Harmony among diversity

January 31, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes Religious harmony advocate group visits from Canada The Canadian organization Promoting Moderate Voices visited campus Friday morning. The group, whose aim is to promote religious harmony between sects, met with the UVU Interfaith Student Association (ISA) to discuss efforts at such harmony in Utah Valley. Moderate Voices arrived at the library at 11 o’clock on […]

Student hit on I-15

January 31, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes On Jan. 13, Zach Harrell, a freshman and member of the rodeo team was struck by a vehicle while trying to help a woman on the shoulder of I-15 near Spanish Fork. Details on the incident are incomplete, due to the extreme trauma of the situation, but sources say Harrell was headed home from rodeo […]

Food pantry spices it up

January 24, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes By putting a little more pizzazz in the name, the food pantry is taking its operation up a notch. Formerly the “UVU Food Pantry,” the Volunteer and Service Learning department threw out the bland and welcomed in a new appellation: the UV “You Can” Food Pantry. When asked what the purpose of the new name […]

Sing it and win big

January 24, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes Stand up and cheer mighty green We are the proud Wolverines As part of Homecoming Week, the Activities Committee will test students’ knowledge of the school’s fight song. “Can you sing the fight song and are you willing to put yourself on the line to prove it?” These are the questions the Activities Committee are […]

Student fee hearings

January 18, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes Students can see where their money goes For students who wonder about a $308 student fee added to their tuition, the annual student fee hearings might be a good place to find some answers. The hearings begin this month, and all interested students are allowed to attend. In previous years, a small conference room was […]

Origins of race

January 18, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes Operating with the idea that learning from the past can prevent future mistakes, three students presented papers that examine racism in literature. It was part of a panel discussion entitled “The Origins of Race: Eighteenth-Century Perspectives” held on Jan. 12. According to English professor Nathan Gorelick, who facilitated the panel, much of modern racism is […]

No money, big problem

January 10, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes Local budgeting software company owner offers free workshop Any student can experience financial woes. If you haven’t, you might be at the wrong university. For those who feel they need some help understanding how to stretch their dollars, Jesse Mecham has some answers. Mecham will be offering a free budgeting workshop at the Provo Library […]

Money for Mexican descendents

January 10, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Latino Initiative received a $20,000 scholarship grant to be dispersed to students of Mexican descent this semester. The money will help many students who may have had to quit school if not for the grant. The grant comes from Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior, or the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME). A non-profit […]

Surveying 2.0

January 10, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes New Geomatics degree provides more rounded education for future surveyors A new four-year degree is coming to the university and some students may have never even heard of it. This is because Geomatics, a degree being offered beginning in the fall, is a fairly new development in the world of engineering and land surveying. What […]

Flying high above the clouds: Jamie Bennee

December 6, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes In a tragic plane crash that also claimed the life of a student, Aviation Science instructor Jamie Cope Bennee died Nov. 17. Family, friends, co-workers, students and community members gathered to pay tribute to her Tuesday, Nov. 30. Those in attendance came to know Bennee as a driven, kind and optimistic person who touched those […]