Reading Time: 3 minutes Could a Spanish-speaking man who cannot speak correct Spanish be a terrorist? Ginger Dixon seems to think so. Dixon was at the presentation of Sandstrom’s immigration bill to a legislative committee on August 18. After Sandstrom presented his bill and discussion for comments was open, Dixon spoke and described once encountering an individual who she […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Winning streak comes to an end against Utah State Consecutive wins over Weber State and Southern Utah showed how far the Wolverines can go this season. A 4-0 loss to Utah State two days later, ending their seven-game winning streak, showed just how far they have to get there. The good, bad and ugly were […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes [monoslideshow id=4] Bloody bodies all over the ground could hardly be seen through all the smoke from the explosions while confused young men tried to determine who the enemy was and why they were fighting the same people they were trying to save. Professor William Cobb, a professor of History here at this University is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Popular rock band 30 Seconds to Mars is coming to campus on Sept. 25 as part of MTV University (mtvU)’s “2010 Campus Invasion Tour.” The band will be headlining the tour and will be joined by Neon Trees and New Politics. 30 Seconds to Mars derives most of their noteriety from their lead singer, Jared […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Neon Trees are a band in the halcyon days of their so-far miniscule musical empire; able, for now, to fend off all the depressing criticisms and realities that every breakout band must endure before achieving the kind of lasting success that so few bands attain. For instance, overzealous fans, being misinterpreted musically or lyrically, “selling […]
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.” […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]