People to know – Trevor Tooke

September 15, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes I may be talking to the student body president but by the way he constantly drums his fingers on his desk, you’d think he was the nervous one. Trevor Tooke reaches into his drawer and displays two drumsticks, explaining that he has a pair in his desk at all times. “I used to be in […]

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Scene

September 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s recently been a sudden surge of my old high school friends coming home from missions trying to get used to being around other old friends who’ve “changed.” It’s still difficult for them to resist urges to shake hands and shove blue books into people’s hands, so they socialize more passively with “guy’s night out,” which is essentially when guys foreswear association with any relations to the fairer sex (be they casual girlfriends or wives of several years) to assert “maleness.

People to Know

September 1, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Who is Alex Caldiero?” I’m asked. A better question might be, “How do you explain who is Alex Caldiero?” “The human element. Humanities — it means a synthesis of knowledge; it’s holistic. ‘Break on through to the other side.’ You can’t pay lip service to humanities by shrugging it off. It asks the big questions. […]

Gaypocalypse now!

August 31, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes He who has ears to hear, let him hear: Being gay is neither a choice nor a hereditary trait. It is a disease. These are uncertain times to be a man in America. The loud guy next door could be more upright than you. Washington put a man on the moon and now they want to send a rocket to Uranus.

Meet these people!

August 26, 2009

Reading Time: 3 minutes Whether you’re a plumber or a business executive, Dr. Michael Minch believes you should have an interest war, hunger, peace, and democracy. Of course, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and lose focus when one sees the problems we face today. That’s where Dr. Minch steps in to give students from all majors and backgrounds a practical approach to finding solutions to those problems.

Meet these people!

August 24, 2009

Reading Time: 3 minutes Michael Minch Whether you’re a plumber or a business executive, Dr. Michael Minch believes you should have an interest war, hunger, peace, and democracy. Of course, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and lose focus when one sees the problems we face today. That’s where Dr.

Health insurance options under par

August 3, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that you can get student health insurance from between $30 to $150 a month? Up until a few days ago, I didn’t either. As it turns out, UVU students can gain access through an online health insurance distributor called CampusCoverage.com who have a company in almost every state.

The Gods Must be Crazy: Confessions of a Comic Book Fan

August 3, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s almost 5 AM and I’ve been up all night reading. The Green Arrow is explaining to his girlfriend, the Black Canary, why he must stay behind and sacrifice his life to save some survivors of the latest threat to all life in the universe: Anti-Life. “I can’t lose you,” she breathes, raising her hand to the glass window.

Who Killed George Tiller?

June 22, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Many from within the anti-abortion movement, such as the National Right to Life Committee, Operation Rescue, Kansans for Life and various Jewish groups have condemned Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of the doctor George Tiller. Others from within the anti-abortion movement have commended Roeder on right-wing blogs and threads; the Army of God, a violent anti-abortion group, has the following posted on their website: “The lives of innocent babies scheduled to be murdered by George Tiller are spared by the action of American Hero Scott Roeder.