Reading Time: 2 minutes Turn on any pop radio station, and it will only be a matter of time before you catch one of B.o.B.’s catchy, infectious tunes. Since coming onto the scene in March 2010, the man has had three straight top 10 hits on the Billboard chart, a number one album and has teamed up with popular […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Having spent the previous year in France, I encountered many less-than-appetizing looking dishes. One that particularly stuck out in my memory was a salad, but not just any salad. This was an exploded pigeon-gut salad. As I reached for my fork, I surveyed my platter with disgust. How could anybody eat this? As I scanned […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recent changes in campus tenure policy may go unnoticed by students, and yet what tenure is and why we need tenured faculty are two questions crucial to our growth as a university. According to the American Association of University Professors’ 1940 statement, as quoted in UVU’s June 2006 tenure policy, “Tenure is a means to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Immensely Entertaining The Department of Theatrical Arts opened its season with a production of Wiley and the Hairy Man, a fun and whimsical play for audiences of all ages, which premiered on Sept. 16. The children’s play centers around the imaginative Wiley, a young fatherless boy and his conjure-woman Mammy deep in the Tombigbee swamp. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes For one bizarre reason or another, people in our community seem to think that sexual harassment and assault must be initiated by the victim. “They’re too sexy.” “They dress immodestly.” “They were asking for it.” Sometimes people even go so far as to accuse the victim of lying or being overdramatic. “That person couldn’t have […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Most running enthusiasts are aware of the St. George Marathon that will be taking place on Saturday, Oct. 2. For those runners lucky enough to be chosen through the lottery to participate in the marathon, training for this 26.2 mile run began long ago. While training is one important aspect of the race, for some […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Injury has never stopped Josh McCabe The cross country team should be thankful for Josh McCabe. McCabe, a 5-foot-11-inch junior from Springville, is a star runner for the team. He has gone through many down times in his career because of injury, but injury has never stopped McCabe from working hard and getting better. McCabe […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Underground tunnels denote many things, but none of them terribly pleasant. Morlocks live in tunnels. As do Mole People, Lizard People, Crawlers, Sewer Gators, Graboids and Gollum. Also, muggers and rapists. Which, unlike the above listed, is a very real threat. The state of Utah has set its sights on a relatively small project – […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the stroke of noon on Monday, Sept. 13, Centre Stage was filled with hundreds of hungry and curious students eager to take part in the Multicultural Center’s monthly “Taste of Culture” event. This month’s focus was on the six islands groups of Polynesia. In the presence of these traditions, one could feel the warmth […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve never done anything like this. Yet on the evening of Aug. 28., I found myself in front of the director citing a one-minute monologue, hoping to land a role in the upcoming play Antigone that had been personally commissioned by President Holland. Antigone is an ancient Greek play about law, family, tradition, rebellion and […]