Reading Time: 2 minutes Since high school, Kevin Saunders has enjoyed sharing his bagpiping talent with a whole host of different audiences. His list of many performances, both formal and informal, has included funerals, birthdays, committee meetings and weddings—indoors, outdoors, in the sun and rain, on street corners, in forests and even once atop a barn. Recently, after coming […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Melissa Henrie When an organization wants to put on an exciting event, Ryan Rock, owner of the new company Utah Bubble Balls, will often get a phone call. “We get contacted by corporate events, partner with birthday party organizations…festivals. There are many groups who are interested in renting from us,” Rock said. Although, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Graphic by Trevor Robertson Last month, the Utah State Board of Regents gathered at Dixie State University to discuss and set tuition rates for the upcoming year for the eight public colleges and universities that make up The Utah System of Higher Education. The decisions made at the Utah State Board of Regents recent meeting […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Roughly 37 million students in the United States have student loans, bringing the national total owed to $1 trillion. Tuition costs are trending further upward. Both the federal and Utah state governments have made post-secondary education a priority, but the main reason students are dropping out nationally is for financial reasons. To combat this, the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Matt Gardner, Staff Writer, @sloopmatt Photo credit: Laura Fox As part of last week’s Engagement Week here at Utah Valley University, the Eugene England Series delivered on its promised theme called Dialogical Exploration of Race in Mormonism. Guest speakers Darius Gray and Margaret Blair Young spent time behind the microphone discussing Mormon issues on how […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo credit: Laura Fox UVU students may not be receiving the sex health information that they need, according to recent national studies. Last November, UVU was ranked in the bottom ten in Trojan and Sperling’s BestPlaces’ annual ranking of sexual health resources at American colleges and universities. The university currently offers testing for sexually transmitted […]