Serenity Now. Or Never. It’s Up To You.
I should have known that I was making a mistake. It was noon-thirty in the food court here at our beloved Utah Valley University. On a Monday. The line for…
Wednesday Woes: The Trouble with Nicknames
March 28, 2012Let’s make an honest woman out of Mary Jane
Marijuana is now legal for recreational use in Washington and Colorado, but what does that mean for us?
November 19, 2012
Your Resigned Optimism Sucks
February 1, 2012Wednesday Woes: Movie trivia time
January 18, 2012Most Read
The 5 Browns’ father pleads guilty to child sex abuse
February 22, 2011In Defense of Smoking
September 5, 2011Genderland offers Utah’s trans youth an outlet
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Wednesday woes: Bro grabs
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.  -Socrates Hey, dude, it’s nice to meet you. My name is John-Ross. Most…
2012 blues
Sometime during the break I decided that I might want to purchase a gun. Some variety of pump action 12-gauge mangler, the kind that I would clean in the living…
Late night with Willy the Wolverine
How Midnight Classes Can Benefit UVU It’s midnight on a Monday. While the rest of the world slumbers peacefully, a cabal of nine assembles in a dark, otherwise empty…
Haunted Houses and Utah’s moral climate
There is no swearing allowed inside the Haunted Forest. Or smoking. Or drinking. Lewd behavior of all kinds is frowned upon in both the Haunted Forest and the Psycho Manor….
CANNONIZED CINEMA: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Cinema Infernal
Of all the cinematic genres, horror is one of the least pretentious. Scary movies don’t seek out critical acclaim. They don’t aspire to inspire. Horror films know what they’re about …
The High Five with John-Ross Boyce: Your awful Halloween costume
The Celtic people believed that the veil between this world and the realm of the spirits was gossamer-thin around this time of year. Like, poke it with your finger and…
The unbearable blackness of being
One student’s musings on the conversation of race in Utah Recently I was involved in a discussion about experiences of racism among some friends on campus. A white girl interrupted…
Fag Fury
Why silence on our campus about homophobic violence is disquieting Sorry if I shock somebody: certain kinds of silence are violent, and there are a lot of quiet students on…
