The whitest black kid you’ve ever met

October 15, 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutes “Are you black?”   Entertaining as it’s been to just watch, Joey’s argument with his friend about racism has brought up Darwin, The Velvet Underground and a beer or two, and now he means to bring me up as well.   But Joey, a former UVU student who was born in Memphis, means to shake […]

The High Five with John-Ross Boyce: Your awful Halloween costume

October 15, 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Celtic people believed that the veil between this world and the realm of the spirits was gossamer-thin around this time of year. Like, poke it with your finger and open a whole psycho-ethereal conduit. During Samhain, the annual harvest festival that later evolved into Halloween, Celts would carry an ember from an honorific bonfire […]

Holland Announces $4 Million at Scholarship Ball

October 15, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes There is nothing apparently excellent or extraordinary about Cindy Oppel, a Business Student at UVU, yet this average UVU student has now made a large impact on this, the largest university in the state. Friday night, Oppel with teary eyes accepted a full tuition scholarship from President Holland himself. Because Oppel spoke up, she inspired […]

Enjoying the fall of an empire

October 15, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hatred is the ugly mask of jealousy and the only way to escape vilification and being the target of some investigation in sports is to lose or find a way to be irrelevant. Most teams that stay in the spotlight for too long end up being hated by fans and investigated by ethics committees or […]