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 […]

Diversity Lecture Series discusses transition from service member to student

November 30, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo credit: Julie Ostler | Assistant Photo Editor | @jules1lo   The Diversity Lecture Series, organized by the Multicultural Student Council, discussed personal experiences of soldiers coming back from military life and the psychology of young soldiers going and coming back from war. Director of Utah Valley University’s Veteran Student Success Center and speaker, Sheldon Holgreen, […]

Veterans share the horrors of war with students

November 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU celebration honors those who’ve served Kimberly Bojorquez | Senior Staff Writer Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 After Marjorie Campbell’s boyfriend died when his B-24, a heavy bomber aircraft, crashed, it prompted Campbell to volunteer and join the United States Navy in 1944 to finish his commitment to the military. […]

Mormon apologists discuss how and when to defend Mormonism

November 7, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Kimberly Bojorquez | Senior Staff Writer A panel of six Mormon apologists, defenders of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, discussed the arguments for and against defending Mormonism Friday, Nov. 6 at UVU. Panelist and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at UVU, Brian D. Birch discussed how Mormonism has seen its fair […]

Speaker: Zombies inspired by real-life Haitian practices

November 3, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Kim Bojorquez | Senior Staff Writer Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 The second annual Forum of Horror, an event co-organized by UVU’s Different Dimensions Club and the English and Literature Department, was held Oct. 28 to discuss horror topics, such as the origin of zombies in cinema, women as criminal […]

Active shooter drills prepare campus for the worst-case scenario

October 26, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Kimberly Bojorquez | Senior Staff Writer After the tragic Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, Ashley Larsen, director of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, and Robin Ebmeyer, director of Emergency Risk Management, arranged campus safety training Oct. 8 to discuss preventing and handling an active shooter situation at Utah Valley University. A week before the […]

Mark Patey: Different is not a disorder

October 12, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Fourth annual conference focuses on finding the benefits of ADHD Kimberly Bojorquez | Senior Staff Writer Photo credit: Gabi Campbell | Photo Editor | @gabicampbellphotos   Living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is challenging, but it’s also a great gift, successful entrepreneur Mark Patey told an audience at the fourth annual Conference on ADHD Oct. […]

Suicidology expert comes to campus

September 21, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes   Thomas Joiner speaks about “Why People Die By Suicide” during Safety Week   Kimberly Bojorquez | Staff Writer Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97   On September 16, as part of Campus Safety Week, the author of Why People Die By Suicide, Thomas Joiner, shared his new theory on what […]