Reading Time: 3 minutes Coach Cathy Nixon described senior guard Jenna Johnson as a female Tom Sawyer because of her love for fishing and the raft of milk jugs made by her and her teammates. “We would test it out in the hot tub,” Johnson said. “We never went fishing off of it though. I want to but […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes As a child, I was a fussy eater. I don’t mean that I stubbornly refused the spoon or the fork at first but eventually could be coaxed into eating. I mean that from age two to three, I ate only fried rice from the Chinese place across from my parent’s apartment. I mean that my […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Holland’s goal this year: focus on more classroom space Some students here at UVU have had to postpone graduation because a class was full. And waitlists are getting more and more unbearable for students because of the soaring enrolment. Unfortunately, this will not get better without another building. Luckily this is President Holland’s […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Utah Valley The Wolverines opened the season winning three of their first four games but then suffered a couple of close losses to Utah State (63-54), Arkansas (67-59), and Houston (84-71). The Wolverines enter Great West Conference play on a 3 game winning streak with a record of 10-10. Utah Valley, entered conference play […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes For Marc Navez’s Senior Theater Platform, he took the story of ‘Treasure Island’ and asked himself, ‘What if Long John Silver was a pimp and the rest of the pirates were his whores?’ What followed was an original musical with buccaneers, buried treasure and contemporary pop music. Every year the theater department sponsors a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes One out of every four people in the U.S. are suffering from some sort of mental illness at any given moment. The odds that a person will experience mental illness at some point in their life are even higher, at about 50 percent. While depressive illnesses are the largest contributors to mental illness, social […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sports editor Matt Petersen and Assistant Sports Editor Jonathan Boldt give their take on five questions about the men’s basketball team heading into conference play. 1) The Wolverines are 10-10 heading into conference play, but are they really a .500-level team? Matt: What makes a basketball season isn’t so much how hot a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Defying the odds and soaring to new heights speaks to even the most casual observer. On the surface, sports may seem less important to some, and it’s the human element that provides depth. Whether it’s tuning in to see an Olympian set a new record or watching Michael Jordan “fly” from the free-throw line, the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes 18th annual MLK Commemoration added a movie night to its weekly events. Tuesday’s free showing of the 2011 movie “The Help” drew over 100 students to the Grande Ballroom as part of last week’s 18th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration. From the bestselling novel of the same name, the film chronicles a racially […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Twitter feeds have been buzzing with chatter, hash tagged with words like SOPA, PIPA, censorship and blackout. Wikipedia, with estimated daily web traffic numbering in the tens of millions, was dark Wednesday, Jan. 18, in protest of recent legislature working its way through the US House Judiciary Committee. The Stop Online Piracy Act and […]