Reading Time: 4 minutes Utah is looking at a possible change in election process that is over 100 years old. Count My Vote is a campaign to change Utah’s use of caucuses in place of primaries. Their claim is that the current system is exclusionary and archaic. For most of its history, Utah has used a convention-primary system to […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Contributing Writer: Rinamay Rhoten, Reporter, @RinamayLopez Students are banding together to discuss the previously taboo subject of pornography. Fight the New Drug is a budding international organization focused on educating communities about pornography and its addictive nature. Most people are familiar with addictions to physical substances ingested, inhaled or injected. These drugs are known to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Woodbury School of Business is now accepting applications to the new full-time Masters of Business Administration program. After years of preparation, the school has organized a three semester graduate program for students looking for a daytime program. For Jillian Milne, senior studying graphic design, the new MBA came right in time. Milne wants to […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes After volunteering as an LDS missionary in Norway for 13 months, Tristan Polanski decided to end his mission 11 months early after dealing with relentless insomnia. He was nervous to come home, not knowing how he’d be received. Polanski, now home for nearly three years, remembered that his mother cried and his father didn’t have […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the Evangelical Church’s most notable leaders, Richard Mouw, is scheduled to come to UVU in November and interested students have enrolled in a class to prepare for his arrival. The class functions as the Religious Studies and Interfaith Association’s preemptive measures to prepare students for Mouw’s visit. “Over the years we’ve noticed that […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Red Giant, the premier filmmaking and motion graphics software company, paid a visit to UVU’s Digital Media department on Thursday. “We need to test the usability of the new software programs we’re coming out with,” Sandy Alves, Red Giant’s lead user interface designer, said. Red Giant has been labeled the best in their field. They […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a part of the Center for Global and Intercultural Engagement’s global spotlight on Mexico, a panel of Latino immigrants met to discuss their unique challenges. “It was the best choice I have ever made,” Paola Rondon, an immigrant from Venezuela, said. “It was a hard choice. It was an expensive choice, but I don’t […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes This fall, the UVU Board of Trustees welcomed Elaine S. Dalton, Fidel A. Montero and Duff Thompson. “These three individuals are eminently well-qualified to be Trustees and will have a tremendous impact on UVU,” declared President Matthew S. Holland on September 11. Dalton comes with five years’ background serving as a member of the Board […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I often find myself defending UVU. I have always seen most of the defamation hurled our way as coming from a place of culturally supported snobbery and ignorance. That was until I saw the opening of the new Taco Bell. Classy UVU. Classy. Life rarely surprises me, but the morning I walked down the PE […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes UVU President Matthew Holland announced an option to buy another 125 acres in addition to the purchased 100 acres at the old Geneva Steel site. “When President Wilson Sorenson purchased the land that UVU currently sits on, many wondered what a technical school could possibly need with all those acres of land,” Holland said. “We […]