Reading Time: 3 minutes Vegans choose to abstain from animal products out of moral and ethical concerns. Despite a sympathetic community, vegetarian and vegan options on campus are few. When Co-President of the Animal Allies Club Breana Reichert wants to eat at the cafeteria or other food services on campus, her choices are limited. As a vegan, she chooses […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Because Utah schools fail to teach sex education beyond abstinence, college students have a greater risk of unplanned pregnancy and STDs. If a college student was educated in a Utah public school, chances are he or she has no idea of how to use a condom. According to Utah state law, public schools teaching sexual […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Robinson set to break school rebounding record The glass backboards in the UCCU Center look cleaner than ever before thanks to junior forward Geddes Robinson, who continues to clean glass with his rebound stats on the rise. Rebounding can either win or lose the game for a team, and with the men’s basketball team full […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Students will have a decidedly undemocratic election for the 2011-2012 UVUSA leadership with only a single presidential ticket on the ballot. The recent application period for student body officer candidates went largely unnoticed, chiefly in consequence to the Election Committee’s poor advertisement efforts, as demonstrated by the single candidate group running in this year’s elections. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Each semester, Wolverines shed their modesty, and open their hearts, and mouths, to each other. We were there, and we got all the action… literally. Disclaimer: Includes a Valentine’s-appropriate number of people kissing.
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the recent recession, adults who once felt secure and confident in their careers were let go due to reconstruction of companies, or businesses not having enough revenue to support as many employees as before. Consequentially, there are many individuals taking action in pursuit of increasing their future job opportunities by enrolling in school again. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have a class that required a textbook that we haven’t used once this semester even though we’re now in February until our teacher announced in class last Friday we would be starting to use our book on Monday. So Monday, I bought the book from the bookstore and was warned by the cashier that […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute “I wanted somewhere I could submit my paper on James Joyce,” says Jenna Atkynson, co-founder of the university’s new English journal, Essais. Following in the tradition of Touchstones and Warp and Weave, respectively the school’s creative and speculative fiction journals, Essais is in its first semester and will be the depository for academic papers focusing […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Freshman Dane Anderson doesn’t like to make birthday lists. So instead of getting a bunch of presents that would be nice to have but serve no purpose for his 24th birthday, he asked for something different. He asked his friends and family to donate whatever money they would spend on him to “charity: water,” a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes A letter from Akwasi Frimpong International student and sprinter It is now t-minus 12 days until the UVU Track & Field Team travels to New York City for the 2011 Indoor Great West Conference Championships. Our goal? To work hard as a team and bring the title home. We plan to do this using what […]