Reading Time: 3 minutes The wide line of students, chatting excitedly while they waited for free food from Tucanos Brazilian Grill, snaked through the dense vines and various tropical plants decorating the foyer of the Grande Ballroom. Volunteers with foot-tall parrots were sharing their colorful pets with patrons of all ages while music from the far corners of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The distant drone of passing vehicles on Highway 189 was the only sound as the sun set, casting long shadows across Heber Valley onto UVU’s Wasatch Campus. Nestled in the Wasatch Mountains just outside Heber, the Wasatch Campus offers a family oriented learning environment with a small-town feel to almost 500 students. During […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The I-15 interchange at 500 East in American Fork is open, after I-15 CORE workers transformed it into a new diverging diamond interchange (DDI) configuration. The DDI configuration, featured for the first time in Utah at the I-15 interchange at American Fork Main Street, is designed to improve safety. Although the pattern requires drivers to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Passing cars honked their horns in support for the group of about 11 protesters, who stood bundled up in scarves and coats to protect themselves from the cold winter breeze. Occupy Provo, a break off from Occupy Wall Street, hit the streets again Saturday, Nov. 5, to raise awareness about corporate greed. The all-day demonstration […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes With all the traffic in the parking lots at UVU Monday night, it looked like 10 a.m. instead of 8:30 p.m. Students swarming into the Sorenson Student Center warmed the fall chill off of their hands by the two fires outside the doors before making their way into the transformed ballroom. Volunteers from […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A man with outstanding warrants was pursued by members of the Orem Police Department, in a chase that began with a jump from a second-story apartment, and ended on the UVU campus around 9:00 a.m. Monday. Sergeant Craig Martinez, the public information officer for Orem Police Department, identified the person taken into custody as […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Silence fell over the crowd as the American flag made its way to the stage. The familiar sound of the National Anthem filled the auditorium, falling on the ears of all in attendance, ranging from adolescent to elderly. The typical cheers and whistles did not sound after the final note, but applause was not needed […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Students and campus visitors clasped hands with one another, forming a 286-person chain that weaved through the fourth floor of the Losee Center Friday, Oct. 28. The Statue of Responsibility grass-roots movement, (www.sorfoundation.org) inspired by the words of Viktor Frankl, began in 1997 with the purpose of creating a symbol representing the responsibility that […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Construction hot spots to be aware of this weekend according to UDOT: University Parkway @ Sandhill Road State Street (SR 89) in Orem and University Avenue (SR 189) in Provo Geneva Road I-15 near Spanish Fork SR 14 east of Cedar City A pedestrian underpass is being constructed underneath the intersection of University Parkway […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The peaceful movement that started in Oakland Wednesday headed towards hostility early Thursday and ended on quite a different note early this morning after teargas, rubber bullets and flash grenades from local police. According to reports from the Oakland Tribune, the non-violent strike was started Wednesday by an estimated 7,000, but turned violent and […]