Reading Time: 3 minutes Making school a priority is challenging for most students at one time or another. A football game, Facebook update, or chocolate muffin can seem more momentous than a textbook in the moment. Yet in spite of these struggles, few students have to weigh the merit of completing a math quiz over finding a place to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Being a Spanish-Nigerian woman in Utah County, I’ve inevitably dealt a lot with race. I’m by no means an expert on it, but here is a list of common things I’ve come across throughout my years in the Valley. DON’T ask someone “what are you?” I would probably answer by saying “a human being” […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alfonzo Hubbard hears head coach Dick Hunsaker preach effort in practice. He hears him bark out when Hubbard makes a mistake or he’s not where he should be. After a game, Hunsaker will follow up with him, tell him what he did wrong and what to keep doing. The constant in-your-face teaching and expectations […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Walking onto the Romney campaign bus in New Hampshire, Junior Jared Dallin couldn’t believe the journey he was about to embark on. He was about to spend the day campaigning with the possible next President of the United States. Dallin won the once-in-a-lifetime trip to spend the day with Mitt Romney campaigning for the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone stood on their feet as an overtime match between Steven Hernandez of Boise State and Josh Wilson of Utah Valley University commenced. Only fifteen seconds later, Wilson took down Hernandez to win the match and the crowd stayed on their feet to cheer and show their support for their fellow Wolverine. This is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s considered common courtesy not to talk about religion or politics in polite company. But talking about both at the same time is a different story, apparently. KUER, a charter member of National Public Radio out of Salt Lake, recorded a segment for their daily show RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio Wednesday in the Ragan […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Utah Valley’s women’s basketball spent the past three weeks playing local rivals like Utah State University and The University of Utah. However, the schedule helped bring the team down to a four-game losing streak, which concluded on Tuesday night when the Wolverines (7-9) defeated Longwood University at home. Forward Sammie Jensen helped crush UVU’s disappointing […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes UVU needs an official African American Literature class. Usually, it is unconvincing to argue for anything by saying, “everybody else is doing it” but, the fact is, the majority of universities in the country have a class offered with this title and the fact that UVU does not is unsettling. There have been courses that […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes For Ryan Muirhead his trip into the world of photography started with a friend asking a simple phrase during lunch, “Hey, take a cool picture of me.” That simple request from a friend looking for a good photo, launched Muirhead into a love affair of the art of photography. “Days later I bought […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s in a name? Apparently a lot. Great West Conference member and long-time institution University of North Dakota was forced to forfeit its mascot and name, the Fighting Sioux, this month as a result of protest from the NCAA and a local Native American tribe. No word yet on whether animal rights groups […]