Reading Time: 2 minutes During the Halloween season I have noticed quite a few trends. Over sexed versions of our favorite characters litter the streets, the stores fill with Christmas decorations and all of our favorite horror movies hit the shelves for 5 bucks. Ah, what a magical time of year. I wasn’t always interested in horror movies. I […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As Halloween fast approaches, people are putting final touches on costumes. Or in some cases, rushing to the store to see what’s left to work with. So if you’re one of those people who waited to get their Halloween costume, what can you expect to find in your local Halloween store? Lindsey Lohan’s character in […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The clouds are covering the moon and my headlights are the only illumina- tion in sight as I drive down a long stretch of road surrounded by wheat fields. I’m returning from my uncle Clint’s home and I have two reasons to be scared: He just told me his stories of local hauntings, and I’m […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes THE PERSISTENT SALESMAN A few years ago I went to party with a few friends. After a few hours of mingling, the conversation slowed and one of the other girls pulled out an old Ouija board. I’d never seen one before, but a chill fell over me. I had been warned of the dangers of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes In preface, may I say that this is not about witchcraft, risqué or zombie cos- tumes or corn mazes. Before the Christianization and com- mercialization of the Celtic festival, Samhain (pronounced sow-en) and its evolution from a sacred time to the second most commercially lucrative day of the year (only the celebration of the Christmas […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Try to picture Halloween one or two thousand years ago—Snickers bars and Skittles would, unfortunately, not make an appearance. However, much of Halloween might not be as unfamiliar as you may think. Costumes, fires, seeking tokens door to door, and even a fear of ghosts would all be present. Though times and traditions have changed, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Something goes bump in the night, you awake to a shadowy figure standing at the foot of your bed and you turn on the lights in a panic. Nothing is there. Was anything ever there? Was it a terrifying dream or a hallucination of the mind? There may or may not have been a spirit […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU’S Wrestling team looks to make their tenth season their best season.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the summer, Natalie Varajas* decided she wanted to give herself a break and enroll in only one class this fall. In high school, the 19-year-old student received a head-start at Timpview High School when she enrolled in concurrent college courses at Utah Valley University. She completed her associate’s degree last spring, but since […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute October 20, 2012 – Weapons Offense 7:49 p.m. I was advised that a male may show up to the dance in the Center Stage area with an air soft rifle as part of a costume. I arrived, made contact with the male subject and had him take the air soft gun to his car. October […]