Stand with Standing Rock

January 25, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Julie Ostler Protesters have gathered at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota since August to halt construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL. They cite concerns that the construction of the DAPL will desecrate their sacred ancestral lands as well as threaten the reservations’ water supply. These protesters, who refer […]

Hollow words from a hollow man

January 25, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes January 20, 2017, a day that will live in infamy. This is the day that Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Rather than focus on the “alternative facts” surrounding the size of his crowd or the millions of wonderful nasty women and men who marched in protest the […]

Draining the swamp or clogging the drain?

January 18, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes With the inauguration of President-elect Trump looming, many are still uncertain of what his presidency is going to look like due to his fluid stance on many issues. To gain insight as to what a Trump administration may entail, people have begun looking at his cabinet appointments. First is Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Senator […]

Jesse Ruins Jesse: When life’s lemons squirt you in the eye

December 3, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors Note: This article may contain graphic/detailed information unsuitable for some readership. I have looked over and rewrote this article 700 times; feeling like it is either not good enough or not conveying the message I seek to express. That alone, in itself, is my message: Sometimes nothing is ever good enough. Here I am, […]

Don’t Vote for Trump

November 8, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Staff Editorial As this circus of an election mercifully winds it’s way to a close, we as an editorial board have one thing to say to our readers: Don’t vote for Donald Trump. Though we may not agree on the best alternative candidate, we can say with one voice that we as a board denounce […]

Hallway Conversations: What is consent?

November 8, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Name: Nicole Hemsley Major: Accounting Year: Freshmen “Consent is if someone asks you something, you give them permission to do it. Consent is important because if a guy comes up and starts doing stuff to you, or if you’re with them and you tell them don’t do that, but they do it anyway, they are […]

A call to arms: Why voting really matters

November 4, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Since August, The Review has done a number of articles to see whom students were planning on voting for, if they were keeping up with the election and whether or not they were planning on voting. Unfortunately, most students were either unaware or uneducated with this election. So much, that most informed us that they […]

Jesse Ruins Concerts: How I snuck into Blink-182

November 4, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes With all the political content we’ve had lately, I felt compelled to bring some light to this week’s issue, to reduce the endless stress of this election. Over the course of the semester, The Review has attempted (emphasizing the attempted) to cover a handful of concerts. These shows offer media passes for newspapers to take […]

Meet Utah Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Weinholtz

November 3, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s easy to forget that on November 8, Utahns will be casting their vote for more than just our next president. The race for Utah’s next governor is well underway, with incumbent Republican governor Gary Herbert defending his position against Democratic challenger Mike Weinholtz. Weinholtz was a third-generation factory worker, who worked full time while […]