Presidents Day shuffle

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes It can be seen on Canvas, or maybe seen on one of the many flyers hanging on the walls throughout campus. Perhaps this is the first time anyone has heard of it. Regardless, there is a big switch coming up that students need to know about.   As always, classes will not be held Monday, […]

“How do I love thee, let me count the ways…”

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes For as long as there has been an accounting of history, there have been tales of love. Often the stories that have survived are of magnificent proportion. These stories were of kings falling for commoners or prophets working half a lifetime to be granted the hand of their love. The acts associated with the more […]

Until divorce do us part

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Valentines Day is not the worst day of the year. So called “single awareness” may be heightened on the 14th of February, but it doesn’t compare to the would-be anniversaries of my first or second marriage. Those days, for me, are much more poignant than Valentines Day is ever likely to be.   Living in […]

How chick flicks are ruining society

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes This Valentine’s Day, as you reach for your stash of romantic- omedies, just keep in mind that you are contributing to the destruction of society.   As a cinephile, I have always been an anti-chick flick advocate. It’s not because I am cynical about love or have something against Jennifer Aniston (though both of those […]

Do you have a Band-Aid? I just scraped my knee falling for you

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Many college students have heard feeble pick-up lines, but according to David Colemen also known as The Dating Doctor, what is really unfortunate is the students who use them.   On Tuesday Jan. 31 Coleman, offered dating prescriptions for the students on campus in the Grande Ballroom. His goal: to help students find their “soul […]

Lost in translation

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Baseball jargon In the ballpark – Educated guess Out in left field – Crazy Playing Hardball – Not going easy Strike out – Ultimate Fail Home run – Ultimate Success   Win or lose, good or bad, if you experience life you experience baseball. The game may have been eclipsed in popularity by other sports, […]

Students’ ‘Lazy Jedi’ short goes viral

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU student Mike Brown and BYU students Casen and Landon Sperry gain Internet fame with weekly YouTube shorts.   Freshman Mike Brown, a 24-year-old Digital Media major, has been collaborating with business partners Casen and Landon Sperry since he was 12 years old.   “One of the very first things we talked about was that […]

Please don’t make me kill you

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear Bicycle Riders:   My name is Nick Scholz, and I’m going to kill you.   Now, I don’t want to get off on the wrong foot with you guys. Heaven knows there are few groups more organized or zealous than outdoor bicyclists. Believe me when I tell you that I don’t wish to kill […]

A Seven Year Itch

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes My wife Jennie likes to think she knew what she was doing when she married me, but I contend that she did not. It’s probably only fair to admit that neither did I. This March will be our seven-year anniversary and apparently we are falling short of the “itch.”   By now the average American […]

Brush with stardom spurs student to boldness

February 13, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Upon high school graduation, Alexis “Ali” Shields created a bucket list with the number one goal of meeting Ellen Degeneres. Once her friend secured tickets to the popular daytime “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in Burbank, California, Shields, who had never previously performed, emailed DeGeneres “a dumb song,” believing “nothing would happen with the email.”   […]