Love is all you need: married

February 12, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the perks of being married is that I’m no longer wracked with the burden of analyzing the minutiae of every social interaction with the opposite sex: no more “was that a sign? Did my hair look right? Should I text her now or wait a few days? Am I coming off as desperate? Did I […]

Love is all you need: bisexual

February 12, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute One would think that being bisexual or even pansexual on the biggest romantic holiday of the year would open up some door for you. After all, some basic math would tell you that liking both genders or not even just being open to everything regardless of the binary gender stigma, means that you have at […]

Ambassador of Austria to the UN to speak at UVU

February 11, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Carrie Laudie | News Editor | @carrielaudie On Thursday, Feb. 12, the UVU office of International Affairs and Diplomacy will host His Excellency Martin Sajdik, ambassador of Austria to the UN. Sajdik will present a lecture titled A New Global Strategy for Sustainability: The Post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations. Will It Make a […]

Police blotter

February 11, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sarah Roberts | Staff Writer | @itssarah_sr   UVU CAMPUS   Suspicious Persons: Jan. 26- A male was reported to be looking in car windows with a flashlight. Police searched the area but did not locate the man.   Jan. 28- Reports were received of a suspicious man asking for money in the food court. […]

UVU awarded major grant by JetBlue

February 11, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Aaron Lenkersdorfer | Staff Writer Utah Valley University has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the JetBlue Foundation.  In December, Jim Green, chair of the aviation department, applied for the grant which was designed to provide funding to further develop underserved groups within the aviation and STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) communities.  UVU was […]

State of the university

February 10, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Carrie Laudie | News Editor | @carrielaudie Photos by | Gabi Campbell | Photo Editor   On Tuesday, Feb. 10, President Matthew S. Holland delivered the state of the university address. Holland outlined the university’s past, present and the goals the administration has for the future. He emphasized the importance of making UVU efficient, with […]

Bills to know

February 10, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | Deputy Managing Editor | @tiffany_mf     Prohibition on Electronic Data Collection | HB 150 Rep. Marc K. Roberts (R-Santaquin) has proposed a bill that forbids any state government official, employee or contractor from cooperating with a federal agency in electronic data collection. The bill specifically calls out federal surveillance agencies that […]

Candidates announced for UVU 2015 student body officers

February 9, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Carrie Laudie | News Editor | @carrielaudie   Monday, Feb. 9 candidates were announced for the 2015-2016 student body officer elections.  There are two teams, team Up and team One, who will be campaigning against each other to become the new student executive leadership of UVU. The teams are as follows: Team One: Dylan Swarts […]

Utah kids club comes to UVU

February 9, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Katelyn Bello | Staff Writer | [email protected]   The founders and CEOs of the Utah Kids Club spoke at UVU Centre Stage on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Cali Kellywood and Candy Skapple spoke as part of the Career Passport Lecture Series held by the Career Passport Program at UVU. They spoke on the founding and running of […]

F*** you, Valentine’s Day

February 9, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Valentine’s Day has changed significantly over the course of history, and it’s time for another revision. Kyle Spencer | Managing Editor | @kyledspencer Photo Credit: Gabi Campbell | @gabicampbellphotos If we were celebrating Valentine’s Day as the pagan party holiday it began as in ancient Rome, the men here would spend part of the day […]