Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone’s had a part-time job. It may have been torture, it may have paid the bills, but for Mark Lindsay it was an opportunity to do what he loved, even though he didn’t know it initially. Working the front desk at the local Orem Fitness Center wasn’t quite the dream job. But when […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Head coach Todd Fairbourne described the early season series’ and tournaments as practice situations for the UVU women’s softball team. His exigence came from the freshness of the team as they adapt to transfer students and injuries starting off the season. “Different situations may reveal what we have to get better at,” Fairbourne said. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kony 2012. The words, the video and even the dialogue have blasted the Internet on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube over the last week. Images of child soldiers and heartbreaking stories of kidnappings, murder, mutilation and sex slaves came pouring out. The video “KONY 2012,” put out by the non-profit organization, Invisible Children, has created […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes March ushers in one of the greatest periods of the sporting year and madness ensues on campuses all around the nation. Brackets are filled out and wagers are made. Students and professionals alike play hooky and our nation comes to a complete standstill. It’s not long, however, until brackets are busted and 90 percent of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s hard to quantify how far the UVU men’s basketball team fell in their semifinal loss to NJIT, but here’s an attempt: They went from winning 13 games in a row to dropping two straight They failed to win a game in the Great West Conference Tournament as the No. 1 seed for […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute CHICAGO – Utah Valley University junior forward Sammie Jensen was named the 2011-12 Great West Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Year Wednesday evening to highlight the conference’s postseason awards. Jensen was also named to the All-GWC First Team, while seniors Abbie Beutler, Jenna Johnson and sophomore Whitney Jenkins were named All-Conference Honorable Mention selections. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Let’s impact together.” Embracing his team’s name, Chad Workman, the new UVUSA President summed up the goal and vision of UVUSA with one statement. Though these past elections have proved to be controversial and frustrating for all parties involved, a new team has risen and with them and so has the hope for […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The night grows late, and you are snuggled up alone to your iPhone. A new message pops up on Facebook. The message reads, “What are you doing? Want to meet up?” If this has ever happened, you can officially say you are a victim of a Facebook booty call. A Facebook booty call […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was excited last October when a friend from high school (thank you Facebook) wanted go out. He had that Saturday all planned out! While driving to Salt Lake I daydreamed of the story I’d tell our kids and how we found each other years after high school. We arrived in Salt Lake. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bill McKibben, author, educator and environmental activist, faced a jam-packed Ragan Theatre Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m. McKibben said that if an alien race was observing the things humanity is doing to the planet’s atmosphere, they would conclude that we must be conducting a grand-scale mosquito-ranching experiment. McKibben is the author of more than […]