I Heart Skinny Jeans

October 3, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes Rolling to the end of my bed before the sun has even risen, I sit staring into my tiny unorganized closet.   In the dim light I take a mental inventory of my clothing. Selecting what to wear each day can be a real pain, but having my go-to item makes it easier. What is […]

This fall, fashion risks are in

October 3, 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute Whether it’s that favorite plushy scarf, oxford wedges or that perfect blazer, selecting a wardrobe is an intimate process. Clothing choices speak volumes about who we are. And in a way project our personalities, sometimes with a megaphone, to the whole world.   Our clothing can say what we sometimes shy away from. Whether we […]

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

September 1, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear Readers,   In the preface to a history of the New York Times, Henry Steel Commager said, “Here is the living disproof of the old adage that nothing is as dead as yesterday’s newspaper…This is what really happened, reported by a free press to a free people. It is the raw material of history; […]

Blue Birds flock to Sundance

July 18, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes The echo of cricket chirps resounded through the Sundance amphitheater, welcoming and reminding Matraca Berg, country singer and songwriter of home. Berg and her fellow songwriters, Gretchen Peters and Marshall Chapman took the stage to perform well-known, and lesser-known country songs they and some dear friends had written through the years, as part of Sundance’s […]

Changing perspectives through diversity

April 18, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes With an office filled with pieces from his and his wife’s different cultural backgrounds, Kyle Reyes, assistant to President Holland, makes it clear that his past plays a big role in his present. Reyes’ mother is Hawaiian-Japanese, his father is Philippino-Spanish and his wife is Navajo-Mongolian, giving his four children a rich heritage to build […]

Speaker selected for 70th Commencement

April 18, 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute As the end of the semester nears, the excitement over the coming summer, and for many, graduation, buzzes around campus. This year graduation will take place on April 29 at 10:30 a.m., and will be held in the UCCU Center. The current CEO of Huntsman Gay Global Capital Partners, Robert C. Gay has been selected […]

Celebration of hope

April 11, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Clothesline Project raises awareness about violence in Utah County The vibrantly colored shirts hung around the Grande Ballroom. At first glance one might think the brightness insinuated a celebration was going on, but the absence of playful banter in the room confirmed the gravity of the words written on each shirt. “Love is all […]

Cutting excuses

March 28, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes Rushing from class to class, delving into study groups and squeezing in a work out are part of the average college student’s daily life. While at the end of the day students may come home flustered and down, people like Kyle Maynard make the average person’s daily struggles seem insignificant, and yet, he makes “no […]

New servant to the students

March 14, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes A ten-year-old boy, a pile of sawdust in the front yard and a four-wheeler. The result: two scars on Chris Loumeau’s leg where the four-wheeler melted his skin to the bone. After polls closed two weeks ago, that ten-year-old boy, now grown up, became the new student body president of this university. Loumeau, from Coeur […]

A sense of apathy in the candidate forum

March 7, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes At this school, there are over 30,000 students and on March 1, during the student government elections candidate forum, less than .1 percent of the students came to hear what their future leaders had to say. Among planning events and coordinating guest speakers, the Executive Council is also the recommending body for the partitioning of […]