Girls expand their horizons

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes At the 26th Annual Expanding Your Horizons conference, girls from grades 6-12 are encouraged not only to pursue higher education, but also to become interested in non-traditional careers for women.   Before 1848, women were not allowed to attend colleges and universities. By the end of the Civil War in 1865, women began pursuing higher […]

Behind the election scene

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Before student body election packets were even due on Feb. 6, the elections committee was being put together to prepare for the upcoming campaigns and voting with the purpose of overseeing the 2012-2013 elections on campus.   The role of the elections committee, according to Director of Student Activities Beka Grulich, is to ensure that […]

UVU Review’s terrible horrible no good very bad month

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 5 minutes On Dec. 21, 2011, five members of our UVU Review staff received the email they were waiting for, informing them that their Media Spring Scholarship had been awarded. This is the scholarship that staff members get for their various duties and contributions to the paper.   On Jan. 3, 2012, these same students received emails […]

Heavy Metal class is more than meets the ear

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU Heavy Metal class taught by Stephen Fullmer, Ph.D., teaches students music, literary analysis and student engagement.   Professor Stephen Fullmer, Ph.D., teaches a class at UVU called “Heavy Metal.” Students say the class is much more than meets the ear.   Jennifer Hill, a UVU student who is taking Heavy Metal for her third […]

Perimeter players step up in recent wins

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Too much of one thing can be a bad thing, a case the UVU women’s basketball team experienced for themselves for much of the middle portion of this season.   The Wolverines were forced to rely often on the production of post players Sammie Jensen and Erika Newbold, even as the perimeter players struggled to […]

Physics Colloquium welcomes Delta power expert

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Electricity may be a plentiful and widely used resource, but that will likely not always be the case.   The stadium-style basement classroom in the Pope Science Building was filled with over 30 students and faculty as technical expert Rand Crafts of Intermountain Power Service Corporation talked about the power plant in Delta and the […]

One Year Later: When patterns, biases and experience do better than you

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes “I didn’t even know we had a student government,” Sariah Gutierrez tells me.   “Then I found out they’re the ones who put up all the stupid decorations. Why do we need so many cardboard cutouts of Harry Potter everywhere?” Perplexed, Gutierrez asks, “What else do they even do?”   The election process is flawed, […]

Habits of highly effective people

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes “He probably played football in high school,” was all I thought about the big, tall dude who always sat in the same desk in CS 411. With a month left of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” class he applied habit one: Be Proactive.   Flattered that he texted me promptly after getting my […]

Vamos a la isla de Cuba UVU

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes El Programa de Estudios Internacionales está promoviendo  un viaje a la hermosa isla de Cuba. Esta travesía promete ser una experiencia inolvidable, llena de conocimientos culturales y vivenciales para los estudiantes de UVU.   “La idea de realizar este viaje para los estudiantes de UVU, surgió porque tenía un estudiante en una clase de español, […]

WWC gets 17 spots for nationals

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA announced on Thursday that the NCAA West Regional Tournament/Western Wrestling Conference Championships has been allocated 17 automatic qualifier spots for the 2012 Division I Wrestling Championships. Only members of the WWC earn bids to the NCAA Tournament at that event.   The NCAA also released that the WWC had 22 wrestlers […]