Reading Time: 3 minutes Could the rape and murder of Kristine Gable been avoided? At first glance, the story sounds like something out of the first ten minutes of CSI: a swimming competition is going on at a Sugarhouse Boys and Girls club, leaving Fairmount Park overrun with adolescent competitors and their families. Three hundred yards away, in a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Picture this: an old, run down, elementary school street court, the one you’d see in a movie or on a TV show about a great basketball star finding true love with the game. Now, insert UVU junior guard Isiah Williams. Williams grew up right across the street from a court like this, and just like […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Insects do not always have a very good reputation. Some people dislike them, others are terrified of them. This is not the case with Dr. T. Heath Ogden, assistant professor in the Biology department. Ogden began teaching at UVU in July 2009. He currently teaches courses on evolution, bioinformatics and entomology, the study of insects. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the spirit of the school’s mission to provide students with engaged learning, 11 public relations students have entered in the national Public Relations Student Society of America Bateman Case Study Competition. The competition is a nationwide challenge that gives students an opportunity to create and implement a full-fledged public relations campaign for a national […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes With winning momentum gained from their victory over Chicago State on Jan. 27, the men’s basketball team hit their home court again two days later, Jan. 29, to host NJIT. Taking a win over the Highlanders put the Wolverines 4-1 in the Great West Conference as they went into last week’s games against the University […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Life, the Universe & Everything” is happening again at BYU The 29th annual science fiction and fantasy symposium known as “Life, the Universe & Everything” is returning to BYU Feb. 17-19. For the uninitiated, this is a collection of panel presentations, lectures, workshops and readings by professional authors and artists for aspiring authors, artists and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute With love in the air and a lack of money in student’s pockets, the LDS Institute of Religion will give everyone a chance to get a date on Valentine’s weekend – and its free. On Friday, Feb. 11, the Valentine Date Dance will provide a chance for couples to get an early start on the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Funding concerns directly impacting students takes lower priority than the issue of faculty compensation, but may be more important than students realize. Students may find themselves perplexed by what administrators want from state legislators this year. Val Hale, vice president of University Relations, wrote in the school blog that the administration’s first priority to take […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute For the first time ever, students can come to school, go to class and get tested for HIV and STIs all in the same day. On Feb. 9, the Utah AIDS Foundation, sponsored by the Spectrum Club, will be offering students HIV and STI testing on campus from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Frey Seagrove, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute “A red, white, and blue, bundt-shaped Jell-O” –Andrea Whatcott, News Editor “Would it be terribly offensive if the symbol was Glen Beck punching Obama. I think a lot of people would like that.” –Kelley Cannon, Assistant Culture Editor “A donkey that’s been painted red” –Mike Sanborn, Assistant Opinions Editor “Green Jell-O” –Mindy Harward, Culture Editor […]