Reading Time: 3 minutes Summer semester can be a great time to take classes. Not only does it offer a way to speed up graduation, but there are people on campus which can make it a more relaxing atmosphere. On top of this there is also a great variety of classes offered that can be fun, educational and sometimes […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As long as discrimination and intolerance exist against marginalized sexual orientations and gender identifications, clubs such as Spectrum have a role to fill. The LGBTQI community in Utah faces many uphill battles. Locally, the social and political landscape is not always attuned to the rights and needs of this diverse convergence of people. Members of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Softball’s Amanda Robinson wins Great West weekly honor NAPERVILLE, Ill. – Utah Valley’s Amanda Robinson has been named the Great West Conference Softball Player of the Week after an outstanding performance on the diamond last week, April 3-9. Robinson, a freshman from Lakewood, Calif., hit .500 for the week as she went 7-for-14 with two […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Complex rhythms and Middle Eastern melodies flowed from the entrance of the International Student Center like water from a fountain as dozens ate, danced and celebrated an ancient and influential group of cultures. In the midst of turmoil and uprisings throughout the greater Middle Eastern world and a constant barrage of news reports devoid of […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute One class to rule them and in the darkness bind them. In the pantheon of English courses one might take at a university, there are standbys like Shakespeare, the grammar and rhetoric courses, the non-denominational Brit and American Lit classes, but where, oh where, do the writings of one of the best-known authors of the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Portrait project puts a face on autism at Mental Health Symposium Four years ago, Congress passed the Combating Autism Act of 2006, which authorized $700 million in Federal funding towards autism through 2011. However, come September, the act will die. April is autism awareness month, and because of that the College of Humanities & Social […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Volleyball and wrestling athletes claim Wolverine Achievement Athletes of Year For the second consecutive year, volleyball and wrestling athletes were named Athletes of the Year at the Wolverine Achievement Awards, held on April 7. Volleyball player Kayli Doxey and wrestler Flint Ray were awarded the honors. “The female athlete of the year award is given […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Montreal’s indie-rock pioneers Arcade Fire gave a stunning performance to a nearly sold-out audience at the UCCU Events Center on Monday, April 11, along with their openers, the Los Angeles-based psych-folk band Local Natives. Fans of the Grammy award-winning band started lining up for their performance around noon and by 4:00 p.m., the line wrapped […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ladies and Gentlemen, class is in session; welcome to Netiquette 101. We’re here to talk about something extremely important that really shouldn’t need to be discussed, but the vast screaming masses make it so. We’re here to learn how to be polite on the Internet. When the Internet was started by the Advanced Research Projects […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am leaving this university at a time when both it and the state in which it is located are faltering in ways I naively thought impossible when I first laid eyes on the colored pipes and concrete walls of UVU. There are a precious and hardworking few who are trying to prevent all this. […]