Reading Time: 2 minutes People still tell me how beautiful my mother’s wedding was. With ice sculptures, an expansive hors d’oeuvres table, a live jazz band and 5-course meal for five hundred guests, there were plenty of details to take in. But what stands out in my family’s memory was the flowers. Stems Inc., a floral company owned by […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Amidst all the scrapping and riffing and finger-pointing between Team Exelerate and Team Aspire, Team Impact stayed calm, sat quietly and won this year’s election. But Chad Workman, who will officially become UVUSA’s Student Body President on Graduation Day, doesn’t intend to remain quiet during his tenure in student government. “I was actually disappointed […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Everyone is affected one way or another by popular search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo. The three top jobs for search engines are to build trust among their users, provide the best results and to sell advertising. But how do different colored hats play into these search engines? UVU graduate Ash Buckles educated students […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Weddings accentuate our traditions, and Utah has some peculiar ones. We all know it. But that doesn’t mean we have the monopoly on strange customs. We compiled the following survey of four different cultures to make our peculiarities seem a little more normal. Utah Engagement After knowing each other for indeterminate span of time (ranging […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The last two weeks have been a lot kinder to the Utah Valley baseball program than the previous two. After a disappointing 2-8 start to the season, the Wolverines have gone 5-3 against tough competition. Following a three-game sweep of Southern Utah, the Wolverines spent their spring break in Arizona, splitting a two game […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes In response to allegations of sexism, UVUSA officer Joe Jurisic wanted to make it absolutely clear, once and for all, that he is NOT a feminist. Yes, Joe, I think we knew that. But what does this imply? According to the very basic, Merriam-Webster definition, feminism is “the theory of the political, economic, […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some weeks ago, the UVU Review ran a story about the gap in pay for faculty men and women. According to the story, the average annual salary for male faculty at UVU is $73,000, while that for female faculty is $71,000. Clearly, despite official policy, sexual discrimination is alive at UVU. But women faculty […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Holton Hunsaker had a good look. Check that, a “great look,” according to head coach Dick Hunsaker. Down by three with nine seconds left, the sophomore guard took a pass from the double-teamed Isiah Williams. He faked a shot, got his defender to jump 30 inches off the ground, stepped in and hoisted the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It was only one loss, but it felt much bigger than what the scoreboard read at the end of the game for the UVU football team. At the beginning of the season, the players didn’t shy away from talking about a perfect season and staking their claim as the best team in the league. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Planning a wedding is hard. Searching for the perfect dress, finding the ideal venue, stunning flowers, romantic color schemes, delicious buffets, the ideal hairstyle and flattering makeup can drive a girl crazy. Thankfully hair stylist and makeup artist Talia Rowberry can minimize these decisions by two. Every girl, at one point or another, dreams […]