Reading Time: 2 minutes Since its beginning in 2003, the Turning Points in History lecture series was designed to attract various scholars to speak at the university concerning different turning points in the history of the United States. It also gives residents of Orem the opportunity to engage and learn from some of the brightest academic minds in the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Students and faculty participating in the Spring into Shape health and wellness challenge are accumulating points and earning prizes as they improve their eating habits, engage in physical activity and practice stress management. The free challenge offered by Wellness Programs started on Feb. 14, with 160 participants committed to living a healthier lifestyle. Because it […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On this campus, there doesn’t seem to be a designated spot for students to hang out. This holds true for nearly all types of students. Jace Patrick, a Public Relations major, expressed that BYU has more of a defined set of hangout spots due to their strong Latter-Day Saint culture and University of Utah students […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes In gaming’s infancy, most of the premises were adapted from movies. Game developers were using films as hypertext as early as the dismal E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, crafted for the Atari 2600 in 1982. That software may have ended up in a landfill in New Mexico. But nowadays games have grown up, and have even begun […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Michael Furguson talks about the marriage between Man and Machine Michael Ferguson and I are about to have a conversation, despite the fact that he’s up in Salt Lake City right now and I’m at my desk on campus at UVU, all thanks to the telephone. After that conversation, I’m going to remember every single […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Movies and books that can heedlessly draw the most attention are those that are set in the future. We’re fascinated by the wholly accurate depictions and the completely maniacal and bogus predictions and we appreciate the way they make us excitedly anticipate or dread the future. Back to the Future II informs us that hover […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Through the last three weeks, the past, present and a little bit of the future of this university was shown, but that is not where the story ends. With the growth that has been shown over the past ten years, it is clear that the school is growing and getting stronger, so where will the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Yes. I would be me with out all the physical defaults. I could upgrade as technology improves and eventually become the Terminator.” – Chris Drew, Writer for The V “No, I like my human body.” – Audrey Moore, Designer “No. It took my 23 years to get used to this body” – Kelly Cannon, Assistant […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Beginning transmission… …The future is apparently now. Like, as in the present. Nike is about to start producing the self-lacing high tops featured in Back to the Future II. Video games are looking more realistic, more like movies even, and that’s making your latent attraction to Chun-Li seem less pathological. Hell, by 2045, some of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes There was standing room only as students and faculty gathered to hear two perspectives on the power that words and labels have in an ongoing battle over immigration. The hour-long session was billed as “They Don’t Belong Here: The Dangerous Rhetoric Behind Illegal Immigration.” According to organizer Agustin Diaz, the discussion was meant to “get […]