Reading Time: 2 minutes Scholarships will go to low-income Latino and constitutional studies students Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] AT&T has granted UVU $24,000 which will be used for scholarships for the coming school year. The grant will give 19 low-income Latino students scholarships of $1,000 each. The remaining $5,000 will go toward a scholarship […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousands receive vote by mail ballots for City Council primary Robby Poffenberger | Assistant News Editor | @robby_poff In early July, thousands of Orem residents received a ballot with 10 strange names on it. All 46,000 registered voters in Orem received a primary election ballot for the upcoming city council race. As of July […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] For three weeks in July, the department of digital media hosted Chinese students in a unique exchange program that allowed them to collaborate with UVU students on a digital media project. For the first part of the course, the six Chinese students and seven UVU students visited […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sarah Roberts | Staff Writer | @itssarah_sr UVU Trespassing: July 27- After a recent spike in thefts around campus, police officers had been reviewing surveillance cameras to identify the individual responsible. He was located in the game room of the SLWB where he had been sleeping overnight. According to Chief of Police John Brewer […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two UVU students receive scholarships, ring the New York Stock Exchange trade floor bell Tiffany Frandsen | Managing Editor | @tiffany_mf Photos courtesy of TD Ameritrade Every year, TD Ameritrade grants the NextGen Financial Planning Scholarship to 14 students across the country. This year, two of those recipients were UVU personal financial planning students […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Taylor Swift’s open letter to Apple inspires quick policy change. Sean Stoker | Opinions Editor | @theroyalthey Endlessly parodied as the constantly-breaking-up superstar who sings about love lost, Taylor Swift is exceeding her detractors’ expectations by taking on one of the most powerful companies in the world: Apple. In February, Apple’s worth blasted past […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer | [email protected] Video courtesy of Euronews Something popped. People were running and covering their mouths. Someone had thrown tear gas. On June 28, Turkey’s Gay Pride took a turn for the worse in Taksim, a neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey. “We were at a cafe,” Jes Millsaps, a University of Utah […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] Photo credit: Gabi Campbell | Art Director | @gabicampbellphotos A group of students from Saitama, Japan are learning auto skills and getting a taste of Utah food and culture this July in a special automotive course held in the GT Building. The course, which runs for two weeks starting […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Weighing the pros and cons of SCOTUS’ same-sex marriage ruling. Christian Ledek | Staff Writer Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide on June 26, 2015. The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right just the same as a man and a woman getting married. I think this is a good thing for […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Karina Araujo| Staff Writer Why fix something that’s not broken? Why get rid of something that works perfectly fine? The trend of out with the old and in with the new plagues our culture. We’re fickle and within reason this aids growth. As we know, not all changes lead to growth, or a positive outcome. […]