Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Mike Smith/ Courtesy of Matshots Taylor LaMont was one win shy of an All-American finish at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Cleveland, Ohio, March 15-17. Demetrius Romero and Kimball Bastian followed LaMont, making it to the second day of competition. LaMont started off the tournament as the highest ranked wrestler that UVU has […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chase Thomas spoke about favoring college education that is free of student debt, and he suggested that funding could be found in existing government budgets. Photo by Lincoln Op’t Hof At the Pizza and Politics session on education that was held in the Ragan Theater on March 13, attendees and panelists voiced concerns about making […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Theft Feb. 27 — 4:05 p.m. An officer responded to a complaint regarding a stolen tailgate in parking lot 22. A student returned to his truck after class and found that the tailgate was gone. The officer gathered his information and wrote a report on the stolen item. Alcohol Offense Feb. 28 — 8:22 […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Candidates for the Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer presented to students, faculty and staff on March 14 and 15. The candidates include Alicia Chavira-Prado, Yudi Lewis, Daniel Teraguchi and Tommy Stevenson. Chavira-Prado received her doctorate in anthropology at the University of California and became a diversity administrator at Ohio University following a career as a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU’s Contemporary Dance Ensemble transported their audience through a multitude of settings and emotions in their performance of Hear us Roar at the Ragan Theater March 9. In five numbers, the dance ensemble showcased choreography from company director Monica Campbell and Oni Dance Company’s choreographers Maria Gillespie, Heather Grey and Natosha Washington. The third piece, “Tarot,” […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute UVU’s baseball team took on BYU March 13 in their first game back in Utah. After a hot start and a few early leads, the Wolverines could not hold on and lost 9-3. Kaden Schmitt started on the mound for the Wolverines and gave them a strong five innings of work. He struck out three […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Students mourn lives lost and protest gun control Photos by Kimberly Bojorquez A month after the Parkland school shooting, UCAS students participated in a planned protest by walking out of class March 14, for 17 minutes, to honor the 17 who died. UVU students across campus participated in the walkout, while dozens of UCAS students, a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes By Neil Goslin | Contributor The world engages in tolerance and racial relations in a variety of ways. The new movie The Black Panther engages in a few different types of racial discussions and scenarios. In The Black Panther, race is not the only issue of course. There are issues of identity, such as the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Cameron Hunsinger UVU’s College Basketball Invitational first round game was expected to be a close one because the team faced an Eastern Washington team that has won 17 of their last 23 games. UVU needed to recover from their semi-final WAC tournament loss from the week before, so there was no question things […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fight the New Drug is a nonprofit organization centered in Utah that has one goal: to fight the effects of pornography. The organization’s founder, Clay Olsen, visited UVU March 8 to speak about what the organization means when they say they are fighting the effects of pornography. Although many would characterize Olsen as an entrepreneur, […]