Reading Time: 2 minutes Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times, will be speaking on campus Tuesday, April 12, in the Sorensen Student Center. Douthat’s lecture, “From the Yellow Press to the Fourth Estate and Back: How Journalism’s Past Became Journalism’s Future,” is being sponsored by the Utah Democracy Project and The New York Times Readership Program. According […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes This week will celebrate the official release of not one, but three student journals on campus. Touchstones, Warp and Weave and Essais are three publications that celebrate and showcase the written and artistic talent of students here on campus. Touchstones is a creative writing publication funded by the English department. Released twice a year, Touchstones […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week marked the fourth annual UVolunteer week held by the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center. This week focused on a push for students to serve the community and live up to the service council’s motto of “Be the Change.” For last week’s events, the service council teamed up with several different organizations from around campus. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Filling the Ragan Theater to its capacity, Dr. bell hooks gave her capstone lecture on Friday, April 1, finishing her week spent on campus. As a feminist scholar, hooks lectured about racism through a feminism framing, lending understanding to how women are a part of, and pass on, racism. She discussed the relationship between women […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The final institute devotional of the semester will not feature an apostle, general authority or any other nationally known speaker, but it is still expected to be a special event. This installment of the weekly Friday devotional will feature the Latter-Day Celebration Choir. The event will be on April 15, starting at noon. The musical […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In September of 2009, adjunct instructor Russell Lee organized the university’s first yoga club. Lee started the club because he wanted others to learn about yoga, have opportunities for students to take classes and simply because he enjoys teaching yoga. Being interested in all different styles of teaching, he also wanted to learn more about […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Golf is a sport of precision, patience, and preparation. More than any of those, golf is a sport of consistency. In most, if not all sports, athletes can get away with making a few mistakes here and there and still exceed. When a quarterback completes 15 of 18 passes, it’s more than likely he’ll have […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this unforgiving economic wasteland, who has the funds to actually review a movie in the theater? Not your humble servants at The V. That’s why we’re giving you our informed analysis of upcoming films based solely on what we see in the trailer. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Fortunately, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The State tests its students on English, science and mathematics each year. Social tact and cultural sensitivity are generally things teenagers pick up as they develop, but it’s not something they’re tested on. If there were such a test, however, one Alta High School student would fail horribly. During a “Spirit Bowl” assembly at the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anime Club video fundraiser a huge success Rooms in the student center were filled to overflowing on March 31, the night of the video game tournament. The event was a fundraiser for the university’s Anime Club. The crowd was so intense that outer doors were opened for air circulation and when a third room was […]