Have we reached critical mass?

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes Classrooms, parking lots and hallways are congested, adding to the stress of going to school. Susannah Woodbury was a Wolverine for only one day. “The sensory overload is too crazy,” she said of her first day on campus. “There’s just too many people. And there’s, like, forty thousand students and, like, three thousand parking stalls.” […]

Parking pays – so pull in and put up

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes The sum of parking permits and citations at the school last year totaled nearly $1 million. According to the Parking Services website, the total revenue in parking passes alone for the 2009-2010 school year was $835,016, with paid parking citations making up rest of the total million. Parking Services is very rare, if not unique, […]

Would you like that Wolverine Style?

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wendy’s fast food restaurant is holding a fun contest for students to get creative, and perhaps experience a bit of fame, with naming a new UVU-specific Signature Recipe. The restaurant had a booth set up during the Week of Welcome where students could create a new secret recipe by combining ingredients and ideas. Those recipes […]

Exhibit brings cultural revolution to Utah

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Woodbury Art Museum, located on the second floor of the University Mall, has a new exhibit opening on September 14. The collection, titled “Art Through the Cultural Revolution,” features art from the Cultural Revolution of China. The Cultural Revolution started in 1966, when chairman of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong, became concerned that Chinese […]

Animal Rights Play to be Held in Library

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wick, a one-woman play by Claudia Stevens, is scheduled to be performed on campus on September 7.  The play is about Miriam Rothschild, a British environmentalist who is considered a champion of animal rights. Set in 1984, Wick follows Rothschild as she visits a group of American students and shares ideas with them while she […]

How to impress your professors

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Without actually trying very hard) In most cases, real objectivity is impossible. This specifically applies to professors and grading, because sometimes, even if you try your darndest on assignments and tests, your professor just won’t like you. This could be a problem for more than just grading; you could lose a possible reference or even […]

Freshman Reading Program an introduction to campus education

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes You might have seen the ads for the Freshman Reading Program around campus. The program is a structured way to experience intellectual life with other interesting and thoughtful people who want to express, explore, evaluate and experience provoking ideas within a university context. We all come from different backgrounds. Some of us may not have […]

Club rush coming to a campus near you

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Students who are interested in making new friends will have the opportunity to see many of the school’s more than 120 clubs on display this week. What: Club rush Where: Hall of Flags When: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31 and Wednesday, Sept. 1 More Information: www.UVU.edu/clubs. If you’re interested in chess […]

The humane thing to do is cut off their genitals

August 30, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes BYU is home to not only 34,000 students, but also 100 to 200 feral cats. For those of you wondering precisely what the term “feral” means, remember your kitty that ran away when you were six? If she didn’t end up as a fuzzy jelly between the treads of a semi-truck tire, chances are she […]