Reading Time: 3 minutes Starters are producing, but bench is lacking There is nothing in sports quite like the emotions that are evoked by the senses. The smell of freshly cut grass and the sight of morning dew glistening in the early morning sunlight immediately bring to mind the joy of stepping on to the field for the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes You just finished a test in the testing center. You have five minutes before your next class in the GT building. You haven’t eaten. The only thing on your mind is grabbing a pizza and hiking up five flights of stairs. You hurry across the crosswalk thinking how nice it is that someone actually stopped […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dickies to Film Flixs Danny Keyes first caught wind of his inherent entrepreneurial spirit upon returning to Utah from an LDS mission in Texas. Keyes lamented the lack of Dickey’s Barbecue Pit locations in Utah after having frequented the Texas-based chain throughout his mission. Upon realizing that the start-up capital required to franchise Dickey’s […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes “The Vagina Monologues” is a play written by Eve Ensler in the 1990’s. This play has been translated into 48 languages and been performed in over 140 countries. And everyone should see it, at least one time. It’s a series of monologues performed by women talking about, well, vaginas. The play discusses the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Political activist Julian Bond has waged a 50-year civil rights battle, and has fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as served as a Georgia senator for 20 years. Bond’s stirring and humorous keynote speech for UVU’s 18th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration was held on Jan.19 in the Grande Ballroom […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes From barefooted modern ballet to pointe-shoed classical, the Choreography Design Project promises to deliver nights of original, diverse dance. The fifth annual Choreography Design Project, running January 26-28 in UVU’s Ragan Theater and funded in part by the Orem City CARE grant, will showcase the work of six competition-finalist choreographers as danced by Utah […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gifted athletes routinely are surpassed by their less talented, harder working peers. Tom Brady went from college backup at Michigan to a 3-time Super Bowl winning quarterback, currently in pursuit for championship number four. Michael Jordan famously was cut from his Junior Varsity team and now he is the NBA’s “Greatest of All-Time.” If […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Twitter feeds are buzzing with chatter, hashtagged with words like SOPA, PIPA, censorship and blackout. Wikipedia, with estimated daily web traffic numbering in the tens of millions, was dark Wednesday in protest of current legislature working its way through the US House Judiciary Committee. The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you ask an economist, Utah is behind. If you ask a fashion designer Utah is behind. If you ask a student from out of state how Utah does when it comes to minority races they might also say Utah is behind. According to Eric Lowe, a UVU student from Virginia near DC, Utah […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some wandered through the museum, chatting and even laughing with friends, both old and new. Others simply stood in silence, eyebrows furrowed as they shook their heads, as if they were trying to process the amount of pain being communicated through the artwork. The Woodbury Art Museum held a reception for the opening of […]