Following in a father’s footsteps

December 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Photos courtesy of Byron Hardward Adam Wardenburg, assistant coach for the Utah Valley University women’s basketball team, grew up around the game of basketball.  His father, John, has coached at multiple levels of the game, including being an assistant at BYU and the head coach at Indian Hills Community College, one of the premiere junior […]

It’s all about the family during the holidays for UVU student athletes

December 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Going to temple square, races highlight just a few traditions for two athletes While there are many different holidays around this time of year that people celebrate, the overwhelming majority celebrates Christmas whether it is in a spiritual or commercial sense. That is no exception for the Utah Valley University student-athletes. During this time of […]

MAWLD by a cougar

December 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes After recent events and time to mentally and physically recover from a recent attack by a mascot, I’ve decided it is my personal responsibility to warn my fellow students and fellow fans of the dangers of school mascots. Now, I believe that Willy, even though he is a wolverine, who by nature is a ferocious […]

Let’s have a WAC vs. Big Sky basketball challenge

December 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pac-12 Conference, the Mountain West Conference, and the West Coast Conference are some of the top college basketball conferences in America, especially in the western United States. The other two are the WAC and the Big Sky. Here at UVU we’re in the WAC conference, where we play solid competition such as New Mexico […]

College Football Playoff field set, did they get it right?

December 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes All of the games have been played and the season has wrapped up. Conference champions have been crowned and we’re moving on to bowl season. The College Football Playoff selection committee has spoken, placing the Clemson Tigers against the Oklahoma Sooners in the Capital One Orange Bowl and the Alabama Crimson Tide and Michigan State […]

Weber State hands UVU women’s basketball their fifth straight loss

December 13, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Photos courtesy of Kyle McDonald Ogden — After winning six straight games following a season opening loss to BYU, the Utah Valley University women’s basketball team has found themselves in a bit of a funk. Weber State handed the Wolverines their fifth straight loss, 61-56 on Saturday afternoon at the Dee Events Center. Despite a […]

Energy healer comes to CareerPassport lecture

December 11, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Kimberly Bojorquez | Senior Staff Writer Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 Carol Tuttle, alternative therapist and author, discussed her life before she started her lucrative career in healing people using energy psychology as part of CareerPassport Lecture Series Thursday, Dec. 4. As a mother of four, Tuttle started small businesses […]

New housing proposal causes community backlash

December 11, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] Image courtesy of ICO Development This fall, Ivory Commercial and Multifamily or ICO, a housing development company, submitted a proposal to the City of Orem to have the property on the southwest corner of 800 S. and 800 W. rezoned for high-density housing. The area is located east […]

Speaker aims to debunk Canadian stereotypes

December 11, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Kasey Johnson|Staff Writer Photo credit: Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] Pete Robinson shed some light on the concept that satire need not be ugly during a speech on Dec. 1. He inferred that Canadians are more than happy to make fun of just about anything—even themselves. Robinson, who has spent 13 years living […]