The Valley Guide April 19 – April 25

April 19, 2010

Reading Time: 6 minutes Editor’s Pick of the Week: Thanksgiving Point will be hosting its annual half marathon at 7 a.m. this Saturday. Those participating will be running through the immaculate Thanksgiving point grounds, including the Thanksgiving Point gardens. You can participate also in the fun run beginning at 9 a.m. Orjust cheer on those who are participating. Call […]

This week’s word: Graduation

April 19, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Oh my dear Lord, it’s over! Finally! No more sadistic teachers assigning papers over the break. No more masochistic late nights catching up. The dues have been paid, and now it’s smooth sailing through life. Make yourself a nice drink with an umbrella in it, and kick back. Then let reality wash over you like […]

Are you man enough to walk a mile in her shoes?

April 19, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Most Saturday mornings find the entrance of the University Mall quiet and empty of life. However, on Saturday, April 10, the parking lot of the mall was bustling with many people willing to brave the chilly morning for a good cause. Many women feel safe nestled between the mountains here in “happy valley,” but living […]

Women’s prison unit donations

April 19, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Members of Professor Larinda Nilsen’s classes at UVU recently donated over 1,200 personal hygiene items to women confined to the mental health unit of the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. The assignment was originally given as an extra credit incentive and Nilsen encouraged her students to involve themselves in a relief effort for the […]

A better way to spend your summer

April 19, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Every year about this time, our humble valley is drowned in idealized promises of $50,000 summers spent selling alarm systems in Iowa, pest control in Tuscaloosa, or managing the teams doing so. These posters advertise a ridiculous amount of money for having fun partying with your bros, sporting your fauxhawks, and transferring the skills that […]

Benson paces UVU baseball team

April 12, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chris Benson batted at a .336 clip last year as a sophomore. That season also featured a 17-game hitting streak and 38 RBI. So how does he evaluate himself in the past compared to now? “The past couple years I didn’t really work as hard as I did this year,” Benson said. “This year I […]

Silent film making its comeback on Provo stage

April 12, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes It is difficult to imagine films without an abundance of special effects, let alone an era in which films were absolutely silent apart from the ramshackle sounds of a film reel and piano accompaniment. Set during this silent film period of the early 1900s, a new production titled “A Flickering” will be performed by a […]

Some creative Stuff

April 12, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Our university has grown considerably over the past several decades. It has gone from vocational school, to community college, to state college to the growing university it is today. Over the course of those years of transformation, various programs have been added and enhanced along the way. One particular program that doesn’t seem to get […]

Communism, here we come. Thanks health care bill.

April 12, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Karl Marx would be proud. The pre-eminent capitalist nation is on its way to what Marx says is a communal life. Most would say that it is a far stretch for America, the traditional warrior against communism, to be headed toward that system. However, America has been making steady progress since before the establishment of […]