Reading Time: 3 minutes Student Government responds to the most commonly asked questions collected from suggestion boxes during Fall Semester, including topics on parking, the waitlist system and newspapers on campus. Can UVU get more parking around campus? After the first few weeks of the semester when everyone has a definite schedule, Parking Services send out staff every week […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dave Tinney’s creative mind has done it again. Oklahoma!, which played in the Ragan Theatre from Jan. 20-29, definitely was not what those familiar with the show had expected. Tinney, the director of the show, took several creative liberties with the script and made Jud a Native American, Aunt Eller an African American and he […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The mere mention of Shakespeare is enough to send most students into hiding, but for senior theater major Alex Ungerman and other UVU and BYU students, they took the seemingly confusing work of Shakespeare and made a production company. Nearly two years ago, Ungerman and fellow Wolverine Mark Oram founded the Grassroots Shakespeare Company. The […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Renowned artist and graphic designer, James Victore, greeted the students in the UVU Grand Ballroom with a “howdy.” He spoke candidly to students about art, life, and his new book. As part of the AVC Lectures class, hosted in part by AIGA, Victore was invited to spend an evening on Jan. 20, speaking to students […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Occasionally, there are events in life – spectacles, if you will – that require ones presence in order to be truly believed: alien abduction, the election of Arnold the Governator and the UVU Homecoming Parade. Thankfully, that particular spectacle was witnessed by most of the school on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Representatives from nearly every group, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute What do you think of Utah adopting an immigration law like that of Arizona’s SB 1070? “I’m very conflicted because I have family who came here the right way, with their papers, even though it cost money and took a lot of time. I also have family who came here illegally and their kids were […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Batman and Robin. Jordan and Pippen. Michael and Tito. BYU and UVU. No matter what efforts are taken, some relationships will always feature the shadow and the overshadowed. The last pair still has time to even itself out, even if recent steps only appear to cement our university’s status as BYU’s little brother down the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes [monoslideshow id=20] Overlooking federal jurisdiction, the U.S. Constitution, and basic human rights, the Arizona copycat immigration bill has brought a lot of controversy to Capital Hill, bringing UVU students to its steps in protest. A melting pot of backgrounds and people. The land of the free and home of the brave. A land of opportunity. […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Kill” your friends, don’t injure them. This is the motto of the SCA swordfighter. For the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international club that studies and recreates the Middle Ages, sword fighting is a common activity. Both heavy sword and rapier fighting, archery, throwing weapons, camping, sewing, art, history, calligraphy, lost crafts such as lace […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The International Center welcomed the Year of the Rabbit with a night celebrating Asian culture. There was food, music and dancing provided by students from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. “Gong xi fa chai” and “xin nian kaui le” are expressions you would hear during the Chinese New Year to wish prosperity and many […]