today’s trend in health care is moving away from traditional, allopathic Western medicine and towards more whole-body, mental-physical, holistic approaches. However, there are so few places to go for holistic medical care that most people are likely to either go to their traditional doctor, attempt to muddle through herbs and supplements on their own or […]