Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the biggest problems that UVU faces is growth. With the largest student population in the state with over 33,000 students, serving the regional education needs and improving the seriousness of the institution are, in my view, becoming competing interests. One of the key components in UVU’s mission statement is to meet “regional […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Watchmen” by Allen Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbon, winner of the Hugo Award Summary: What if superheroes really existed? No. What if they really existed? This is the question acclaimed author Allen Moore, author of “V for Vendetta,” takes on in his graphic novel “Watchmen,” which chronicles the downfall and experiences of a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Since being home, UVU has pulled off something they weren’t able to accomplish on the road this season: have a winning record. The Wolverines lost their first game at home but then went on an 11-game winning streak, including one on the road against the Utah Utes. Jeremy Gendlek got his groove back after […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes NAPERVILLE, Ill. – As the teams prepare for the 2012 Great West Conference Track and Field Championships held next month, the coaches have unanimously selected UVU to retain the men’s and women’s conference titles that the Wolverines have claimed the past three years. UVU received all eight of the first-place votes on both the […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Clint Pulver noticed it. The apathy. The empty seats at basketball games. The lack of school spirit. The student body vice president during the 2010-11 school year, Pulver addressed school tradition in a council meeting, except he did so with a tangible idea. Why not start a drum line? The Dean of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It is a typical day on Facebook. Someone LOLs and liked the latest meme in their newsfeed, their friends are reading the latest trending, and possibly trashy, story on one of the many social readers, and while they begin to type up yet another passive-aggressive Facebook status about their crazy roommate, an Instagram photo pops […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The announcement no sooner left Nancy Smith’s lips before being drowned out by the thunderous applause of over 500 attendees. As Senior Director of UVU’s Donor Relations and Scholarships, Smith was privileged to announce the grand total of $55,488 in scholarship donations over the past seven years by Elder Quest members. “Without these scholarships, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Genre is meant to be a divider, a border, a barrier which keeps things separated to make them easier to manage. However important genre may be, it can be a boundary which no man wants to, or will, cross. Except by a chosen few. These brave musical immigrants leave the comfort of their own […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes A little piece of dad’s blue jeans here, a piece of grandma’s apron there and a scrap of mother’s Sunday dress on the side, all quilted together in a patchwork of memories. Quilters can produce enduring family heirlooms and precious gifts. More recently, quilters are also producing elaborate works of art, never meant to […]