Reading Time: 2 minutes A Utah Republican club may seem redundant, but the club’s chapter at UVU is looking to do more than just maintain the status quo and hope everything stays the same. The UVU College Republicans is one of the chapters of college students looking to share and strengthen their views with other college students. There are […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Zack Dearing Hometown: Vernal, Utah Major: Behavioral Science Year: Sophomore “[On my worst date ever] my friends set me up for a group date and the girl I was suppose to be set up with was named Shelley. When we went to pick her up, she wasn’t there. So we went to go pick up […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the wake of BYU closing their undergraduate Social Work program and amidst legislative budget cuts to programs that hire social workers, it might seem an odd time for UVU to begin offering a bachelor’s degree in that area. Dr. Lars Eggertsen, however, believes that now is the opportune moment. “We wanted to be able […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the interest of maintaining accuracy, all police beat entries are reproduced verbatim. Feb. 2, 2011: 2:29 p.m. – I responded to a complaint of a man walking a dog in the Hall of Flags. No contact was made. 3:02 p.m. – Complaint of a man walking a dog in the LA building. No contact […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hundreds of ethnicities prowl our halls. Although many natives of Utah claim a lack of culture, it is unquestionable that our campus is a sea of diversities. Along with the spectrum of different backgrounds and languages come hundreds of different accents. Though most foreign students are unaware of the ‘sexy factor’ of their accents, they […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Student-run journals on campus For students preparing to apply for graduate programs, seeking to bolster their resume or who merely want to draw attention to their hard work, student journals offer the perfect opportunity to gain the spotlight. There are still several opportunities for students who wish to submit to journals on campus. Many departments […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes With the college wrestling world still talking about UVU’s 22-20 upset at home last year, the Wolverines headed up to Boise State Feb. 4 to face some pretty upset Broncos. The duel was set to begin with the 141-pound weight class, and senior Justin Morrill started off right where the Wolverines left off last year, […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.” –The Marquis De Sade We had hoped to find a suitable epigraph from a more respectable source, such as Voltaire, or perhaps The Bard. Anyone, really, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like anything even remotely interesting, the origins of Valentine’s Day is a mixture of facts, uncertainties, love, blasphemy, rebellion, gruesome deaths and good old-fashioned capitalism. Cynics may deride the day as an invention designed to generate revenues for card and candy companies, but February isn’t all chalky candy hearts and decaying flowers. V-Day may now […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A controversial topic was debated on Feb. 1 in the Ragan Theater. A handful of students had already arrived a half hour before the scheduled time for the debate to start, while others slowly, yet eagerly, shuffled in. As the audience grew, quiet whispers turned into loud jokes about how ironic it was that the […]