Reading Time: 2 minutes The purpose of any governing body should be to act as a voice for the population they serve, and we as students are no different. However, when students feel apprehensive, even fearful, of speaking out against their student government, the issue justifies critical attention. “The role of student government,” said Student Body President Richard Portwood, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I remember the first time I saw a cell phone. I was in sixth grade at Table Mound Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa. I distinctly remember overhearing an older woman nearby refer to it as “the devil’s walkie-talkie.” Little did she know just how much “the devil’s walkie-talkie” would come to shape the worldwide cultural […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are people that make a name for themselves by giving to science. There are, however, people that give their own bodies to science, and no one can call them by name. On the first floor of the science building there is a locked door, not because there is danger of death, but because the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “I have the mentality that I don’t want to have someone else do my job. If I’m tired, I push through it, because I don’t want to be watching other people do it.” That was the outlook Lauren Bluth had both on and off the field – until a battle with ulcerative colitis proved too […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Odyssey Dance Theatre presents Thriller This month the highly acclaimed Odyssey Dance Theatre Company is performing Thriller in five different locations in Utah. The annual event has a reputation for being electrifying and filled with gripping adventures and pop culture references. Thriller has become a major hit in the 13 years since its creation. This […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes “I just like books – I’m not a fighter!” was all I could think to myself as the fight choreographer was going over my character’s moves for the first time, teaching me how to act. After getting a callback from the audition in August, I have been rehearsing with the cast and crew of Antigone […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Name: Keziah Kersey Year: Freshman Major: Creative Writing Where were you born? London, England I was born and raised in England, where I lived until I was eleven. I then moved to Utah for six years before my whole family moved to France a year ago, where I spent the last year. What is your […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Who doesn’t like a good wholesome laugh that resonates with slap-stick historical comedy? Isn’t that what Monty Python’s Holy Grail was all about? Non-profit organization The Resonance Story Theatre is putting on something similar next week: King Arthur and the Round Table Troubadours, a four-man act that dives into Arthurian legend aiming to entertain and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes After a devastating fire and a century and a half of decline following an economic nosedive, by 1920 Bodie, California — once a booming Wild West metropolis — remained home to fewer than 150 people. Today, Bodie is home only to a transitory community of state employees and museum guides who work to preserve it […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Whilst waiting at a bus-stop on a little Island off the coast of Morocco, I was approached by a middle-aged American man sporting a Red Sox T-shirt. He heard my British accent and we immediately struck up a conversation concerning England. The man raved for a good ten minutes about the beauty and culture of […]