Reading Time: 2 minutes The Boise State wrestlers and coaches – ranked eighth in the nation – sat in a stunned stupor as Cason Eldridge battled the Broncos heavyweight competitor Sam Zylstra, propelling the Wolverines to the upset win. Eldridge, who wrestles at 184 pounds, grappled with Zylstra in order for UVU to avoid forfeiting the match. Although Zylstra […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pageants — you either love them or you hate them. Regardless, our own Miss UVU Pageant was held on Feb. 5 in the Ragan Theater in front of an enthusiastic audience, but more importantly, five judges. The dedicated contestants spent hours upon hours not only preparing for the pageant, but also the private interview which […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Students from the UVU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America have begun working on the national Bateman Competition for the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 census. The decennial census determines how state and federal funding will be spent each year on schools, roads, health care services, veteran care, education grants, housing assistance, rehabilitation […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute As promised in this week’s V, here is the mixtape to end all mixtapes!
Reading Time: 2 minutes For many women, being a minority isn’t really an issue at school. But for women in certain programs, like digital media or business, it quickly becomes one. “Being a girl means you are automatically a minority in this major” said Madysen Memmott, a Digital Media student. “On my first day of class one of my […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The near-capacity crowd began to grow restless as the house lights were dimmed and spotlights bounced around the arena like a psychedelic light show. With celebrities in attendance and the representation of an entire community on hand, Ronnie Price – UVU’s favorite son – was about to be inducted into the university’s athletic hall of […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Many children dream of running away to the circus, and though the New Shanghai Circus is not what people might typically envision, it just might be the circus to run away to. They might not be the classic three ring circus with performing animals, but these Chinese daredevils certainly don’t disappoint. The crowded theater waited […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Desert Fathers sounds like it would be a pretty good band name, but the phrase actually refers to Christianity’s first hermits, ascetics and monks, who, in the third century, retreated to the outskirts of the Scetes Desert in Egypt. Men like Abba Antonius, Pachiomus of Thebes, and St. Paul the First Hermit eschewed the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our campus has more than 600 veterans currently using GI Bill funds to pay for tuition. The UVU Review is in the process of featuring veteran’s stories in this column, and this issue’s focus is Brian Terry, an aviation major now in his third year, and 50 credits away from his goal of a degree […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The stage was set with grimy public restrooms and calls to liberation were smeared across the walls: “Let my people pee!” they demanded. This was the depiction audience members saw in the Ragan Theater Jan. 21-30 before the spectacular production of “Urinetown” began each evening. The music began and lights focused on Officer Lockstock, played […]