Reading Time: 2 minutes Garret Stirland | Staff Writer On August 5, 2015, the Gold King Mine broke open, releasing a flood of chemicals into the Animas River, turning the waterways mustard yellow. As a result of the spill, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and the Navajo Nation have declared states of emergency. The yellow plume contained 10 to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Students help amputees regain livelihood Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] In late July, a UVU-based group called Mobility Mission visited the Dominican Republic in order to provide high-quality prosthetic limbs for local amputees. For nearly two weeks the 17 faculty and students from various majors worked with a local prosthetist and lab […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The following is an Op-Ed by Melissa Frost, UVU’s Title IX Coordinator UVU is proud to participate in the It’s On Us campaign to end sexual harassment and sexual violence. National statistics show that one in four women and one in sixteen men will experience some form of unwanted sexual contact. While we are a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Multicultural Center has opened a new lounge to provide a place for LGBT students and allies. Tiffany Frandsen | Managing Editor | @tiffany_mf Spectrum–a club to discuss issues facing LGBT students at UVU that used to meet in an obscure nook tucked away in the Woodbury Business Building–has a new place to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes How to navigate the twists and turns of seemingly contradictory advice. Those of us who are single and looking receive more dating advice than we know what to do with. While much of the advice we get stands up to scrutiny, some of it is just counterproductive. It’s usually easy to ferret out which nuggets […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Recently the Student Life and Wellness Center raised their minimum number of credits to have free access to the facilities to be 10 credit hours. This makes sense during the normal school year but during the summer when the classes are shortened and 6 credits feels like a full-load I find this odd. The other […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Christian Ledek | @sea_led | Staff Writer It’s becoming more common for parents to publicly humiliate their kids on social media to teach them a lesson or sometimes just for kicks. A 13-year-old girl took her own life a little while ago, possibly in part because her dad cut her hair off and uploaded a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Feeling weird today. Was it something I ate? No. You’re just a filthy irredeemable piece of garbage. You’ve done something awful and now you’re feeling guilty. What did I do? Everything. I’m trying my best! Yeah, right. What about that awful, violent daydream you had earlier? That was just a random thought! Everyone has those! Plus, I didn’t […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] Photo credit: Julie Ostler | Assistant Photo Editor | @jules1lo In early August, UVU Assistant Professor Russell T. Warne was invited to Harvard University’s School of Science Education to present his research on the benefits of advanced placement classes for high school students. In his recent study, “The […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] Photo credit: Dave Richards UVU student Preston Yardley, racing with Team Endurance 360, came in first place in his bracket in the fifth annual Crusher in the Tushar bike race July 11, setting a record in the men’s 29 and under age group, coming in at 4:55:19. […]