A year of discovery for UVU women’s golf

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Season begins with a new coach Last Wednesday, as students were arriving for the first day of classes, the women’s golf team held their first meeting with head coach Sue Nyhus. Many people would be worried with the opening tournament less than a week away on Sept. 3, but Nyhus can’t wait to get the […]

Parking pays – so pull in and put up

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes The sum of parking permits and citations at the school last year totaled nearly $1 million. According to the Parking Services website, the total revenue in parking passes alone for the 2009-2010 school year was $835,016, with paid parking citations making up rest of the total million. Parking Services is very rare, if not unique, […]

Growing pains: the reasoning behind our tuition hikes

August 23, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes There are few things that students should expect more, yet dread less, than annual tuition hikes. In the last decade, we have seen a 122 percent increase in tuition. Comparatively, most other Utah schools have had a lesser increase at around 100 percent. This is partly due to the transition from community college to four-year […]

A newbie’s guide to the UVU bookstore

August 2, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes With the many costs of fall semester looming ahead, the last thing students need is expensive course materials and the struggle to find them. Luckily, the UVU Bookstore has been preparing for the large influx of students and has ways to minimize student expenditures. While walking into the bookstore, notice that half of the space […]

Sandstrom’s Irresponsible Proprosal

June 28, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes One doesn’t have to agree with Arizona’s recent controversial immigration bill to recognize that with the tightening of border security in Texas and California, Arizona has become a much more common avenue of illegal entry into the country. If nothing else, the bill has succeeded in pushing immigration reform debate more to the front of […]

Summer classes can keep momentum going

June 10, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Computers have a fantastically awful little switch called a reset button. Deviously simple, it quickly reboots your computer, even if you spent hours writing a paper and did not intend to push the button. But when your computer locks up and begins crashing, that same reset button is a lifesaver and gets you back to […]