Reading Time: 2 minutes With an office filled with pieces from his and his wife’s different cultural backgrounds, Kyle Reyes, assistant to President Holland, makes it clear that his past plays a big role in his present. Reyes’ mother is Hawaiian-Japanese, his father is Philippino-Spanish and his wife is Navajo-Mongolian, giving his four children a rich heritage to build […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wolverine Wednesday is a campus activity growing in popularity. As implied, it occurs every Wednesday at Centre Stage from noon to 1 p.m. and usually attracts around 300 participants. “Wolverine Wednesday is intended to increase school spirit,” said Gretchen Palmer, a student life intern overseeing the event. “It’s an opportunity for students to get a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Low turnout for student government elections and faculty senate elections is not a matter of apathetic students and faculty, but an issue of focus and inclusion. In a letter published last month, UVUSA President-elect Chris Loumeau lamented that students weren’t interested or involved enough in the political process at school. He has a point. Only […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Playing them for the second time this season, the Wolverines gave a home crowd quite the show, beating the Utes 12-4 last Tuesday. “I was really proud of what they did. We worked pretty hard at some certain things yesterday and we’re real detail-specific and they really made some big adjustments to it,” said Coach […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The name has changed a few times over the past several years, with the different people in the presidencies at UVU, but the basic idea has remained the same, eat food and listen to plans about the budget. “Hoagies with Holland” is the most recent installment of the Planning, Budgeting and Accountability process to end […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU is expanding again, all the way to Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. Beginning this summer, students can enjoy the convenience of an additional campus: UVU North at Thanksgiving Point, located upstairs in the new Mountainland Applied Technology College (MATC) at 2301 West Ashton Blvd. in Lehi. The Office of Extended Studies coordinates off-campus sites to […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Most outsiders perceive Utah as without art. People who have never been here may shrug off this state as some philistine wasteland, governed by religious dominance and marred by homogeneity. Those in the know, however, realize that the glorious Beehive State actually has a thriving art culture. Moreover, no one can deny that Utah has […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As early as 1850 there have been Liberal Arts departments in schools of higher education, as well as pressure to close them. To a near-capacity crowd in the Ragan theater, Martha Nussbaum spoke about the need for the Liberal Arts in order to maintain a democratic society. The speech was part of the Presidential Lecture […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Akwasi Frimpong Culture Writer “Akwasi, Akwasi, e-te-seng!” “Akwasi, how are you?” Five dark-skinned boys asked in my mother tongue at the Salt Lake International airport. These five boys, all athletes from Utah Valley University, my new home, and originally from Africa like myself, formed a welcoming committee. On August 15, 2008, I departed to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes A New York Times columnist explains the history of journalism, and offers insight into the 2012 presidential election. Ross Douthat has a litany of prominent publications that he has penned for. The Atlantic, The National Review, GQ, Slate and the Wall Street Journal. However since 2009, he has been bringing his conservative take on politics […]